[Commlist] new book: Cyberlibertarianism by David Golumbia

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

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*Cyberlibertarianism***

The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology

*David Golumbia *

*Foreword by George Justice***

*https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517918149/cyberlibertarianism/* 
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An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing 
legal and economic underpinnings.

In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital 
technology, /Cyberlibertarianism/argues that right-wing ideology was 
built into both the technical and social construction of the digital 
world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David 
Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift 
toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, 
dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power 
beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent 
social good.

Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and 
open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and 
net neutrality, /Cyberlibertarianism/details how the purportedly 
democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror 
and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns. As he unpacks 
our naively utopian conception of the digital world, Golumbia highlights 
technology’s role in the advancement of hyperindividualist and 
antigovernment agendas, demonstrating how Silicon Valley corporations 
and right-wing economists; antiestablishment figures such as Julian 
Assange, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Edward Snowden, and Mark Zuckerberg; 
and seemingly positive voices such as John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, 
the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and Wikipedia all have worked to 
hamper regulation and weaken legal safeguards against exploitation.

Drawing from a wide range of thought in digital theory, economics, law, 
and political philosophy as well as detailed research and Golumbia’s own 
experience as a software developer, /Cyberlibertarianism/serves as a 
clarion call to reevaluate the fraught politics of the internet. In the 
hope of providing a way of working toward a more genuinely democratic 
and egalitarian future for digital technology, this magisterial work 
insists that we must first understand the veiled dogmas from which it 
has been constructed.

Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

*David Golumbia*(1963–2023) was associate professor of English at 
Virginia Commonwealth University and author of /The Cultural Logic of 
Computation and The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing 
Extremism/(Minnesota, 2016).

*George Justice*is professor of English and provost at the University of 
Tulsa. He specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and the 
history of the book, and he writes frequently about higher education.



*University of Minnesota Press**| November 2024 | 480pp | 9781517918149 
| PB | £27.99**

*Price subject to change.

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