id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15735 Lynch, Clifford A. Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 253p. $26 (ISBN 0465089844). LC 2003-26089. 2005-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1557 58 54 Vaidyanathan has been one important such voice and has done a good deal of public speaking on these topics (including talks at the ALA meet- ings) as well as writing books. But the events of 9/11 and their aftermath refocused his attention on what he describes as “information politics” as opposed to what he calls “entertainment politics,” and indeed the book ranges over topics from copyright to philosophies of anarchism, from the future of nation-states to information warfare, from peer-to-peer technology to some really fascinating discussion of global cultural issues. cache/crl-15735.pdf txt/crl-15735.txt