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Interentity Communication: The Ontological Imaginary of Early Network Design
- The Velvet Light Trap
- University of Texas Press
- Number 76, Fall 2015
- pp. 19-36
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Since the world saw proof of US and UK digital surveillance practices, the Internet has been imagined in public discourse not so much as a digital frontier than as a strictly delimited identity management system. While it is no doubt productive to think about this political crisis in terms of the Internet’s post-1968 countercultural history, that history is itself embedded within a larger intellectual history of mathematical logic. By taking a detour through the emergence of computer science as an academic discipline, this article examines the historical basis for a cyberspace of identity.