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BOYLE: Cyberspace Policy Institute Seminar



                    Foucault In Cyberspace:
    Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors
 http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/faculty/boyle/foucault.htm

>>        1997-98 "Third Tuesdays" Seminar Series
>>
>>  Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation
>>Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure in
>>         cooperation with the George Washington University
>>     Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>>
>>            FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
>>
>>         Tuesday, September 16, 1997  4-6 p.m.
>>     Room 410-415 Marvin Center, 21st & H St. NW, Washington, DC
>>
>>
>>TITLE: Foucault In Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty,
>>             and Hard-Wired Censors
>>
>>               SPEAKER: JAMES BOYLE
>>Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University,
>>                  Washington, D. C.
>>
>>               Commentators:
>>         C. DIANNE MARTIN, Professor of Computer Science, The George
>>             Washington University, Washington, D. C.
>>
>>         PETER CAWS, Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington
>>              University, Washington, D.C.
>>
>>"My talk is going to be about talk about law in cyberspace.
>>I argue that the Internet's political orthodoxy -- "digital
>>libertarianism" -- is dramatically flawed, that the belief
>>that states are powerless to regulate the Net is mistaken,
>>and that the current reliance on "technical solutions" to
>>perceived regulatory problems on the Net  is neither as
>>neutral nor as benign as it is perceived to be. Some of my
>>illustrations will come from the recent Administration
>>proposals for Internet copyright regulation, others from the
>>Communications Decency Act and the cryptography debate. In
>>the process, I make opportunistic and unsystematic use of the
>>late Michel Foucault's work to criticize some the
>>jurisprudential orthodoxy of the Net. Because of the link
>>between technology, politics and high theory, my hope is that
>>the talk may be productively irritating to philosophers and
>>civil libertarians as well as computer scientists and
>>policy wonks."
>>                          - James Boyle
>>
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