[apologies for cross-posting] I¹m delighted to announce the publication of Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, http://www.amazon.com/Configuring-Networked-Self-Everyday-Practice/dp/030012 5437/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324427962&sr=1-2. Please see below for a short abstract and table of contents. All best, Julie Julie E. Cohen Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Abstract Configuring the Networked Self explores the relationships between copyright, creativity, and culture, between surveillance, privacy, and subjectivity, and between network architecture and social ordering, and through those explorations develops a unified framework for conceptualizing the social and cultural effects of legal and technical regimes that govern information access and use. The book asks the sorts of questions with which law traditionally has concerned itself (what regime of information rights is just, and why), but it emphasizes a set of considerations that legal thinking about those issues has tended to marginalize. It argues that legal scholarship on the networked information society has gone astray by positing simplistic models of individual behavior derived from the commitments of liberal theory, rather than from reality. A wise regime of information law and policy should focus, instead, on the ordinary rhythms and routines of everyday practice. In particular, it should pay special attention to the connections between everyday practice and play and to the ways in which culture and subjectivity emerge from the interactions between the ordinary and the unexpected. Finally, the book identifies a set of reform principles for information law and policy that moves beyond ³access to knowledge² to include two additional principles. A just regime of information law and policy should guarantee an adequate level of operational transparency about the ways that networked information processes and devices mediate access to information and services. In addition it should promote regulatory and technical architectures that are characterized by semantic discontinuity, in order to create and preserve spaces within which the play of everyday practice can move. Contents Acknowledgments Part One. Locating the Networked Self 1. Introduction: Imagining the Networked Information Society 2. From the Virtual to the Ordinary: Networked Space, Networked Bodies, and the Play of Everyday Practice Part Two. Copyright and the Play of Culture 3. Copyright, Creativity, and Cultural Progress 4. Decentering Creativity Part Three. Privacy and the Play of Subjectivity 5. Privacy, Autonomy, and Information 6. Reimagining Privacy Part Four. Code, Control, and the Play of Material Practice 7. ³Piracy,² ³Security,² and Architectures of Control 8. Rethinking ³Unauthorized Access² Part Five. Human Flourishing in a Networked World 9. The Structural Conditions of Human Flourishing 10. Conclusion: Putting Cultural Environmentalism into Practice Notes Bibliography Index