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Shamans, Software, and Spleens

by James Boyle

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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James Boyle explores matters as diverse as blackmail; ownership of genetic information; insider trading; Johnny Carson, Bela Lugosi and the Gay Olympics; the doctor as artist and the patient as “public domain”; cyberspace as land; censorship; and robot slavery in this first social theory of the information age.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Shamanism and spirit practice.

  • Shamanism and spirit practice

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “shamanism”. Retained metadata contains “Shamans” in the title and “Shamans” in the edition title.

    • “shamanism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Shamans”· in title
    • “Shamans”· in edition title

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Editions

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

1996-12-31Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

Subjects

12 subject headings

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