Article: The anarchist in the coffee house: a brief consideration of local culture, the free culture movement, and prospects for a global public sphere.

The global network-of-networks that President George W. Bush calls "the Internets" represents the first major communicative revolution since the publication in 1962 of Jurgen Habermas' influential historical work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. (1) In that work Habermas describes a moment in the social and political history of Europe in which a rising bourgeoisie was able to gather in salons and cafes to discuss matters of public concern. The public sphere represented a set of sites and conventions in the eighteenth century in which (almost exclusively male) members of the bourgeoisie could forge a third space to mediate between domestic concerns and ...

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