| Sumario: | The writer explores the social, technical, and legal associations among so-called geeks—hackers, lawyers, activists, and information technology entrepreneurs—on the Internet. He points out that the mode of association particular to this group is that of a “recursive public sphere” comprised of a shared imaginary of the technical and legal conditions of potential for their own association. He argues that geeks imagine their social existence and relations as much through technical practices of hacking, networking, code writing, and “tinkering” as through verbal discursive debate over rights, identities, and relations.
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