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Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness—of decision-making, data, and organizational structure—is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? With Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, Nathaniel Tkacz uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practice—and to break its spell. Through discussions of edit wars, article deletion policies, user access levels, and more, Tkacz enables us to see how the key concepts of openness—including collaboration, ad-hocracy, and the splitting of contested projects through "forking"—play out in reality. The resulting book is the richest critical analysis of openness to date, one that roots media theory in messy reality and thereby helps us move beyond the vaporware promises of digital utopians and take the first steps toward truly understanding what openness does, and does not, have to offer.

Universities have historically generated knowledge outside of specific local contexts. These pure research methodologies produce knowledge that is carefully partitioned from the practical realities of a phenomenon. This book suggests a world in peril requires us to question this approach, particularly in the field of environmental sustainability

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- I Introduction -- 1 The Gun -- II Pain -- 2 The Dead -- 3 The Wounded -- 4 The Suicidal -- III Power -- 5 The Killers -- 6 The Criminals -- 7 The Police -- 8 The Military -- IV Pleasure -- 9 The Civilians -- 10 The Hunters -- 11 The Sex Pistols -- V Profit -- 12 The Traders -- 13 The Smugglers -- 14 The Lobbyists -- 15 The Manufacturers -- 16 The Free -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations.

"This book, is exactly the expansion of the concept of energy access for poor in terms of its linkages with climate change and sustainable development that is the main focus of investigation. In this regard, the argument that is advanced is not whether and how to increase energy access for the poor, or whether and how to improve the prospects for a comprehensive climate change agreement, but instead to ask whether and how energy access for the poor has been factored into the series of key UN led intergovernmental climate change and sustainable development outputs"--

1. Morning markets and metrolingual multitasking -- 2. Constructing affiliations and growing foreign vegetables -- 3. Mobility, rhythms and the city -- 4. Kitchen talk and spatial repertoires -- 5. Convivial and contested cities -- 6. Talking food: commensality and the city -- 7. Layers, spaces, signs, networks -- 8. Metrolingua francas.