Is There In Cyberspace Rhetorical Analysis
Hamrick 1
In this essay, “Is There a There in Cyberspace” by, John Perry Barlow, often speaks and writes about computer communication and online communities and real life communities. He compares the differences of the non-intentional community that he lives in, with a different community that he later found, the online virtual commons for the deadheads.
One of the topics that Barlow compares and contrasts from his occupation to American society at the beginning and the end of the 20th century to Pinedale and Deadheads. There were thousands of Deadheads in the community. They were gossiping and complaining mostly about the Grateful Dead, comforting and harassing each other, engaging in religion, beginning and ending love affairs.
The Deadheads lacked place, touching down briefly wherever the band was playing. They continuously lacked in time, since they had to suffer a new diaspora every time the band went home. They had many of the other elements of community, which was including a culture, a religion of sorts, a sense of necessity, but most importantly they shared the adversity that they had. Absence of alternatives and sense of genuine adversity, were very important elements that were missing from the communes of the sixty’s and from cyberspace. The principal reason for the almost universal failure of the intentional communities …show more content…
There are not certain rules and responsibilities that you have to share with anyone else. As for an intentional community you have to pay home owners association and go by certain guidelines and rules to live in that community. Even though it might be a great outcome of living in another community, you still would have to pay interest just like you would for living in an intentional neighborhood. Except the payments that you pay will go straight to the
In this essay, “Is There a There in Cyberspace” by, John Perry Barlow, often speaks and writes about computer communication and online communities and real life communities. He compares the differences of the non-intentional community that he lives in, with a different community that he later found, the online virtual commons for the deadheads.
One of the topics that Barlow compares and contrasts from his occupation to American society at the beginning and the end of the 20th century to Pinedale and Deadheads. There were thousands of Deadheads in the community. They were gossiping and complaining mostly about the Grateful Dead, comforting and harassing each other, engaging in religion, beginning and ending love affairs.
The Deadheads lacked place, touching down briefly wherever the band was playing. They continuously lacked in time, since they had to suffer a new diaspora every time the band went home. They had many of the other elements of community, which was including a culture, a religion of sorts, a sense of necessity, but most importantly they shared the adversity that they had. Absence of alternatives and sense of genuine adversity, were very important elements that were missing from the communes of the sixty’s and from cyberspace. The principal reason for the almost universal failure of the intentional communities …show more content…
There are not certain rules and responsibilities that you have to share with anyone else. As for an intentional community you have to pay home owners association and go by certain guidelines and rules to live in that community. Even though it might be a great outcome of living in another community, you still would have to pay interest just like you would for living in an intentional neighborhood. Except the payments that you pay will go straight to the