@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/ubiq.2.1-2.63_1, author = "Puchades, Wenceslao García", title = "Building egalitarian communities of communication through mobile ad hoc networks", journal= "Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media", year = "2013", volume = "2", number = "1-2", pages = "63-80", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/ubiq.2.1-2.63_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ubiq.2.1-2.63_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2045-628X", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "anonymity", keywords = "ubiquity", keywords = "MANET", keywords = "community", keywords = "Jean-Luc Nancy", keywords = "equality", abstract = "Abstract This article intends to highlight the concept of egalitarian communities of communication through the latest developments of mobile technology and peer-to-peer (P2P) communication networks. With the help of the French author Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical theory on the ‘inoperative community’, we will try to show how a community of communication among equals depends on its members’ anonymity, its infinite openness and its ubiquity. Taking these features as a starting point we will analyse how we can consider the so-called mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) as a real and paradigmatic model of ‘inoperative community’. Our aim is to propose the infrastructure underlying these networks as a model of a community of communication among equals, since it enables the anonymity, openness and ubiquity of its members.", }