%0 Journal Article %A Puchades, Wenceslao García %T Building egalitarian communities of communication through mobile ad hoc networks %D 2013 %J Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, %V 2 %N 1-2 %P 63-80 %@ 2045-628X %R https://doi.org/10.1386/ubiq.2.1-2.63_1 %K anonymity %K ubiquity %K MANET %K community %K Jean-Luc Nancy %K equality %I Intellect, %X 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. %U https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ubiq.2.1-2.63_1