Apologies for the self-promotion. But if you're interested in the
politics of 'pirate' websites for the sharing of scholarly literature
such as Sci-Hub, LibGen and AAAAARG, you may be interested in this new
book on the subject: Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016).
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy
I've provided an overview below.
Best, Gary
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Overview
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the
neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars
to transform their own lives and labor. Is there a way for academics to
act not just for or with the antiausterity and student
protestors—“graduates without a future”—but in terms of their political
struggles? Drawing on such phenomena as peer-to-peer file sharing and
anticopyright/pro-piracy movements, Pirate Philosophy explores how those
in academia can move beyond finding new ways of thinking about the world
to find instead new ways of being in the world.
Hall describes the politics of online sharing, the battles against the
current intellectual property regime, and the actions of Anonymous,
LulzSec, Aaron Swartz, and others, and he explains Creative Commons and
the open access, open source, and free software movements. But in the
heart of the book he considers how, when it comes to scholarly ways of
creating, performing, and sharing knowledge, scholars can challenge not
just the neoliberal model of the entrepreneurial academic but also the
traditional humanist model with its received ideas of proprietorial
authorship, the book, originality, fixity, and the finished object. In
other words, can scholars and students today become something like
pirate philosophers?
Endorsements
“On the uncharted waters of the digital sphere, pirates easily slip by
the tectonic plates of knowledge production and intellectual property.
Gary Hall, himself a brilliant pirate, troubles the liquid boundaries
between the human and the nonhuman, and between the humanities, digital
humanities, and posthumanities. Through testing, teasing, and even
attacking, he encounters unexpected and pseudo-pirates. The bold tacks
of his pirate philosophy reveal a new world, while transforming it as well.”
—Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor of Comparative Literature, Université de
Montréal
On 01/05/2016 15:48, Walker,Thomas J wrote:
(In case no one has already posted this.)
The url below takes you to a site (and a poll that features an instant
replay of results) about an illegal but understandable way to freely
access all the important papers one might find hard to find.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
Tom
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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University
Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk
Director of Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info
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