[GOAL] Sci-Hub and pirate philosophy

[Gary Hall]

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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