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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).<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy</a><br>
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I've provided an overview below.<br>
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Best, Gary<br>
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Overview<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Endorsements<br>
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“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.”<br>
—Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor of Comparative Literature, Université
de Montréal<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/05/2016 15:48, Walker,Thomas J
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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
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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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://disruptivemedia.org.uk">http://disruptivemedia.org.uk</a>
Director of Open Humanities Press
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
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