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. CULTURE MACHINE 10 (2008) http://www.culturemachine.net PIRATE PHILOSOPHY Edited by Gary Hall The Pirate Philosophy issue of Culture Machine will explore how the development of various forms of so-called internet piracy are affecting ideas of authorship, intellectual property, copyright law, fair use, patent, trademark, content creation and cultural production that were established pre-internet. We are looking for contributions which, among other things, engage critically with: * the philosophy of internet piracy, peer-to-peer file sharing, Grokster, Kazaa, Gnutella, EDonkey, BitTorrent, Pirate Bay and so on; * attempts to develop new, different or alternative philosophies of content creation, intellectual property and/or copyright (e.g. those associated with open editing, open content, Creative Commons and copyleft licenses, Lawrence Lessig?s ?free culture?, the free software and open source movements, the work of Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond?); * the implications and consequences of the above for conceptions of the academic author, scholarly writing, publishing, pedagogy, the book, the journal, peer review and the institution of the university in the era of digital reproducibility; * efforts that have been made to scale-up the relations of production and distribution associated with peer-to-peer networks to form new participatory regimes of culture or new kinds of networked institutions, even plans for the future organisation of society. See the German Oekonux debate of 2000-2002, for example (http://www.oekonux.org); * the emergence out of peer-to-peer file networks of actual political ?Pirate Parties? in Sweden, Spain, Austria, Germany, USA, UK, France, Australia, Poland, Italy, Russia, Norway, and Belgium. We envisage contributions to Culture Machine?s Pirate Philosophy issue as falling into two broad (albeit crudely defined and distinguished) categories: those that address the theme of piracy in their content; and those that approach the subject by playing provocatively with the form of their text. We would especially like to encourage contributors to explore the philosophy of internet piracy by creating actual ?pirate? texts we can publish as part of the issue. We are open to and indeed very much welcome suggestions as to what forms such ?pirate philosophy? might take in practice. Possible examples include: * Mash-ups, only in this case with written texts - philosophical, literary, historical, psychoanalytic, political etc. - rather than music tracks being mixed together. (Instead of The Beatle?s The White Album and Jay-Z?s The Black Album, think Deleuze?s ?Postscript on Control Societies? and the US Bill of Rights); * Experiments with plagiarism and appropriation along the lines of Jonathan Lethem?s ?The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism? http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387; * Texts generated by large groups of often anonymous people working according to open source, free content and open editing principles. Wikipedia is the most well-known, but Culture Machine would like to promote the development of other instances of open source, open content and open editing (and wikimedia), specifically with academic writing and publishing in mind. The idea is to push the boundaries surrounding notions of piracy, authorship, intellectual property, copyright law, fair use and so forth, not just intellectually but legally too. Deadline for submissions: February 2008 Contact: Gary Hall Coventry School of Art and Design Coventry University Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB UK e-mail: gary.hall@connectfree.co.uk ------------------------- ABOUT CULTURE MACHINE Culture Machine is an umbrella term for a series of experiments in culture and theory. The Culture Machine open access journal http://www.culturemachine.net The Culture Machine book series, published by Berg, and including: Paul Virilio, City of Panic (2005) Charlie Gere, Art, Time & Technology (2006) Clare Birchall, Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (2006) The Culture Machine open access archive: CSeARCH http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch The Culture Machine journal publishes new work from both established figures and up-and-coming writers, and welcomes original, unpublished submissions on any aspect of culture and theory. All contributions to the Culture Machine journal are refereed anonymously. Anyone with material they wish to submit for publication is invited to contact: Culture Machine c/o Dave Boothroyd and Gary Hall e-mail: gary.hall@connectfree.co.uk and d.boothroyd@kent.ac.uk -- Gary Hall Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org My website http://www.garyhall.info _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann