The Next Layer - piracy

Piracy is Normal, Piracy is Boring

doll_yoko — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:27:47 +0000

What is often called ‘digital piracy’ is nowadays a mundane and everyday activity. As such, piracy is a commonplace disorder within the order of information capitalism; it is both created by the ubiquitous orders of information capitalism and suppressed by those orders. In the myriad points of view of its participants piracy represents an order which is implicit within contemporary life, which we will call ‘pirarchy’.

The attached chapter entitled ‘Piracy is Normal, Piracy is Boring: systemic disruption as everyday life’ by Francesca da Rimini and Jonathan Marshall was written for the book Piracy: Leakages from Modernity edited by Martin Fredriksson and James Arvanitakis (Litwin Press, USA, forthcoming 2012, http://litwinbooks.com/piracy.php).

Deptford.TV diaries II - Pirate Strategies

jonasandersson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:10:39 +0000

Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies

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Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the urban change of Deptford (south-east London) in collaboration with SPC.org media lab, Bitnik.org, Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture and Goldsmiths College.

Deptford.TV Diaries II - Pirate Strategies

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:00:19 +0000

Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies

Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the urban change of
Deptford (south-east London) in collaboration with SPC.org media lab,
Bitnik.org, Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture and Goldsmiths College.

The unedited as well as edited media content is being made available on
the Deptford.TV database and distributed over the Boundless.coop
wireless network. The media is licensed through open content licenses
such as Creative Commons and the GNU general public license.

This reader problematises the notion of 'tactical media'. As McKenzie