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# Pirate Care, a syllabus
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> Please note:
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> This syllabus and its library emerged from a web of relationships spun between 2019 and 2021 and are the fruits of collective writing conducted in various constellations between the practitioners of pirate care. They reflect a moment in which they were written. While incomplete, they are final and archival. Like the commons they seek to reimagine, they are here as a provocation and an invitation to all us to pirate care from systems that exploit it.
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> The ideas that motivated the syllabus have been expanded into a book, Pirate Care. Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity (Pluto Press 2025), providing a glimpse into a broad rage of pirate care initiatives, exploring pirate care's political significance and carrying its questions further into the world. For those who feel called to explore, the book awaits here: [Pluto Press](https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/).
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*We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise couldn’t get them. Folks are getting in trouble for giving food to the poor, medicine to the sick, water to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless. And yet our heroines care and disobey. They are pirates.*
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Pirate Care is a research process - primarily based in the transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, which in new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the ‘crisis of care’ in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions.
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Pirate Care is a research process - primarily based in the transnational European space - that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, which in new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the ‘crisis of care’ in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions.
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These practices are experimenting with self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools, technologies and knowledges. Often they act disobediently in expressed non-compliance with laws, regulations and executive orders that ciriminalise the duty of care by imposing exclusions along the lines of class, gender, race or territory. They are not shying risk of persecution in providing unconditional solidarity to those who are the most exploited, discriminated against and condemned to the status of disposable populations.
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These practices are experimenting with self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools, technologies and knowledges. Often they act disobediently in expressed non-compliance with laws, regulations and executive orders that ciriminalise the duty of care by imposing exclusions along the lines of class, gender, race or territory. They are not shying risk of persecution in providing unconditional solidarity to those who are the most exploited, discriminated against and condemned to the status of disposable populations.
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The Pirate Care Syllabus we present here for the first time is a tool for supporting and activating collective processes of learning from these practices. We encourage everyone to freely use this syllabus to learn and organise processes of learning and to freely adapt, rewrite and expand it to reflect their own experience and serve their own pedagogies.
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> Please Note:
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> The Pirate Care Syllabus is in a permanent state of being work in progress. Some topics and sessions are rather bare and under development, while others are more complete. We welcome suggestions and proposals for collaborations on expanding or re-visiting existing topics.
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# Care, a political notion
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1. Caring is not intrinsically “nice”, it always involve power relations. Processes of discipline, exclusion and harm can operate inside the matrix of care.
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2. Care labour holds the capacity to disobey power and increase our collective freedom. This is why when it is organised in capitalist, patriarchal and racist ways, it does not work for most living beings. We are in a global crisis of care.
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1. Caring is not intrinsically “nice”, it always involve power relations. Processes of discipline, exclusion and harm can operate inside the matrix of care.
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2. Care labour holds the capacity to disobey power and increase our collective freedom. This is why when it is organised in capitalist, patriarchal and racist ways, it does not work for most living beings. We are in a global crisis of care.
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3. There are no wrong people. Yet, caring for the “wrong” people is more and more socially discouraged, made difficult and criminalized. For many, the crisis of care has been there for a very long time.
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4. Caring is labour. it is necessary and it is skilled labour.
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5. Care labour is shared unfairly and violently in most societies, along lines of gender, provenance, race, class, ability, and age. Some are forced to care, while some defend their privilege of expecting service. This has to change.
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6. Caring labour needs full access to resources, knowledge, tools and technologies. When these are taken away, we must claim them back.
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Pirate Care is convened by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
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Pirate Care is convened by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
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Contributors to the [Syllabus](https://syllabus.pirate.care/): Laura Benitez Valero, Emina Bužinkić, Rasmus Fleischer, Maddalena Fragnito, Valeria Graziano, Chris Grodotzki, Mary Maggic, Iva Marčetić, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Morana Miljanović, Power Makes Us Sick (PMS), Zoe Romano, Cassie Thornton, Ivory Tuesday, Ana Vilenica.
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Contributors to the [Syllabus](https://syllabus.pirate.care/): Laura Benitez Valero, Emina Bužinkić, Rasmus Fleischer, Maddalena Fragnito, Valeria Graziano, Chris Grodotzki, Mary Maggic, Iva Marčetić, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Morana Miljanović, Power Makes Us Sick (PMS), Zoe Romano, Cassie Thornton, Ivory Tuesday, Ana Vilenica.
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Contributors and translators of [Flatten the Curve, Grow the Care: a collective note-taking exercise](https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/coronanotes/): Janneke Adema, Cooperation Birmingham, Maddalena Fragnito, Valeria Graziano, Antonia Hernández, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Katja Laug, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Tomasso Petrucci, Dan Rudmann, Tobias Steiner.
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Contributors to the exhibition [Pirate Care: Learning from Disobedience](https://drugo-more.hr/en/pirate-care/): Laura Benítez Valero, Emina Bužinkić, Maddalena Fragnito (Soprasotto), Iva Marčetić, Paula Pin (Biotranslab/ Pechblenda), Planka, Power Makes Us Sick (PMS), Sea-Watch, Ana Vilenica and Women on Waves.
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Contributors to the exhibition [Pirate Care: Learning from Disobedience](https://drugo-more.hr/en/pirate-care/): Laura Benítez Valero, Emina Bužinkić, Maddalena Fragnito (Soprasotto), Iva Marčetić, Paula Pin (Biotranslab / Pechblenda), Planka, Power Makes Us Sick (PMS), Sea-Watch, Ana Vilenica and Women on Waves.
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Contributors to the [2019 Conference](https://pirate.care/pages/conference/) at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University: Agustina Andreoletti (Academy of Media Arts Cologne) | Mijke van der Drift (Goldsmiths University of London / Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) | Taraneh Fazeli (curatorial fellow, Jan van Eyck Academie and Canaries collective) | Kirsten Forkert (BCU) + Janna Graham (Goldsmiths) + Victoria Mponda (Global Sistaz United) | Maddalena Fragnito (Soprasotto) | Valeria Graziano (CPC) | Derly Guzman (Planka) | Toufic Haddad (Kenyon Institute) | Jelka Kretzschmar + Franziska Wallner (Sea-Watch) | Andrea Liu (Goldsmiths University of London) | Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak (Memory of the World / CPC) | Power Makes Us Sick (PMS) | Gilbert B. Rodman (University of Minnesota) | Zoe Romano (WeMake / Opencare.cc) | Deborah Streahle (Yale) | Nick Titus (Four Thieves Vinegar Collective) | Kim Trogal (UCA) | Ana Vilenica (LSBU) | Kandis Williams (Cassandra Press) | Kitty Worthing (Docs Not Cops) + James Skinner (Medact) | John Wilbanks (Sage Bionetworks/ FasterCures).
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# Resources
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- ![](bib:4db46a8a-9a3d-4524-906e-3db1dd6be08f)
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- ![](bib:3ae19cd8-7e92-4f63-bacb-1a6bdc86c7a7)
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# How practicing the right to home becomes a crime?
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Challenging private property with housing practices and solidarity actions to ensure that people have access to housing has been systematically discouraged by means of creating obstacles, vilification, stigmatization and juridical action. These practices have been referred to as criminalization of solidarity. Criminalization of solidarity in Europe has been soaring after the crisis in 2008. Individuals involved in the anti-eviction actions have been penalized and arrested, squatting has been illegalized in most European countries and replaced with profitable practices as property guardianship. The most severe attacks have been directed towards solidarity with migrants, including self-organized housing usually run by migrants and solidarity groups.
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Challenging private property with housing practices and solidarity actions to ensure that people have access to housing has been systematically discouraged by means of creating obstacles, vilification, stigmatization and juridical action. These practices have been referred to as criminalization of solidarity. Criminalization of solidarity in Europe has been soaring after the crisis in 2008. Individuals involved in the anti-eviction actions have been penalized and arrested, squatting has been illegalized in most European countries and replaced with profitable practices as property guardianship. The most severe attacks have been directed towards solidarity with migrants, including self-organized housing usually run by migrants and solidarity groups.
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## Proposed resources
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- **Read about the criminalisation of solidarity against the anti-eviction movement in Serbia:** ![](bib:785c5a84-72f9-48ff-8667-1abff6b14bbd)
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- **Read about the criminalization of the squatting movement in the Netherlands:** ![“You can’t evict an idea” - The criminalization of the squatting movement in the Netherlands](bib:2af93d30-7d8a-4535-a26d-6434204ef6c8)
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- **Read about criminalization of squatting in Barcelona:** [Some recent mainstream media representations of squatting in Barcelona (Group Against Criminalization)](bib:2af93d30-7d8a-4535-a26d-6434204ef6c8)
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- **Read about the criminalization of the squatting movement in the Netherlands:** ![“You can’t evict an idea” - The criminalization of the squatting movement in the Netherlands](bib:2af93d30-7d8a-4535-a26d-6434204ef6c8).
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- **Read about criminalization of squatting in Barcelona:** [Some recent mainstream media representations of squatting in Barcelona (Group Against Criminalization)](bib:2af93d30-7d8a-4535-a26d-6434204ef6c8).
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- **Read about the murder of Jolanta Brezenska in Warsaw and the collusion of the police and the ruling elite in stopping housing activism:** ![](bib:ce1a68a7-6f30-4cb3-a56e-c8cd88aa5c88)
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## How to learn together
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## Reports
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- ![](bib:6a297e6d-941c-4c00-a79d-67f3661df5e6)
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This report takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care work.
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> This report takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care work.
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- ![](bib:91dc5284-3a52-4d4a-a3e8-fdc2cf45be1f)
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## Exercise: Spending Time with the Data
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Here are some data on the global crisis of care:
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Here are some data on the global crisis of care from the ILO and Oxfam reports:
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> The monetary value of women’s unpaid care work globally for women aged 15 and over is at least $10.8 trillion annually –three times the size of the world’s tech industry.
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> Men’s contribution to unpaid care work has increased in some countries over the past 20 years. Yet, between 1997 and 2012, the gender gap in time spent in unpaid care declined by only 7 minutes (from 1 hour and 49 minutes to 1 hour and 42 minutes) in the 23 countries with available time series data. At this pace, it will take 210 years (i.e. until 2228) to close the gender gap in unpaid care work in these countries.
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(These statistics are lifted from the ILO and the Oxfam reports cited above).
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**Questions to move from reflection to action**
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**Questions to move from reflection to action:**
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- How are those global data reflected in your institution, city, neighbourhood, region, state, etc.?
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- If you don’t have access to this information, how would it be possible for you to find the relevant data around the crisis of care in your own context?
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# Method: Workshop
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'A little prison in the Hedgehog's land' is a picture book addressing the criminalization of the so-called illegal migrant/refugee wandering through the woods and running from danger. The book was inspired by the tale *Ježeva kučica* (Hedgehog's Home) in which a hedgehog is in search of a home. The title and the story were modified to tell the story of the detention centre in Ježevo ("Hedgehog land") near Zagreb, the Croatian capital. The book was made by the group of students and a mentor at the Centre for Peace Studies in Croatia. The book consists of two parts, one that is a story to read, reflect on and discuss, and the other that represents a game. The booklet can be used in both ways or separately, depending on the specific purpose and time frame.
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['A little prison in the Hedgehog's land'](https://www.behance.net/gallery/51615351/Kucica-u-Jezevu#) is a picture book addressing the criminalization of the so-called illegal migrant/refugee wandering through the woods and running from danger. The book was inspired by the tale *Ježeva kučica* (Hedgehog's Home) in which a hedgehog is in search of a home. The title and the story were modified to tell the story of the detention centre in Ježevo ("Hedgehog land") near Zagreb, the Croatian capital. The book was made by the group of students and a mentor at the Centre for Peace Studies in Croatia. The book consists of two parts, one that is a story to read, reflect on and discuss, and the other that represents a game. The booklet can be used in both ways or separately, depending on the specific purpose and time frame.
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*Note: The booklet is in Croatian language only and is not accessible online for now.*
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*Note: The picture book is in Croatian language only and is not accessible online.*
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# Session 3: From an affinity group to an activist organization: maintaining community
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**Introduction**
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## Introduction
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As a small group of activists formalizes their work in organizational terms, and grows in regard of persons and resources involved, difficulties arise from that growth. In particular, ways of doing that were tied to friendships among the small group of activists no longer apply. In this session, organizational mechanisms of care, communication, and decision-making used by Sea Watch are explored critically, to learn and inherit useful mechanisms of continually structuring a growing community of care.
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### **Let’s Learn Together**
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## Let’s Learn Together
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**Step 1: Introduce ourselves**
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### Step 1: Introduce ourselves
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**Step 2: Care on the ship (2 hours)**
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### Step 2: Care on the ship (2 hours)
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Explain (1) the buddy system, (2) psychological briefings, (3) knowledge/skill sharing among crew, (4) the cleaning routine and other work of ship maintenance, and (5) care for the guests. Guide a discussion for each, asking participants to connect these mechanisms to their experiences.
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(5) Guest care: After a rescue, crew participates in cooking, handing out food, watches, crowd mood observing, and other tasks distributed and coordinated by the so-called Guest Coordinator. Every crew member enters into relationships with guests according to own capacities and guidelines set by the Guest Coordinator (for example: do not give a blanket to a person if you cannot give it to everyone, unless there is a specific valid case for it). There is a crew member (Cultural Mediator) who does the work of preparing referrals with and for the guests, so that they have access to adequate and professional care once on the land.
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**Step 3: Modes of communicating, knowing, aligning, strategizing, choosing action, (re)acting, coordinating, overseeing, intervening, questioning, collaborating (2 hours)**
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### Step 3: Modes of communicating, knowing, aligning, strategizing, choosing action, (re)acting, coordinating, overseeing, intervening, questioning, collaborating (2 hours)
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Explain (1) the weekly teleconference call, (2) the morning meeting on Sea Watch 3, (3) the Mission Support group. Guide a discussion for each, asking participants to connect these mechanisms to their experiences.
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### Step 4: Compost (2 hours)
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Ask participants to design mechanisms of sharing information and acting upon it that integrate care, for an organization of a given and changing size. Guide them working in small groups. Discuss the results.
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- ![](bib:989c7474-b04a-4a7b-8c1a-81cbd72afc9a)
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- ![](bib:e818cd4d-8a14-48e3-b47e-19591312c57d)
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- ![](bib:cd3b2994-fabc-4642-a1dd-4e18ba184b85)
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- ![Ferguson, Susan. 2017. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective in Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, ed. Tithi Bhattacharya.](bib:11860f86-fd66-4cae-a8ec-3ea35e83e6c4)
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- Ferguson, Susan. 2017. 'Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective' in ![Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, ed. Tithi Bhattacharya.](bib:11860f86-fd66-4cae-a8ec-3ea35e83e6c4)
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- ![](bib:55afa118-a177-40bc-9d93-4968e9b00300)
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- part of a series of Blog posts by Nicole Rose (UK-based abolitionist, permaculturist, herbalist, educator and ex-prisoner). The blog is available via her website the Solidarity Apothecary, and also archived on http://www.emptycagesdesign.org and the blog is now a book which can be purchased in E-book form https://solidarityapothecary.org/overcomingburnout/
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- Part of a series of Blog posts by Nicole Rose (UK-based abolitionist, permaculturist, herbalist, educator and ex-prisoner). The blog is available via her website the Solidarity Apothecary, and also archived on http://www.emptycagesdesign.org and the blog is now a book which can be purchased in E-book form https://solidarityapothecary.org/overcomingburnout/
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- Reclaiming “victim” and embracing unhealthy coping — a presentation by Emi Koyama (emi@eminism.org) for harm reduction conference november 16, 2012
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- Another handout developed by the UK group Activist Trauma which details some of the simple best practices for dealing with trauma in our communities. Much of this material here is borrowed in "Basics of Emotional Support" by PMS and the handout from Out of Action.
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- [Out of Action: Emotional First Aid](https://outofaction.blackblogs.org/?p=720#worum)
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- A reader from Out of Action in Germany about confronting violence in radical movements, as well as inside and outside of actions. This group also holds support groups and offers support within social movements. Here is a resource they have put together to share some best practices. Also similar to the handout from PMS and Activist Trauma Support.
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- A collection of articles about various anarchist responses to abuse and interpersonal violence, including transformative justice in practice, an analysis of accountability processes, and reports from those who've chosen instead to directly confront rapists.
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- "![](bib:38b92eac-6d07-478b-b384-9e4bcff764f7) particularly the intro and "Safety is an Illusion"
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- ![](bib:38b92eac-6d07-478b-b384-9e4bcff764f7) particularly the intro and "Safety is an Illusion"
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- A collection of writings on disillusionment with the concept of accountability as it's expressed, expected, and practiced in radical scenes. This can be a difficult piece and I include it here not because I agree with all its contents or approaches, but because it's important to get at the visceral disappointment and rage that many feel over the failure of "accountability" as it's typically been implemented.
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- > The typical proposal for responding to rape, the community accountability process, is based on a transparent lie. There are no activist communities, only the desire for communities, or the convenient fiction of communities. A community is a material web that binds people together, for better and for worse, in interdependence. If its members move away every couple years because the next place seems cooler, it is not a community. If it is easier to kick someone out than to go through a difficult series of conversations with them, it is not a community. Among the societies that had real communities, exile was the most extreme sanction possible, tantamount to killing them. On many levels, losing the community and all the relationships it involved was the same as dying. Let’s not kid ourselves: we don’t have communities.
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- "The Secret Joy of Accountability: Self-accountability as a Building Block for Change" by Shannon Perez-Darby, from *The Revolution Starts At Home*
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> "So often, people jump to an external definition of accountability that is about other people assuming responsibility for their actions rather than imagining accountability as an internal process where each of us examines our own behaviors and choices so that we can better reconcile those choices with our own values. I define (self) accountability as a process of taking responsibility for your choices and the consequences of those choices.
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- What is harm reduction? In the context of substance use, here's the Harm Reduction Coalition's definition: ![](bib:2e5fef42-e26d-41b5-b901-826a215708ca)
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- What is harm reduction? In the context of substance use, here's the Harm Reduction Coalition's definition: !["Principles of Harm Reduction"](bib:2e5fef42-e26d-41b5-b901-826a215708ca)
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## Discussion
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# On the concept of piracy
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> The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous. It haunts the imagination of international legal scholars, diplomats and statesmen involved in the war on terror. It returns in the headlines of international newspapers as an untimely ‘security threat’. It materializes on the most provincial cinematic screen and the most acclaimed works of fiction. It casts its shadow over the liquid spatiality of the Net, where cyber-activists, file-sharers and a large part of the global youth are condemned as pirates, often embracing that definition with pride rather than resentment. Today, the pirate remains a powerful political icon, embodying at once the persistent nightmare of an anomic wilderness at the fringe of civilization, and the fantasy of a possible anarchic freedom beyond the rigid norms of the state and of the market. And yet, what are the origins of this persistent ‘pirate myth’ in the Western political imagination? Can we trace the historical trajectory that has charged this ambiguous figure with the emotional, political and imaginary tensions that continue to characterize it? What can we learn from the history of piracy and the ways in which it intertwines with the history of imperialism and international trade? Drawing on international law, political theory, and popular literature, The Pirate Myth offers an authoritative genealogy of this immortal political and cultural icon, showing that the history of piracy – the different ways in which pirates have been used, outlawed and suppressed by the major global powers, but also fantasized, imagined and romanticised by popular culture – can shed unexpected light on the different forms of violence that remain at the basis of our contemporary global order.
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> "Piracy" is a concept that seems everywhere in the contemporary world. From the big screen with the dashing Jack Sparrow, to the dangers off the coast of Somalia; from the claims by the Motion Picture Association of America that piracy funds terrorism, to the political impact of pirate parties in countries like Sweden and Germany. While the spread of piracy provokes responses from the shipping and copyright industries, the reverse is also true: for every new development in capitalist technologies, some sort of "piracy" moment emerges. This may be most obvious in the current ideologisation of Internet piracy, where the rapid spread of so called pirate parties is developing into a kind of global political movement. While the pirates of Somalia seem a long way removed from Internet pirates illegally downloading the latest music hit, it is the assertion of this book that such developments indicate a complex interplay between capital flows and relations, late modernity, property rights and spaces of contestation. That is, piracy emerges at specific nodes in capitalist relations that create both blockages and leaks between different social actors. These various aspects of piracy form the focus for this book. It is a collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of piracy on capitalist society today. The book is edited by James Arvanitakis at the University of Western Sydney and Martin Fredriksson at Linköping University, Sweden.
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# Piracy Then
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> Dissecting the conflicting views of the golden age of pirates—as romanticized villains on one hand and genuine social rebels on the other—this fascinating chronicle explores the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by examining a wide range of ethnographical, sociological, and philosophical standards. The meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in pirate communities are analyzed and contextualized, as are the pirates' forms of organization, economy, and ethics. Going beyond simple swashbuckling adventures, the examination also discusses the pirates' self-organization, the internal make-up of the crews, and their early-1700s philosophies—all of which help explain who they were and what they truly wanted. Asserting that pirates came in all shapes, sexes, and sizes, this engaging study ultimately portrays pirates not just as mere thieves and killers but as radical activists with their own society and moral code fighting against an empire.
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> Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit of profits. *The Invisible Hook* looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices. Pirates understood the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they adopted more than fifty years before the United States did so. Pirates also initiated an early system of workers' compensation, regulated drinking and smoking, and in some cases practiced racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially desirable effects and their greedy criminality secured social order. Pirates proved that anarchy could be organized.
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> It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world. How, then, did early humans survive on the Serengeti Plain, surrounded by faster, stronger, and bigger predators in a harsh and forbidding environment? Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers examines an array of natural experiments and accidents of human history to explore the fundamental nature of how human beings act when beyond the scope of the law. Pirates of the 1700s, the leper colony on Molokai Island, prisoners of the Nazis, hippie communes of the 1970s, shipwreck and plane crash survivors, and many more diverse groups—they all existed in the absence of formal rules, punishments, and hierarchies. Paul and Sarah Robinson draw on these real-life stories to suggest that humans are predisposed to be cooperative, within limits. What these “communities” did and how they managed have dramatic implications for shaping our modern institutions. Should today’s criminal justice system build on people’s shared intuitions about justice? Or are we better off acknowledging this aspect of human nature but using law to temper it? Knowing the true nature of our human character and our innate ideas about justice offers a roadmap to a better society.
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> The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
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> In bold and intelligently written essays, historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. From Thomas Paine to the Luddites and from Karl Marx—who concluded his great study of capitalism with the enclosure of commons—to the practical dreamer William Morris who made communism into a verb and advocated communizing industry and agriculture, to the 20th-century communist historian E. P. Thompson, Linebaugh brings to life the vital commonist tradition. He traces the red thread from the great revolt of commoners in 1381 to the enclosures of Ireland, and the American commons, where European immigrants who had been expelled from their commons met the immense commons of the native peoples and the underground African American urban commons, and all the while urges the ancient spark of resistance.
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## Piracy Now
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# Piracy Now
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> This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital
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> At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.
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> Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet, as Vandana Shiva shows, what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. In this readable and compelling introduction to an issue that lies at the heart of the socalled knowledge economy, Vandana Shiva makes clear how this Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations in order to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people, and the poor in particular, and the age-old knowledge and independence of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular resistance around the world is rising to the WTO that polices this new intellectual world order, the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations which dominate it, and the new technologies they are foisting upon us.
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> In this intelligently argued and principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, she argues, Northern capital is now carving out new colonies to exploit for gain: the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants and animals.
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[Open Source Pharma](https://www.opensourcepharma.net/)
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- [Open Source Pharma](https://www.opensourcepharma.net/)
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> As technological progress marches on, so anxiety over the shape of the public domain is likely to continue if not increase. This collection helps to define the boundaries within which the debate over the shape of law and policy should take place. From historical analysis to discussion of contemporary developments, the importance of the public domain in its cultural and scientific contexts is explored by lawyers, scientists, economists, librarians, journalists and entrepreneurs. The contributions will both deepen and enliven the reader's understanding of the public domain in its many guises, and will also serve to highlight the public domain's key role in innovation. This book will appeal not only to students and researchers coming from a variety of fields, but also to policy-makers in the IP field and those more generally interested in the public domain, as well as those more directly involved in the current movements towards open access, open science and open source.
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> Intellectual property law, or IP law, is based on certain assumptions about creative behavior. The case for regulation assumes that creators have a fundamental legal right to prevent copying, and without this right they will under-invest in new work. But this premise fails to fully capture the reality of creative production. It ignores the range of powerful non-economic motivations that compel creativity, and it overlooks the capacity of creative industries for self-governance and innovative social and market responses to appropriation. This book reveals the on-the-ground practices of a range of creators and innovators. In doing so, it challenges intellectual property orthodoxy by showing that incentives for creative production often exist in the absence of, or in disregard for, formal legal protections. Instead, these communities rely on evolving social norms and market responses—sensitive to their particular cultural, competitive, and technological circumstances—to ensure creative incentives. From tattoo artists to medical researchers, Nigerian filmmakers to roller derby players, the communities illustrated in this book demonstrate that creativity can thrive without legal incentives, and perhaps more strikingly, that some creative communities prefer, and thrive, in environments defined by self-regulation rather than legal rules. Beyond their value as descriptions of specific industries and communities, the accounts collected here help to ground debates over IP policy in the empirical realities of the creative process. Their parallels and divergences also highlight the value of rules that are sensitive to the unique mix of conditions and motivations of particular industries and communities, rather than the monoculture of uniform regulation of the current IP system.
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> Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy explores the relationship between power and resistance by critiquing the popular cultural image of the pirate represented in Pirates of the Caribbean. Of particular interest is the reliance on modernism's binary good/evil, Sparrow/Jones, how the films' distinguish the two concepts/characters via corruption, and what we may learn from this structure which I argue supports neoliberal ideologies of indifference towards the piratical Other. What became evident in my research is how the erasure of corruption via imperial and colonial codifications within seventeenth century systems of culture, class hierarchies, and language succeeded in its re-presentation of the pirate and members of a colonized India as corrupt individuals with empire emerging from the struggle as exempt from that corruption. This erasure is evidenced in Western portrayals of Somali pirates as corrupt Beings without any acknowledgement of transnational corporations' role in provoking pirate resurgence in that region. This forces one to re-examine who the pirate is in this situation. Erasure is also evidenced in current interpretations of both Bush's No Child Left Behind and Obama's Race to the Top initiative. While NCLB created conditions through which corruption occurred, I demonstrate how Race to the Top erases that corruption from the institution of education by placing it solely into the hands of teachers, thus providing the institution a "free pass" to engage in any behavior it deems fit. What pirates teach us, then, are potential ways to thwart the erasure process by engaging a pedagogy of passion, purpose, radical love and loyalty to the people involved in the educational process.
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> Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself? In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of the public sphere, the corporatization of education, the privatization of creativity, and the power of finance capital in opposition to the power of the imagination and the growth of contemporary social movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Not only is capitalism crisis itself, but moving beyond it is the only key to survival.
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> In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation. Boyle identifies as a major problem the widespread failure to understand the importance of the public domain—the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee. The public domain is as vital to innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights, he asserts, and he calls for a movement akin to the environmental movement to preserve it. With a clear analysis of issues ranging from Jefferson’s philosophy of innovation to musical sampling, synthetic biology and Internet file sharing, this timely book brings a positive new perspective to important cultural and legal debates. If we continue to enclose the “commons of the mind,” Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer.
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> The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a free culture message that came into conflict with the European Union's legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as cultural environmentalism, a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization.
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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 philosophers and theorists 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, Hall explores how those in academia can move beyond finding new ways of thinking about the world to find instead new ways of being theorists and philosophers 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, philosophers and theorists 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?
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> The free exchange of microbial genetic information is an established public good, facilitating research on medicines, agriculture, and climate change. However, over the past quarter-century, access to genetic resources has been hindered by intellectual property claims from developed countries under the World Trade Organization's TRIPS Agreement (1994) and by claims of sovereign rights from developing countries under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (1992). In this volume, the authors examine the scientific community's responses to these obstacles and advise policymakers on how to harness provisions of the Nagoya Protocol (2010) that allow multilateral measures to support research. By pooling microbial materials, data, and literature in a carefully designed transnational e-infrastructure, the scientific community can facilitate access to essential research assets while simultaneously reinforcing the open access movement. The original empirical surveys of responses to the CBD included here provide a valuable addition to the literature on governing scientific knowledge commons.
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> Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance examines the occupation of space as a mode of resistance. Drawing on the phenomena of social centres, as radical political communities that use the space of squatted, rented, or owned property, the book considers how such communities offer an alternative form of law to that of the state. It then goes on to address the relationship between this form of law recent protest phenomena, such as the Occupy movement. How does the performance of an alternative law enact a e~commonse(tm)? How and why is this manifested in the legal occupation of space? And what does this relationship between space and the commons indicate about the criminalisation of the occupation of space? Contributing to an ongoing re-imagination of the law of property, Protest, Property and the Commons will be of interest to anyone concerned with the role of law in political protest.
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> When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, their back-room plans in tatters. This highly original analysis of three attempts to bring in new laws to defend copyright on the Internet - ACTA, Ley Sinde and the Digital Economy Act - investigates the dance of influence between lobbyists and their political proxies and unmasks the sophistry of their arguments. Copyright expert Monica Horten outlines the myriad ways that lobbyists contrived to bypass democratic process and persuade politicians to take up their cause in imposing an American corporate agenda. In doing so, she argues the case for stronger transparency in copyright policy-making. A Copyright Masquerade is essential reading for anyone who cares about copyright and the Internet, and to those who care about freedom of speech and good government.
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> The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what began as an assertion of consumer rights to digital content has become something broader: a movement concerned not just with consumers and gadgets but with cultural ownership. Increasingly stringent laws and technological measures are more than incoveniences; they lock up access to our "cultural commons." Postigo describes the legislative history of the DMCA and how policy "blind spots" produced a law at odds with existing and emerging consumer practices. Yet the DMCA established a political and legal rationale brought to bear on digital media, the Internet, and other new technologies. Drawing on social movement theory and science and technology studies, Postigo presents case studies of resistance to increased control over digital media, describing a host of tactics that range from hacking to lobbying. Postigo discusses the movement's new, user-centered conception of "fair use" that seeks to legitimize noncommercial personal and creative uses such as copying legitimately purchased content and remixing music and video tracks. He introduces the concept of technological resistance--when hackers and users design and deploy technologies that allows access to digital content despite technological protection mechanisms--as the flip side to the technological enforcement represented by digital copy protection and a crucial tactic for the movement.
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> Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. This book sets out to show how expanded archival practices can challenge contemporary conceptions and inform the redistribution of power and resources. Calling for the necessity to reimagine the potentials of archives in practice, the three contributions ask: Can archives fulfill their paradoxical potential as utopian sites in which the analog and the digital, the past and future, and remembrance and forgetting commingle?
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> The recording industry's panic over illegal downloads is nothing new; a century ago, London publishers faced a similar crisis when pirate editions of sheet music were widely available at significantly less cost. Similarly, the debate over pharmaceutical patents echoes an 18th-century dispute over the origins of Epsom salt. These are just two of the historical examples that Johns (_The Nature of the Book_) draws upon as he traces the tensions between authorized and unauthorized producers and distributors of books, music, and other intellectual property in British and American culture from the 17th century to the present. Johns's history is liveliest when it is rooted in the personal—the 19th-century renegade bibliographer Samuel Egerton Brydges, for example, or the jazz and opera lovers who created a thriving network of bootleg recordings in the 1950s—but the shifting theoretical arguments about copyright and authorial property are presented in a cogent and accessible manner. Johns's research stands as an important reminder that today's intellectual property crises are not unprecedented, and offers a survey of potential approaches to a solution.
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> In this essay I will argue that as peer-to-peer (p2p)-based file-sharing increasingly becomes the norm for media acquisition among the general Internet public, entities such as The Pirate Bay and associated quasi-institutional entities such as Piratbyrån, Zeropaid, TorrentFreak, etc. have begun to appear less as a reactive force (i.e. ‘breaking the rules’) and more as a proactive one (‘setting the rules’). In providing platforms for sharing and for voicing dissent towards the established entertainment industry, the increasing autonomy gained by these piratical actors becomes more akin to the concept of ‘positive liberty’ than to a purely ‘negative,’ reactive one. 1 Rather than complain about the conservatism of established forms of distribution they simply create new, alternative ones. Entities such as The Pirate Bay can thus be said to have effectively had the ‘upper hand’ in the conflict over the future of copyright and digital distribution. They increasingly set the terms with regard to establishing not only technical protocols for distribution but also codes of behaviour and discursive norms. The entertainment industry is then forced to react to these terms. In this sense, the likes of The Pirate Bay become – in the language of French philosopher Michel de Certeau (1984) – strategic rather than tactical. With this, however, comes the added problem of becoming exposed by their opponents as visible perpetrators of particular acts. The strategic sovereignty of sites such as The Pirate Bay makes them appear to be the reason for the wider change in media distribution, not just an incidental side-effect of it.
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> Today, copyright is everywhere, surrounded by a thicket of no trespassing signs that mark creative work as private property. Caren Irr’s Pink Pirates asks how contemporary novelists—represented by Ursula Le Guin, Andrea Barrett, Kathy Acker, and Leslie Marmon Silko—have read those signs, arguing that for feminist writers in particular copyright often conjures up the persistent exclusion of women from ownership. Bringing together voices from law schools, courtrooms, and the writer's desk, Irr shows how some of the most inventive contemporary feminist novelists have reacted to this history. Explaining the complex, three-century lineage of Anglo-American copyright law in clear, accessible terms and wrestling with some of copyright law's most deeply rooted assumptions, Irr sets the stage for a feminist reappraisal of the figure of the literary pirate in the late twentieth century—a figure outside the restrictive bounds of U.S. copyright statutes. Going beyond her readings of contemporary women authors, Irr’s exhaustive history of how women have fared under intellectual property regimes speaks to broader political, social, and economic implications and engages digital-era excitement about the commons with the most utopian and materialist strains in feminist criticism.
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> Widespread distribution of recorded music via digital networks affects more than just business models and marketing strategies; it also alters the way we understand recordings, scenes and histories of popular music culture. This Is Not a Remix uncovers the analog roots of digital practices and brings the long history of copies and piracy into contact with contemporary controversies about the reproduction, use and circulation of recordings on the internet.Borschke examines the innovations that have sprung from the use of recording formats in grassroots music scenes, from the vinyl, tape and acetate that early disco DJs used to create remixes to the mp3 blogs and vinyl revivalists of the 21st century. This is Not A Remix challenges claims that 'remix culture' is a substantially new set of innovations and highlights the continuities and contradictions of the Internet era. Through an historical focus on copy as a property and practice, This Is Not a Remix focuses on questions about the materiality of media, its use and the aesthetic dimensions of reproduction and circulation in digital networks. Through a close look at sometimes illicit forms of composition-including remixes, edits, mashup, bootlegs and playlists-Borschke ponders how and why ideals of authenticity persist in networked cultures where copies and copying are ubiquitous and seemingly at odds with romantic constructions of authorship. By teasing out unspoken assumptions about media and culture, this book offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics of intellectual property in the digital era and poses questions about the promises, possibilities and challenges of network visibility and mobility.
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> In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, made by stenciling patterns with black dye, and kente, a type of strip weaving, each convey, through color, style, and adornment, the bearer’s identity, social status, and even emotional state. Yet both textiles have been widely mass-produced outside Ghana, particularly in East Asia, without any compensation to the originators of the designs. In The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here, Boatema Boateng focuses on the appropriation and protection of adinkra and kente cloth in order to examine the broader implications of the use of intellectual property law to preserve folklore and other traditional forms of knowledge. Boateng investigates the compatibility of indigenous practices of authorship and ownership with those established under intellectual property law, considering the ways in which both are responses to the changing social and historical conditions of decolonization and globalization. Comparing textiles to the more secure copyright protection that Ghanaian musicians enjoy under Ghanaian copyright law, she demonstrates that different forms of social, cultural, and legal capital are treated differently under intellectual property law. Boateng then moves beyond Africa, expanding her analysis to the influence of cultural nationalism among the diaspora, particularly in the United States, on the appropriation of Ghanaian and other African cultures for global markets. Boateng’s rich ethnography brings to the surface difficult challenges to the international regulation of both contemporary and traditional concepts of intellectual property, and questions whether it can even be done.
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> Johns, an expert in the field of intellectual property and piracy, walks us through the history of pirate radio. Pirate radio stations were most famously a British phenomenon (although many other countries had their own versions of these outlaw broadcasters); they operated from offshore sites, usually a boat, skirting the British regulations regarding license fees, broadcast rights, etc. The BBC saw them as illegal and disreputable, but the pirate broadcasters and their listeners (and even many artists) thought they were exciting and indispensable. The end of British pirate radio came soon after a partnership between two colorful station owners, Oliver Smedley and Reg Calvert, ended in violence, property theft, and death.
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> This updated edition of Noam Chomsky's classic dis-section of terrorism explores the role of the U.S. in the Middle East, and reveals how the media manipulates -public opinion about what constitutes "terrorism." This edition includes new chapters covering the second Palestinian intifada that began in October 2000; an analysis of the impact of September 11 on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East; a deconstruction of depictions and perceptions of terrorism since that date; as well as the original sections on Iran and the U.S. bombing of Libya. Chomsky starts by tracing the changing meaning of "terrorism," examining how it originally referred to violent acts by "governments designed to ensure popular submission." He calls its current application "retail terrorism," practiced by "thieves who molest the powerful." Chomsky argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is crucial to stopping terrorism, and understanding why atrocities like the bombing of the World Trade Center happen. In comparing the "war on terror" launched by George W. Bush to that of his father and Ronald Reagan's administrations, Chomsky recalls Winston Churchill's summation of the terror by the powerful: "The rich and powerful have every right to demand that they be left in peace to enjoy what they have gained, often by violence and terror; the rest can be ignored as long as they suffer in silence, but if they interfere with the lives of those who rule the world by right, the 'terrors of the earth' will be visited upon them with righteous wrath, unless power is constrained from within." Pirates and Emperors is a brilliant account of the workings of state terrorism by the world's foremost critic of U.S. imperialism. An internationally acclaimed philosopher, linguist, and political activist, Noam Chomsky teaches at MIT. International Terrorism in the Real World
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> When capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies…when radio opened an era of mass communication . . . when the Internet became part of the global economy…pirates were there. And although most people see pirates as solitary anarchists out to destroy capitalism, it turns out the opposite is true. They are the ones who forge the path. In The Pirate Organization, Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne argue that piracy drives capitalism’s evolution and foreshadows the direction of the economy. Through a rigorous yet engaging analysis of the history and golden ages of piracy, the authors show how pirates form complex and sophisticated organizations that change the course of capitalism. Surprisingly, pirate organizations also behave in predictable ways: challenging widespread norms; controlling resources, communication, and transportation; maintaining trade relationships with other communities; and formulating strategies favoring speed and surprise. We could learn a lot from them—if only we paid more attention. Durand and Vergne recommend that rather than trying to stamp out piracy, savvy entrepreneurs and organizations should keep a sharp eye on the pirate space to stay successful as the game changes—and it always does. First published in French to great critical acclaim and commercial success as L’Organisation Pirate: Essai sur l’évolution du capitalisme, this book shows that piracy is not random. It’s predictable, it cannot be separated from capitalism, and it likely will be the source of capitalism’s continuing evolution.
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> In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. While many online experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of the online world, new and superior governance structures may emerge. Indeed, utopian visions are not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions. The book is organized in five sections. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of "Crypto Anarchy" -- essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation states and other traditional powers. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nation-states are obsolete. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace.
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> A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern China. In *Pirates and Publishers*, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Wang draws on a vast range of previously underutilized archival sources to show how copyright was received, appropriated, and practiced in China, within and beyond the legal institutions of the state. Contrary to common belief, copyright was not a problematic doctrine simply imposed on China by foreign powers with little regard for Chinese cultural and social traditions. Shifting the focus from the state legislation of copyright to the daily, on-the-ground negotiations among Chinese authors, publishers, and state agents, Wang presents a more dynamic, nuanced picture of the encounter between Chinese and foreign ideas and customs. Developing multiple ways for articulating their understanding of copyright, Chinese authors, booksellers, and publishers played a crucial role in its growth and eventual institutionalization in China. These individuals enforced what they viewed as copyright to justify their profit, protect their books, and crack down on piracy in a changing knowledge economy. As China transitioned from a late imperial system to a modern state, booksellers and publishers created and maintained their own economic rules and regulations when faced with the absence of an effective legal framework. Exploring how copyright was transplanted, adopted, and practiced, Pirates and Publishers demonstrates the pivotal roles of those who produce and circulate knowledge.
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> The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Over the next decade, several hundred of these newly created low-wattage stations took to the airwaves. In Low Power to the People, Christina Dunbar-Hester describes the practices of an activist organization focused on LPFM during this era. Despite its origins as a pirate broadcasting collective, the group eventually shifted toward building and expanding regulatory access to new, licensed stations. These radio activists consciously cast radio as an alternative to digital utopianism, promoting an understanding of electronic media that emphasizes the local community rather than a global audience of Internet users.Dunbar-Hester focuses on how these radio activists impute emancipatory politics to the "old" medium of radio technology by promoting the idea that "microradio" broadcasting holds the potential to empower ordinary people at the local community level. The group's methods combine political advocacy with a rare commitment to hands-on technical work with radio hardware, although the activists' hands-on, inclusive ethos was hampered by persistent issues of race, class, and gender. Dunbar-Hester's study of activism around an "old" medium offers broader lessons about how political beliefs are expressed through engagement with specific technologies. It also offers insight into contemporary issues in media policy that is particularly timely as the FCC issues a new round of LPFM licenses.
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> Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)–based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in China. Laikwan Pang argues that the creative economy—in which creativity is an individual asset to be commodified and protected as property—is an intensification of Western modernity and capitalism at odds with key aspects of Chinese culture. Nevertheless, globalization has compelled China to undertake endeavors involving intellectual property rights. Pang examines China's IPR-compliant industries, as well as its numerous copyright violations. She describes how China promotes intellectual property rights in projects such as the development of cultural tourism in the World Heritage city of Lijiang, the transformation of Hong Kong cinema, and the cultural branding of Beijing. Meanwhile, copyright infringement proliferates, angering international trade organizations. Pang argues that piracy and counterfeiting embody the intimate connection between creativity and copying. She points to the lack of copyright protections for Japanese anime as the motor of China's dynamic anime culture. Theorizing the relationship between knockoffs and appropriation art, Pang offers an incisive interpretation of China's flourishing art scene. Creativity and Its Discontents is a refreshing rejoinder to uncritical celebrations of the creative economy.
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# On the concept of Civil Disobedience
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# On the concept of civil disobedience
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> Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. In Praise of Disobedience draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose — the year he came into maturity as an artist. Before the end of 1891, he had written the first of his phenomenally successful plays and met the young man who would win his heart, beginning the love affair that would lead to imprisonment and public infamy. In a witty introduction, playwright, novelist and Wilde scholar Neil Bartlett explains what made this point in the writer's life central to his genius and why Wilde remains a provocative and radical figure to this day.
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> “Civil Disobedience” examines various opposition movements, from the Freedom Riders to the war resisters to the segregationists.
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> What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice. We must expand political obligation to include a duty to resist unjust laws and social conditions even in legitimate states. For Delmas, this duty to resist demands principled disobedience, and such disobedience need not always be civil. At times, covert, violent, evasive, or offensive acts of lawbreaking can be justified, even required. Delmas defends the viability and necessity of illegal assistance to undocumented migrants, leaks of classified information, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, sabotage, armed self-defense, guerrilla art, and other modes of resistance. There are limits: principle alone does not justify law breaking. But uncivil disobedience can sometimes be not only permissible but required in the effort to resist injustice.
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> Civil disobedience is a form of protest with a special standing with regards to the law that sets it apart from political violence. Such principled law-breaking has been witnessed in recent years over climate change, economic strife, and the treatment of animals. Civil disobedience is examined here in the context of contemporary political activism, in the light of classic accounts by Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi to call for a broader attitude towards what civil disobedience involves. The question of violence is discussed, arguing that civil disobedience need only be aspirationally non-violent and that although some protests do not clearly constitute law-breaking they may render people liable to arrest. For example, while there may not be violence against persons, there may be property damage, as seen in raids upon animal laboratories. Such forms of militancy raise ethical and legal questions. Arguing for a less restrictive theory of civil disobedience, the book will be a valuable resource for anyone studying social movements and issues of political philosophy, social justice, and global ethics.
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> What is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even today it remains unclear how we should best understand civil disobedience. Why have so many different activists and intellectuals embraced it, and to what ends? Is civil disobedience still politically relevant in today's hyper-connected world? Does it make sense, for example, to describe Edward Snowden's actions, or those of recent global movements like Occupy, as falling under this rubric? If so, how must it adapt to respond to the challenges of digitalization and globalization and the rise of populist authoritarianism in the West? In this elegantly written introductory text, William E. Scheuerman systematically analyzes the most important interpretations of civil disobedience. Drawing out the striking differences separating religious, liberal, radical democratic, and anarchist views, he nonetheless shows that core commonalities remain. Against those who water down the idea of civil disobedience or view it as obsolescent, Scheuerman successfully salvages its central elements. The concept of civil disobedience, he argues, remains a pivotal tool for anyone hoping to bring about political and social change.
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> Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide. “You break through the screen like Alice in Wonderland,” Taussig writes in the opening essay, “and now you can’t leave or do without it.” Following Taussig’s artful blend of participatory ethnography and poetic meditation on Zuccotti Park, political and legal scholar Harcourt examines the crucial difference between civil and political disobedience. He shows how by effecting the latter—by rejecting the very discourse and strategy of politics—Occupy Wall Street protestors enacted a radical new form of protest. Finally, media critic and theorist Mitchell surveys the global circulation of Occupy images across mass and social media and looks at contemporary works by artists such as Antony Gormley and how they engage the body politic, ultimately examining the use of empty space itself as a revolutionary monument. Occupy stands not as a primer on or an authoritative account of 2011’s revolutions, but as a snapshot, a second draft of history, beyond journalism and the polemics of the moment—an occupation itself.
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> This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the ‘suddenly possible’, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making.
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> Few activities have captured the contemporary popular imagination as hacking and online activism, from Anonymous and beyond. Few political ideas have gained more notoriety recently than anarchism. Yet both remain misunderstood and much maligned. /Cyber Disobedience/ provides the most engaging and detailed analysis of online civil disobedience and anarchism today.
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> What is Hacktivism? In The Coming Swarm, Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, or people to unify, many will turn to the internet as a theater for that activity. As familiar and widely accepted activist tools-petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns and others-find equivalent practices in the online space, is there also room for the tactics of disruption and civil disobedience that are equally familiar from the realm of street marches, occupations, and sit-ins? With a historically grounded analysis, and a focus on early deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, The Coming Swarm uses activist DDOS actions as the foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil disobedience on the internet.
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> Encompassing aspects of autobiography, spiritual treatise, political declaration, and historical commentary, Henry David Thoreaus Walden is one of the classic greats to be revisited by all audiences as an example of achievement in both breadth and beauty. Thoreau masterfully blends his personal opinions on topics from economy and education with elegant prose describing his peaceful paradise at Walden. Walden makes the rare presentation of an idealist viewpoint in a far from ideal world.
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> Although the issue of civil disobedience has been discussed as early as 399 B.C., this topic continues to be at the center of much recent debate in the wake of events such as Tiananmen Square and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. "Civil Disobedience in" "Focus" assembles all the basic materials, both classic and contemporary, needed for the philosophical assessment of this controversial subject. The first part of this work explores the three most influential classic arguments: Plato in the "Crito," Thoreau in the 1840s, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. The second part of this book shifts to a contemporary philosophical discussion setting forth the most important reflections by a number of today's leading thinkers. Included is John Rawls's definition and justification of civil disobedience in liberal democracy which has provoked much dicussion. The other essays, written by contemporary British and American thinkers, bring into sharp relief the issues -- conceptual, normative, and political -- raised in the classic arguments. A stimulating edition, "Civil Disobedience in" "Focus" will be invaluable to students of ethics, social/political philosophy, and philosophy of law, as well as to activists.
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# Session 1: Pirates of the Central Mediterranean
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## Introduction
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The European states have created a zone at their margins, where all their proclaimed values, their human and civil rights are suspended: A state of exception that reduces the sea to a weapon, people to bargaining chips - and the fluid southern border of the European Union to the deadliest migration route in the world. This is where activists organized to respond immediately in a solidary way. What can we learn from the brief history of thousands of years of migrations in the Mediterranean and that of six years of civil sea rescue?
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## Let’s learn together
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**Step 1: Words we think with (30 mins)**
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### Step 1: Words we think with (30 mins)
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Hand out post-it papers (the bigger ones). Ask participants to write words or phrases that come to their mind for each of the following concepts: piracy, migration, duty to rescue, socially organized death, freedom of movement, humanitarian crisis, solidarity; one after another, giving them 3 minutes for each. Assemble papers by theme (concept), sticking them to a wall.
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### Step 2: Let’s watch and read (70 mins)
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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN8fjAjLLpg
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**Step 3: New meanings? (45-60 mins)**
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### Step 3: New meanings? (45-60 mins)
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Repeat the process from Step 1. Then look back at two sets of post-its (those made before reading and watching, and those made after); give participants 15-20 minutes to reflect and discuss these concepts and how their thinking about them has been changed by the reading, in small groups. Have the groups report to the full group (sitting in a circle if viable). Randomize who is speaking by using a speaking-ball, if viable. Let the speakers freely pass the ball to whomever wants to add on what is being said; moderate the discussion in terms of relevance but allow personal accounts if they happen.
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- ![](bib:5bfba5ae-c57f-4144-b3a5-4f35dbb34dee) (pg. 89-122)
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- The Hiawatha Asylum
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20110711164717/http://www.hiawathadiary.com/HiawathaAsylum.html
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- [The Hiawatha Asylum](https://web.archive.org/web/20110711164717/http://www.hiawathadiary.com/HiawathaAsylum.html)
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- The story of the Hiawatha Asylum is one of few recorded examples of 'mental illness' being weaponized by colonizers to silence and inflict harm upon a population. In this case, indigenous people deemed insane, were kept at this facility in South Dakota with unasnitary and inhumane conditions, many not able to go outside.
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- ![](bib:515d5634-ea21-41aa-92ff-b82d5db8a5e1)
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# Further Reading
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- https://restforresistance.com/
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- [Rest for Resistance](https://restforresistance.com/)
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- Rest for Resistance is a collective of seven trans people of color organizing to uplift marginalized communities that rarely get access to adequate healthcare and support. They published this essay by Ky Peterson, a black trans man currently incarcerated for defending himself against a violent attacker. It looks at the value of rest in an unsafe space.
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- CAHOOTS
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- https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/
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- [CAHOOTS](https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/)
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- ![](bib:f324029c-6523-450d-b3b5-dfa8608ebed1)
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# Universal care or charity?
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The system of public housing as it was established in the mid 20th century had to be dismantled and privatized to make way for financialization of housing and proliferation of debt via housing loans. Even though the systems of public, that is social housing, are different from country to country, they were all designed to offer an alternative to the market-based housing provision. One of the prevailing models of dismantling the public housing system was the politics of the so-called right-to-buy that originated in the UK in the 1980’s and was transferred to many other countries. This means that social housing stock has been sold off to tenants living in them. The programs were dubbed as one of the most ingenious conservative revolutions. By making the tenant the individual owner of property - workers were supposed to become proprietors. To paraphrase General Franco’s Minister of housing in 1954, such strategies turn the nation of workers into the nation of owners. Struggles for social housing range from collective anti-gentrification action of tenants, rent strikes as well as the transnational demands for abolishing the neoliberal idea that the market can provide us with housing and demanding more investment into public housing stock. These struggles teach us that the right to housing, similar to the right to health protection, should be understood as the universal care established through the systematically arranged program of solidarity.
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|
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The system of public housing as it was established in the mid 20th century had to be dismantled and privatized to make way for financialization of housing and proliferation of debt via housing loans. Even though the systems of public, that is social housing, are different from country to country, they were all designed to offer an alternative to the market-based housing provision. One of the prevailing models of dismantling the public housing system was the politics of the so-called right-to-buy that originated in the UK in the 1980’s and was transferred to many other countries. This means that social housing stock has been sold off to tenants living in them. The programs were dubbed as one of the most ingenious conservative revolutions. By making the tenant the individual owner of property - workers were supposed to become proprietors. To paraphrase General Franco’s Minister of housing in 1954, such strategies turn the nation of workers into the nation of owners. Struggles for social housing range from collective anti-gentrification action of tenants, rent strikes as well as the transnational demands for abolishing the neoliberal idea that the market can provide us with housing and demanding more investment into public housing stock. These struggles teach us that the right to housing, similar to the right to health protection, should be understood as the universal care established through the systematically arranged program of solidarity.
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|
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## Proposed resources
|
||||
|
||||
**Read about the myth of meddling state:**
|
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![The myth of meddling state by Peter Marcuse.](bib:f6f7d1a4-882b-409b-aaf9-d8ef8b551ec4)
|
||||
|
||||
**Read about the myth of meddling state:**
|
||||
![](bib:f6f7d1a4-882b-409b-aaf9-d8ef8b551ec4), p. 74ff.
|
||||
|
||||
**Read about the situation in the ex - socialist countries:**
|
||||
![](bib:bf24f062-a58c-4105-9418-35dbce461532)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Checking out how we fight the myth that market is the only solution for our housing problems:**
|
||||
![](bib:43e92f23-af8b-4d7e-9eee-609df5fb1ab7)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Watch a film about iconic Pruitt - Igoe Myth:**
|
||||
[The Pruitt-Igoe Myth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAfACI7LBY)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## If you want to know more
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Read about the iconic rent strike in public housing estate Pruitt Igoe:**
|
||||
![](bib:adeb4fef-732d-4a34-8993-0120210b2ef1)
|
||||
|
||||
**For in-depth reading about mainstream narrative about global finance pushing the State out of housing production check out:**
|
||||
![](bib:468edffc-22eb-41b3-9df2-29844c305ee0)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## How to learn together
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Read the proposed articles before you come to the session. Watch the film together. Organize a discussion round. Make dictionary entries to collectively organize your thoughts. Feed in as much detail as you can. Use what you have read. Use your personal experience, including what you know about your family and your friends. Share your Dictionary with other Pirate Care Syllabus users.
|
||||
|
|
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@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ title: "Undoing the division carer / cared for"
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|
||||
# Session 4: Undoing the division carer / cared for
|
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|
||||
**Introduction**
|
||||
## Introduction
|
||||
|
||||
In this session, we look at the strategies used by Sea Watch to make visible own biases in terms of latent sexism and racism as well as their influence on organizational practices and structures. We reflect on the potential pitfalls of power implicit in the giving and receiving different kinds of caring, restraints and limits to undoing of the division between care givers and recipients, and available ways to puncture and dilute these diving lines.
|
||||
|
||||
## **Let’s learn together**
|
||||
## Let’s learn together
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 1: Lets’s read**
|
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### Step 1: Lets’s read
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|
||||
Participants read aloud:
|
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|
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|
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|
|||
- “Ethics of care...demands that meeting the needs of the vulnerable be seen as valuable” p.132
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 2: Let’s talk about how we talk**
|
||||
### Step 2: Let’s talk about how we talk
|
||||
|
||||
Share mixed experiences, lessons learned, and strategies of the activist group / organization as well as those of the activists, related to sexism and racism. Look into:
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Share mixed experiences, lessons learned, and strategies of the activist group /
|
|||
|
||||
(5) working groups active on the issues of sexism/racism. Give examples. Open for discussion.
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 3: Guests and hosts**
|
||||
### Step 3: Guests and hosts
|
||||
|
||||
Explain the constraints on the undoing of the carer/cared for division. On the Sea Watch 3, these are:
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
|
|||
title: "Urine Hormone Extraction Action"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Using a basic understanding of chemistry principles such as polarity and solubility, participants will build and perform a urine-hormone extraction protocol using cheap and easy-to-find materials. This protocol was generated through the project [Estrofem! Lab](http://maggic.ooo/Estrofem-Lab-2016), dedicated to the collaborative production of hormone hacking protocols for citizen investigation of bodies and environments. In addition, the participants will be encouraged to think of the protocol as a kind of cooking recipe, referring to the fact that we have always been biohackers.
|
||||
Using a basic understanding of chemistry principles such as polarity and solubility, participants will build and perform a urine-hormone extraction protocol using cheap and easy-to-find materials. This protocol was generated through the project [Estrofem! Lab](http://maggic.ooo/Estrofem-Lab-2016), dedicated to the collaborative production of hormone hacking protocols for citizen investigation of bodies and environments. In addition, the participants will be encouraged to think of the protocol as a kind of cooking recipe, referring to the fact that we have always been biohackers.
|
||||
|
||||
The results of this short experiment will be a brown sticky substance that is a collection of all kinds of steroidal-like molecules, and will be followed by a reflective discussion: What kinds of queer, disobedient embodiments can we find in urinary hormones? How can we generate new subjectivities around hormones? Can we imagine speculative scenarios where we recycle hormones produced in the body?
|
||||
|
||||
# Materials
|
||||
- Paper towels
|
||||
- Scissors
|
||||
- Scissors
|
||||
- Cups (for urine)
|
||||
- Glass bottle cutter
|
||||
- Tweezers with needle nose
|
||||
- U-post fence bracket
|
||||
- Angle bracket
|
||||
- 2 metal threaded rods per bracket (500mm/9.5mm)
|
||||
- Zip-ties (large, colorful prefered)
|
||||
- Zip-ties (large, colorful prefered)
|
||||
- Pipe clamp with black rubber and threaded nail (various diameters)
|
||||
- Any glass bottle, recycled
|
||||
- Cigarette filters, variety of brands to compare
|
||||
|
@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ The results of this short experiment will be a brown sticky substance that is a
|
|||
- Pot for boiling
|
||||
|
||||
# DIY Column Construction
|
||||
Two metal rods are fixed to a bracket by zip ties.
|
||||
One pipe clamp per metal rod is then fixed by zip ties.
|
||||
Two metal rods are fixed to a bracket by zip ties.
|
||||
One pipe clamp per metal rod is then fixed by zip ties.
|
||||
Make an incision around a glass bottle using the glass bottle cutter.
|
||||
Pour hot water around the incision, then cold water. This should cause the two pieces to separate. The cut glass bottle will be the column.
|
||||
Wrap the neck opening with parafilm.
|
||||
|
@ -45,12 +45,15 @@ Pour methanol (5-10mL) down the column. This is the “conditioning” step.
|
|||
Now pour water down the column, washing any excess methanol.
|
||||
Dispose the waste down the drain if it gets too full at this point.
|
||||
Pour your urine sample down the column. This is called “loading the sample.” Repeat at least 5 times to ensure binding of hormones to the stationary phase.
|
||||
|
||||
Pour the waste down the drain.
|
||||
|
||||
Now “elute” the hormones (get them off the stationary phase) by pouring methanol (4-5mL) down the column. (Methanol is a solvent described in many scientific papers as having effective binding properties for steroidal molecules). Repeat at least 5 times to ensure efficient elution of hormones. Make sure the final elution ends up in a 15mL falcon tube.
|
||||
Place the falcon tube of methanol-hormones in a pot of boiling water. Use air pump to facilitate the evaporation of methanol. This process varies depending on amount of methanol.
|
||||
|
||||
Once you see a dry, brown, sticky substance, you can take the tube off the hot water. The final product is a collection of hormones, or steroidal molecules in general. To isolate only estrogen would require an additional step of purification, which needs to be further investigated.
|
||||
Smell and share with your friends!
|
||||
|
||||
# Text Resources
|
||||
http://wlu18www30.webland.ch/wiki/Open_Source_Estrogen#Urine_Hormone_Extraction_Action
|
||||
|
||||
Urine Hormone Extraction Action on [Hacketeria](http://wlu18www30.webland.ch/wiki/Open_Source_Estrogen#Urine_Hormone_Extraction_Action)
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -6,17 +6,18 @@ title: "We are all on the same ship, aren’t we?"
|
|||
|
||||
# Session 2: We are all on the same ship, aren’t we?
|
||||
|
||||
**Introduction**
|
||||
## Introduction
|
||||
|
||||
At their very best, responses to a problem perceived as external to particular (individual or group) agency - in origin at least, and possibly of such a scale that it gets called a “crisis” - include intensified emphasis on community organizing. It is one of this charged words, rich in history yet elusive in its contemporary forms in capitalist societies: a community. (Mostly reduced to the following prefixing contexts: indigenous, gated, activist.)
|
||||
|
||||
A community can be conceptualized as an ongoing process/action of co-producing relationships, values, material resources, infrastructures, needs, preferences, commitments, identities, and beings. In the words of John A. Schumacher (![](bib:3bc0515e-6b53-4f07-93ca-864d5e246a4d)), making community is never over: community is the making of it. On a search and rescue ship, with crews of 22 most of whom change for each mission - every three weeks or so – there is a strong overlap between missions and communities. So-called virtual communities, on the other hand, can stretch longer in time but lack a connection to a place and sustenance and are perhaps always affinity groups rather than communities.
|
||||
A community can be conceptualized as an ongoing process/action of co-producing relationships, values, material resources, infrastructures, needs, preferences, commitments, identities, and beings. In the words of John A. Schumacher (see ![‘Communal Living: Making Community’](bib:3bc0515e-6b53-4f07-93ca-864d5e246a4d)), making community is never over: community is the making of it. On a search and rescue ship, with crews of 22 most of whom change for each mission - every three weeks or so – there is a strong overlap between missions and communities. So-called virtual communities, on the other hand, can stretch longer in time but lack a connection to a place and sustenance and are perhaps always affinity groups rather than communities.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## Let’s Learn Together
|
||||
|
||||
### Step 1: Introduce ourselves
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 1: Introduce ourselves**
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 2: Let’s read (30 min.)**
|
||||
### Step 2: Let’s read (30 min.)
|
||||
|
||||
Participants take turns reading aloud a paragraph each of the introduction to the Camille’s stories in ![](bib:4e857cce-9441-4c53-9a1c-5668c81a3fce) (pages 137-143).
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -36,17 +37,17 @@ The facilitator reads out the following statements of the interviewees from
|
|||
* Due to the large number of people participating in the weekly teleconference call, which is the decision making forum, discussions are difficult and decisions are de facto made about ideas that had been discussed first in small circles of friends.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 3: Vessels of the times past (30 min.)**
|
||||
### Step 3: Vessels of the times past (30 min.)
|
||||
|
||||
Ask participants to map out their experience that comes closest to their notion of community along the vectors of relationships, values, material resources, infrastructures, needs, preferences, commitments, identities and beings. Ask them to discover what was missing in each plane, where they overlap, and what alternative ways of connecting these planes exist. Guide participants in the analysis of the above concepts that enables mapping to be as concrete as possible. Ask how features internal to the community (e.g. size of the community, communication structures, decision-making structures) and those external to it (e.g. place where it was situated, climate, political context) shaped the experience.
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 4: Ce ci n’est pas un bateau (45 min.)**
|
||||
### Step 4: Ce ci n’est pas un bateau (45 min.)
|
||||
|
||||
Ask participants to imagine a community that would come closer to a functional community along the same vectors as mentioned above, and to map them out one by one, without reference to others. Then, ask them to put these mini maps together. Guide a discussion around what has happened.
|
||||
|
||||
Bring back the maps made in the Step 2 and contrast them with new maps. Solicit observations and thoughts on this process as well as what participants find as interesting discoveries in their maps, guide a discussion. Examine the choices of each of internal and external features of community making/maintenance and ideas underlying those choices.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Step 5: Who are we (45 min.)**
|
||||
### Step 5: Who are we (45 min.)
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the participants to list those who would be excluded or have trouble accessing their imagined community, as well as grounds and modes of exclusion/limited access. Then, ask them to revisit the maps and identify spaces where exclusion originated.
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -21,10 +21,9 @@ Finally, generate a list of activities that you associate with ‘care labour’
|
|||
|
||||
This exercise can be used as entry points to initiate a collective reflection on care for a group who might want to revisit its own way of perceiving, distributing and valuing its labour. The literature on care is vast, and it is therefore important to ask oneself what do we need to learn in the process of engaging with it? What needs change?
|
||||
|
||||
**
|
||||
Some definitions of care and social reproduction:**
|
||||
**Some definitions of care and social reproduction:**
|
||||
|
||||
- Joan Tronto and Berenice Fisher. "Toward a feminist theory of caring." Circles of care: Work and identity in women’s lives (1990), 35-62:
|
||||
- Joan Tronto and Berenice Fisher. 'Toward a feminist theory of caring.' In ![](bib:39fef702-aeed-4cf4-93e8-27a8895e6675)
|
||||
|
||||
> In the most general sense, care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our world so that we may live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, ourselves and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ Some definitions of care and social reproduction:**
|
|||
|
||||
- ![](bib:f1711c2d-0032-45fa-9b29-82d3f3ca3c92)
|
||||
|
||||
> interactions that produce and maintain social bonds.
|
||||
> ...interactions that produce and maintain social bonds.
|
||||
|
||||
- ![](bib:1643ef2b-c9d8-4eb1-baf5-730144eadc6d)
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -104,7 +103,7 @@ Different ways of thinking about care:
|
|||
- ![](bib:44abb3ff-8e49-40f6-b476-709c1f9c34fc)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## Further Resources
|
||||
## Further resources
|
||||
|
||||
- [Website of the Foundation Critical Ethics of Care](https://ethicsofcare.org/care-ethics/)
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ Different ways of thinking about care:
|
|||
|
||||
# Care Labour and Social Reproduction
|
||||
|
||||
## Some introductory readings
|
||||
## Introductory readings
|
||||
|
||||
- ![](bib:88742e58-92de-457f-ac08-099db3b4bbc7)
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -201,7 +200,7 @@ Different ways of thinking about care:
|
|||
|
||||
- ![](bib:2ed6e640-4b0d-4d92-862e-cbffba4dc0e4)
|
||||
|
||||
- ![](bib:0860b3b2-7fb7-4038-9373-42765366c13e)
|
||||
- ![](bib:87b238c5-4412-4bc5-b42e-27bab643e6b8)
|
||||
|
||||
- ![](bib:6dd40a24-2a7d-44b9-8589-466db6c255f8)
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -231,11 +230,11 @@ Different ways of thinking about care:
|
|||
|
||||
- ![](bib:69d547e9-39f2-4a05-8362-67899dd02be3)
|
||||
|
||||
- [Caring Labour: an archive](https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/). Website.
|
||||
This site was born as an attempt by students in the East Bay in California to understand our role in the fight to prevent the closure of a community college childcare center and the layoffs of eight childcare workers.
|
||||
- [Caring Labour: an archive](https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/).
|
||||
> This site was born as an attempt by students in the East Bay in California to understand our role in the fight to prevent the closure of a community college childcare center and the layoffs of eight childcare workers.
|
||||
|
||||
- [CareForce](http://www.careforce.co/) (film / public art project)
|
||||
Initiated by artist [Marisa Morán Jahn](https://www.marisajahn.com/careforce) (Studio REV-) with the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), the CareForce is an ongoing set of public art projects amplifying the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers.
|
||||
> Initiated by artist [Marisa Morán Jahn](https://www.marisajahn.com/careforce) (Studio REV-) with the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), the CareForce is an ongoing set of public art projects amplifying the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers.
|
||||
|
||||
- ![](bib:7270addd-bc27-4ff0-9eea-4491e21cb074)
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ These workshops are straightforward, although able to foster discussions around
|
|||
- and finally, the potential that different ways of “commoning care” are able to unfold ![05. Transgenerational Assembly](session:transgenerationalassembly.md) and ![06. How to build a pirate kindergarten in your neighbourhood](session:howtobuildapiratekindergarteninyourneighbourhood.md).
|
||||
|
||||
# Bibliography
|
||||
To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [collection](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/commoningcare).
|
||||
To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/commoningcare).
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
<br/><br/><br/><br/>
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ This topic will lay the groundwork for creating community safety using contextua
|
|||
|
||||
|
||||
# References
|
||||
To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [collection](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/communitysafetyandcontextualfluidity).
|
||||
To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/communitysafetyandcontextualfluidity).
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ has_sessions: ["mythbusting.md", "collectivememorywritingbycriminalizedactivists
|
|||
---
|
||||
When Cédric Herrou was handcuffed and taken to jail by a few police officers, the news worldwide portrayed him as a criminal. One didn't even have to ask why but assumed that helping illegal crossings of migrants from Italy to France was terribly wrong. The mere fact that he helped an *illegal* migrant move justified the ways the repressive apparatus of the state treated him - publicly handcuffed and subjected to further punitive procedures. Accused of smuggling and taken into four-month custody, Herrou was brought to a trial. The trial was turned against Herrou both in the courtroom and publicly as helping the illegal crossings of refugees was strongly condemned. However, a few months later, the principle of *fraternity* enshrined in the French constitution lead to Herrou's ![release](bib:6849b47b-85a5-455c-9fd6-5d9b58bd3b3f), as it conferred the freedom to provide humanitarian assistance and help others regardless whether they were legally or illegally present on the territory.
|
||||
|
||||
A recently published report ![Humanitarianism: the unacceptable face of solidarity](bib:fa5fcc36-8599-42e3-bc4f-09e89233ff80) discusses prosecution of more than 40 individuals who dared to assist migrants and refugees in crossing the sea or land borders irregularly. It covers case studies that speak to the rigidity of migration management and regulation of civic disobedience-in-solidarity with migrants and refugees. A recent ![case of a war veteran Dragan Umičević](bib:dcbbaeaa-e044-466d-83bb-5fc8cc0c7860) of ![Are You Syrious!](bib:57e3db33-cfdf-4811-8cf8-2b06beb47af1), who helped a group of refugees including six children freezing in winter at the Croatian-Serbian border, or ![Scott Warren of No more deaths](bib:c7b49a8b-0ca1-4fab-9899-5c3e126a8e65) in Arizona who helped two undocumented migrants along the US-Mexico border, or a volunteer and Syrian refugee ![Sarah Mardini of Emergency Response Centre International](6063b197-a2a5-4992-b9ac-4687504827fa), who was arrested for her humanitarian work in Moira camp, or a ship captain [Carola Rackete of Sea-Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-p8_V40Wvk), who docked the migrant rescue ship in the port of Lampedusa without authorization, or a ![mayor of Riace Domenico Lucano](bib:4a58f802-544e-477b-9538-7dffcda1a2e2), who was arrested under accusation of aiding illegal immigrants - all those events speak strongly of clampdown on solidarity actions with migrants and refugees. These people and their organization, just as numerous others that stay invisible and hidden from public sight, have come under state prosecution instrumentalizing the rigid anti-smuggling legal provisions. Fekete notes that "The emergence of autonomous migrant and refugee solidarity movements and the lengths individuals were prepared to go to help were perceived by states as a threat to their control of borders."
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A recently published report ![Humanitarianism: the unacceptable face of solidarity](bib:fa5fcc36-8599-42e3-bc4f-09e89233ff80) discusses prosecution of more than 40 individuals who dared to assist migrants and refugees in crossing the sea or land borders irregularly. It covers case studies that speak to the rigidity of migration management and regulation of civic disobedience-in-solidarity with migrants and refugees. A recent ![case of a war veteran Dragan Umičević](bib:dcbbaeaa-e044-466d-83bb-5fc8cc0c7860) of ![Are You Syrious!](bib:57e3db33-cfdf-4811-8cf8-2b06beb47af1), who helped a group of refugees including six children freezing in winter at the Croatian-Serbian border, or ![Scott Warren of No more deaths](bib:c7b49a8b-0ca1-4fab-9899-5c3e126a8e65) in Arizona who helped two undocumented migrants along the US-Mexico border, or a volunteer and Syrian refugee ![Sarah Mardini of Emergency Response Centre International](6063b197-a2a5-4992-b9ac-4687504827fa), who was arrested for her humanitarian work in Moira camp, or a ship captain [Carola Rackete of Sea-Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-p8_V40Wvk), who docked the migrant rescue ship in the port of Lampedusa without authorization, or the ![former mayor of Riace Domenico Lucano](bib:4a58f802-544e-477b-9538-7dffcda1a2e2), who was arrested under accusation of aiding illegal immigrants - all those events speak strongly of clampdown on solidarity actions with migrants and refugees. These people and their organization, just as numerous others that stay invisible and hidden from public sight, have come under state prosecution instrumentalizing the rigid anti-smuggling legal provisions. Fekete notes that "The emergence of autonomous migrant and refugee solidarity movements and the lengths individuals were prepared to go to help were perceived by states as a threat to their control of borders."
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The border control and the *security obsession* as coined by Mattelart (2010) have been strongly inscribed in the current European, American and global migration regimes. They have been labelling migrants and refugees as threats and creating an industry *enemizing* them and those who identify and solidarize with them.
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## Books
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- [Institute of Race Relations - Inside Racist Europe](http://www.irr.org.uk/publications/issues/inside-racist-europe/)
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- Liz Fekete & Francis Weber,1994.'*Inside Racist Europe*.Institute of Race Relations(http://www.irr.org.uk/publications/issues/inside-racist-europe/).
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- ![](bib:39c9c674-3568-4833-af70-2f2ac310eeb2)
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## Papers
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- ![](bib:3b58bd83-48c3-48d5-ad73-a56ea7554e5b)
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- ![](bib:40e1d315-9f12-4377-8000-33eaf7850890)
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- ![](bib:2c923f7e-0d6f-40a1-9e2d-be268c8c7976)
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To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/criminalizationofsolidarity)
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- ![](bib:0d461bed-1bb2-443a-a263-e94843895ddb)
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- ![](bib:1c236cac-9b7e-4e50-9353-b433a93ed82e)
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- [Feminist and women's hackerspaces](https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Feminist_and_women%27s_hackerspaces)
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- ![](bib:34d5fc09-931c-4a50-9bd3-8d442b4291fb)
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- ![](bib:17a78340-e9a4-4080-af5d-d59693a296da)
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- ![](bib:89fa1e3c-0013-4e01-a7b4-5bce3e30c1fe)
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- ![](bib:ddce3f36-2a20-4596-91e7-102547183b2f)
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- ![](bib:9cc69a33-7d1b-4707-aed1-0899f0a966db)
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- ![](bib:1c236cac-9b7e-4e50-9353-b433a93ed82e)
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- ![](a8d6dc2d-9163-4dc3-a931-cc69aa1442d3)
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- ![](bib:a8d6dc2d-9163-4dc3-a931-cc69aa1442d3)
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- ![](bib:38e08cc6-b47a-4cc5-b170-1173afd76cac)
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- ![](bib:47c73092-1ba0-4b92-ae00-20eb45871996)
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- ![](bib:ab904333-d9fb-42e2-8754-89dcee55adde)
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**On gender diversity**
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- ![What happened to Women in computer science?](/topic/fosteringequityanddiversityinthehackermakerscene/womenincomputerscience.jpeg)
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![What happened to Women in computer science?](/topic/fosteringequityanddiversityinthehackermakerscene/womenincomputerscience.jpeg)
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- ![](bib:da17941f-c5a0-421e-82cf-8d1e4c050bc4)
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## Videos
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- [Inclusion & Exclusion collection on Hack_curio](https://hackcur.io/category/inclusions-exclusions/)
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To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/fosteringequityanddiversityinthehackermakerscene)
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Wanna contribute? Drop me a message on twitter @zoescope
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# Introduction
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Since the rise of industrial capitalism (petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical) in the mid to late 1800s, synthetic molecules have been produced and manufactured at an alarming and unrelenting pace and now pervade every aspect of the planet. These synthetic molecules are synonymously known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), and xenoestrogens because of their estrogen-mimicking and estrogen-displacing properties. From the discovery of PCBs in the Mariana’s Trench, the deepest parts of the Earth, to whole populations of birds, frogs, and fish failing to produce viable offspring, to the trans-generational cancers inherited from grandmothers who were prescribed diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage, this microscopic moment on the scale of geologic time is already (and continues) to be marked by unprecedented levels of environmental toxicity, drastic planetary changes and collective species mutations.
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Since the rise of industrial capitalism (petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical) in the mid to late 1800s, synthetic molecules have been produced and manufactured at an alarming and unrelenting pace and now pervade every aspect of the planet. These synthetic molecules are synonymously known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), and xenoestrogens because of their estrogen-mimicking and estrogen-displacing properties. From the discovery of PCBs in the Mariana’s Trench, the deepest parts of the Earth, to whole populations of birds, frogs, and fish failing to produce viable offspring, to the trans-generational cancers inherited from grandmothers who were prescribed diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage, this microscopic moment on the scale of geologic time is already (and continues) to be marked by unprecedented levels of environmental toxicity, drastic planetary changes and collective species mutations.
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Writer Rob Nixon has called this phenomenon of the Anthropocene a kind of ![“slow violence”](bib:08713e57-ba12-4fa4-b839-669d62f3e463) that is everywhere yet difficult to perceive. In contrast to blatant catastrophic events such as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the effects of environmental toxicity are gradual and therefore imperceptible in a way similar to climate change. The effects of these synthetic molecules on the human body have been linked to neurological (autism, lower IQ, mood disorders) and physiological effects (diabetes, obesity, early-onset puberty, worldwide sperm count drop), as well as various reproductive cancers. These molecules drift, seep, wander, flow, invade wherever they please, carried by both air and water in invisible and unimaginable ways. Furthermore, the presence of these molecules are unequally distributed, reflecting pre-existing lines of inequality and more often affecting black, indigenous, and marginalized communities.
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Writer Rob Nixon has called this phenomenon of the Anthropocene a kind of ![“slow violence”](bib:08713e57-ba12-4fa4-b839-669d62f3e463) that is everywhere yet difficult to perceive. In contrast to blatant catastrophic events such as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the effects of environmental toxicity are gradual and therefore imperceptible in a way similar to climate change. The effects of these synthetic molecules on the human body have been linked to neurological (autism, lower IQ, mood disorders) and physiological effects (diabetes, obesity, early-onset puberty, worldwide sperm count drop), as well as various reproductive cancers. These molecules drift, seep, wander, flow, invade wherever they please, carried by both air and water in invisible and unimaginable ways. Furthermore, the presence of these molecules are unequally distributed, reflecting pre-existing lines of inequality and more often affecting black, indigenous, and marginalized communities.
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So what does it mean if our bodies are industrially modulated, that our sex, gender, and reproduction are not as fixed and recalcitrant as we were told they would be? How do we situate our bodies, identities, and fears in the midst of toxic and alienating environments? Most importantly, how do we discard old notions of the normative body so that we can breed new subjectivities that include ALL ways of being? Despite many lobbying and activist efforts to change legislation on their production, molecules continue to queer, risk, and harm both humans and non-humans. At the same time, we have the State policing of non-normative bodies on the basis of oppressive gender constructs, from violent intersex surgeries to the denial of hormonal healthcare to trans individuals. Therefore in the spirit of Pirate Care and the formation of micro-resistances, we must take back sovereignty of our bodies from patriarchal and hegemonic forces, and refigure strategies for living, acting, and caring in a permanently polluted world. Intersecting between body and gender politics and environmental toxicity, this topic and its sessions call on participants to undo the trap of eco-heteronormativity, reassess toxicity without rhetorics of purity, neutralize fears, decolonize somatic fictions, demystify hormones, and ultimately rewrite a future that undoubtedly embodies queerness.
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So what does it mean if our bodies are industrially modulated, that our sex, gender, and reproduction are not as fixed and recalcitrant as we were told they would be? How do we situate our bodies, identities, and fears in the midst of toxic and alienating environments? Most importantly, how do we discard old notions of the normative body so that we can breed new subjectivities that include ALL ways of being? Despite many lobbying and activist efforts to change legislation on their production, molecules continue to queer, risk, and harm both humans and non-humans. At the same time, we have the State policing of non-normative bodies on the basis of oppressive gender constructs, from violent intersex surgeries to the denial of hormonal healthcare to trans individuals. Therefore in the spirit of Pirate Care and the formation of micro-resistances, we must take back sovereignty of our bodies from patriarchal and hegemonic forces, and refigure strategies for living, acting, and caring in a permanently polluted world. Intersecting between body and gender politics and environmental toxicity, this topic and its sessions call on participants to undo the trap of eco-heteronormativity, reassess toxicity without rhetorics of purity, neutralize fears, decolonize somatic fictions, demystify hormones, and ultimately rewrite a future that undoubtedly embodies queerness.
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# Sessions
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# References
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Click here to for a complete [Hormones, Toxicity and Body Sovereignity reading list](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/horomonestoxicitybodysovereignty)
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To see a reading list for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/horomonestoxicitybodysovereignty)
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# Approach
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||||
Housing today constitutes a new terrain for expansion of financial capital and financial speculations. These changes have brought about an increase in the prices of housing and land and, as a consquence, an unprecedented rise in household debt. Due to speculation, the number of empty flats waiting to be sold only when the price is right has been growing. In this situation housing has been increasingly changing function from someone's home to a place for investment, savings, or collateral for someone's pension. Some of the consequences of such a system have been a growing housing precarity, an army of evicted and homeless, and entire generations unable to attain home of their own. In our opinion, as long as housing continues to be treated as an asset these problems will prevail.
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Housing today constitutes a new terrain for expansion of financial capital and financial speculations. These changes have brought about an increase in the prices of housing and land and, as a consquence, an unprecedented rise in household debt. Due to speculation, the number of empty flats waiting to be sold only when the price is right has been growing. In this situation housing has been increasingly changing function from someone's home to a place for investment, savings, or collateral for someone's pension. Some of the consequences of such a system have been a growing housing precarity, an army of evicted and homeless, and entire generations unable to attain home of their own. In our opinion, as long as housing continues to be treated as an asset these problems will prevail.
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We believe that the housing question can be understood only in dialectical relation between economy and grassroots struggles. It is about unlearning the mainstream cynical narratives and relearning housing from the perspective of the struggles. We want to connect knowledge around housing to power relations. Our aim is to create grounds for a collective learning process about housing that could lead to better understanding how to take constructive action and bring about necessary change towards a universal access to housing.
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# Sessions
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In this topic, sessions have been organized around two focuses: critical perspective on certain issues related to housing and examples of organizing. The issues that we have chosen are just some of the building blocks that make a complex story about housing.
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We have organized this topic in eight sessions:
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In this topic, sessions have been organized around two focuses: critical perspective on certain issues related to housing and examples of organizing. The issues that we have chosen are just some of the building blocks that make a complex story about housing.
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We have organized this topic in eight sessions:
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- ![](session:debtandhousingstruggles.md)
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- ![](session:strugglesforsocialhousing.md)
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- ![](session:badhousingmakesussick.md)
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The sessions are organized around a basic question: Is the housing issue an issue of collective care or a means of profit? It is clear for us. Housing is a form of collective care that has to be fought for through mutual aid and in constant disobedience to neoliberal privatization tendencies. We hope that we have managed to make that argument and that those of you who will be working with this topic will feel the same.
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||||
|
||||
# References
|
||||
|
||||
To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/housingstruggles)
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If confronting the unequal provision of care has long been a focus of progressive political organising, today’s hyper-interconnected and heavily exhausted world calls for radical approaches and tools for militant caring that, while might not provide readymade, one-size-fits-all answers, might allow us to prefigure different forms of co-inhabitation on this planet.
|
||||
Pirate Care is therefore interested in researching how to re-conceive care provisions across the tensions between autonomous organising and state institutions, between insurgent politics and commoning, and between holistic and scientific methods.
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[^2]: ![](bib:7b2a690f-672a-4002-af03-2c2630a193c6)
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[^3]: ![](bib:55afa118-a177-40bc-9d93-4968e9b00300)
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[^4]: ![](bib:edd7b776-a2cd-4801-b5e3-0c427ced2c25)
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[^5]: ![](bib:ea3d47d6-6eee-4ae0-a2ef-8803e47d3c6a)
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[^6]: ![](bib:62710c35-a605-4a3c-ac04-64cd74d1b1ac)
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[^7]: Fisher, B. and J. C. Tronto, 1990. 'Toward a feminist theory of care', in ![](bib:39fef702-aeed-4cf4-93e8-27a8895e6675)
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[^8]: ![](bib:3f07df42-78d8-4472-9aae-1ebc39290c57)
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[^9]: Graziano, V. 2018. 'Pirate Care - How do we imagine the health care for the future we want?', ![](bib:7fd5acf6-c53d-42b8-9a60-31d94cd1b11b)
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[^10]: Gutiérrez Aguilar R., Linsalata L. and M.L.N. Trujillo, 2016. 'Producing the common and reproducing life: Keys towards rethinking the Political.' in ![](bib:10c3d44e-b747-4b0a-9119-48d8fd762988)
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[^11]: ![](bib:2c8f35de-ad1a-4b16-84c5-64cc69b4fa62)
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[^12]: ![](bib:a1a2f913-e376-451f-8291-29ff68560870)
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[^13]: ![](bib:b8b2527b-22d1-4aac-9612-cd870932a136)
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[^14]: ![](bib:3339e117-b422-4722-95af-2df938d137af)
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[^15]: ![](bib:c529d3a9-1ab5-406b-93d8-a5e791a1c8cd)
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In August 2014, using the hashtag #gamergate to coordinate, groups of users on 4Chan, 8Chan, Twitter and Reddit instigated a misogynistic harassment campaign against game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, media critic Anita Sarkeesian, as well as a number of other female and feminist game producers, journalists and critics. In the following weeks, The New Inquiry editors and contributors compiled a reading list and issued a call for suggestions.
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- ![](bib:01bc3e8c-b60e-4a58-b9d0-ed1a89212f37)
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- The New Inquiry,2014![TNI Syllabus: Gaming and Feminism’](bib:01bc3e8c-b60e-4a58-b9d0-ed1a89212f37).
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- ![](bib:cd5f24a9-52c9-46c9-97fe-4c2cd7ed7514)
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||||
- ![](bib:5a4ac018-2c76-4bea-9c97-71a1fdd47257)
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||||
This course, assembled by historians N. D. B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain, includes suggested readings and other resources from more than one hundred scholars in a variety of disciplines. The course explores Donald Trump’s rise as a product of the American lineage of racism, sexism, nativism, and imperialism.
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> This course, assembled by historians N. D. B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain, includes suggested readings and other resources from more than one hundred scholars in a variety of disciplines. The course explores Donald Trump’s rise as a product of the American lineage of racism, sexism, nativism, and imperialism.
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||||
- ![](bib:c80e9f04-dabc-4964-afbb-6f9216d67806)
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
August 2015 also saw the trending of #BlkWomenSyllabus and #SayHerNameSyllabus on Twitter. The hashtag #BlkWomenSyllabus began when the historian Daina Ramey Berry, PhD tweeted on August 11 "given #CharnesiaCorley time 4 #blkwomensyllabus...". Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old black female Texas resident, was pulled over at a Texaco gas station on June 21, 2015, accused of running a stop sign. After the deputy allegedly smelled marijuana coming from Corley's car, the woman was forced to remove her clothing, bend over and later was held face down to the ground as police officers probed her vagina while forcing her legs open. #SayHerName is an activist movement that strives to end brutality and anti-Black violence of Black women and girls by the police. The #SayHerName movement is designed to acknowledge the ways in which police brutality disproportionally affect Black women, including Black girls, queer Black women and trans Black women. #SayHerName, coined as a call to action in February 2015 by the Africa American Policy Forum, was created alongside #BlackLivesMatter, which was created as a response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Black teen, Trayvon Martin. #SayHerName gained attention following the death of Sandra Bland, a Black woman found dead in custody of police, in July 2015.
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||||
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||||
- ![An article](bib:4204aca0-32c2-4b5b-aa13-53b4b6e31340) about the #blackwomensyllabus.
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||||
- An article about the #blackwomensyllabus: ![](bib:4204aca0-32c2-4b5b-aa13-53b4b6e31340)
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||||
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||||
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|
||||
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||||
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In April 2016, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe established the Sacred Stone Camp and started the protest against The Dakota Access Pipeline, whose construction threatened the only water supply at the Standing Rock Reservation. The protest at the pipeline site became the largest gathering of native Americans over the past 100 years and earned significant international support for their ReZpect our Water campaign. As the struggle between protestors and armed forces unfolded, a group of indigenous scholars, activists and settler / PoC supporters, gathered under the name The NYC Stands for Standing Rock Committee, put together the #StandingRockSyllabus (NYC Stands for Standing Rock Committee, 2016).
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||||
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||||
- [Standing Rock Syllabus](https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/.) by NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective. 2016.
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||||
- [PDF version of the #StandingRockSyllabus including all readings](bib:ad6d0a42-c623-44b4-8a44-0ab909cdfe50) (80MB).
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||||
- [PDF version](bib:ad6d0a42-c623-44b4-8a44-0ab909cdfe50) of the #StandingRockSyllabus including all readings (80MB).
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||||
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||||
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|
||||
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#CharlestonSyllabus (Charleston Syllabus), is a Twitter movement and crowdsourced syllabus using the hashtag #CharlestonSyllabus to compile a list of reading recommendations relating to the history of racial violence in the United States. It was created in response to the race-motivated violence in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17, 2015, when Dylann Roof opened fire during a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing 9 people. The #CharlestonSyllabus campaign was the brainchild of Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University.
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|
||||
- ![](bib:f32ac522-9bd1-4a98-b6d4-75d2e8f95daf)
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||||
- A ![list of materials](0e8e4c2b-da5f-46b6-9300-431e0fc7be1b) included in the syllabus was compiled and organized by AAIHS (African American Intellectual History Society) blogger Keisha N. Blain, with the assistance of Melissa Morrone, Ryan P. Randall and Cecily Walker.
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- A ![list of materials](bib:0e8e4c2b-da5f-46b6-9300-431e0fc7be1b) included in the syllabus was compiled by AAIHS (African American Intellectual History Society) blogger Keisha N. Blain, with the assistance of Melissa Morrone, Ryan P. Randall and Cecily Walker.
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**#IMMIGRATIONSYLLABUS**
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Essential topics, readings, and multimedia that provide historical context to current debates
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over immigration reform, integration, and citizenship. Created by immigration historians affiliated with the Immigration History Research Center and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, January 26, 2017. The syllabus follows a chronological overview of U.S. immigration history, but it also includes thematic weeks that cover salient issues in political discourse today such as xenophobia, deportation policy, and border policing.
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Essential topics, readings, and multimedia that provide historical context to current debates over immigration reform, integration, and citizenship. Created by immigration historians affiliated with the Immigration History Research Center and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, January 26, 2017. The syllabus follows a chronological overview of U.S. immigration history, but it also includes thematic weeks that cover salient issues in political discourse today such as xenophobia, deportation policy, and border policing.
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- ![#ImmigrationSyllabus](bib:5b10d758-eaf7-40f1-8e73-64deef30226a)
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**SYLLABUS FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES**
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- ![Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves](bib:1ec45058-7a00-4f0f-84e4-65ad46a32718), By Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks). Created in response to the election of Donald Trump, 2017.
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- ![Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves](bib:1ec45058-7a00-4f0f-84e4-65ad46a32718), by Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks). Created in 2017 in response to the election of Donald Trump.
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**WHAT TO DO INSTEAD OF CALLING THE POLICE. A GUIDE, A SYLLABUS, A CONVERSATION, A PROCESS**
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- [What To Do Instead of Calling the Police. A Guide, A Syllabus, A Conversation, A Process](https://web.archive.org/web/20200531121739/https://www.aaronxrose.com/blog/alternatives-to-police), By Aaron Rose
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- [What To Do Instead of Calling the Police. A Guide, A Syllabus, A Conversation, A Process](https://web.archive.org/web/20200531121739/https://www.aaronxrose.com/blog/alternatives-to-police) by Aaron Rose.
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# Bibliographic Sources
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To see a comprehensive list of resources introducing pirate care go to the [collection](/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/piratecareintroduction)...
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To see a comprehensive list of reading resources introducing pirate care go to the Syllabus [library](/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/piratecareintroduction)...
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To discover more, use:
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* [Library Genesis](https://gen.lib.rus.ec/)
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* [Library Genesis](https://libgen.li/)
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* [Memory of the World](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/)
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* [Monoskop](https://monoskop.org/)
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* [Science Hub](http://sci-hub.tw/)
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* [WorldCat](https://www.worldcat.org/)
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* [Anarchist Libraries](https://www.anarchistlibraries.net/libraries)
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References:
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[^2]: ![](bib:7b2a690f-672a-4002-af03-2c2630a193c6)
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[^3]: ![](bib:55afa118-a177-40bc-9d93-4968e9b00300)
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[^4]: ![](bib:edd7b776-a2cd-4801-b5e3-0c427ced2c25)
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[^5]: ![](bib:ea3d47d6-6eee-4ae0-a2ef-8803e47d3c6a)
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[^6]: ![](bib:62710c35-a605-4a3c-ac04-64cd74d1b1ac)
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[^7]: Fisher, B. and J. C. Tronto, 1990. 'Toward a feminist theory of care', in ![](bib:39fef702-aeed-4cf4-93e8-27a8895e6675)
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[^8]: ![](bib:3f07df42-78d8-4472-9aae-1ebc39290c57)
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[^9]: Graziano, V. 2018. ['Pirate Care - How do we imagine the health care for the future we want?'](https://medium.com/dsi4eu/pirate-care-how-do-we-imagine-the-health-care-for-the-future-we-want-fa7f71a7a21); ![](bib:7fd5acf6-c53d-42b8-9a60-31d94cd1b11b)
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[^10]: Gutiérrez Aguilar R., Linsalata L. and M.L.N. Trujillo, 2016. 'Producing the common and reproducing life: Keys towards rethinking the Political.' in ![](bib:10c3d44e-b747-4b0a-9119-48d8fd762988)
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[^11]: ![](bib:2c8f35de-ad1a-4b16-84c5-64cc69b4fa62)
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[^12]: ![](bib:a1a2f913-e376-451f-8291-29ff68560870)
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[^13]: ![](bib:b8b2527b-22d1-4aac-9612-cd870932a136)
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[^14]: ![](bib:3339e117-b422-4722-95af-2df938d137af)
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[^15]: ![](bib:c529d3a9-1ab5-406b-93d8-a5e791a1c8cd)
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# Politicising piracy - making an unconditional demand
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Politicising Piracy topic has a double goal: to understand cultural piracy as a form of politics and to look at various practices of piracy from their specific socio-economic context of emergence, their technological underpinnings and their specific forms of political intervention.
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Politicising Piracy topic has a double goal: to understand cultural piracy as a form of politics and to look at various practices of piracy from their specific socio-economic context of emergence, their technological underpinnings and their specific forms of political intervention.
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## Piracy in technological context
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## Piracy in technological context
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There is a tendency to conceive of cultural and knowledge piracy as a phenomenon of recent date, largely in connection with the pirating of popular cultural or scholarly works, where such copying is done by means of an industrial-grade, home or personal copying device. However, the material practice of copying is of older date and is co-originary with the techniques and technologies of writing. A cultural expression is created from collective meaning-making, and thus writing and recording always has a pre-requisite reproduction and dissemination.
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Before the introduction of the printing press, the manuscripts were hand-copied, copying was laborious, and dissemination limited to precious few copies. With the introduction of movable type print, the books could be mass-produced, and copying and dissemination became easier. However, it was reserved for the few who had access to a printing press. Tape and optical media democratised that ability to copy, but dissemination remained difficult and costly. In the age of digital networks, the act of copying exploded as every action – downloading and opening a file, visiting a web page, editing a text – now entails copying from one part of a computer environment to another. And dissemination to a global network is always only a click away. The gist of this technological change is that before, very few actors had access to a copying device, whereas nowadays, copying devices are ubiquitous and networked, so the boundaries between writing, reading, copying, and sharing are more permeable.
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Before the introduction of the printing press, the manuscripts were hand-copied, copying was laborious, and dissemination limited to precious few copies. With the introduction of movable type print, the books could be mass-produced, and copying and dissemination became easier. However, it was reserved for the few who had access to a printing press. Tape and optical media democratised that ability to copy, but dissemination remained difficult and costly. In the age of digital networks, the act of copying exploded as every action – downloading and opening a file, visiting a web page, editing a text – now entails copying from one part of a computer environment to another. And dissemination to a global network is always only a click away. The gist of this technological change is that before, very few actors had access to a copying device, whereas nowadays, copying devices are ubiquitous and networked, so the boundaries between writing, reading, copying, and sharing are more permeable.
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## Piracy in legal context
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## Piracy in economic context
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||||
More fundamentally still, piracy is a consequence of the social regulation of access to culture that is primarily rooted in the commodity-based system of cultural and knowledge production. The central instrument in that regulation over the last two centuries is the intellectual property. Copyright has a fundamentally economic function – to unambiguously establish individualised property in the products of creative labour. Once a legal title is unambiguously assigned, there is a person holding the property right with whose consent the contracting, commodification, and marketing of the work can proceed (Bently 1994). By the beginning of the twentieth century, copyright expanded to a number of other forms of creativity, transcending its primarily literary and scientific ambit and becoming part of the broader set of intellectual property rights that are fundamental to the functioning and positioning of capitalist enterprise. The industrialisation and corporatisation of the production of culture and knowledge thus brought about a decisive break from the Romantic model that singularized the authorship in the person of the author. The production of cultural commodities nowadays involves a number of creative inputs from both credited (but mostly unwaged) and uncredited (but mostly waged) contributors.
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||||
More fundamentally still, piracy is a consequence of the social regulation of access to culture that is primarily rooted in the commodity-based system of cultural and knowledge production. The central instrument in that regulation over the last two centuries is the intellectual property. Copyright has a fundamentally economic function – to unambiguously establish individualised property in the products of creative labour. Once a legal title is unambiguously assigned, there is a person holding the property right with whose consent the contracting, commodification, and marketing of the work can proceed (Bently 1994). By the beginning of the twentieth century, copyright expanded to a number of other forms of creativity, transcending its primarily literary and scientific ambit and becoming part of the broader set of intellectual property rights that are fundamental to the functioning and positioning of capitalist enterprise. The industrialisation and corporatisation of the production of culture and knowledge thus brought about a decisive break from the Romantic model that singularized the authorship in the person of the author. The production of cultural commodities nowadays involves a number of creative inputs from both credited (but mostly unwaged) and uncredited (but mostly waged) contributors.
|
||||
|
||||
However, copyright has facilitated the rise of rights-holding monopolies, who can neither provide a viable subsistence for the authors nor optimal access to the cultural works, as their mission is primarily defined by their business bottom line. The level of concentration in cultural and knowledge industries based on various forms of intellectual property rights is staggeringly high. The film industry is a US$136 billion industry dominated by six major studios. The recorded music industry is an almost US$20 billion industry dominated by only three major labels and four streaming platforms. The publishing industry is a US$120 billion industry where the leading ten companies earn more in revenues than the next forty largest publishing groups. Academic publishing in particular draws the state of play in stark relief. It is a US$10 billion industry dominated by five publishers and is financed up to 75 percent from library subscriptions (Larivière 2015).
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||||
## Defining piracy, historically
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||||
|
||||
Piracy is an illicit act of copying and disseminating of works of culture and knowledge that is done in contravention of authority and/or law. When we speak today of illegal copying, we primarily mean an infringement of the legal rights of authors and publishers. There is an immediate assumption that the infringing practice of illegal copying and distribution falls under the domain of juridical sanction, that it is a matter of law. Yet if we look back at the history of copyright, the illegality of copying was a political matter long before it became a matter of law. Publisher's rights, author's rights, and mechanisms of reputation – the three elements that are fundamental to the present-day copyright system – all have their historical roots in the context of absolutism and early capitalism in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. Before publishers and authors were given a temporary monopoly over the exploitation of their publications in the form of copyright, they were operating in a system where they were forced to obtain a privilege to print books from royal censors (Biagioli 2002). The transition from the privilege tied to the publisher to the privilege tied to the natural person of the author would unfold only later.
|
||||
Piracy is an illicit act of copying and disseminating of works of culture and knowledge that is done in contravention of authority and/or law. When we speak today of illegal copying, we primarily mean an infringement of the legal rights of authors and publishers. There is an immediate assumption that the infringing practice of illegal copying and distribution falls under the domain of juridical sanction, that it is a matter of law. Yet if we look back at the history of copyright, the illegality of copying was a political matter long before it became a matter of law. Publisher's rights, author's rights, and mechanisms of reputation – the three elements that are fundamental to the present-day copyright system – all have their historical roots in the context of absolutism and early capitalism in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. Before publishers and authors were given a temporary monopoly over the exploitation of their publications in the form of copyright, they were operating in a system where they were forced to obtain a privilege to print books from royal censors (Biagioli 2002). The transition from the privilege tied to the publisher to the privilege tied to the natural person of the author would unfold only later.
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||||
|
||||
In the United Kingdom this transition occurred as the guild of printers, Stationers' Company, failed to secure the extension of its printing monopoly and thus, in order to continue with its business, decided to advocate the introduction of the copyright for the authors instead. This resulted in the passing of the Copyright Act of 1709 (Rose 2010), also known as the Statute of Anne. The censoring authority and enterprising publishers now proceeded in lockstep to isolate the author as the central figure in the regulation of literary and scientific production. Not only did the author receive exclusive rights to the work, but the author was also made the identifiable subject of scrutiny, censorship and political sanction by the absolutist state. (Foucault 1980)
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||||
|
||||
Before the efforts to internationalise and harmonise intellectual property rights got underway with the 1883 Paris Convention on the Protection of Industrial Property and the ensuing 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the copyright was protected only as far as the jurisdiction of the copyright-granting national authority reached. Copyrighted works and patented inventions were reproduced freely in foreign markets, contributing to the edification of people and the economic development of societies. Over the next century, and then in particular with the post-socialist economic globalisation instituted in free trade agreements, the internationalisation and harmonisation of intellectual property rights started to codify and enforce the unequal exchange between unevenly developed economies and create legal justification for enclosure of intangible commons (Midnight Notes Collective 1990). Making a cultural expression an exclusive property of someone was always a dubious proposition. It might have been justified to secure autonomy from patronage. But as an instrument to secure livelihood in the generalised market relations, for most artists it proved a pitiful substitute for wages. And even worse, as a mechanism of protection of collective rights and larger social interests in the conditions of asymmetry of economic power, it failed miserably (Shiva 2001, Perleman 2001) continuing colonial and neocolonial histories of plunder by means of other forms of property (Bhandar 2018). As a mechanism of exclusion, it granted large intellectual property holders concentrated in the Global North a capacity to concentrate economic power to the detriment of both creators and recipients across the globe.
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||||
Before the efforts to internationalise and harmonise intellectual property rights got underway with the 1883 Paris Convention on the Protection of Industrial Property and the ensuing 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the copyright was protected only as far as the jurisdiction of the copyright-granting national authority reached. Copyrighted works and patented inventions were reproduced freely in foreign markets, contributing to the edification of people and the economic development of societies. Over the next century, and then in particular with the post-socialist economic globalisation instituted in free trade agreements, the internationalisation and harmonisation of intellectual property rights started to codify and enforce the unequal exchange between unevenly developed economies and create legal justification for enclosure of intangible commons (Midnight Notes Collective 1990). Making a cultural expression an exclusive property of someone was always a dubious proposition. It might have been justified to secure autonomy from patronage. But as an instrument to secure livelihood in the generalised market relations, for most artists it proved a pitiful substitute for wages. And even worse, as a mechanism of protection of collective rights and larger social interests in the conditions of asymmetry of economic power, it failed miserably (Shiva 2001, Perleman 2001) continuing colonial and neocolonial histories of plunder by means of other forms of property (Bhandar 2018). As a mechanism of exclusion, it granted large intellectual property holders concentrated in the Global North a capacity to concentrate economic power to the detriment of both creators and recipients across the globe.
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||||
|
||||
Against this historical background, cultural and knowledge piracy as a practice assumes a different relief. It is not merely reducible to free-riding aimed at gaining access to something that is the property of others but can be viewed as a challenge to the property-form as a form of regulation of social production of culture and knowledge. In that way, it is not different in nature, but only in kind from the different challenges to how privatisation, property, and exclusion regulate social production of food, housing, health, or education. The rise of digital networks and expansion of accessibility has only exacerbated that eminently political tension. The neoliberal rollback of the socialised access to those services and goods, and the public institutions tasked with providing that access, have precipitated that tension into a full-blown crisis of social reproduction.
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||||
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||||
## Piracy as a politics of prescription
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||||
|
||||
The sessions in this topic start from an understanding of piracy as a form of politics. Piracy calls for the abolition of property and commodification as regimes of regulating exclusion from the socially produced communal wealth. The implication of this demand is a radical socialisation of the system of cultural and knowledge production. Piracy is then neither appealing to a grey-zone nor asking for a conditional toleration of infringing practice, but is issuing an unconditional demand. That makes it eminently political. In this view, piracy can be understood as a form of politics of prescription (Hallward 2005) that re-articulates the terms of the debate and divides the political terrain in two - one can only be for or against the unconditional demand it makes. Such political intervention does not seek to open a "middle of the road" perspective but demands that everyone takes a side.
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||||
The sessions in this topic start from an understanding of piracy as a form of politics. Piracy calls for the abolition of property and commodification as regimes of regulating exclusion from the socially produced communal wealth. The implication of this demand is a radical socialisation of the system of cultural and knowledge production. Piracy is then neither appealing to a grey-zone nor asking for a conditional toleration of infringing practice, but is issuing an unconditional demand. That makes it eminently political. In this view, piracy can be understood as a form of politics of prescription (Hallward 2005) that re-articulates the terms of the debate and divides the political terrain in two - one can only be for or against the unconditional demand it makes. Such political intervention does not seek to open a "middle of the road" perspective but demands that everyone takes a side.
|
||||
|
||||
In the face of an historic opening for a socialisation of the cultural and knowledge production, created, in this case, by the technological change, that necessity of taking sides becomes more apparent than it was before. Rather than expanding commodification, it is easy to imagine that the cultural and knowledge production become socialised in order to produce a common wealth. Yet this is also urgent in the face of Googles and Amazons of this world that are rising to aposition of new, platformed rentiers controlling the levers of cultural and knowledge production. Such situations of having to take sides are not unprecedented. For instance, the revolutionary events of the Paris Commune of 1871, its mere "working existence" (Marx 1871), a brief moment of "communal luxury" set in practice (Ross 2010), demanded that, in spite of any circumstances and reservations, one took a side. And such is our present moment too.
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||||
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||||
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- ![](bib:b9fdcf3f-eecd-4fc7-89ed-b751fd86f1ab)
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||||
- ![](bib:5835dde3-decd-429f-92cc-28cd4d54bcb0)
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||||
|
||||
To see a comprehensive list of resources on Politicising piracy go to the [collection](/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/politicisingpiracy)....
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||||
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||||
To see a comprehensive list of resources on Politicising piracy go to the [library](/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/politicisingpiracy)....
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- ![](session:exerciseimaginingthegame.md)
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||||
- ![](session:thepirateshipoffools.md)
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||||
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||||
To see a comprehensive list of resources on Psycho-social autonomy go to the [collection](/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/psychosocialautonomy)....
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||||
To see a comprehensive list of resources on Psycho-social autonomy go to the [library](/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/psychosocialautonomy)....
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# Has sessions:
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# Has sessions
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- ![](session:piratecentralmediterranean.md)
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- ![](session:weareallonthesameship.md)
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- ![](session:fromaffinitytoactivist.md)
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# References
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[^1]: ![](bib:57138a50-4de4-4778-9f31-42b61ce8a3a2) p.153
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[^2]: ![](bib:7fa9147b-177e-4f35-ab39-63c7f26da65f) , author's translation (Accessed: 06.01.2020)
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[^3]: ![](bib:01aeef53-7fd8-49a2-95d2-abda276fdc74) , p.1
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[^4]: Rediker, p.148
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[^5]: Ibid., p. 174
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To see a comprehensive list of references for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/searescue)
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[^1]: ![](bib:57138a50-4de4-4778-9f31-42b61ce8a3a2) p.153.
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[^2]: ![](bib:7fa9147b-177e-4f35-ab39-63c7f26da65f) Author's translation.
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[^3]: ![](bib:01aeef53-7fd8-49a2-95d2-abda276fdc74), p.1.
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[^4]: Rediker, p. 148.
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[^5]: Ibid., p. 174.
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[^6]: Ibid.
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[^7]: ![](bib:91fff213-3805-4f6e-87d4-996dc1f19110) , p. 120 f
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[^8]: ![](bib:409516e4-2f89-4dbb-8ad2-9889b87a0b0e) (Accessed: 02.05.2020)
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[^9]: ![](bib:01aeef53-7fd8-49a2-95d2-abda276fdc74) , p. 9
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[^7]: ![](bib:91fff213-3805-4f6e-87d4-996dc1f19110), p. 120 f
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[^8]: ![](bib:409516e4-2f89-4dbb-8ad2-9889b87a0b0e)
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[^9]: ![](bib:01aeef53-7fd8-49a2-95d2-abda276fdc74), p. 9.
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[^10]: Ibid.
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[^11]: IOM: Missing Migrants Project. Tracking Deaths Along Migratory Routes. International Organization for Migration, https://missingmigrants.iom.int (Accessed: 28.12.2019)
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[^12]: ![](bib:48d694f4-722f-4b48-8de7-3fb901d09f09) (Accessed: 10.12.2019)
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[^13]: ![](bib:edfa731f-c3e3-4f4d-bdab-89f1180c36f7) , p. 642
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[^14]: Ibid., p. 638
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[^15]: Christian Jakob et al.: Migration Control, in: [taz](https://web.archive.org/web/20220415075146/https://migration-control.taz.de/#en), , June 2017 (Accessed: 08/01/2020)
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[^11]: IOM: Missing Migrants Project. Tracking Deaths Along Migratory Routes. International Organization for Migration, https://missingmigrants.iom.int (Accessed: 28.12.2019).
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[^12]: ![](bib:48d694f4-722f-4b48-8de7-3fb901d09f09)
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[^13]: ![](bib:edfa731f-c3e3-4f4d-bdab-89f1180c36f7), p. 642.
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[^14]: Ibid., p. 638.
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[^15]: Christian Jakob et al.: Migration Control, in: [taz](https://web.archive.org/web/20220415075146/https://migration-control.taz.de/#en), June 2017 (Accessed: 08/01/2020).
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[^16]: ![](bib:9cd4e0b4-9111-41a1-b299-b6bd0c64766d) (Accessed: 13/10/2019)
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[^17]: Cuttitta 2018, p. 639
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[^18]: Ibid., p. 643 f
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[^18]: Ibid., p. 643 f.
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[^19]: Forensic Oceanography, 2018, https://blamingtherescuers.org/
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[^20]: ![](bib:a9bbcfb6-ec4f-4f81-ae20-0eb6f21d8db1) p. 27
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[^21]: Caccia & Mezzadra, 2018
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[^22]: ![](bib:2b351eec-3588-48f1-84bf-2bd2513c76d8) (Accessed: 08/01/2020)
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[^23]: Foucault, p. 27
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[^20]: ![](bib:a9bbcfb6-ec4f-4f81-ae20-0eb6f21d8db1), p. 27.
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[^21]: ![](bib:905ae91c-7f9b-4b67-8606-9b46a525d57e)
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[^22]: ![](bib:2b351eec-3588-48f1-84bf-2bd2513c76d8)
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[^23]: Foucault, p. 27.
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# Transhackfeminism
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When we use the term in the context of this syllabus, we mean a re- politicization of feminism through (bio)practice, as a multiplicity of methods. This proposal has its origin in the [transhackfeminist manifesto](https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/?transhackfeminism_en) by Pechblenda and to the first Transhackfeminist meeting [THF!](http://transhackfeminist.noblogs.org/), as well as its subsequent versions, nodes and tentacles and presence in [Hack the Earth](https://calafou.org/en/content/hack-earth-simbiotica-22-24-april). In general terms, “transhackfeminism” refers to hacking_with_care, using hacking with a meaning of (active) resistance and transformation to generate transversal knowledge through transdisciplinary artistic, aesthetic or cultural practices/ proposals. To work on producing knowledge collectively: without differentiating between theory and practice; as well as to embrace, protect and advance in free culture. To create communities where people meet, exchange, experience and share knowledge. To work on human and non-human alliances and solidarity through DIY/DIWO/DIT biotechnology, artistic and cultural practices.
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When we use the term in the context of this syllabus, we mean a re- politicization of feminism through (bio)practice, as a multiplicity of methods. This proposal has its origin in the [transhackfeminist manifesto](https://pechblenda.hotglue.me/?transhackfeminism_en) by Pechblenda and to the first Transhackfeminist meeting [THF!](http://transhackfeminist.noblogs.org/), as well as its subsequent versions, nodes and tentacles and presence in [Hack the Earth](https://calafou.org/en/content/hack-earth-simbiotica-22-24-april). In general terms, “transhackfeminism” refers to hacking_with_care, using hacking with a meaning of (active) resistance and transformation to generate transversal knowledge through transdisciplinary artistic, aesthetic or cultural practices/ proposals. To work on producing knowledge collectively: without differentiating between theory and practice; as well as to embrace, protect and advance in free culture. To create communities where people meet, exchange, experience and share knowledge. To work on human and non-human alliances and solidarity through DIY/DIWO/DIT biotechnology, artistic and cultural practices.
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*To stay in touch* with the material-affective dimensions of doing and engaging (bio)practices.
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[^4]: ![](bib:818f4904-9773-4f72-9303-1a2d52bfe294)
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[^5]: ![](bib:6e42ea71-8e9f-46d2-bf44-7862d975d829)
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To see a comprehensive list of resources on Transhackfeminism for this topic go to the [collection](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/transhackfeminism).
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To see a comprehensive list of resources on Transhackfeminism for this topic go to the [library](http://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/transhackfeminism).
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