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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?
- Sales Rank: #1369415 in Books
- Published on: 2016-04-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .50" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 264 pages
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It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive account of contemporary academic publishing, and indeed to imagine a critic better suited to guiding us through the murky terrain of copyright agreements, open access initiatives, and piratical practices. But Hall provides more than a deeply engaging analysis -- this is a pirate manifesto showing the way forward to the transformation of the very mode and distribution of humanities scholarship itself.
(Rita Raley, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara)On the uncharted waters of the digital sphere, pirates easily slip by the tectonic plates of knowledge production and intellectual property. Gary Hall, himself a brilliant pirate, troubles the liquid boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and between the humanities, digital humanities, and posthumanities. Through testing, teasing, and even attacking, he encounters unexpected and pseudo-pirates. The bold tacks of his pirate philosophy reveal a new world, while transforming it as well.
(Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor of Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal)Pirate Philosophy is a handbook of clarification for all those adrift in theory, for those who want a graceful, expert navigation of the changing relations of knowledge and power. Pirate Philosophy keelhauls, one by one, theories of the commons, new materialism, posthumanism, and Internet piracy, testing and teasing simultaneously a host of uniformed agents ranging from digital humanities to intellectual property law to the bound book itself. It rejects all forms of patterned radicalism to give us a clear picture of the challenges facing academic practice today.
(Christopher M. Kelty, Professor of Information Studies and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles) About the Author
Gary Hall is Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. He is the author of Culture in Bits and Digitize This Book!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
"Can scholars and students today become something like pirate philosophers
By N. Pantaloni
"Can scholars and students today become something like pirate philosophers?" A coherent account of what that might mean to the future of scholarly publishing is hard to find in a book that suffers from the performative contradiction of repackaging four previously published -- "revised and extended" -- journal articles, plus part of a fifth, and that retails for $42.00 (ebook $30.00) from MIT Press. One can overlook this with the rationalization that the future has not yet arrived, but it's harder to pardon Hall's hypocrisy when he criticizes publishers such as "Verso, Pluto, and Zero Books, that may indeed publish radical political content but in fact operate according to quite traditional business models...promoting their authors and products and providing more goods...to buy" (pp. 128-129). Hall details his own forays into Open Access (OA) publishing with Open Humanities Press and Living Books About Life, but his effort at traditional publication suffers from being repetitive, superficial in its treatment of copyright, and reading like previously published material that has been strung together with an unsatisfying conclusion tacked on at the end.
Hall derives his definition of 'pirate philosophy' from the ancient Greek verb 'pirago', which means to 'make an attempt, try, test, get experience, endeavor, attack.' Hall's attempt at 'pirate philosophy' seems more than a little effete in this book. It usefully reports on his own and others' work on new forms of scholarly communication, but levels repeated critiques of traditionalism at other authors, such as Rosi Braidotti, that could just as easily apply to Hall in this book. PIRATE PHILOSOPHY: FOR A DIGITAL POSTHUMANITIES is an informative survey of the current landscape of scholarly communication, but as a critical-theoretical intervention, it is mired in its own contradictions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Faced by a Scholarly Book
By John Faithful Hamer
The hypocrisy of Gary Hall’s new book is nothing short of breathtaking. Pirate Philosophy (2016) is an expensive book that rails against the profit motive, a jargon-laden academic book that rails against the inaccessibility of academia, a poorly written book that rails against the declining quality of academic writing, and a profoundly disorganized book that rails against the scattered nature of twenty-first-century academic life.
I wanted to like this book. Really, I did. Because Hall addresses so many issues which are dear to my heart, such as: the obnoxious paywalls that increasingly prevent citizens from accessing research their tax dollars paid for; the misguided MBA logic that’s come to govern most of our universities; and the hypocrisy of “radical theorists advocating a politics of the Commons, commoning and communism, yet appearing to let little of this politics have an impact on the decisions they make (or that are made for them) regarding their own work, business, role, and practices as authors” (12). He promises to show us how to fight the neoliberal corporatization of higher education. He promises to show us how to transcend the neoliberal model of the entrepreneurial academic. And he promises to show us how philosophers and theorists can best support student protesters and the anti-austerity movement. But he fails to deliver.
At times, even he seems to be aware of how silly his book is: “I am aware that some readers may be scratching their heads at this point over the seeming contradiction evident in the fact that the argument I am presenting here is being made in yet another conventional monograph, signed with a singular author’s name, and published with a brand-name press” (98). Hall never really makes sense of these glaring inconsistencies. Instead, like a therapy junkie I dated briefly in the 1990s, he seems to believe that telling us that he’s aware of the problem—and showing us how smart and self-aware he is—is enough. Guess what, Gary? It’s not.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb once quipped: “The longest book I’ve ever read was 205 pages.” Thinking along similar lines, I shall henceforth be able to say that the longest book I’ve ever read was 159 pages. Pirate Philosophy brings to mind Nietzsche’s description of a scholarly book in The Gay Science (1887): “In a scholar’s book there is nearly always something oppressive, oppressed: the specialist emerges somehow—his eagerness, his seriousness, his ire, his overestimation of the nook in which he sits and spins, his hunchback.” Gary Hall has a rather sizable hunchback. It’s composed of abstruse prose. And it renders his radical political pretensions vaguely ridiculous—because, as Saul Alinsky puts it in Rules for Radicals (1971): “It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You’re just not there.”
The kind of constipated scholar Nietzsche ends up celebrating in “Faced by a Scholarly Book” is a high-minded elitist with little interest in politics. He does not wish to be read by the people; he wishes to be read only by his peers. What’s more, like the philosophers Marx mocks in his Theses on Feuerbach (1888), he does not seek to change the world; he merely wishes to interpret it in various ways. Gary Hall, is, to some extent, the very opposite of this monkish denizen of the Ivory Tower. It’s obvious (indeed, at times, painfully obvious) that he desperately wants to be cool, relevant, hip, accessible, and democratic: a man of the people, an activist, a revolutionary. He wants to do more than just interpret the world; he wants to change it. But he won’t. Not with a scholarly book like this.
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