[csaa-forum] cfp: Culture Machine: Pirate Philosophy issue

[Gary Hall]

CULTURE MACHINE 10 (2008)
http://www.culturemachine.net

PIRATE PHILOSOPHY
Edited by Gary Hall

The Pirate Philosophy issue of Culture Machine will explore how the
development of various forms of so-called internet piracy are affecting
ideas of authorship, intellectual property, copyright law, fair use,
patent, trademark, content creation and cultural production that were
established pre-internet.

We are looking for contributions which, among other things, engage
critically with:

   * the philosophy of internet piracy, peer-to-peer file sharing,
     Grokster, Kazaa, Gnutella, EDonkey, BitTorrent, Pirate Bay and so
     on;
   * attempts to develop new, different or alternative philosophies of
     content creation, intellectual property and/or copyright (e.g.
     those associated with open editing, open content, Creative Commons
     and copyleft licenses, Lawrence Lessig’s ‘free culture’, the free
     software and open source movements, the work of Richard Stallman
     and Eric Raymond
);
   * the implications and consequences of the above for conceptions of
     the academic author, scholarly writing, publishing, pedagogy, the
     book, the journal, peer review and the institution of the
     university in the era of digital reproducibility;
   * efforts that have been made to scale-up the relations of production

     and distribution associated with peer-to-peer networks to form new
     participatory regimes of culture or new kinds of networked
     institutions, even plans for the future organisation of society.
     See the German Oekonux debate of 2000-2002, for example
     (http://www.oekonux.org);
   * the emergence out of peer-to-peer file networks of actual political

     ‘Pirate Parties’ in Sweden, Spain, Austria, Germany, USA, UK,
     France, Australia, Poland, Italy, Russia, Norway, and Belgium.

We envisage contributions to Culture Machine’s Pirate Philosophy issue
as falling into two broad (albeit crudely defined and distinguished)
categories: those that address the theme of piracy in their content; and

those that approach the subject by playing provocatively with the form
of their text.

We would especially like to encourage contributors to explore the
philosophy of internet piracy by creating actual ‘pirate’ texts we can
publish as part of the issue. We are open to and indeed very much
welcome suggestions as to what forms such ‘pirate philosophy’ might take

in practice. Possible examples include:

   * Mash-ups, only in this case with written texts - philosophical,
     literary, historical, psychoanalytic, political etc. - rather than
     music tracks being mixed together. (Instead of The Beatle’s The
     White Album and Jay-Z’s The Black Album, think Deleuze’s
     ‘Postscript on Control Societies’ and the US Bill of Rights);
   * Experiments with plagiarism and appropriation along the lines of
     Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism’
     http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387;
   * Texts generated by large groups of often anonymous people working
     according to open source, free content and open editing principles.
Wikipedia is
     the most well-known, but Culture Machine would like to promote the
     development of other instances of open source, open content and
open editing
     (and wikimedia), specifically with academic writing and publishing
     in mind.

The idea is to push the boundaries surrounding notions of piracy,
authorship, intellectual property, copyright law, fair use and so forth,

not just intellectually but legally too.

Deadline for submissions: February 2008

Contact:
Gary Hall
Coventry School of Art and Design
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
UK

e-mail: gary.hall at connectfree.co.uk

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ABOUT CULTURE MACHINE

Culture Machine is an umbrella term for a series of experiments in
culture and theory.

The Culture Machine open access journal http://www.culturemachine.net

The Culture Machine book series, published by Berg, and including:
Paul Virilio, City of Panic (2005)
Charlie Gere, Art, Time & Technology (2006)
Clare Birchall, Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip
(2006)

The Culture Machine open access archive: CSeARCH
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch


The Culture Machine journal publishes new work from both established
figures and up-and-coming writers. It is fully refereed, and has an
International Advisory Board which includes Geoffrey Bennington, Robert
Bernasconi, Sue Golding, Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso
Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton, Mark Poster, Avital Ronell,
Nicholas Royle, Tadeusz Slawek and Kenneth Surin.

Previous contributors to the Culture Machine journal include Mark
Amerika, Alain Badiou, Bifo, Oran Catts, Simon Critchley, Jacques
Derrida, Johan Fornäs, Henry A. Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg, Stevan
Harnad, N. Katherine Hayles, Peggy Kamuf, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis
Miller, Anna Munster, Mark Poster, Bernard Stiegler, Kenneth Surin,
Gregory L. Ulmer, Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber.

Culture Machine welcomes original, unpublished submissions on any aspect

of culture and theory. All contributions to the Culture Machine journal
are refereed anonymously. Anyone with material they wish to submit for
publication is invited to contact:

Culture Machine c/o Dave Boothroyd and Gary Hall
e-mail: gary.hall at connectfree.co.uk and d.boothroyd at kent.ac.uk




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Gary Hall
Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net
Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info