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Piracy: Leakages from Modernity
Contributor(s): Fredriksson, Martin (Editor), Arvanitakis, James (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1936117592     ISBN-13: 9781936117598
Publisher: Litwin Books
OUR PRICE: $47.50  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- True Crime
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 364.166
LCCN: 2013048073
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.09 lbs) 370 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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 Link ping University, Sweden.
 
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