[ecrea] New Book - Piracy: Leakages from Modernity, edited by James Arvanitakis and Martin Fredriksson

Piracy: Leakages from Modernity



Edited by Professor James Arvanitakis and Dr Martin Fredriksson

Litwin Books, July 2014

"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 is maybe 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 or, 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 seems to emerge 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 
meant to be 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.

http://litwinbooks.com/piracy.php



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