Pirate Philosophy : For A Digital Posthumanities
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 19387309
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-262-03440-1
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This peer-reviewed, 100,000-word monograph was published in MIT’s long-standing Leonardo series, edited by Roger Malina (University of Texas) and Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne). In it Hall argues the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education requires scholars to:
• challenge both the neoliberal model of the entrepreneurial academic and the traditional humanist model with its received ideas of the proprietorial author, the fixed and finished book, originality, authenticity and copyright;
• do so not only in the content of their work but in the material ways they create, publish and disseminate it.
Pirate Philosophy provides an example of the postdigital research methodology laid out in the REF2014 UoA34 submission, and embodied by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures that Hall leads. This interdisciplinary methodology involves researchers practicing what they preach: not only do they write about and represent the world, like Hall they also performatively intra-act with it, being the change they wish to see.
Hall has been invited to give related conference keynotes including: Post-H(uman) Index? Politics, Metrics, and Agency in the Accelerated Academy, University of Cambridge, 2018; Third Futures of Media, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, 2019; and Technology, Science and Culture: A Global Vision, Universidad de las Américas, Mexico, 2019. It has led to an associated Master Class on ‘pirate philosophy’ Hall at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education.
A monograph by Tara McPherson (University of Southern California) in 2018, Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design published by Harvard University Press, responds directly to and further develops the ideas published in Pirate Philosophy: ‘McPherson considers debates around the role of cultural theory within the digital humanities and addresses Gary Hall’s claim that the goals of critical theory and of quantitative or computational analysis may be irreconcilable (or at the very least require “far more time and care”).’
The research for this monograph covers the period from 2008 onwards. Two chapters, “The Human: #MySubjectivation” and “Copyright and Piracy: Pirate Radical Philosophy”, were submitted to REF2014 and have been revised as the research has progressed. These are now situated alongside collated writings and unpublished work comprising the remaining four chapters, in order to develop a larger, sustained, more complex and in-depth argument.
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- Non-English
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