With the usual apologies for self-promotion, I wanted to let you know
about a recent podcast conversation between the digital sociologist Mark
Carrigan and myself about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and
social theory:
https://markcarrigan.net/2016/11/18/a-conversation-with-gary-hall-about-pirate-philosophy-academic-celebrity-and-social-theory/
I hope ‘Pirate Philosophy and Post-capitalism’ may be of interest to
some of you as it discusses many issues that frequently feature on this
and other lists, including:
· the politics of theory in the 21st century
· the value invested in the ‘author’, the ‘book’, copyright and so on
· the current economic and political crisis – which is also
arguably a crisis of knowledge and the university as such – as well as
possible solutions to it.
I've provided the overview below.
Best, Gary
In this interview, Gary Hall argues that if we are to move to a
post-capitalist society, we need to experiment with new ways of working
that are based less on ideas of self-centred individualism, competition
and celebrity, and more on openness, collaboration and the gift. The
university, he suggests, is somewhere we can actualise such alternative
modes of being and doing, as it is one of the few spaces in
post-industrial society where the forces of contemporary neoliberalism
are still being overtly opposed, to a certain extent at least. A persona
he proposes we adopt in order to do so is that of the pirate, this being
for him someone who tries, teases and troubles as well as attacks our
existing economic, legal and political models.
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Gary Hall, http://www.garyhall.info
Professor of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
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