What is it about?
All societies both suffer and benefit from levels of what is perceived as disorder, and the guiding principles of the society may be contradictory, or paradoxical, in that their ordering systems create disorder. Our aim in this text is explore the disorders and vagaries of capitalist property that seem essential to its continuance, construction, and destruction, and then demonstrate how these paradoxes play out in the information economy in particular within the domain of peer-to-peer (P2P) fijile sharing. We do not wish to reduce these paradoxes and contradictions to a temporary error or to a future ordered synthesis, but to take them as they are in all their splintered fury. Much contemporary social action stems from these incoherencies, and the disputes, displays of power, and innovations which circle around them. In the P2P field the disorder generated by the order of property provides opportunities for new productive and adaptive social and technical forms of life to emerge.
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Why is it important?
It aims to show how the orders of property create disorders, and these disorders then generate social action,
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Although published later on, it is the basis of all my and Francesca's writings about information piracy.
Dr Jonathan P Marshall
University of Technology Sydney
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This page is a summary of: A Reader on International Media Piracy, October 2015, Amsterdam University Press,
DOI: 10.5117/9789089648686.
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