By Gary Hall
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary corridor considers even if the struggle opposed to the neoliberal corporatization of upper schooling in truth calls for students to rework their very own lives and hard work. Is there a fashion for philosophers and theorists to behave not only for or with the antiausterity and scholar protestors -- "graduates and not using a destiny" -- yet in phrases of their political struggles? Drawing on such phenomena as peer-to-peer dossier sharing and anticopyright/pro-piracy activities, corridor explores how these in academia can circulate past discovering new methods of thinking about the area to discover as a substitute new methods of being theorists and philosophers within the world.
Hall describes the politics of on-line sharing, the battles opposed to the present highbrow estate regime, and the activities of nameless, LulzSec, Aaron Swartz, and others, and he explains artistic Commons and the open entry, open resource, and unfastened software program events. yet within the middle of the ebook he considers how, in terms of scholarly methods of constructing, appearing, and sharing wisdom, philosophers and theorists can problem not only the neoliberal version of the entrepreneurial educational but in addition the conventional humanist version with its bought principles of proprietorial authorship, the ebook, originality, fixity, and the completed item. In different phrases, can students and scholars this day develop into whatever like pirate philosophers?
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2 THE HUMANITIES There Are No Digital Humanities What forms will critical theory take in the twenty-first century? Will the growing use of digital tools and data-led methods adopted from computer science and related fields to help analyze the vast, networked nature of knowledge and information in postindustrial advanced capitalist society produce a major change in theory and, indeed, the humanities? Certainly some of those associated with the digital humanities have suggested that we have already embarked on a post-theoretical era, exemplified by a shift away from a concern with ideology and critique and toward more quantitative and empirical modes of analysis.
Its theoretical models alone include the new materialism of Rosi Braidotti, the “new critique of political economy” of Bernard Stiegler, the control society thesis of Gilles Deleuze, the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, the “poststructuralism” of Jean-François Lyotard, the anthropology of Tim Ingold, and the Cultural Analytics of Lev Manovich. For reasons that will become clear (see chapter 5), I do not intend to make too much of the pirate trope in connection to either historical or contemporary pirates, at least as they are conventionally conceived and understood.
Lyotard proceeded to define as modern any science that endeavored to prove itself credible in this way by means of a metadiscourse that explicitly appealed to a grand narrative of some sort: the life of the spirit, the Enlightenment, progress, modernity, the emancipation of humanity, the realization of the Idea. What makes Lyotard’s Report on Knowledge, as it is subtitled, so significant with respect to the emergence of the digital humanities and the computational turn is that his ambition was not to position philosophy as being able to tell us as much, if not more, about science than science 28 Chapter 2 itself.