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Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion
Adam Haupt
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Description for Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion
Paperback. Poses the question, 'What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?' This book delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this inquiry. It explores arguments about copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licenses. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Stealing Empire poses the question, 'What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?' Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments about copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licenses, and develops a politically incisive analysis of counterdiscourses produced by South African hip-hop artists. From 'empire stealing' through their commodification of countercultures to the 'stealing empire' activities of file-sharers, culture jammers and hip-hop ... Read more
Stealing Empire poses the question, 'What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?' Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments about copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licenses, and develops a politically incisive analysis of counterdiscourses produced by South African hip-hop artists. From 'empire stealing' through their commodification of countercultures to the 'stealing empire' activities of file-sharers, culture jammers and hip-hop ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Human Sciences Research Council
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796922090
SKU
V9780796922090
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