Pirate philosophy for a digital posthumanities /

Pirate Philosophy extends the arguments into the academy created from disruptions in the contemporary sociopolitical environment (Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, etc.) and asks scholars to question the role they play in the "neoliberal corporatization of higher education." Hall (Coventry Univ., UK) begins with global unrest to reexamine the structure of humanities departments as they relate to their scholars' means of production. At the heart of the book is a scholar grappling with a publish-or-perish tenure system based on a foundation of intellectual property that is outdated and becoming increasingly more dangerous to a free exchange of scholarly research. Hall delves into the philosophies of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Bernard Stiegler, among other cultural theorists, to frame an argument that proprietary authorship and the fixity of print need to be reimagined in order to be completely based in the guiding principles that underlie not only Creative Commons, open access, and open source but also posthumanism. The book is a call to arms for scholars in all the humanities to rethink who they are and how that meshes with how they publish. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through researchers/faculty; professionals/practitioners. --John Rodzvilla, Emerson College