Contested Commons, Trespassing Publics: A Public Record Available for free download at www.sarai.net/events/ip_conf/ip_conf.htm
A rapporteur's account of the Contested Commons conference (6-8 January 2005, Delhi), along with a range of interviews, links a wide spectrum of political, social and cultural issues embedded in "the property question". It deconstructs the capital-driven processes of enclosure in the contexts of software, file-sharing, patents, biopiracy, Indigenous knowledge, cyber art, virtual exchange, literary history, theology and law, among others. Varied voices explore new paradigms of practice in relation to the global intellectual property regime, its enforcement as well as its violation and subversion by a compelling array of resilient figures. These include the hacker, the pirate, the solitary "genius", the reformer, the artist, the prisoner, the heretic, the thief, the "transformative" author, the theorist, the migrant, the vendor, the critic, the aesthete, the scribe, the citizen, the tenant, the worker, the chairman, the rebel, the coder, the squatter, the inventor, the farmer, the smuggler, the spectator, the judge... This detailed account describes the radical contemporary shifts in the production, distribution and consumption of cultural materials through the networks of digital media. It complicates the meaning of "community", and narrates how technology continues to enable an unprecedented levelling of exclusionary hierarchies and hegemonies all over the world. Paperback, 170 pp, Euro 10, US$ 10 Monica Narula Raqs Media Collective Sarai-CSDS 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110 054 www.raqsmediacollective.net www.sarai.net # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
