A Bestiary of the Commons
by Matteo Pasquinelli
- Author(s)
- Matteo Pasquinelli
- Publication
- Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2008
- Scope
- 240 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789056626631
After a decade of digital fetishism, the spectres of the financial and energy crisis have also affected new media culture and brought into question the autonomy of networks. Yet activism and the art world still celebrate Creative Commons and the ‘creative cities’ as the new ideals for the Internet generation. Unmasking the animal spirits of the commons, Matteo Pasquinelli identifies the key social conflicts and business models at work behind the rhetoric of Free Culture. The corporate parasite infiltrating file-sharing networks, the hydra of gentrification in ‘creative cities’ such as Berlin and the bicephalous nature of the Internet with its pornographic underworld are three untold dimensions of contemporary ‘politics of the common’.
- Keywords
- new media
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Digitale Media & Internet
- Remarks
- . - (Series in Network Cultures) Incl. Bibliographical References
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