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Articles on the Social Life of Media Piracy

File Piracy_Infrastructure
This paper is a part of the Yale Access to Knowledge Country Reports. This paper raises a series of questions on the relationship between piracy, infrastructure and access to culture. Piracy has always posed a representational problem within contemporary discourses on law, public good and creativity. Piracy seems to allegorize an impure transgression, tainted by commerce and an inability to produce a discourse on itself. Pirate production of commodities and media objects fits neither a narrative of resistance nor normative critique, nor does piracy seem to fit received models of creativity or innovation. Piracy produces a series of anxieties: from states, transnational capital, and media industries and even within some liberal proponents of the public domain. The paper reframes the problem of the pirate through an examination of the content/ infrastructure binary, and questions existing assumptions about creativity, subjectivity and transformation, commodification and social life. The paper is also available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436229
File Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation
Article by Lawrence Liang Published in Sarai Reader 05
Page Global Commons, Public Space And Contemporary IPR
Article by Lawrence Liang published in Media and Development
Page Media empires and Renegade Pirates
Article by Lawrence Liang First Published in Humanscape
Page Pirate Aesthetics
Article written for the Magazine of the Steirischer Herbst Festival 2006 at Graz
Page Hostis Humani Generis
The Dictionary of War was a project that invited a hundred people to contribute a concept which could be used to think about our contemporary times. The concept I chose to contribute is Hostis Humani Generis or the enemy of the human race
Page Meet John Doe’s Order: Piracy, Temporality and the Question of Asia
Published in the Journal of the Moving Image
Page Reconsidering the Pirate Nation
An Article by Achal Prabhala and Lawrence Liang comparing piracy and development in South Africa and India (Presented at Yale A2K and first published in Infochangeindia.org)
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