Libre culture: meditations on free culture

Libre Culture is the essential expression of the free culture/copyleft movement. This anthology, brought together here for the first time, represents the early groundwork of Libre Society thought. Referring to the development of creativity and ideas, capital works to hoard and privatize the knowledge and meaning of what is created. Expression becomes monopolized, secured within an artificial market-scarcity enclave and finally presented as a novelty on the culture industry in order to benefit cloistered profit motives. In the way that physical resources such as forests or public services are free, Libre Culture argues for the freeing up of human ideas and expression from copyright bulwarks in all forms

Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente: mapeo de la cultura libre en un sistema mediático híbrido

From the nineties, the Internet has been providing new political hybrid action forms. At the same time, some communities make a disruptive use of technologies aiming to subvert network power relationships at the current capitalized and centralized cyberspace. Addressing a collaborative mapping, we identified 290 free culture communities in Spain. Their characteristics suggest the relevance of offline spaces and local areas to deliberate, propose and perform political participation towards a neutral, centralised and free Internet.Desde los años noventa, el ciberespacio ha propuesto formas acción política híbrida. Asimismo, algunos colectivos realizan un uso disruptivo de las tecnologías para subvertir las relaciones de poder en la Red. Mediante un mapeo colaborativo, identificamos 290 grupos relacionados con la cultura libre en España. Sus características sugieren la relevancia de los espacios offline y de los territorios locales para deliberar y activarse políticamente a favor de un Internet libre

Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture by Paul Huebener

Review of Paul Huebener\u27s Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Cultur

The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change by Michael Mikulak

Review of Michael Mikulak\u27s Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change

Beyond the Biography of a Gene

Collins approaches the ethical nuances of Cal’s intersex narrative in Middlesex, drawing comparisons with current debates in North Carolina concerning gender-normative bathroom use and trans rights, in order to advocate for more ethical practices of relation and responsibility outside of mere knowledge creation and policy

The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poetics by Robyn Lee AND Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics by Naomi Morgenstern

Book Review of: The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poeticsby ROBYN LEE and Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethicsby NAOMI MORGENSTER

A genealogy of open access: negotiations between openness and access to research

Open access (OA) is a contested term with a complicated history and a variety of understandings. This rich history is routinely ignored by institutional, funder and governmental policies that instead enclose the concept and promote narrow approaches to OA. This article presents a genealogy of the term open access, focusing on the separate histories that emphasise openness and reusability on the one hand, as borrowed from the open-source software and free culture movements, and accessibility on the other hand, as represented by proponents of institutional and subject repositories. This genealogy is further complicated by the publishing cultures that have evolved within individual communities of practice: publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact. From analysing its historical underpinnings and subsequent development, I argue that OA is best conceived as a boundary object, a term coined by Star and Griesemer (1989) to describe concepts with a shared, flexible definition between communities of practice but a more community-specific definition within them. Boundary objects permit working relationships between communities while allowing local use and development of the concept. This means that OA is less suitable as a policy object, because boundary objects lose their use-value when ‘enclosed’ at a general level, but should instead be treated as a community-led, grassroots endeavour

Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times by Stacy Alaimo

Review of Stacy Alaimo\u27s Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn

Chad Weidner reviews Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn