Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri: Commonwealth (2009) [English/German]
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When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth.
Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the “common” to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical bases for what they call “governing the revolution.”
Though this book functions as an extension and a completion of a sustained line of Hardt and Negri’s thought, it also stands alone and is entirely accessible to readers who are not familiar with the previous works. It is certain to appeal to, challenge, and enrich the thinking of anyone interested in questions of politics and globalization.
Publisher Harvard University Press, 2009
ISBN 0674035119, 9780674035119
330 pages
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Charles Forrest, Martin Halbert: A Field Guide to the Information Commons (2009)
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Our sources of information, and the practices we use to find it, are in a period of rapid flux. Libraries must respond by selecting, acquiring, and making accessible a host of new information resources, developing innovative services, and building different types of spaces to support changing user behaviors and patterns of learning. A Field Guide to the Information Commons describes an emerging library service model that embodies all three spheres of response: new information resources, collaborative service programs, and redesigned staff and user spaces.
Technology has enabled new forms of information-seeking behavior and scholarship, causing a renovation of libraries that revisits the idea of the “commons”—a public place that is free to be used by everyone. A Field Guide to the Information Commons describes the emergence, growth, and adoption of the concept of the information commons in libraries. This book includes a variety of contributed articles, and descriptive, structured entries for various information commons in libraries across the country and around the world.
Published by Scarecrow Press, Feb 2009
ISBN: 0-8108-6100-3, 978-0-8108-6100-8
214 pages
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Comment (0)Andrej Chudý: Vplyv elektronickej komunikácie na súčasné zmeny v chápaní a zmysle autorstva (2008) [Slovak]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · authorship, commons, copyright, creative commons, electronic communication, interactivity, network society, remediation
Práca načrtáva spoločenské zmeny, ktoré vedú od hierarchických usporiadaní k sieťovým a rozberá akým spôsobom v tomto prostredí umožňuje elektronická komunikácia remediáciu tradičných médií.
Predstavuje chronológiu koncepcií autorstva v západnej kultúre od antiky po súčasnosť. Bližšie skúma význam Múz v antike i stredoveku, anonymitu stredovekých autorov, vzťah orálneho a písaného. Prechádza od vplyvu kníhtlače k vznikajúcej autorskej profesii a súvisiacej koncepcii romantického autora (autor ako génius). Nahliada na literárne a filozofické chápania autorstva v 20. storočí a všíma si aspekty elektronickej kultúry vplývajúce na autorstvo, písanie v hypertextoch. Venuje sa tiež histórii autorského práva a popisuje iniciatívu Creative Commons ako alternatívu k tradičnému autorskému právu.
Analyzuje akú povahu nadobúda autorstvo v prostredí spoločenských médií (blogy, wiki, spoločenské siete) a ukazuje aspekty distribučných modelov, ktoré si potrebuje autor v elektronickom prostredí osvojiť.
Diplomová práca
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Filozofická fakulta; Katedra knižničnej a informačnej vedy
Školiteľ: PhDr. Pavol Rankov, PhD
Bratislava: FiF UK, 2008.
Electronic communication and current changes in the understanding of the notion of authorship
The work outlines the social changes, reaching from the hierarchical organization to the network society, as well as analyses the remediation of the traditional media in the network environment. In the work, there is presented the chronology of the conceptions of authorship in the western culture from the Ancient Period until present.
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