The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz (2015)

“The writings of the computer genius and Internet hacktivist whose tragic suicide shook the world

In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years’ imprisonment, committed suicide. He was twenty-six. But in his short life he had changed the world: reshaping the Internet, questioning our assumptions about intellectual property, and creating some of the tools we use in our daily online lives. He was also a leading critic of the politics of the Web.

In this collection of his writings that spans over a decade, Swartz displays his passion for and in-depth knowledge of intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life’s work of one of the most original minds of our time.”

With an Introduction by Lawrence Lessig
Publisher The New Press, New York/London, 2015
ISBN 162097066X, 9781620970669
368 pages

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See also MIT prosecution report.

In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015) [EN, IT, BR-PT, SK, ES, DE, FR, BG, RO, SC, UA, RU, HI, CN, HU, BE, LT, SL]

Sharing knowledge is now an act of civil disobedience.

Released 30 Nov 2015

Letter:
In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (English, custodians.online, 30 Nov 2015). Copy. TXT version.
In solidarietà con Library Genesis e Sci-Hub (Italian, trans. Rete della Conoscenza, 1 Dec). Copy.
Em solidariedade com Library Genesis e Sci-Hub (Brazilian Portuguese, trans. Dimas Gomez, 1 Dec). Copy.
V solidarite s Library Genesis a Sci-Hub (Slovak, trans. Monoskop, 1 Dec). Copy.
En solidaridad con Library Genesis y Sci-Hub (Spanish [MX], trans. Rafael Mondragón, 2 Dec). Copy, Audio (voices: Adriana & Iván, 8 Dec).
En solidaridad con Library Genesis y Sci-Hub (Spanish [PE], trans. Giancarlo Sandoval, 2 Dec)
Solidaridad con Library Genesis y Sci-Hub (Spanish [PE], trans. Carlos Maza, 2 Dec)
In Solidarität mit Library Genesis und Sci-Hub (German, trans. Paul Feigelfeld, 2 Dec)
En solidarité avec Library Genesis et Sci-Hub (French, trans. Bertrand Marilier, 2 Dec)
В солидарност с Library Genesis и Sci-Hub (Bulgarian, trans. Neda Genova, 2 Dec). Copy.
Solidari cu Library Genesis şi cu Sci-Hub (Romanian, trans. SorinDănuţ, 2 Dec)
Za slobodan pristup znanju: solidarnost sa portalima Library Genesis i Sci-Hub (Serbo-Croatian, trans. Milica Jovanović/SHARE Foundation, 3 Dec). Copy.
На знак солидарности з ресурсами Library Genesis та Sci-Hub (Ukrainian, trans. Спільне/Commons, 3 Dec). Copy.
В знак солидарности с ресурсами Library Genesis и Sci-Hub (Russian, trans. hwait, Пиратская Церковь, 6 Dec).
लाइब्रेरी-जेनेसिस और साई-हब से संघीभाव में (Hindi, trans. Shveta Sarda, 6 Dec).
声援Library Genesis 和 Sci-Hub (Chinese, trans. Bruce Ding, 7 Dec).
声援 Library Genesis 和 Sci-Hub (simplified Chinese, trans. Yuk Hui).
聲援 Library Genesis 和 Sci-Hub (traditional Chinese, trans. Yuk Hui).
Szolidaritás a Libgen és a Sci-Hub oldalakkal (Hungarian, trans. Ivácson András Áron, 13 Dec).
У знак салідарнасці з Library Genesis i Sci-Hub (Belarusian, trans. Volnaja Dumka, 13 Dec).
Vienijantis su Library Genesis ir Sci-Hub (Lithuanian, trans. Linas Jankauskas, 30 Apr 2016).
V podporo Library Genesis in Sci-Hubu (Slovenian, Humanistična postaja, 31 May 2016)

Response:
Twitter
Facebook
Wikimedia Foundation list discussion
Wikipedia
Boing Boing
dpr-barcelona
Kulturpunkt.hr (CR)
Danielle Orange
HIS Voice (CZ)
Alan Toner
CabezaDeMoog (ES)
444 (HU)
DragonWeb (HU)
iRights.info (DE)
Sci-Hub (RU)
Steal This Show (podcast with Jamie King, Lawrence Liang and Tomislav Medak)
The Atlantic
John Dupuis (with extensive bibliography)
Le Monde (FR, full access)

transversal, 06/14: Insurrection of the Published (2014) [DE, EN, ES]

“The publishing industry is in a fundamental crisis. In its final hours it is beginning to lash out, but only hits itself. As much as academic apparatuses and cultural industries wrestle with conformity, the traditional forms of knowledge production remain just as incompatible with the new media conditions as with future emancipatory concatenations of writing, translating and publicly negotiating publications. “The Insurrection of the Published” emerges in these concatenations beyond the domestication of styles, forms and formats, beyond valorization and self-valorization, beyond the hegemonic mechanisms of exclusion like peer reviews, impact factors, ranking, and rigid copyright regimes.”

With contributions by EIPCP, Isabell Lorey, Otto Penz, Gerald Raunig, Birgit Sauer, Ruth Sonderegger, Stevphen Shukaitis, Traficantes de Sueños, Felix Stalder, and an Anonymous Iranian Collective.

Aufstand der Verlegten / Insurrection of the Published / Insurrección de los editados
Publisher EIPCP, Vienna, 2014
Copyleft
ISSN 1811-1696

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