Tag Archives: Summation

New article: Piracy as activism

by Jonas Posted on 10/2/2011

I have published a new article. It’s about the activist subject and the pirate subject – and how it seems impossible to maintain agential “purity” in an era of increasing infrastructural and agential complexity. My argument, in short, is that the forms of activism found online, connected to what is commonly called the “pirate” movement, are hard to separate from consumerism and entrepreneurialism. Continue reading →

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Summary of my thesis

by Jonas Posted on 26/10/2010

A brief summary of some of the main conclusions in Jonas Andersson’s Ph.D. thesis, recently approved by Goldsmiths, University of London. The thesis explores how file-sharers justify their habits, and what they refer to; how their arguments are constituted in terms of representation, agency, justification and morality, as well as the actual technical, economic, historical, demographic and geographical conditions. Continue reading →

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The decade in popular music

by Jonas Posted on 16/10/2009

Some observations of stylistic and aesthetic formations during these last ten years: The Daft Punkization of mainstream hip-hop and R’n'B; the undettling beat aesthetics of “wonky”; the “hardcore continuum”, dubstep and UK funky; “manifest destiny” hip-hop as well as autotune reigning supreme on the charts; and the seemingly inevitable eternal retro and relative musical segregation that hipster ephemera seems to entail… Continue reading →

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