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Essay of the Day: Torrent Poisoning | P2P Foundation

The cultural industries have proven to be surprisingly creative in the strategies they employ to combat piracy substantiated by the documents in this book.
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Book of the Day: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism | P2P Foundation

Book of the Day: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

“Connolly argues for an “ethic of cultivation” that can show “both how fragile the ethical life is and how important it is to cultivate it” . “Cultivation,” as developed in The Fragility of Things, stands in opposition to withdrawal. Instead it entails serious, ethically guided, activist engagement with the world – for us to recognize the fragility of natural, and human-made, systems (Connolly uses the term “force-fields”) and to act to protect this “fragility” instead of celebrating neoliberal risks that render the already precarious all the more tenuous.

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