SIVACRACY.NET: More good stuff about Critical Information Studies

Ted Striphas, the co-editor of that great issue of Cultural Studies that has my Critical Information Studies article, has collected a bunch of new links that discuss the article. Check out Ted's cool blog Differences & Repetitions.

I have to urge everyone to look at the entire issue of Cultural Studies devoted to Critical Information Studies. It's full of wonderful articles. Here is the table of Contents:

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 20, Number 2-3 / March / May 2006

STRATEGIC IMPROPRIETIES: CULTURAL STUDIES, THE EVERYDAY, AND THE POLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES:

Introduction pp. 119 - 144
Ted Striphas and Kembrew McLeod

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE pp. 145 - 164
Adrian Johns

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE (BUT IS EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS) pp. 165 - 183
McKenzie Wark

YOUR SECOND LIFE?: Goodwill and the performativity of intellectual property in online digital gaming pp. 184 - 210
Andrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe, Lewis Kaye

REALITY© AND VIRTUAL REALITY©: When virtual and real worlds collide pp. 211 - 226
Steve Jones

EARLY CINEMA'S HEYDAY OF COPYING: The too many copies of L'Arroseur arrosé (The Waterer Watered) pp. 227 - 244
Jane M. Gaines

MUSIC FOR NOTHING OR, I WANT MY MP3: The regulation and recirculation of affect pp. 245 - 261
Gilbert B. Rodman and Cheyanne Vanderdonckt

RIDICULING THE ‘WHITE BREAD ORIGINAL’: The politics of parody and preservation of greatness in Luther Campbell a.k.a. Luke Skyywalker et al. v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc pp. 262 - 281
David Sanjek

OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND: On the cultural hegemony of intellectual property (critique) pp. 282 - 291
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

AFTERWORD: CRITICAL INFORMATION STUDIES: A bibliographic manifesto pp. 292 - 315
Siva Vaidhyanathan

JUST SAY NO: Negativland's No Business pp. 316 - 322
Patricia R. Zimmermann

This is from the introduction, written by Kembrew and Ted:

We offer this introduction and this special issue as a whole, then, with four principal objectives in mind. First, we want to explore how intellectual property considerations increasingly impinge on the institutional and professional lives of cultural studies scholars. We are interested, in effect, in exploring how IP law and jurisprudence affect cultural studies in mundane yet deeply significant ways at the level of the everyday. Second, in addition to presenting compelling, cutting-edge research on the politics of intellectual properties, we want to draw attention to some groundbreaking work in the field that long ago took up the cause. Although this is the first special issue of Cultural Studies to address explicitly the politics of intellectual properties, we want to emphasize that it has been an emergent area of inquiry for some time now among scholars in the field.

Third, we want to dwell on what cultural studies can contribute to public conversations about the politics of IP, given, if nothing else, its outsider status relative to the legal sphere. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, our aim is to help foster a meaningful and genuinely interdisciplinary confluence of scholarly research on subject. While many areas of study valorize the idea of interdisciplinary work, in the abstract, one remarkable thing about recent intellectual property research is the way it has produced an actual cross-pollination of scholarship and many significant topical intersections – from library science and the biological sciences to literary criticism and media studies, as well as virtually everything else in between. It is in this in-between (though not necessarily in the center), where we would like to position cultural studies in this interdisciplinary conversation, an exchange we hope will continue.