e-flux Journal #53

<p>One common explanation for why intellectual property makes no sense in an era of file-sharing uses the example of what happens when you copy a file on a computer. Copy-Paste: a second file has been produced, but the original is unaltered. Now it has a sibling, a partner, a twin. And if they keep reproducing themselves in this way, no problem. Which is to say that, at least in the digital domain, the entire calculus of scarcity is very different from the material domain. The difference between a single entity, two entities, or a billion is almost nil. Under these circumstances, as the argument goes, reintroducing laws of scarcity by limiting access is simply backward…</p> <p><b>Editorial </b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Reflections on the “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”</b><br /> Antonio Negri</p> <p><b>The Black Stack</b><br /> Benjamin Bratton</p> <p><b>How to Become a Non-Artist</b><br /> Ane Hjort Guttu</p> <p><b>Shapes of Freedom: A Conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli</b><br /> Kim Turcot DiFruscia</p> <p><b>The Labor of the Inhuman, Part II: The Inhuman</b><br /> Reza Negarestani</p> <p><b>Sister Apple, Sister Pig: Speculative Annotations</b><br /> Mary Walling Blackburn</p> <p><b>Is it Love?</b><br /> Brian Kuan Wood</p> <p><b>How to Begin Living in the Trees?</b><br /> Pierre Bal-Blanc, Ferran Barrenblit, Alexandra Baudelot, Binna Choi, Eyal Danon, Maria Lind, Pablo Martinez, Sanne Oorthuizen, Emily Pethick, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Tadej Pogačar</p>