[-empyre-] laws, outlaws & pirates

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all

Davin's post from Sunday made me think a lot, it seemed to shift the discussion, 
and I notice that Marc already responded...

Jussi's elaborate post added to the bleak picture. 

>>
The question becomes, how is piracy inherent already in the imposition of certain modes of governing through regimes of copyright, tapping into creativity, creating such categories as piracy, and criminalisation of an increasing amount of practices that are, more or less, what we could call still “normal”. How are we being pirated by such regimes of control and power? >>


I'm not sure how one can respond to Davin, as his concern with social relations (contra individualism/private property, the notion of rights)
would seem to encompass so much more, re: "the crisis of being," if you think of the "regimes of control and power" also including the domains of health and insurance,
care giving, the medical sector and the industries attached to natural and synthetic/chemical food production, energy, transport, etc. 

David writes:
>>But may be this crisis of being (of which ubiquitous piracy is a symptom) is
clearing away the dross of consumer culture, pruning back a particular
enlightenment tendency (radical individualism) that we might fully
explore the critical role that community plays in the formation of
being.   And property rights and the prices for goods and services can
be re-aligned with basic questions of justice and equity, where they
belong.>>

Could you say more about what critical role you see in community or in shifting to the notion of community/social relations in the 
discussion context of piracy / vandalism?  How do you redefine rights (say, the right to live, the right to die) if the subject were
to shift slightly to the edges of being (dying, dementia, loss or diminishment of agency, social pathology, social autism)?  On german public television last night a group of
doctors and nurses discussed neuroscientific and preventive medical care theories regarding alzheimer and dementia, and at some
point the question of community was raised, regarding the right of unimpeachable human dignity. no one answered it, then the discussion moved back
to the individual brain, and when does one (science multitudes and families) recognize its ending or its extendability....

are the (basic) questions of justice and equity answerable at all in the neoliberal/capitalist pirate context that you have sketched,
which still operates according to laws and yet laws that also are pirated all the time, non-transcendable by communities except in
chaos situations (revolutions) that historically are hardly successful as romance (but involve "behaviours, ...in its raw sense, of killing, robbing, pillaging 
etc" ) and what forms of vandalism would fight what forms of vandalism?


with regards
Johannes Birringer