Pirate Infrastructures
- Kind
- Book Chapter
- Date
- 2007
- Retrieved
- Jun 29, 2013
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Piracy Preserves Data and Media that Otherwise Wouldn't be Preserved
In Nigeria as elsewhere, piracy creates new kinds of archives inconceivable outside of this mode of media reproduction. In markets specializing in wholesale tape duplication, sellers have sprung up specializing in the storage and preservation of different music forms. These sellers maintain substantial archives of…
The Gas Lamp Brought Networked Collective Life
Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1995) argues that one of the most important transformations of networked urban life came with the rise of the gas lamp. The introduction of gas ended the autonomy of oil lamps and candles whereby each household effectively supplied its own energy needs. Gas represented the industrialization of…