Fast Capitalism 21.1

We are happy to announce the publication of Fast Capitalism 21.1. This issue has a special section about the 25th anniversary of Napster.

Napster at 25 Years

• Introduction: Napster at 25

  David M. Arditi

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• Napster “freedom” at Northeastern University: a distanced ethnography

  Marcus Breen

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• Inciting Infringement and Innovation from Napster to Now – the dialectic of law and technology

  Matthew David

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• Napster’s Mediations

  Gavin Mueller

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• The Artificiality of Digital Scarcity: Contradictions between Code, Law, Norms, and Value(s)

  Anthony Jack Knowles

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• Convenience begets capitalism

  Jörgen Behrendtz

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• A capitalist stranglehold on “artificial intelligence”: a gallop through piracy, privacy invasion, lock-in and a fever dream of democratisation

  Aidan Cornelius-Bell

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• Metallica, Napster and the Transformation of Subcultural Capital

  Justin Patch

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• Independent Music after Metallica v. Napster, Inc.: Seeking Liberation in the Music Streaming Simulacrum

  Lukas Szrot

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• Downloading is Killing Music: Napster and The Recording Industry’s Piracy Panic Narrative

  David M. Arditi

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Articles

• Blood in their Mouths: Lies, Violence, and Fascist Politics

  Henry Giroux

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• Climate Change Deniers versus Climate Change Decriers: The Pragmatics of Climate Defense in the Age of Disinformation

  Timothy W Luke

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• Fighting for justice in the neoliberal university: The promise of reflexive and flexible solidarity

  Timothy Gibson, Bethany Letiecq

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• Shut your cake hole, you over-educated whore: The misogynistic weaponization of the PhD

  Tara Brabazon

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• “Rise of the Resistance” and the Demise of Social Being: The Autolysis of Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

  Reha Kadakal

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• “You Are Not Independent in Any Way”: Biopolitics, Gig Economy Work and the Emergence of Illegible Antagonisms

  Tony Iantosca

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