[spectre] Siva Vaidhyanthan: The Anarchist in the Library

[Steve Dietz]

Tuesday, April 8, at 7 p.m CST (GMT -6), cultural historian, media
scholar, and American Studies professor SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN will discuss
how intellectual property rights affect global culture and how the U.S.
Supreme Court, and, by proxy, corporations are defining what we read and
see as part of "New Ideas on Globalization" at the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis, MN, USA. The talk will be webcast on the "Translocal
Channel."
http://latitudes.walkerart.org/artists/index.wac?id=271 (click on
"channel")

For this lecture Vaidhyanthan will draw upon examples ranging from
ancient religions to open-source software to show how this battle will
be one of the defining fault lines of 21st-century civilization. 

Vaidhyanthan is the author of The Anarchist in the Library: How
Peer-to-Peer Networks Are Transforming Politics, Culture, and the
Control of Information and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of
Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity. He is an
assistant professor at New York University. Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D.
in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has
taught at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. 

NEW IDEAS ON GLOBALIZATION IS COPRESENTED BY THE WALKER ART CENTER, THE
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HUMANITIES INSTITUTE, THE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL
STUDIES, AND THE EUROPEAN STUDIES CONSORTIUM. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
THIS SERIES OR THE RELATED WALKER EXHIBITION, HOW LATITUDES BECOME
FORMS: ART IN A GLOBAL AGE, GO TO LATITUDES.WALKERART.ORG

http://latitudes.walkerart.org/artists/index.wac?id=271
http://latitudes.walkerart.org/globalization/

Steve Dietz
Curator of New Media
Walker Art Center
http://latitudes.walkerart.org
http://www.mnartists.org