CRWR 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Gerrard Winstanley, Astra Taylor, House Foods
11 Dec 2017
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Explore: the goggles, pine point ( safari / firefox) http://pinepoint. nfb. ca/#/pinepoint. Telling a longer story over short chapters in an interactive space. Rewards for staying with the narrative: prepare for a short detour: taylor astra, the artist and the digital economy producing writing, shooting film, or writing music. )t(cid:495)s important to understand the cl)mate in which you were making art: to do that we have to go back to 1649. Enclosure acts enclosed the fields in which people worked. One landowner could make more money so peasant could go find more work. In chapter 5, astra taylor argues that, like the enclosure act of 1720 enriched the upper class, the web has made the owners of major sharing platforms. 1 richer, but the common users (including most artsits, writers, musicians) poorer. It has done so while maintaining a reputation for freedom & openness, due to its direct challenges to copyright law, proliferation of user-gernarted content, and rampant re-posting ethic.
