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Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can’t do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.

From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind. Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation. All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten? Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.

In today's globalized world, few competencies are as essential as the ability to negotiate across cultures. In this insightful and practical book, Chris Moore and Peter Woodrow draw on their extensive global experience to help us understand the intricacies of seeking to reach intercultural agreements and show us how to get to a wise.

Книга продолжает издание избранных произведений выдающегося нидерландского историка и культуролога. Классическая работа Homo ludens [Человек играющий] посвящена всеобъемлющей сущности феномена игры и универсальному значению ее в человеческой цивилизации. Статьи Задачи истории культуры, Об исторических жизненных идеалах. Политическое и военное значение рыцарских идей в позднем Средневековье. Проблема Ренессанса всесторонне рассматривают актуальные до сих пор философские и методологические вопросы в сфере истории и культорологии. раскрывают теоретические и нравственные основы подхода И. Хейзинги к истории и культуре Публикуемые произведения, с их анализом фундаментальных проблем теории и истории культуры, отмечены высокой научной ценностью, ясностью и убедительностью изложения, яркостью и разнообразием фактического материала, широтой охвата, несомненными художественными достоинствами

Фундаментальное исследование выдающегося нидерландского историка и культуролога И.Хейзинги "Homo ludens. Человек играющий", анализируя игровой характер культуры, провозглашает универсальность феномена игры и ее непреходящее значение в человеческой цивилизации. Давно уже признанное классическим, это произведение отличают научная ценность, широта охвата, разнообразие фактического материала, обширная эрудиция, яркость и убедительность изложения, прозрачность и завершенность стиля.

Pop music is only one aspect of contemporary Russian culture that has taken some unexpected turns in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Television and advertising, theater and cinema, athletics and religion, even fashion and food now reflect more exposure to the West, yet remain in essence distinctively Russian. Pop Culture Russia! introduces readers to the fascinating, often surprising, post-Soviet cultural landscape. With chapters on media, the arts, recreation, religion, and consumerism, the book offers an insightful survey of Russian mass culture from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the present, exploring the historical significance of important events and trends, as well as the social and political contexts from which they emerged.

Cultura Librees un libro fundamental para comprender los problemas y prejuicios que las nuevas regulaciones sobre la propiedad intelectual imponen sobre el progreso de la cultura y la difusión del conocimiento en el contexto de la sociedad digital. Lessig plantea que la lógica comercial bajo la se están articulando las leyes del copyright(derecho de autor, entre otros) es una de las principales barreras para el desarrollo de la cultura y particularmente en el ámbito digital; la cultura se ha gestado a lo largo de los siglos, a través de citas y creaciones, basadas o inspiradas en el trabajo de otros. Su autor nos muestra cómo desde la aparición Internet se está librando una verdadera batalla entre quienes desean controlar este nuevo espacio de creación y difusión del conocimiento mediante mayores y más restrictivas regulaciones sobre derechos de autor, y quienes promueven los principios de la libre circulación del conocimiento y la información, enfrentándose, en la práctica, el idea de una cultura libre a la del permiso.

This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.

The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan is a fascinating examination of the cultural traditions of the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music which leads us to redefine our concept of the division between "high" and "low" culture. A stimulating history of high and low culture from Dante Alighieri to Bob Dylan, providing a controversial defence of popular culture. Seeks to rebut the durable belief that only high culture is ‘dialectical’ and popular culture is not by turning Theodor Adorno’s theories on ‘pop’ against themselves. Presents a critical analysis of three popular traditions: the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music. Offers an original account of Bob Dylan as an example of how the distinction between high and low culture is highly problematic. A provocative book for any student, scholar or general reader, who is interested in popular culture