Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto - Mark Helprin torrent

Category: Education, Political
Language: English
Keywords: America Copyright Culture Literature Philosophy Property

Written by Mark Helprin
Read by David Colacci
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 8h 59m

GOOODREADS: In ‘Digital Barbarism’, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, ‘Digital Barbarism’ provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.

AUDIBLE: World-renowned novelist Mark Helprin offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language, and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators.

Mark Helprin anticipated that his 2007 New York Times op-ed piece about the extension of the term of copyright would be received quietly, if not altogether overlooked. Within a week, the article had accumulated 750,000 angry comments. He was shocked by the breathtaking sense of entitlement demonstrated by the commenters, and appalled by the breadth, speed, and illogic of their responses.

Helprin realized how drastically different this generation is from those before it. The Creative Commons movement and the copyright abolitionists, like the rest of their generation, were educated with a modern bias toward collaboration, which has led them to denigrate individual efforts and in turn fueled their sense of entitlement to the fruits of other people’s labors. More important, their selfish desire to ’stick it’ to the greedy corporate interests who control the production and distribution of intellectual property undermines not just the possibility of an independent literary culture but threatens the future of civilization itself.

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Preface
01 The Acceleration of Tranquility
Civilization and Velocity
02 Death on a Red Horse
The First Targets of the Barbarians are Copyright and the Individual Voice
03 Notes on Virginia
Reclaiming Jefferson and Taking Care of Macaulay
04 The Espresso Book Machine
Using Machines to Hold Machines in Check
05 Property as a Coefficient of Liberty
Property is Not Antithetical to Virtue
06 Convergence
Wait as Long as You Want, it Will Not Come
07 Parthian Shot
Calling Barbarism for What It Is