{"product_id":"pirate-care-acts-against-the-criminalization-of-solidarity-9780745349800","title":"Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A most nourishing and encouraging book\"\u003c\/b\u003e McKenzie Wark, author of \u003ci\u003eA Hacker Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Capital is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In many places worldwide, the freedom to care for one another is being attacked by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a moment of struggle defined by the rollback of the social safety net, the criminalization of migration, and the right-wing clampdown on bodily autonomy, radical networks of care are fighting back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From volunteer rescue boats in the Mediterranean to underground labs preparing gender-affirming hormones, people are reclaiming the means to care for one another in defiance of a system that devalues and exploits the labor of care. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Against atomized despair, \u003ci\u003ePirate Care\u003c\/i\u003e shows that fighting back isn't only about legal and legislative changes and organizing, direct action, and disobedient care. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eValeria Graziano\u003c\/b\u003e is a cultural theorist and organizer who is researching militant practices of work refusal and repair. She co-founded the Carrotworkers Collective and Micropolitics Research Group. Marcell Mars is an advanced internet user. Tomislav Medak is a commons and disability activist and an independent researcher interested in technologies and environmental crisis. Mars and Medak are founding members of Multimedia Institute\/Mama and custodians of the Memory of the World shadow library. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The authors are the convenors of the Pirate Care project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Valeria Graziano is a cultural theorist and organizer. Along with Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak she is the convenor of the Pirate Care Syllabus project. She has contributed to a number of collectives, including Precarious Workers Brigade, the Radical Education Forum, Boycott Workfare and the Women Strike UK. She is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eRebelling with Care: Exploring Open Technologies for Commoning \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealthcare \u003c\/i\u003eand she lives in Rijeka, Croatia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Marcell Mars is an advanced internet user. With Tomislav Medak he founded a shadow library Memory of the World, He develops and maintains software infrastructure to support custodians of (universal access to) knowledge. His research Ruling Class Studies, started at the Jan van Eyck Academy, examines state-of-the-art digital innovation, adaptation, and intelligence created by corporations such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and eBay. Marcell lives in Rijeka, Croatia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tomislav Medak is a commons and disability activist and an independent researcher with a focus on technology, environmental crisis and degrowth transition. He's a member of the green-left party Mozemo! (HR). With Marcell Mars and a community of friends in Zagreb he founded Multimedia Institute\/MAMA, since 2000 a hub for cultural and political organizing. Together they have co-edited Public Library and Guerrilla Open Access. He lives in Zagreb. Croatia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186184585490,"sku":"9780745349800","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d1f40dd-cb0a-4e67-92e3-cd20c1ca4de1.jpg?v=1744615051","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pirate-care-acts-against-the-criminalization-of-solidarity-9780745349800","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}