This article works out the main characteristics of `practice theory', a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others. Practice theory is presented as a conceptual alternative to other forms of social and cultural theory, above all to culturalist mentalism, textualism and intersubjectivism. The article shows how practice theory and the three other cultural-theoretical vocabularies differ in their localization of the social and in their conceptualization of the body, mind, things, knowledge, discourse, structure/process and the agent.

Toward a Theory of Social Practices A Development in Culturalist Theorizing

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Three Propositions On Informational Cultures 2. Open Networks 3. Free Labour 4. Soft Control 5. Communications' Biopower Bibliography Index

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In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a recursive publica public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place.Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their practices and way of life include not only the sharing of software source code but also ways of conceptualizing openness, writing copyright licenses, coordinating collaboration, and proselytizing. By exploring in detail how these practices came together as the Free Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, Kelty also considers how it is possible to understand the new movements emerging from Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that creates copyright licenses, and Connexions, a project to create an online scholarly textbook commons.

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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

Zwischen Rauschen und Offenbarung : zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Stimme

Eine Kulturgeschichte der Kulturwissenschaft

Austreibung des Geistes aus den Geisteswissenschaften : Programme des Poststrukturalismus

Optische Medien : Berliner Vorlesung 1999

244 1. Ernst Robert Curtius, Europaische Literatur und lateinischesMittelalter (Bern, 1948), p. 62. 2. See Plato, Republic, 10.600a. 3. See for example Plato, Phaedrus, 60a, 116 a–b. 4. Compare FriedrichNietzsche, “Gotzen-DammerungoderWie manmit demHammer philosophirt,”Gotzen-Dammerung, inWerke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and MazzinoMontinari, 9 vols. in 30 (Berlin, 1967), 6.3.120, §23: Universities: Wet, Hard, Soft, and Harder

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Universities: Wet, Hard, Soft, and Harder

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