Pirate Care by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak

In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is under attack 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.

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 labour of care.

Against atomized despair, Pirate Care shows that fighting back isn't only about legal and legislative changes but also about organizing, direct action, and disobedient care.

Valeria Graziano is a cultural theorist and organizer 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 with interests 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.

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.

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 Možemo! (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.

The authors are the convenors of the Pirate Care project.

Product Specifications

Author: Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak

Publisher: Pluto Press

Language: English

ISBN: 9780745349800

Format: Paperback

Length: 176 pages

Size: 11 x 1.12 x 21.49 cm

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