The General Library: Piracy and the Politics of Minority Access

A bold argument for piracy as a system of knowledge sharing, cultural preservation, and political resistance.

What if copying and sharing media, acts frequently labeled as “piracy,” were understood as part of a vast cultural infrastructure that sustains knowledge? The General Library dismantles the myth that piracy is theft, demonstrating how unauthorized modes of distribution and access can act as techniques for cultural preservation, political expression, and everyday resistance. Rather th...