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Networked Performance (N_P), a research blog that focuses on emerging network-enabled practice, announces issue 10 of Culture Machine , dedicated to the theme of Pirate Philosophy : “Pirate Philosophy explores how the development of various forms of so-called internet piracy is affecting ideas of the author, the book, the scholarly journal, peer review, intellectual property, copyright law, content creation and cultural production that were established pre-internet. To this end it contains

Gallagher, Winifred, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life , Penguin:New York, 2009, 244 pp. Rapt is a wide-ranging and elegantly written summary of what scholars, authors, and a few mystics have to say about human attention and the role that it plays in our emotions and our day-to-day actions. Written in a very polished and literate style, it finds a nice balance between the author’s personal reflections on the role of attention in her life, quotations about focus and attention by authors s