![]() ![]() Since I’m as big a fan of video remixing as there is, this is quite an achievement. I was willing to accept this easily enough was his target was the Department of Homeland security (as it was in Little Brother) because I’m a big old leftie. This time, however, Doctorow takes a complicated issue and tries so hard to erase all shades of gray that I ended up being more against him than with him. ![]() He’s writing shameless propaganda that makes one side good and noble and pure, and the other greedy and corrupt. He’s cyber-Upton Sinclair.īut like Sinclair, Doctorow isn’t trying to lay out both sides of a complicated issue and let the reader make her own decisions he’s trying to fill people with outrage and get them to storm the Bastille. I also enjoyed his novels Makers and Little Brother, in which he dramatizes the issues he blogs about through technologically-savvy-underdogs-take-on-The-Man narratives. I love the guy’s blogging, and he’s been a great source for news about SOPA, PIPA, and other scary acronyms. As regular readers of the site know, I have an interest in Hollywood movie mashups. So when I heard that Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow was writing a novel about remix culture and copyright law, I was intrigued. ![]()
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