Accumulation, control and contingency; a critical review of intellectual property rights' "piracy"
Författare
Summary, in English
This article problematizes piracy a) as a hegemonic discourse and technology of control, aiming to securitize late capitalist accumulation; b) as a practice developed by the multitudes that is compatible to post–Fordist mode of production and to neoliberal norms; and, c) as resistance to dominant mode of late capitalist production, distribution and consumption of immaterial goods. The article addresses and criticizes capitalism’s ‘organic’ and strategic colonization of fundamental social commons, such as culture, intellectual goods, as well as human creativity and communication, by looking at the ideological, institutional and material processes that reproduce the capitalist ‘machine’. This paper concludes by considering the possibility of overcoming the capitalist approach to commons, through the politicization of IPR as well as through the connection of the problem they pose to broader social perspectives, confronting capitalism — in its post political disguises — politically.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2011
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-20
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
First Monday
Volym
16
Issue
12-5
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
University of Illinois
Ämne
- Media and Communications
Nyckelord
- copyrights
- IPR
- piracy
- commons
- discourse
- post-fordism
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1396-0466