Dispersed property and pirate acts
Recently we were part of the Leonardo/SFAI Digital Salon where we spoke of "The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State" and Steve Cisler talked of Piracy.
Some thoughts that have arisen after the quite impassioned discussion that evening around piracy, how it is constituted and how to think it beyond a simple anxiety of the loss of property:
Some thoughts that have arisen after the quite impassioned discussion that evening around piracy, how it is constituted and how to think it beyond a simple anxiety of the loss of property:
What if we think of' 'dispersed property' and 'pirate acts'. The present scenario is of an increasing dispersal of 'property' through everyday immaterial goods. This makes us enveloped by 'property'. Many acts that touch upon this 'property envelop' do infringe property rights. There is, thus, a ubiquitous presence of daily small 'pirate acts' by almost anyone.
Perhaps a simple listing of such daily acts and the reality of 'property dispersal' will be relevant in the displacement of the idea of the 'pirate' as a figure out there - removed and away from us - ruining 'social order and meaning'. The figure of the 'pirate' increasingly haunts all discussion of 'intellectual property'. It is figure on whom various fears and anxieties of capitalism's core 'productive values' are projected - from free riders to free lunch, to criminality, to idleness, to laziness, to profiting without labour, to destruction of innovation, etc.
If we can imagine daily life enmeshed within immaterial forms of property as a series of relays and disruptions produced by multiple 'commoning acts', 'property acts' and 'pirate acts' - then we can have an account of everyday life and practice that does not freeze all of us into singular 'figures'; figures that do not address how we all navigate the contemporary in complex ways.
Perhaps a simple listing of such daily acts and the reality of 'property dispersal' will be relevant in the displacement of the idea of the 'pirate' as a figure out there - removed and away from us - ruining 'social order and meaning'. The figure of the 'pirate' increasingly haunts all discussion of 'intellectual property'. It is figure on whom various fears and anxieties of capitalism's core 'productive values' are projected - from free riders to free lunch, to criminality, to idleness, to laziness, to profiting without labour, to destruction of innovation, etc.
If we can imagine daily life enmeshed within immaterial forms of property as a series of relays and disruptions produced by multiple 'commoning acts', 'property acts' and 'pirate acts' - then we can have an account of everyday life and practice that does not freeze all of us into singular 'figures'; figures that do not address how we all navigate the contemporary in complex ways.
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kate
@ 23.05.2006 16:51 CESTHi there Jeebesh
This is really interesting to think about in relation to the series of projects that Triple base has been doing, the first of which was to do an unauthorised retrospective of David Hammons that consisted only of photocopies, and they have also recently done a show of Cady Nolands sculptures, re-made by four artists from photos - some folk are up in arms about it while others welcome the 'open' nature of such a project. These are not immaterial forms of property but do represent another incarnation of 'relays' and 'disruptions' - have you heard about the projects?
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