Rejecting Intellectual Property: the disappearance or affirmation of the posthuman self through digital and distributed cognitive production

Rose, DE

Rejecting Intellectual Property: the disappearance or affirmation of the posthuman self through digital and distributed cognitive production

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Abstract

It is the activity of artistic production and its relationship to property and distributed cognition that most readily reveal contradictions inherent in posthuman existence. The digitalisation of production processes and the digitisation of products exaggerate inherent contradictions of private property and either offer a possibility for free, artistic activity, or will perpetuate capitalism at the cost of the human as we have come to understand it in modernity