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Accumulation, control and contingency; a critical review of intellectual property rights' "piracy"

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Author

  • Yiannis Mylonas

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.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

1-20

Publication/Series

First Monday

Volume

16

Issue

12-5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

University of Illinois

Topic

  • Media and Communications

Keywords

  • copyrights
  • IPR
  • piracy
  • commons
  • discourse
  • post-fordism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1396-0466