Coombe / Fish / Jameson The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties

Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8249-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 478 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

An ethnography of inellectual property, discussing the uses made of items of inellectual property by various cultural groups -- for purposes of identity, solidaritiy, resistance and so forth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coombe, Rosemary J.

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Authoring Culture A Critical Cultural Legal Studies Against Culture(s) Anthropology's Trademark and Its Academic Others Authoring Alterity Contested Cultures Legalities, Identities, and Mass Media Authorship and Alterity 1. Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics Objects and Subjects Historicizing the Subject Postmodern Culture It's a Small, Small World™ Postmodern Goods Author(iz)ing the Corporate Persona Manufacturing Distinction Fixing the Signifier/Owning the Sign Activist Appropriations Policing Postmodern Precincts Xerox® Cultures Dialogics of Postmodern Politics 2. Author(iz)ing the Celebrity: Engendering Alternative Identities The Value of the Celebrity Persona Celebrity Authorship The Celebrity Form and the Politics of Postmodernism Doing Gender Respecting Judy Fictionalized Sexualities Enterprising Women Engendering and Endangering Alternative Identities 3. Tactics of Appropriation and the Politics of Recognition Political Articulations Official Signifiers Postmodernity and the Rumor Racial Inscriptions and Iterations Corporeal Vulnerability Signifyin(g) Powers 4. Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alterity on American Commercial Frontiers Mimicry, Alterity, and Embodiment Marked and Unmarked Bodies Contemporary Contestations Fighting Redskins® Consuming Crazy Horse Mimicking Authors at the Altars of Property 5. The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity Whose Voice Is It Anyway? The European Art/Culture System Contemporary Properties of Culture and Identity Listening to Native Claims “in Context” Representation without Representation: Visibility without Voice Possessive Individualism Revisited: Authorship and Cultural Identity Aboriginal Title 6. Dialogic Democracy I: Authorship and Alterity in Public Spheres The Author in the Modern Public Sphere Free Speech in the Condition of Postmodernity Objects and Subjects Redux 7. Dialogic Democracy II: Alterity and Articulation in the Space of the Political Locating the Politics of the Public Sphere Mass Mediation and the Publics of Civil Society The Space of the Signature The Unworked Community An Ethics of Contingency Notes References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rosemary J. Coombe is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.