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This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property
and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and
nonhuman actors. The book addresses the increasingly porous border
between personhood and property in digitized settings and considers
how the increased commodification of knowledge makes visible a
rupture in the liberal concept of the property owning, free,
person. Engaging with the latest work in posthumanist and new
materialist theory, it shows, how property as a concept as well as
a means for control, changes fundamentally under advanced
capitalism. Such change is exemplified by the way in which data, as
an object of commodification, is extracted from human activities
yet is also directly used to affectively control - or nudge -
humans. Taking up a range of human engagements with digital
platforms and coded architectures, as well as the circulation of
affects through practices of artificial intelligence that are
employed to shape behaviour, the book argues that property now
needs to be understood according to an ecology of human as well as
nonhuman actors. The idea of posthuman property, then, offers both
a means to critique property control through digital technologies,
as well as to move beyond the notion of the self-owning,
object-owning, human. Engaging the most challenging contemporary
technological developments, this book will appeal to researchers in
the areas of Law and Technology, Legal Theory, Intellectual
Property Law, Legal Philosophy, Sociology of Law, Sociology, and
Media Studies.
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