The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property: Regulating Innovation and Personhood in the Information Age

The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property

Regulating Innovation and Personhood in the Information Age
 
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ISBN13:9781108712057
ISBN10:1108712053
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:230 pages
Size:228x151x14 mm
Weight:350 g
Language:English
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Short description:

Examines different ways of understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy.

Long description:
As a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property (IP) is central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for the works we create, the brands we identify and the medicines we consume. But if IP is power, what kind of power is it, and what does it do? Building on the work of Michel Foucault, Gordon Hull examines different ways of understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy: as law, as promotion of public welfare, and as promotion of neoliberal privatization. He argues that intellectual property policy is moving toward neoliberalism, even as that move is broadly contested in everything from resistance movements to Supreme Court decisions. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the struggle to conceptualize IP matters.

'Tracing the shifting logic of intellectual property over the centuries, Gordon Hull demonstrates that neoliberalism is less concerned with markets or freedom than it is with the economization of everyday life. This groundbreaking genealogy combines Foucauldian theory of biopower with a rich empirical analysis to illuminate how norms and technologies of ownership are now at stake in the shaping of our very subjectivity.' William Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London and author of The Limits of Neoliberalism
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing intellectual property; 3. Copyright; 4. Trademark; 5. Patents; 6. Conclusion: politics was already in the way; 7. Works Cited.