On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 03:57:03PM +0200, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
> Lunga recensione di taglio accademico:
> https://social-epistemology.com/2023/08/16/the-political-sins-of-cybernetics-a-review-of-evgeny-morozovs-the-santiago-boys-felipe-figueroa/
Bellissima recensione, grazie per la segnalazione. (Aggiungo: recensione
con abbastanza pochi "spoilers" sul podcast, quindi potete leggerla
anche senza averlo ascoltato.)
Grazie a questa lettura ho scoperto la tesi di dottorato dell'autore
della recensione, che è probabilmente di interesse per molti Nexiani, e
che quindi vi segnalo:
Figueroa Zimmermann, Felipe (2020)
From progress to innovation : neoliberalism and the expansion of intellectual
property.
PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
Abstract:
Intellectual property law [hereon IP] is a particularly dynamic area of
capitalist development. While the presence of IP in modern societies is
pervasive, scholarly accounts of its explosive growth remain historically and
disciplinarily bounded. This dissertation seeks to craft a more thorough
account of the expansion of IP, by (1) tracing the changes in the concept of
property in modern legal, economic and political discourse; (2) linking these
conceptual changes to the process of expansion of IP; and (3) investigating the
two-way relationship between the process of expansion of IP and the conceptual
shifts in ownership.
The methodology of this desk-based research involved first surveying the
literature regarding the expansion across disciplinary boundaries, covering
mainly economics, political science and legal theory. Next, the dominant
explanations given in each discipline to account for IP expansion were
identified and contrasted in their strengths and weaknesses to integrate them
by using methods adapted from conceptual history (mainly Begriffsgeschichte and
the Cambridge Historical School). Four results chapters explore a series of
political controversies linked to conceptual innovation starting in the late
19th century and covering the 20th century. The approach showcases how the
network of concepts to which we owe our current understanding of IP developed
in a context of social, political and economic turmoil. Our perspective
regarding the political significance of IP is thus illuminated by the
consideration of the historical context.
A key finding is that the expansion of IP was made possible by a series of
conceptual changes that resulted from the ideological efforts of neoliberals to
rethink the conceptual categories of classical liberalism during the first
decades of the 20th century. Building on this, x the work offers a prognosis of
where the concept of property might be headed, as well as a normative
evaluation of these developments.
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