Molto interessante, grazie! MB On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 at 16:02, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Ciao > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . https://upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ > Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ > Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> > Co-founder & CTO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ > https://twitter.com/zacchiro . https://mastodon.xyz/@zacchiro '" V "' > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > [email protected] > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > -- _______________ *Maurizio Borghi* Università di Torino https://www.dg.unito.it/persone/maurizio.borghi Co-Director Nexa Center for Internet & Society <https://nexa.polito.it/> My Webex room: https://unito.webex.com/meet/maurizio.borghi
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