https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/digital-property-forms-as-a-right-to-access/2008/11/07 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:56:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/digital-property-forms-as-a-right-to-access/2008/11/07/comment-page-1#comment-332265 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:56:02 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2047#comment-332265 I’m not sure if i understand your question. What Zizek aims at with the article seems quite clear, doesn’t it? That we should not give up the notion of “truth as a Singular Universal”, and that that requires taking sides (partisanship). For intellectual property, this would imply that we should not criticize it by itself, but also would have to tackle the overall capitalist system, or so it seems to me. Cp. also this text, where he more clearly names intellectual property as one of the key antagonisms of global capitalism itself:
http://www.lacan.com/zizecology1.htm
So i read the 2nd paragraph you cited as saying that, even if we “free” intellectual property, as long as it is still a part of the means of production _within a capitalist system_, other problems (here: new power hierarchies vs. old class structures) will arise. (This reading of this text is not as obvious, though.)
As far as i know, Zizek does not really have a coherent theory as to how to do this, but insists on always questioning the whole structure.

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/digital-property-forms-as-a-right-to-access/2008/11/07/comment-page-1#comment-332035 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:01:40 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2047#comment-332035 “the ruling class will be defined by direct access to the (informational, administrative) means of social power and control and attendant material and social privileges” – I would say that this is just a more direct form of the same thing that happens in capitalism. The object of human desire is always this access – the money is only a proxy to that.

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