The cultural life of intellectual properties : authorship, appropriation, and the law / / Rosemary J. Coombe.

• Superior document: Post-contemporary interventions
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Coombe, Rosemary J.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; Post-contemporary interventions.
• Physical Description: xi, 462 p.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Authoring Culture. A Critical Cultural Legal Studies. Against Culture(s). Anthropology's Trademark and Its Academic Others. Authoring Alterity. Contested Cultures. Legalities,Identities, and Mass Media. Authorship and Alterity -- Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Objects and Subjects. Historicizing the Subject. Postmodern Culture. It's a Small, Small world. Postmodern Goods. Author(iz)ing the Corporate Persona. Manufacturing Distinction. Fixing the Signifier/Owning the Sign. Activist Appropriations. PolicingPostmodern Precincts. Xerox Cultures. Dialogicsof Postmodern Politics -- Author(iz)ing the Celebrity: Engendering Alternative Identities: The Value of the CelebrityPersona. CelebrityAuthorship. The CelebrityForm and the Politicsof Postmodernism. Doing Gender. Respecting Judy. Fictionalized Sexualities. Enterprising Women. Engendering and EndangeringAlternative Identities -- Tactics of Appropriation and the Politics of Recognition: PoliticalArticulations. Official Signifiers. Postmodernity and the Rumor. Racial Inscriptions and Iterations. Corporeal Vulnerability. Signifyin(g) Powers -- Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alterity on American Commercial Frontiers. Mimicry, Alterity, and Embodiment. Marked and Unmarked Bodies. Contemporary Contestations. Fighting Redskins. Consuming Crazy Horse. Mimicking Authors at the Altars of Property -- The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity: Whose VoiceIs It Anyway? The European Art/Culture System. Contemporary Properties of Culture and Identity. Listening to Native Claims "in Context". Representation without Representation: Visibility without Voice. Possessive Individualism Revisited: Authorship and Cultural Identity. Aboriginal Title -- Dialogic Democracy I: Authorship and Alterity in Public Spheres: The Author in the Modern Public Sphere. FreeSpeech in the Condition of Postmodernity. Objects and Subjects Redux -- Dialogic Democracy II: Alterity and Articulation in the Space of the Political: Locating the Politics of the Public Sphere. Mass Mediation and the Publics of Civil Society. The Spaceof the Signature. The Unworked Community. An Ethics of Contingency.