The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties

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ISBN: 9780822321033 | 0822321033
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Copyright: 10/1/1998

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"This is a scintillating cultural commentary: Coombe's own skills as anthropologist and lawyer have been re-combined to devastating effect."--Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Authoring Culture

(40)

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

1. Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics

(47)

Objects and Subjects

Historicizing the Subject

Postmodern Culture

It's a Small, Small World(TM)

Postmodern Goods

Author(iz)ing the Corporate Persona

Manufacturing Distinction

Fixing the Signifier/Owning the Sign

Activist Appropriations

Policing Postmodern Precincts

Xerox(R) Cultures

Dialogics of Postmodern Politics

2. Author(iz)ing the Celebrity: Engendering Alternative Identities

(42)

The Value of the Celebrity Persona

Celebrity Authorship

The Celebrity Form and the Politics of Postmodernism

Doing Gender

Respecting Judy

Fictionalized Sexualities

Enterprising Women

Engendering and Endangering Alternative Identities

3. Tactics of Appropriation and the Politics of Recognition

130

(36)

Political Articulations

Official Signifiers

Postmodernity and the Rumor

Racial Inscriptions and Iterations

Corporeal Vulnerability

Signifyin(g) Powers

4. Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alterity on American Commercial Frontiers

166

(42)

Mimicry, Alterity, and Embodiment

Marked and Unmarked Bodies

Contemporary Contestations

Fighting Redskins(R)

Consuming Crazy Horse

Mimicking Authors at the Altars of Property

5. The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity

208

(40)

Whose Voice Is 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

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6. Dialogic Democracy I: Authorship and Alterity in Public Spheres

248

(25)

The Author in the Modern Public Sphere

Free Speech in the Condition of Postmodernity

Objects and Subjects Redux

7. Dialogic Democracy II: Alterity and Articulation in the Space of the Political

273

(28)

Locating the Politics of the Public Sphere

Mass Mediation and the Publics of Civil Society

The Space of the Signature

The Unworked Community

An Ethics of Contingency

Notes

301

(97)

References

398

(46)

Index

444

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