[Commlist] New Book: The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights

*The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights: **Law, Labor, 
and the Persistence of Primitive Accumulation*
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*Temple University Press, 2019*
http://tupress.temple.edu/book/1160
*Sample of Introduction here:* 
http://tupress.temple.edu/uploads/book/excerpt/2431_ch1.pdf **

*Description*
The protection and accumulation of intellectual property rights—like 
property rights in general—is one of the most important contemporary 
American values. In his cogent book, The Cultural Production of 
Intellectual Property Rights, Sean Johnson Andrews shows that the 
meaning, power, and value of intellectual properties are the consequence 
of an extended process of cultural production.

Johnson Andrews argues that these deeper ideological and historical 
roots demand that, in the contemporary global, digital economy, all 
property rights be held sacrosanct and all value must flow back to the 
legal owner.

Johnson Andrews explains that if we want to rebalance the protection of 
copyrights and trademarks, we should focus on undermining the reified 
culture of property that underpins capitalism as a whole. He outlines a 
framework for analyzing culture; situates intellectual property rights 
in the history of capitalist property relations; synthesizes key 
theories of media, politics, and law; and ultimately provides scholars 
and activists a path to imagining a different future where we prioritize 
our collective production of value in the commons.

*Reviews*
“Johnson Andrews provides a fearless, historically grounded critique of 
a deeply rooted dogma: ‘the inviolable rights of property.’ In doing so, 
he carefully addresses a broad set of issues, including the relationship 
between politics and culture, between law and property, and between 
capitalism and human agency. The result is a theoretically rich and 
carefully documented account of why the culture of property matters for 
understanding the global political economy. This timely and accessible 
analysis skillfully demonstrates the value of a politicized cultural 
studies that situates labor at its center. ”
—*Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen’s University 
and author of /Becoming Digital: Toward a Post-Internet Society/*

“Johnson Andrews uses Marxist theory to engage the Lockean tradition and 
explains the workings of branding from its beginnings to the present day 
as he guides us through the early history of property rights and their 
presidential embodiment. By teasing out how property relations disfigure 
current debates, The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights 
leads us to the key figure of the worker in the cybertarian fantasies of 
the information society that are so pervasive today. This book is a 
triumph.”
—*Toby Miller, Research Professor of the Graduate Division at the 
University of California, Riverside, and author of /Cultural 
Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a 
Neoliberal Age (Temple)/*

*Table of Contents*
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Intellectual Property, Neoliberalism, and the 
Trump-Branded Triple Movement
1. Culture, the State, and (Intellectual) Property Rights
2. Property, Primitive Accumulation, and the Liberal State
3. Law, Economics, and the Apolitical Culture of Capitalism
4. Culture, Commodification, and the Social Production of Value
5. Culture, Property, and the Ends of Progressive Neoliberalism

References
Index

About the Author(s)
Sean Johnson Andrews is an Associate Professor of Humanities and 
Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of 
Hegemony, Mass Media, and Cultural Studies: Properties of Meaning, 
Power, and Value in Cultural Production and co-editor (with Jaafar 
Aksikas) of Cultural Studies and the ‘Juridical Turn’: Culture, Law and 
Legitimacy in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism.


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