| Titre | La marchandisation à « l'âge de l'information » : droits de propriété intellectuelle, l'Etat et Internet. : Traduit de l'anglais par Thierry Labica | |
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| Auteur | Christopher May | |
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Revue | Actuel Marx |
| Numéro | no 34, septembre 2003 Violence de la marchandisation | |
| Page | 81-97 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Dr Christopher May. Commodifying the « Information Age » : Intellectual Property
Rights, the State and the Internet
Information and communication technologies are seen as one of the key catalysts of
the compression of space and time which globalisation has heralded. However, only the
reification of the (global) market makes plausible an argument for a significant decline in
the efficacy of the state, or the claim that we have entered some new phase of global
economic organisation. Reifying the market obscures the underlying supports on which
information age capitalism continues to rest, most importantly the continuing centrality of
commodification for capitalism's global reproduction. In this article I examine the
commodification of the « new economy » which has emerged across the Internet.
Drawing on Marx (and Marxist) work on the role of law in capitalism I stress that the
centrality of intellectual property rights to the « new economy ». This suggests we need to
recognise the continuing processes of capitalist commodification, not celebrate a new
epoch of economic organisation. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=AMX_034_0081 |
