Posthuman Property and Law: Commodification and Control through Information, Smart Spaces and Artificial Intelligence

This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors.

The book addresses the increasingly porous border between personhood and property in digitized settings and considers how the increased commodification of knowledge makes visible a rupture in the liberal concept of the property owning, free, person. Engaging with the latest work in posthumanist and new materialist theory, it shows, how property as a concept as well as a means for control, changes fundamentally under advanced capitalism. Such change is exemplified by the way in which data, as an object of commodification, is extracted from human activities yet is also directly used to affectively control - or nudge - humans. Taking up a range of human engagements with digital platforms and coded architectures, as well as the circulation of affects through practices of artificial intelligence that are employed to shape behaviour, the book argues that property now needs to be understood according to an ecology of human as well as nonhuman actors. The idea of posthuman property, then, offers both a means to critique property control through digital technologies, as well as to move beyond the notion of the self-owning, object-owning, human.

Engaging the most challenging contemporary technological developments, this book will appeal to researchers in the areas of Law and Technology, Legal Theory, Intellectual Property Law, Legal Philosophy, Sociology of Law, Sociology, and Media Studies.

本書分析了數位媒體財產的現象，並考慮了它如何使人類和非人類角色之間的界線變得模糊不清。

本書探討了數位化環境中人格和財產之間日益模糊的邊界，並考慮了知識商品化的增加如何顯示了自由財產擁有者的自由概念中的斷裂。通過參與後人類主義和新物質主義理論的最新研究，本書展示了在先進資本主義下，財產作為一個概念和控制手段如何從根本上發生變化。這種變化的例子是數據作為商品化對象如何從人類活動中提取，同時也直接用於情感控制或引導人類。本書探討了人類與數位平台和編碼架構的各種互動，以及通過人工智能實踐中的情感流通來塑造行為的方式，並主張財產現在需要根據人類和非人類角色的生態學來理解。因此，後人類財產的概念既提供了批判通過數位技術對財產控制的手段，也超越了自我擁有、物體擁有的人類觀念。

本書涉及最具挑戰性的當代技術發展，將吸引法律與技術、法律理論、知識產權法、法律哲學、法律社會學、社會學和媒體研究領域的研究人員。