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Tables of Contents for The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties
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Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Authoring Culture
1
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
41
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
88
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
Aboriginal Title
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