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Property: Colonial Histories and Messages to the Future
- Ulrike Bergermann (author)
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| Title | Property |
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| Subtitle | Colonial Histories and Messages to the Future |
| Contributor | Ulrike Bergermann (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.14619/0689 |
| Landing page | https://meson.press/books/property/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ulrike Bergermann |
| Publisher | meson press |
| Publication place | Lüneburg |
| Published on | 2025-10-27 |
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| ISBN | 978-3-95796-068-9 (Paperback) |
| 978-3-95796-069-6 (PDF) | |
| Short abstract | To possess something is to lose something: Starting from this seemingly contradictory claim this essay invokes various registers to defamiliarize the ways in which property structures subjectivity, world relations and affects. Intertwined with colonialism, racism and sexism, concepts of property have found an echo in piracy and “postcolonial copyright.” At the level of theory, a crossing out and a reversal of time are required to undo property-related violence and its mindsets. At the level of artistic practice new modes of appropriation become imaginable. And while the commons will not be restored, multiple modes of having and commoning are possible. |
| Long abstract | To possess something is to lose something: Starting from this seemingly contradictory claim this essay invokes various registers to defamiliarize the ways in which property structures subjectivity, world relations and affects. Intertwined with colonialism, racism and sexism, concepts of property have found an echo in piracy and “postcolonial copyright.” At the level of theory, a crossing out and a reversal of time are required to undo property-related violence and its mindsets. At the level of artistic practice new modes of appropriation become imaginable. And while the commons will not be restored, multiple modes of having and commoning are possible. |
| Print length | 120 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 127 x 178 mm | 5" x 7.01" (Paperback) |
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Contributors
Ulrike Bergermann
(author)Professorin für Medienwissenschaft at Braunschweig University of Art
Ulrike Bergermann (sie/ihr), Professorin für Medienwissenschaft, HBK Braunschweig, Schwerpunke: Gender und Postcolonial Studies. Vita und Publikationen: ulrikebergermann.de, zuletzt: A Side Taken. Relating To Slavery in Octavia Butler’s Kindred, in: Elke Bippus et al. (Hg.), Taking Sides, Bielefeld 2021; Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies, hg. m. Erhard Schüttpelz et al., Zürich 2021.