Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The trope of private property may usefully be approached culturally according to its own logic of denial. What is apparently most powerfully denied in the ownership of property is the right of others to take advantage of that property without their being given consent. Among the discursive articulations of this right to exclude are “No Trespassing†and “This [property] is wholly mineâ€. Suchlike speech acts contribute to an economic subjectivity that wishes, above all, to establish personal liberty through the sovereign practice of ownership. This sovereignty, however, is philosophically inconsistent with a market context that demands that one ceaselessly exchange one’s goods and act as “guardian†to the commodity form. The pleasure of denying the market itself access to one’s property is thus continually thwarted. This fact discloses multiple tensions within the logic of political economy.
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Mark Webster Hall| Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
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