1. The Author at the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy
Felix Stalder
Zurich University of the Arts
World-Information Institute, Vienna
Former West, HKW, 20.03.2013
felix.openflows.com

3. „With concern and incomprehension we as autors and artists observe the public
attacks on copyright. Copyright is a historic achievement of bourgeois freedom
against feudal dependence and it guarentees the material basis for individual
intellectual creation.“
We are the Orginiators (Wir sind die Urheber)
Die Zeit, 10.05.2012

4. Copyright as field of forces

5. The Gutenberg Galaxy
Marshall McLuhan, 1962

6. Comprehensive historical constellation
pervasive cultural experience:
reading printed material in silence

7. Comprehensive historical constellation
Dominant mode of relating to the world
and to oneself

8. Importance of the inner world
How to relate the inner and the outer world?

9. Remaking the world
linearity / homogeneity / stability
separation of domains
individualism

10. Gutenberg Galaxy
multiple historical configurations
bourgeois regime

14. Historical constellation
multiple reinforcing regimes
unifying assumptions

15. Critique of idealism
Subjectivity is product of society

16. What's new now?
danger from the inside
erosion at the core

17. What's new now?
danger from the inside
erosion at the core

18. Transformation of intellectual labor
generalized
cooperative
precarized

19. Transformation of intellectual labor
experiments in new collectivity
commons

20. Crisis of representation in politics
lack of legitimacy

22. Crisis of representation in politics
non-elected leaders
drop in participation

23. Crisis of representation in politics
experiments in participation
direct democracy
participatory decision making

26. Crisis of autorship
copyright as stablization
structural forces increase tension

27. How will it break?

28. Autors cannot but act.
reactionary positions vs
new models for autors

29. Myth of originality
no beginning
≠ nothing new
≠ swarm intelligence

30. Myth of originality
old and new
personal and collective

31. Uncontroversial
as literary criticism

32. Uncontroversial
as literary criticism

33. highly controversial
as social regime
undermines core assumptions

34. property
individual and collective labor mix

35. subjectivity
constitution of singularity in the network

36. From the Gutenberg galaxy to network society
acts of autoring as basal act of creatig society

37. From the Gutenberg galaxy to network society
acts of autoring as basal act of creatig society

38. Thank you.