[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Andy Robinson]

This is all rather contradictory...  Nobody ought to block 'free and open'
as a model, but IP should be allowed too...  yet the whole point of IP is to
block 'free and open'.  And the failures of DRM in previous cases, arising
from competition with 'illegal' free distribution, cannot simultaneously be
embraced as consumer choice while their indirect cause is condemned.

But on another point.  No, politics (and economics) is NOT about
'self-interest'.  The rational, egoist *homo oeconomicus* is a demonic
creation of the simplifying gaze of 'royal scientists'.  People aren't
really like this.  A great many societies (such as the Bushmen) show no sign
of this way of seeing at all.  People sometimes approximate to being like
this when they are encouraged to do so, but even then, what they mean by
'self' and 'interest' varies with individuals, psychologies, contexts,
discourses.  People are a wide range of things, among them:
affective/emotional beings, beings with bodies, beings with psychologies,
traumas, neuroses, fantasmatic attachments; language-using and symbol-using
beings, products and creators of discursive systems; and relational
complexes, partly constituted through social and ecological relations.
People do what feels right, or feels necessary, or feels comfortable; they
do what makes sense; and they do what fits with the situation as they
construct it.  Fantasy, ideology, habitus, line of flight, affect, episteme,
character-structure, social logic, subject-position, perspective, standpoint
- all very helpful ways of thinking about motivation.  Interests don't
figure anywhere.
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