Lawrence Lessig claims that the first instinct when battling infringement of copyright on a large scale has been to wage the so-called "copyright war" against infringement and infringers. Lessig therefore argues that the only way to understand and approach access to and sharing of art is to find the right mix between what he calls law, norms, market and architecture. Law, art, commons, have through this process, become quite literally body-machines, entangled with the human body, nature, its entire so called context. In the collection of essays "Authoritarian Personality" Adorno and Horkheimer assembled texts tracing the becoming of a potentially fascistic individual and in that process, they claimed, the administrated culture that has become commodified plays a pivotal role. To bring together, on a very final note, is the merger of pop culture, politics, struggle and law. The fetishised idea of the artwork as something …

This chapter contests Latour's presumption that attachment and emancipation are irreconcilable. Ultimately, Burke et al. seem to have a suprising faith in the mechanisms of global governance that borders on an endorsement for authoritarianism, and a continued belief in universalism. The greatest challenge the Anthropocene poses isn't that the Department of Defense should plan for resource wars, whether one should put up sea walls to protect Manhattan or whether should abandon Miami. The chapter sets out the version of a 'posthumanist manifesto' which argues for a creaturely politics and promotes a strategy of terraism in which the flourishing of posthuman community might secure political change from the bottom up. This rejects a position of liberalism in which grand calls are made and demands placed on existing international institutions. Terminology such as the Capitalocene, Gynocene or Plantationocene …

The Anthropocene is replete with warnings of imminent dangers to Earth and its inhabitants. For Paul Crutzen, the 'Anthropocene' is an Earth systems emergency on an unprecedented scale; announcing it, a necessary shock tactic. This epoch-naming gives shape to the sense of human calamity in its full magnitude and dimensions and yet it resists being pinned down as a blueprint for resolving crisis. The Anthropocene story captures the fears of the day – the condition of Anthropocenophobia. It elicits a general mood of anticipation, prognosis and precaution. If the prospect of Anthropocene rock was intended as a curfew, it is also a provocation to inhabit Earth differently – in a way that acknowledges Earth system shifts occurring as a result of, and in spite of, human actions.

It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.