The Biopolitical Public Domain: the Legal Construction of the Surveillance Economy
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The legal fiction that land inhabited for millennia was terra nullius and thus available for exploitation without legal interference has strong parallels today.
“But, as Julie Cohen (2017) points out, the legal fiction that land inhabited for millennia (such as the territory now known as Australia) was terra nullius or 'no man's land' in English law, and thus available for exploitation without legal interference, has its strong parallels today.”
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- Authors
- Cohen, J. E.
- Affiliations
- Georgetown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cohen, Julie E.
- Venue
- Philosophy & Technology
- Published
- 2017-03-28
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 213-233
- ISSN
- 2210-5433 (ISSN-L)
- 2210-5441
- OpenAlex
- W3124989038
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 46 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 8.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
- Locations
- Philosophy & Technology (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- The scholarly Commons (Georgetown) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Keywords
- surveillance economy, biopolitics, public domain, personal data, data extraction, information capitalism, legal construction, knowledge production, legal privileges, networked information environment
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