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Globalization Without World Order; Intellectual Property and its Discontents
A geopolitical later-Land page that reads globalization through intellectual property, coordination, and the fraying of inherited world-order assumptions.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they give later Land's abstractions a geopolitical scene. World order, trade, and protocol are treated as operational questions through which intelligence and coordination are redistributed across the planet.
Geopolitical prose works here by making systems and territory communicate. China, intellectual property, and cryptocurrency are not topical ornaments but carriers for later-Land questions about protocol, scale, and post-liberal organization.
That matters because the later-Land archive is often read too narrowly through neoreaction alone. These pages keep visible the infrastructural and world-order dimension of the post-Warwick phase.
How to read this text
Read for how the page recasts geopolitical conflict as a problem of protocol, scale, or coordination rather than ordinary statecraft.
Watch where money, trade, or intellectual property become levers for thinking systemic order. That is where the later-Land line becomes most concrete.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Globalization Without World Order: Intellectual Property and its Discontents Author(s): Anna Greenspan, McMaster University In Shanghai, the most dynamic city in the world's fastest growing country, fake DVDs, Prada bags, Armani watches, and Nike shoes are all easily available. Throughout the Chinese mainland — as in the rest of the developing world — there is a thriving market in counterfeit goods.
Definition · paragraph 2
Seen from the perspective of global piracy, then, globalization is not a single world order but a disordered hybrid system in which the formal, legal, above-board economy coexists and feeds off of its shadowy informal twin. This is a pre-print version of Globalization Without World Order: Intellectual Property and its Discontents by Anna Greenspan generated from the Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium.
Definition · paragraph 2
This is a pre-print version of Globalization Without World Order: Intellectual Property and its Discontents by Anna Greenspan generated from the Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium.
Definition · paragraph 1
Bush spoke dramatically of this emerging global phase at the time, calling it "a new world order." The current system of intellectual property (IP) laws belongs to this "new world order." Embedded in such international organizations as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and, more importantly TRIPS — one of the three integral parts of the World Trade Organization (WTO) — IPP (intellectual property protection) now constitutes a single global regime.
Definition · paragraph 2
Most importantly, however, piracy brings down prices of existing goods opening new markets throughout the developing world. The legal economy in both rich and poor counties thus often benefits from the giant worldwide trade in counterfeit goods. Seen from the perspective of global piracy, then, globalization is not a single world order but a disordered hybrid system in which the formal, legal, above-board economy coexists and feeds off of its shadowy informal twin.
Appears in sections
Nick Land After Warwick Primary section
Shanghai, Xenosystems, later reactionary turns, and the post-Warwick afterlife of Land's public writing.