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Badiou's ethics and free software revolution

The paper relates Badiou‟s critique of present- day ethics with the question of intellectual property in the Internet era. The aim is to emphasize the difference between normative conceptions of human rights and the concept of knowledge, as well as to analyze common conceptions of human rights as limited by the ethics of capitalist-liberalism. The paper will elaborate on the Free Software Revolution that emerged from development of production forces (development of digital media and the Internet) as one of the deepest conflicts within capitalism today. Although Badiou doesn‟t elaborate on any technologies as possible impellers of the revolution, the paper argues that such interpretation is possible, at least from the stand point of revolutionary Marxism. The paper will examine the idea of free software using the concept of “general intellect” introduced in Karl Marx‟s Grundrisse.

Badiou ; ethics ; free software

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