Conclusion: Social Disintegration and the Privatisation of Knowledge

This final chapter establishes a point of contact with the book’s findings connecting multiple dimensions, thus creating a single thread. The developed notion of totality does not have the pretension to exhaust the topic but simply to forego any claim imposing one-dimensionality into intellectual property as a sufficient condition for its understanding. While intellectual property theory has operated on the realm of metaphysics; in reality, knowledge is not something abstract, independent and metaphysical but a crucial dimension of material life and simultaneously a vital condition for its transformation. While metaphysical fetishism acritically endows validity to private appropriation of knowledge, the high stakes of knowledge production impose the need for an understanding beyond this simplistic worldview.