Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s<br />
ics. The separation is only possible in the forms of a tax-evasion strategy and an<br />
illegitimate fiction. This occurs because the sovereign mechanism implies that the<br />
fictitious, immortal body of the company as a thing (in quantum rex) is separated<br />
from the natural, mortal body of the worker as a man (in quantum homo).<br />
The legal entity — the company, the State — on the one hand is opposed to the<br />
individual (the worker, the subject, the citizen) and, on the other hand, affirms the<br />
perennial of the public matters (res publica: the Treasury). The public matter which<br />
coincides with the immortal figure of sovereignty is precisely the public fund (the<br />
Treasury) and, in turn, the people it governs: the people and the Treasury never die!<br />
The status of the legal entity (a thing) is directly linked to the Treasury (the<br />
State’s patrimony), and that is something that does not belong to anybody (res nullius).<br />
We have here the two elements of the informality situation shammed by forged<br />
invoices or by the precarious status of the self-employed workers: firstly, the living<br />
work does not allow any partition on its vital praxis — which is affective, linguistic,<br />
and communicational —, with respect to the instrumental action that is objectified<br />
in the image of manual labor subordinated to the system of machines; secondly, the<br />
ownership of the resources mobilized and produced by this work does not fit the<br />
“public vs. private” traditional divide.<br />
As the movement for copyleft and free software indicates, the scope of action<br />
for contemporary work, as well as for cultural production, is not anymore defined<br />
as res nullius, but as something that belongs to all: commons! The horizon of Human<br />
Rights is precisely that of the construction of the right to something that belongs to<br />
everyone because it belongs to everyone: the rights of the commons.<br />
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and Renaissance Theoris of Art (1961). tradução francesa, in KANTORO-<br />
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Paris, p.51.<br />
LEVI, Primo. É Isto um Homem?. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1988.<br />
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