Keeney, Gavin2026-04-072026-04-072026-03-2597816857118019781685711818978168571309695d8caf0-7e55-4cd9-ac52-0b9c88ec791dhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0512.1.00https://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/950Publication status: ACTIVE<p><p>Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights,” privileges works-based agency (praxis) in literary-artistic scholarship. The principal focus of the Franciscan-inspired embrace of a “no rights” status for works of literary-artistic scholarship is toward freeing both author and works from forms of technocratic determinism and neo-utilitarianism associated with regimes of intellectual property rights law and platform cultures. Engaging, and then dispensing with, the concept of “the artistic exception,” a holdover from modernist justifications for art in/for itself, Works for Works nonetheless restores the primacy of the work itself through disconnecting author and work toward a transfiguration of both author and work and the substantiation of a new ecosystem for radical works of artistic-critical inquiry.</p><p>Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights,” follows upon Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty (2022), a structuralist-inspired survey and exposé of the immanentist paradox artist-scholars inhabit in the post-contemporary transition from modernist and post-modernist reflexivity to forms of cultural production that favor no singular raison d’être or socio-cultural, socio-economic, or socio-political bias.</p></p>Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/LAW050000PHI001000POL023000ABAKCPLNRCapital+LucreHumanities+Universityanti-capitalismcognitive capitalismintellectual propertyknowledge commonsmoral rightsphilosophy of artpolitical economyhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f332026-04-07