Digital media allows for new forms of collaboration and networked modes of cooperation locally and globally; not only in distributed production chains or the field of software development but also in the arts and culture. Collective action that intervenes in processes and flows of signs and sounds becomes more relevant than past models of isolated genius. Practices that draw on technical intelligence and diverse skills are necessarily based on cooperation. What are critical cultural practices in a fluid field of Network society beyond the obsolete 19th century model of the individual author and the aura of the fetish object? What means authorship in the regime of the creative imperative after “the death of the author”?

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