ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to rework the ways in which new technologies erode the notion of private property. The new information technologies offer new management technologies of control, with the parallel increase of part-time and casual labour. The mimetic capabilities of the new information technologies lead to an even more resounding shattering of tradition. New protocols of computer language now integrate language pertaining to ‘theft’ and ‘private property’. The networked computer user was variously imagined as a high-status Brahmin, or alternatively, metropolitan heterosexual white male, who needed to protect himself from invading armies of lower castes or Black gay migrants, respectively.
