ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 explores the idea of entanglement via property theory by questioning concepts of spatial boundaries as a boundary for property. As the chapter exemplifies, property in digitized settings is generally coded via a platform-logics that disrupts Western liberal assumptions of spaces while drawing other bodies together. In performing such a role of drawing bodies together, property can also be considered as actively creating entanglements, or belongings, rather than just defining narrow rights of ownership control of different elements (whether formalized or not, as discussed in Chapter 4). This understanding of property moves from the person–thing divide towards a control of both locating parts in networks, as well as how they can be conceived of as whole assemblages of bodies. As discussed here, posthuman property when appearing in this shape is both a spatial form of property that produces architectural control points for bodies to access and disconnect, as well as changing spaces of community and privacy. Furthermore, the chapter paves the way for further elaboration of the affective aspects of such governance of the interface between bodies, to be further explored in the final theme of ethics.
