1. The Author at the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy Felix StalderZurich University of the ArtsWorld-Information Institute, Vienna Former West, HKW, 20.03.2013 felix.openflows.com

2. With concern and incomprehension we as autors and artists observe the public attacks on copyright. Copyright is a historic achievement of bourgeois freedomagainst feudal dependence and it guarentees the material basis for individualintellectual creation.We are the Orginiators (Wir sind die Urheber)Die Zeit, 10.05.2012 3. Copyright as field of forces 4. The Gutenberg GalaxyMarshall McLuhan, 1962 5. Comprehensive historical constellation pervasive cultural experience: reading printed material in silence 6. Comprehensive historical constellationDominant mode of relating to the world and to oneself 7. Importance of the inner worldHow to relate the inner and the outer world? 8. Remaking the worldlinearity / homogeneity / stability separation of domainsindividualism 9. Gutenberg Galaxymultiple historical configurationsbourgeois regime 10. Historical constellation multiple reinforcing regimes unifying assumptions 11. Critique of idealismSubjectivity is product of society 12. Whats new now?danger from the inside erosion at the core 13. Whats new now?danger from the inside erosion at the core 14. Transformation of intellectual labor generalized cooperative precarized 15. Transformation of intellectual laborexperiments in new collectivity commons 16. Crisis of representation in politicslack of legitimacy 17. Crisis of representation in politics non-elected leaders drop in participation 18. Crisis of representation in politicsexperiments in participationdirect democracy participatory decision making 19. Crisis of autorship copyright as stablizationstructural forces increase tension 20. How will it break? 21. Autors cannot but act.reactionary positions vs new models for autors 22. Myth of originalityno beginning nothing new swarm intelligence 23. Myth of originality old and newpersonal and collective 24. Uncontroversial as literary criticism 25. Uncontroversial as literary criticism 26. highly controversialas social regimeundermines core assumptions 27. propertyindividual and collective labor mix 28. subjectivityconstitution of singularity in the network 29. From the Gutenberg galaxy to network societyacts of autoring as basal act of creatig society 30. From the Gutenberg galaxy to network societyacts of autoring as basal act of creatig society 31. Thank you.