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urn:uuid:95d8caf0-7e55-4cd9-ac52-0b9c88ec791d 03 15 9781685711818 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Works for Works, Book 2 "No Rights" 1 A01 Gavin Keeney Gavin Keeney completed a research doctorate in Architecture at Deakin University, Australia in 2014 on the subject of “Visual Agency in Art and Architecture,” inclusive of the monographs, Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), and Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art and Architecture (Cambridge Scholars, 2014). Post-doctoral publications include Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 1: Radical Scholarship (punctum, 2015), Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 2: The Anti-capitalist Sublime (punctum, 2017), and Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty (punctum, 2022). He has taught and lectured in the US, England, Germany, Slovenia, Australia, and India. Research for Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights” was carried out under the auspices of a PhD in Philosophy at the Postgraduate School, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021–2023, with research on why El Greco is considered a Franciscan artist conducted in Venice, Italy, through a co-funded research fellowship sponsored by the American Philosophical Association’s Berry Fund for Public Philosophy and the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities. 01 eng 00 284 03 23 Capital+Lucre 23 intellectual property 10 POL023000 23 Humanities+University 10 LAW050000 23 moral rights 23 cognitive capitalism 10 PHI001000 23 knowledge commons 23 anti-capitalism 23 political economy 23 philosophy of art 01 06 03 00 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.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. punctum books 01 punctum books 04 01 20260325 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685711801 06 15 9781685711818 06 15 9781685713096 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01