externalization, the paper will discuss the dynamics of designers' imagination. Following imagination's dialectics between internalization and. At the same time, a key insight of Romanticism was that imagination has to be externalized in a medium if it is to have any effect. as an origin of a limitless and boundary-crossing mental activity that can lead to radically new creations. Since Romanticism, imagination has been praised as a locus for human creativity, i.e. In this book David and Halbert map the rise of global IP protectionism, debunk the key justifications given for IPRs, dismiss the arguments put forward for global extension and harmonization and suggest that roll–back, suspension, and even simply the bi–passing of IP in practice offer better solutions for promoting innovation and meeting human needs. Globalization, the affordances of digital networks, and contradiction within capitalism itself – between private property and free markets – promote and undo global IP expansion. However, this roll–out has not been without resistance and limitations. Post–Cold War global network capitalism is premised upon regulatory structures designed to enforce deregulation in global markets and production, but at the same time to enforce global regulation of property and intellectual property in particular.

In principle, ideas cannot be owned, yet, undoing the distinction between ideas and tangible manifestations, the distinction which underpins the principle, allows the principle to hold even whilst its meaning is hollowed out. Yet, in very real and significant ways these limits have been undone. Formally, ownership of ideas is legally impossible, and can never be globally secured.

Gothic Nightmares by Martin Myrone