How can art and culture help reshape our understanding of ownership?

• How can art and culture help reshape our understanding of ownership? If ‘ownership’ is one of the underlying power dynamics of our times that can either create or block possibilities for rebalancing our relationship with technology, the planet, and one another, what new alliances and experiments are necessary to shift beyond it?
• How can new conceptions of ownership move the dominant culture toward a more entangled notion of the human? How might devising and building new systems of organising responsibility, such as self-owning entities and peer-to-peer accountability, deepen or accelerate this shift?
• How did art itself come to be subsumed in the logic of asset speculation? How have different artists embraced or resisted this historically, and how have their efforts fared culturally and aesthetically? From accelerationist embrace of speculation to new strategies of resistance, how are artists grappling with this question today?
• What does it mean to maintain an intellectual or creative “commons” in a world where the most powerful actors cannot be prevented from extracting the lion’s share of the value from the commons, such as through foundation models?
• The asymmetric control of information in the digital economy presents a puzzle for traditional ownership as well as those interested in remaking it. New forms of informational power function like property in many respects, yet are protected primarily by cryptography, not state power. Does the reduced state role in underwriting these forms of informational power present a roadblock or an opportunity?
• The experimental model of ‘partial common ownership’ promises to instantiate a fluid, efficient mode of sharing power over assets without privileging the interests of financial owners. Might it serve as an important building block for post-ownership institutions?