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Everything Old Is New Again—Or Is It?

Extending the analytical frame and the metaphor of the double movement, this chapter frames the emergence of informational capitalism in terms of three large-scale shifts that together constitute the movement toward informational capitalism: the propertization (or enclosure) of intangible resources, the dematerialization and datafication of the basic factors of industrial production, and the embedding (and rematerialization) of patterns of barter and exchange within information platforms. Against that background, it explores the shifting, emergent relationships between control of intangible intellectual resources and political economy. In particular, it highlights ways in which data and algorithms have become the subjects of active appropriation strategies—strategies that represent both economic and legal entrepreneurship.