Collection of pieces as described in the title; most felt pretty familiar—tragic irony or poetic justice? (Get the reference?) Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence is a nice reprint, but I liked Eva Hemmungs Wirtén’s “Visualizing Copyright, Seeing Hegemony: Toward a Meta-Critique of Intellectual Property” best, because she points out the persistent gendering of anti-enclosure, copyright restrictionist accounts of creativity, which routinely feature a male artist suppressed by corporate copyright—Larry Lessig uses multiple examples of creativity threatened by intellectual property rights, all of which feature men. This just reinstates the gendered vision of the individual genius, now as innovator/activist/hacker. She asks: “why is it that the exclusionary narrative of male individuality and originality are part of the problem when it comes to intellectual property and ‘authorship,’ and part of the solution when it comes to the public domain and ‘creativity’?” Of course, being in media fandom means that my experience of transformative creativity is very gendered in the opposite direction, and I try to do my part to put women’s experiences into the mix, so to speak. ( )