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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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(lit: nobody's thing) derived from private Roman law whereby res (an object in the legal sense, anything that can be owned, even a slave, but not a subject in law such as a citizen nor land) is not yet the object of rights of any specific subject

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res nullius



Global capitalism tends to reduce the commons to res nullius which in Roman law designates anything that can be owned [...] but which is not yet the object of the rights of any specific subject--such things are considered ownerless property, 'free to be owned'.

—p.110 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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