“Imaginary property” is an artistic research project on the halting problem of a society after the spectacle when Guy Debord’s “autonomous movement of the non-living” has become almost trivial but fully embedded in biopolitics. The concept of imaginary property characterises a new regime of ubiquitous image-production which throws into crisis conventional conceptions of the vexed relationship between selfhood and ownership. It can be understood in two directions: the becoming-property of images and the becoming-imaginary of property. The social synthesis of imaginary property oscillates between its two functions: Inasmuch as imaginary property results from a continuity of primitive accumulation, it is a real abstraction. The thing becomes an image by abstracting its use value and subjecting the alienated self to the regime of commodity exchange. But in imaginary property there is also the opposite movement, that of an immersion into the abstract reality of post-cybernetic control: the image becomes a thing due to the extraction of its relational value, while the self shifts from an alienated subject into an empathic object. The commodity fetish meets its double: the fetish of surveillance.