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Disembedding from Psycho-Urban Containment
by Ewen Chardronnet
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Preserving the Commons in the New Information Order
by David Bollier
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Champions of the market have long assumed that there are really only two sectors for governing the world – markets and the state. Markets are supposed to be the vehicle for economic progress while governments take care of everything else, including the excesses of the market. [Read] |
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Remember: Mimesis is a Form Of Creativity
About Music and Equal Opportunities in the Era of the Digital Sample , by Mercedes Bunz
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It is not by chance, that "Get your freak on" from Missy Elliott was among the most sampled pieces of Bastard Pop or Bootlegging, the musical genre that did rise as the hype of summer 2002 and went straight out of the computer, into the internet and up in the charts. [Read] |
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The Emperor's Sword: Art under WIPO
by Brian Holmes
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Two white-marble busts have been placed in the corners of the conference room at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. A couple of ancient Greeks. On the left is Aristotle, with an inscription: "The method of investigation is to study things in the process of development from the beginning." So it's a decent start anyway. But on the right is Alexander the Great: "The brave man sees no end to his efforts for good works." [Read] |
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The Right to Read
by Richard Stallman
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For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan. [Read] |
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Please, Pirate My Songs!
by Ignacio Escolar
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I’m a lucky musician. My group has just scraped sales of
15,000 copies of our first album. In a world where Enrique
Iglesias can sell six million CDs singing as he does , this
modest sum isn’t too much to write home about. [Read] |
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Biopiracy: Need to Change Western IPR Systems
by Vandana Shiva
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The patents on the anti-diabetic properties of ‘karela’, ‘jamun’ and brinjal highlight the problem of biopiracy - the patenting of indigenous biodiversity-related knowledge. [Read] |
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Is art suitable for political argumentation?
An interview with Oliver Ressler
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The work of the Austrian artist Oliver Ressler mainly focuses on socio-political issues. With World-Information.Org he spoke about globalization, genetic engineering, and the connection between art and politics. [Read] |
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Post-electoral Yugoslavia
An interview with Zoran Pantelic/Association Apsolutno
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Zoran Pantelic is a member of the artist group Apsolutno, which was founded in 1993 in Novi Sad. After his dialog tour at the World-Information exhibition in Vienna, he spoke about the current political situation in Yugoslavia. [Read] |
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"A creative virtuality is closely related to affordable spaces"
An interview with Geert Lovink
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The Dutch media theorist and activist on the role of artistic practice in the digital sphere, the need of "Cultural Intelligence" and the overestimation of technology.
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A Game for Love and Fascism
by Keisuke Oki
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"Fascism today will not be the same as fascism in the past." [Read] |
DIGITAL ECOLOGY
