“Copying means throwing things at the future.” I like that. It sounds pretty aggressive. The future is stupid, let’s throw things at it!

— rasmusfleischer (@rasmusfleischer) april 27, 2012

I started reading Copyriot years ago using Google Translate. Back then, I didn’t have an idea that one day I was going to actually learn Swedish. In fact, Copyriot was the first place I saw Swedish in writing.

Anyway, the blog of Rasmus have always sounded this wild to me. Words aggressively throwing things at the future. And yes, this thanks to the google machine, which is not very accurate but it does the job and also it add its own twist. I didn’t know how accurate or not the google machine was. In fact I learned after a while that sometimes it turns a negation in swedish into an affirmation in english.

The meaning of the posts in Copyriot of course change sometimes through the google machine but yeah copying means throwing things at the future, if not it will be boring.

You can read Rasmus here and a version from the near future here.

getting closr.

finally i can waste my time more collecting digital objects.

I was helping out recently with the final touches of the spanish version of a very cool research (really!) that focus on copyright enforcement, piracy and copy cultures: Media Piracy in Emerging Economies:

“By locating piracy within histories of non-elite media practices, we have tried to avoid definitions of piracy as theft or crime and focus instead on how pirate practices weave into existing social relations while at the same time transforming them.”

So language is power and when it comes to naming phenomena related to culture, internet and copying, the struggle over language has resulted in interesting misuses that has led to labels like pirates, whom i salute!

Those who want to control the way our culture propagate started a very vicious trend years ago by referring to the very normalized practice of copyright infringement as “theft”. There have been many attempts to explain why this is not the case. Many. At this point most people know (even supreme courts!) that infringement does not equal theft — yet there is lot of stuff that makes your eyes bleed and end up distorting the debate.

ENFORCE! is a corrective bookmarklet that force your webpage to refer to copyright infringement, copying, monopoly and culture by its proper names.

*Drag the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and enforce at all times needed!

You wouldn’t steal a car.
You wouldn’t steal a handbag.
You wouldn’t steal a mobile phone.
You wouldn’t steal a DVD.
Downloading pirated films is stealing.
Stealing is against the law.
Piracy: It’s a crime.

Steal the disciplinary code.

Peak 1996. (last century)

A quote from a funny looking book from the epoch (recommended by the Ngram Viewer code):

LOL Already there uh? or just being stuck for years in here? Anyway:

While ago, the heraldries (heraldik) were used as a graphic code to identify people, hierarchies and properties.   Heraldik is a series of works that update the aesthetic of these symbols, using the everyday codes i need to access my building, banking and booking the common space for wash and dry, the Torkrum.

Given the anti-social yet common nature of the swedish Torkrum –  where sharing a space is only enabled by a lock or a code –  i used my slot to retool it as a common-social space for a few hours.

Torkrum is a great ready-to-use white cube!

Also, so good to be back. Thanks to everyone that came to the opening!  More Torkrum exhibitions and documentation coming soon!

While that , book your spot at bokning@torkrum.nu

It´s on.

Then you might want to watch this choreogramme from Psychic Warfare. Use your energy and repeat this attack. It is good (at least) for your psyche.

Enjoy this amazing swedish art my fellow precatariats!