Just Do It - Be Neoliberal!
Intellectual theft as a curatorial method
Or: How capitalist exploitation is disguised as a "left-wing" strategy
Open Letter, July 3rd, 2005
( -- Thanks to a lot of friends and colleagues
and to Florian Cramer for an almost instant
English translation ;-) --)
For
> "distributor". If we conduct a bit of research, however, we clearly see
> that artists are far from being unanimous on this question. Many consider
BS.
Creator's position is extremely simple in this regard: any artist can, under
today's legal situation, provide his/her stuff for free. Some do,
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There is nothing beyond happenstance convention which assures a creator
credit, recognition, monetary payment, praise, security from
appropriation. Much, perhaps all, of the argument in the exhortive post
is that used by commercial approriators, thieves and bandits, their
henchpersons and sharks, w
Did anybody else also notice that Al Qaeda likes the number 4? They
always do 4 targets, 4 bombs, 4 airplanes - London, Madrid, New York /
Washington DC. It's like a signature. And there are often references on
attacks coming from East, West, North and South. What do they think they
are? Fifth elem