Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)

@mikael Some kind of talkshow on cultural topics
https://www.svtplay.se/cyklopernas-land

Yesterday, the poet Elis Burreau appeared on Swedish prime-time television and I gotta translate this weird part:

"Here comes a few dreams which I have written down using the Surrealist technique of automatic writing.
I dreamt that Rasmus Fleischer was very satisfied with his portrayal in the 'The Pirate Bay' tv series."
#surrealism #thepiratebay

Including a new Steve Reich mashup at 30:00!

https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/rococo-sunbursts?si=a99aed88a4ce43e198d62238330b8bae&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing#t=30%3A00

@muellertadzio snygg bild!

broken beat, medieval kraut, acid dub, jazz techno etc (80 min mix)

https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/rococo-sunbursts

Looked interesting but now I must add that several articles hold such a terribly low standard, typically just heaps of empirical accounts (sometimes correct) of file-sharing history, with some added "big record companies bad" and "capitalism very bad", yet totally liberal arguments like "piracy has nothing to do with stealing" and "piracy doesn't even hurt the bad bad music industry" (implying that subversion is impossible, only moralizing left). It's a painful read (with some exceptions).

"In this essay, we argue that even as the generative AI hype bubble slowly deflates, its harmful effects will last: carbon can't be put back in the ground, workers continue to face AI’s disciplining pressures, and the poisonous effect on our information commons will be hard to undo."
https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/watching-the-generative-ai-hype-bubble-deflate/

Vox Vulgaris invites everybody to an online pre-listening party this Sunday:
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/merch/pre-listening-party-early-music-for-late-humanity

"Early Music for Late Humanity"
Vox Vulgaris' second album, to be released next week, now up with liner notes, available for pre-order on Bandcamp:
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-music-for-late-humanity
#earlymusic #music #medieval #medievalmusic

@Commodore1351 I agree, basically. In most areas Wagenknecht rather appears like a centrist.

More importantly, I think that the Querfront should not be thought in a horseshoe way, but as a politics taking up elements from right, left AND centre.

Swedish news media keeps presenting Sahra Wagenknecht as a "left-wing radical". Like today, when Dagens Nyheter published a rather long political portrait of Wagenknecht. Nothing wrong with the text in itself: while it (reasonably) labels BSW as a "left-wing party", it does not present it as "radical" but rather makes clear that most of Wagenknecht's politics is rather centrist.

Nevertheless, Dagens Nyheter added the word "left-wing radical" both in the title AND the lead paragraph.

This really demonstrates a kind of centrist logic, unable to think that pro-Putinism can occur not only at the political "extremes" but in the centre as well.
(This should really be an obvious insight if one just looks back 20 years in German history.)
#germany #bsw #putin #centrism

The journal Fast Capitalism just published a special section on #Napster's 25th anniversary containing no less than ten articles. Looks interesting:
https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/issue/view/33
#p2p #filesharing #piracy #mediastudies #musicindustry #criticaltheory

A new article by Andy Woodhouse, applying #Pashukanis' commodity-form theory of law to EU #climate #law:
"Commodity-form theory of law, the climate crisis, and the European Union"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20414005.2024.2399989 (open access)
#marxism #criticaltheory #eulaw

"...but he never exhaled" 🪈

Imagine, for a minute, that you:

1) still go to live music shows
2) go to a live music show in a suburb of the major metropolitan city in your area featuring a band that was big enough that you were willing to drive a little while to be there
3) arrive to find that the opening act is a 17 year old, and he's surprisingly good
4) find at the merch table that this band that you love has a printed catalog of music they recommend, along with prices and mailing addresses, and you can just ship an envelope with $10 in it (or however much tapes cost in 1988) and a few days later a tape would show up at your house, recommended to you by the band that you had just paid money to see.

I spent a *lot* of time in the modern DIY music scene. I ran a venue for several years. I still book shows.

I've almost never seen anything approaching that level of solidarity from modern artists. They have websites and bandcamps and instagram feeds where they share posts from "the homies" and they'll talk about "the homies" but they aren't taking the time to collate and curate the info. They depend on spotify for discovery. They get fucked.

Yes. This is a depiction of me in the new "fictional" tv series The Pirate Bay.

(The comment is not written by me but by another person in the band.)

Anna's Archive: "The critical window of shadow libraries"
https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
"Unfortunately, the advent of LLMs, and their data-hungry training, has put a lot of copyright holders on the defensive. Even more than they already were. Many websites are making it harder to scrape and archive, lawsuits are flying around, and all the while physical libraries and archives continue to be neglected.
We can only expect these trends to continue to worsen, and many works to be lost well before they enter the public domain.
We are on the eve of a revolution in preservation, but 'the lost cannot be recovered'. We have a critical window of about 5-10 years during which it’s still fairly expensive to operate a shadow library and create many mirrors around the world, and during which access has not been completely shut down yet."
#piracy #shadowlibraries #archives #librarians

“I still like copying. Just let them copy me, let them show what kind of copies they are able to make – and we will show them once again how we copy,” Rasmus adds.

https://torrentfreak.com/key-pirate-bay-figures-dont-recognize-themselves-in-tv-series/
#thepiratebay

presenting the most heavily syncopated music right now:
https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/novembertechno
#broken #techno #dubtechno #breaks #140 #150

Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/

"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated ... And I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for the—for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads"... 🤪