posted on 30.10.08 Autumn talk, part 4: The method of Kopimi

• Autumn talk, part 1: Why copyright is now about tools, not works
• Autumn talk, part 2: Bass and place, meaning and abundance
• Autumn talk, part 3: Greyzone communities
• Autumn talk, part 4: The method of Kopimi
• Autumn talk, part 5: Afterthoughts

The anxious search for a solution might be necessary to trigger the process of moving on. But at a certain point the process always demands that this anxiety is unconditionally left behind. Now our main task can’t any more be to give more answers, to create more “content”, or to invent fresh business models. Much more relevant than drawing up blueprints for how stuff should work in the future, is to here and now try out new ways to put all existing content into context. The general problem is abundance, not scarcity. What counts in the end is action, not access. We are co-developing a method known as kopimi. It is about affirming the will to copy and to be copied. It is about accepting copying as something active and selective, not just a repetition of the same. It is, at the same time, about exploring that which can not be copied, that which slips away, and to enjoy it as it slips away. It is about valuing the very process of copying, while recognizing that no copy will be identical. Mutations always happens when as a copy is connected to another place and another time. Kopimi is an imperative – copy me! – not a theory. Thus it has no real origin, but is said to have emerged from a dance. When it is defined, it is always by means of selecting and copying definitions of other phenomena, letting these definitions mutate. That kind of processes is probably the only “alternative” to copyright that kopimi can propose – an alternative not for individual “artists”, but for artistic practice at large. Of course, answers will be formulated, “content” will be created, and business models will be invented. Don’t worry. From the perspective of kopimi, however, this comes merely as a side-effect to something much more crucial: The quest for ways to integrate the infinite abundance of information into our finite lives.

posted on 07.09.08 Friendship advice (re-remix)

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I’m 15, and i absolutely love this girl i know! We are really good friends and get on fine, but I get the feeling she would never want to be with me. She just came out of a 2 year relationship, and still keeps good contact with her ex.

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In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love, by some regional or family relationship, professional cooperation, ideological solidarity, or erotic attraxtion, is friendship. What do they say about it. The aim of this text is to develop a theory of the relationship. Even if you’re not moving, things may change close to home – like a job or relationship - and you find yourself in need of some new gal pals to hang out with. So, here’s a little girlfriendology advice… Theory is only you!

Yay, a young man who mistook his wife as their dogs bled to death. My advice to her is, to stick it out and see what comes of it. Like I said, if you ask yourself the questions and can’t answer them honestly to yourself. Consider taking a step back and think hard about your relationship. In addition, being a true friend is a good way to solve relationship problems. It’s difficult to change other people, but you can always change yourself. You can then solve the otherwise unsolved problems in relationships.

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This was a remix of the content of a search-engine-optimizing site which used parts of The institutionalization of friendship (S23M remix), plus some inserts from omniHAL.

posted on 07.09.08 Chronica Regiae Coloniensis (remixed) on S23M

“In this year occurred an outstanding thing and one much to be marveled at, for it is unheard of throughout the ages. About the time of Midsummer, without anyone having preached or called for it and prompted by I know not what spirit, twenty-three boys and girls, ranging in age from twenty-three years to full maturity, left the computers which they were operating, the workplaces at which they were labouring, and anything else which they were doing. This they did despite the wishes of their parents, relatives, and friends who sought to make them draw back. Suddenly one ran after another to take the flag of Kopimi. Thus, by a group of twenty-three, they put up banners and began to journey to Manifesta. They were asked by many people on whose advice or at whose urging they had set out upon this path. They were asked especially since only a few years ago many artists, a great many art-fuckers, and innumerable people in powerful companies had gone there and had returned with the business unfinished. The present group, morever, were still of tender years and were neither strong enough nor powerful enough to do anything. Everyone, therefore, accounted them foolish and imprudent for trying to do this. They briefly replied that they were equal to will of Kopimi in this matter and that, whatever might happen to them, they would accept it willingly and with humble spirit.”

Source: Chronica Regiae Coloniensis (1213) on the “Children’s Crusade” of 1212 (slightly remixed).