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		<title>Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/orchestral-manoeuvres-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two major problems still facing us, regardless of how much we praise amateur forms of cultural production and organisation: (1) the ability to uphold a mode of production that is not only restricted to afternoons and evenings, and (2) the ability to reach out to more people than only those closely concerned. Both of these require economic muscle and structural support that is no longer there, at least not in the same way. Are all cultural producers now forced to become entrepreneurs?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=419&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The decade in popular music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some observations of stylistic and aesthetic formations during these last ten years: The Daft Punkization of mainstream hip-hop and R'n'B; the undettling beat aesthetics of "wonky"; the "hardcore continuum", dubstep and UK funky; "manifest destiny" hip-hop as well as autotune reigning supreme on the charts; and the seemingly inevitable eternal retro and relative musical segregation that hipster ephemera seems to entail...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=373&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A re &#8220;pirate politics&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some general clarifications of the notion of "pirate politics" on a national scale, and how this relates to traditional parliamentary and lobbyist structures. This Q&#38;A is loosely based on my observations as both a researcher of p2p/filesharing/digitization and as a Swedish citizen and cultural commentator.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=406&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I fought a loudness war</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A closer look at the aesthetical implications in the current "loudness war"; the fact that the music we listen to is produced to be as maximised as possible, in terms of loudness (by means of extreme compression and make-up gain). How did we end up here? How does it illustrate the struggle between objective notions of beauty and the trappings of collective herd behaviour?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=393&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pitchfork&#8217;s social history of the mp3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pitchfork is publishing an interesting sociological history of the mp3, taking up several of the strands discussed on my blog, especially the notion of "convergence culture" and the compression of time and space inherent to digitisation, with mp3s short-cutting old structures of distribution as if it were.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=365&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Bay: Two important speculations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The move to sell The Pirate Bay appears to be part of a greater manoeuvre, that the men behind site have hinted about in various forms over the last year. Although a situation like this can give rise to a lot of speculation, it is therefore important to note two things. That the site will soon decentralize and stop running a BitTorrent tracker of its own, and that this move becomes a potentially useful detachment of the site/trademark/venture from its founders.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=357&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Bay: Commercial acquisition in a media-historic perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 30th, 2009, The Pirate Bay announced that they are to sell their trademark and website to the Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X, with the proviso that said company can raise the 60 million SEK (€5,5 million) needed. If it is true that the purchase will come to pass, it will be a very interesting development. Here are two quick observations, rooted in media history.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=352&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1999 &gt; 1968 ?</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/1999-1968/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While sharing some similarities with the counterculture of 1968, the roots of today's online political mobilisation are primarily found in the digital revolution of 1999. The politics of the net thus contain the potential remedy to its own populism; it is more of an us-against-us than an us-against-them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=327&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The supposed link between unrestricted file-sharing and declining CD sales</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-supposed-link-between-unrestricted-file-sharing-and-declining-cd-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the link between file-sharing and falling CD sales, there are various studies having different conclusions. A general conclusion is that CD sales started dropping simultaneously as unregulated file-sharing began to rise. However, a direct causal link is hard to establish, since there are so many other factors that could serve as an explanation to this drop.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=297&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Bay: The verdict marks the beginning of the &#8220;post-piratical&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/the-pirate-bay-the-verdict-marks-the-beginning-of-the-post-piratical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw a guilty verdict against all four prosecuted in the Pirate Bay trial, but this will be appealed and most likely go all the way to Sweden’s equivalent of the Supreme Court. The ruling symbolises how we are in the middle of a conflict between law and the new realities of the Internet, says media researcher Jonas Andersson.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=291&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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