Libre Society
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The Libre Society is a radical
artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. The Libre Society released a manifesto
, called the Libre Manifesto
, as its call to action.
The Libre Society has been inspired by the copyleft
movement, the 1960s Situationists and writers such as Antonio Negri
, Gilles Deleuze
, Michel Foucault
, Karl Marx
, Carl Schmitt
and Friedrich Nietzsche
. Set up by artist
s and intellectual
s, it rejects art as merely objects to be bought and sold and instead reaffirms art as liberating, transformatory and emancipatory.
Copy Rip Burn is a touring show of work and art around created and inspired by the Libre Manifesto.
Libre Culture is an international libre publishing collaboration between Pygmalion Books (Canada) and the Libre Society (UK). This book of essays and articles (written by the authors of the "Libre Manifesto") was first published in October 2007 and is available for free directly from the publisher.
Radicalization
Radicalization is the process in which an individual changes from passiveness or activism to become more revolutionary, militant or extremist. Radicalization is often associated with youth, adversity, alienation, social exclusion, poverty, or the perception of injustice to self or others.-...
artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. The Libre Society released a manifesto
Manifesto
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds. Manifestos may also be life stance-related.-Etymology:...
, called the Libre Manifesto
Libre Manifesto
The Libre Manifesto is a manifesto calling for art and culture to recognise and reject the movement towards commodification and capitalism. Written by the Libre Society, it is an open call to sharing art, music and literature....
, as its call to action.
The Libre Society has been inspired by the copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
movement, the 1960s Situationists and writers such as Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...
, Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
, Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
, Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
, Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, and professor of law.Schmitt published several essays, influential in the 20th century and beyond, on the mentalities that surround the effective wielding of political power...
and Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
. Set up by artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s and intellectual
Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...
s, it rejects art as merely objects to be bought and sold and instead reaffirms art as liberating, transformatory and emancipatory.
Activities
Libre Commons Licenses have been launched which are expressly political in nature and attempt to counter the anodyne Creative Commons licenses which have been criticised for being too friendly to the content industries.Copy Rip Burn is a touring show of work and art around created and inspired by the Libre Manifesto.
Libre Culture is an international libre publishing collaboration between Pygmalion Books (Canada) and the Libre Society (UK). This book of essays and articles (written by the authors of the "Libre Manifesto") was first published in October 2007 and is available for free directly from the publisher.