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msgid "# Don't come with those tales"
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msgid "> @published 2019/05/05, 20:00 {.published}"
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"I love books. I love them so much that I even decided to make a living from "
"them---probably a very bad career decision. But I can't idealize that love."
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"During school and university I was taught that I should love books. "
"Actually, some teachers made me clear that it was the only way I could get "
"my bachelor's degree. Because books are the main freedom and knowledge "
"device in our shitty world, right? Not loving books is like the will to stay "
"in a cave---hello, Plato. Not celebrating its greatness is just one step to "
"support antidemocratic regimes. And while I was learning to love books, of "
"course I also learn to respect its “creators” and the industry than made it "
"happened."
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"I don't think it is casual that the development of what we mean by book is "
"independent from the developments of capitalism and what we understand by "
"author. Maybe correlation; maybe intersection; but definitely not separates "
"stories."
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"Let's start with a common place: the invention of printing. Yeah, it is an "
"arbitrary and problematic start. We could say that books and authors goes "
"far before that. But what we have in that particularly place in history is "
"the standardization and massification of a practice. It didn't happen from "
"day to night, but little by little all the methodological and technical "
"diversity became more homogeneous. And with that, we were able to made books "
"not as luxury or institutional commodities, but as objects of everyday use."
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"And not just books, but printed text in general. Before the invention of "
"printing, we could barely see text in our surroundings. What surprise me "
"about printing it is not the capacity of production that we reached, but how "
"that technology normalized the existence of text in our daily basis."
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"Newspapers first and now social media relies on that normalization to "
"generate the idea of an “universal” public debate---I don't know if it is "
"actually “public” if almost all popular newspapers and social media "
"platforms are own by corporations and its criteria; but let's pretend it is "
"a minor issue. And public debate supposedly incentivizes democracy."
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"Before Enlightenment the owners of printed text realized its freedom "
"potential. Most churches and kingdoms tried to control it. The Protestant "
"Church first and then the Enlightenment and emerging capitalist enterprises "
"hijacked the control of public debate; specifically who owns the means of "
"printed text production, who decides the languages worthy to print and who "
"sets its main reader."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:46
msgid ""
"Maybe it is a bad analogy but printed text in newspapers, books and journals "
"were so fascinating like nowadays is digital “content” over the Internet. "
"But what I mean is that there were many people who tried to have that "
"control and power. And most of them failed and keep failing."
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"So during 18th century books started to have another meaning. They ceased to "
"be mainly devices of God's or authority's word to be _a_ device of freedom "
"of speech. Thanks to the firsts emerging capitalists we got means for "
"secular thinking. Acts of censorship became evident acts of political "
"restriction instead of acts against sinners."
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msgid ""
"The invention of printing created so big demand of printed text that it "
"actually generated the publishing industry. Self-publishing to satisfy "
"internal institutional demand opened the place to an industry for new "
"citizens readers. A luxury and religious object became a commodity in the "
"“free” market."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:62
msgid ""
"While printed text surpassed almost all restrictions, freedom of speech "
"rised hand-to-hand freedom of enterprise---the debate between Free Software "
"Movement and Open Source Initiative relies in an old and more general "
"debate: how much freedom can we grant in order to secure freedom? But it "
"also developed other freedom that was fastened by religious or political "
"authorities: the freedom to be identify as an author."
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msgid ""
"How we understand authorship in our days depends in a process where the "
"notion of author became more closed to the idea of “creator.” And it is "
"actually a very interesting semantic transfer. _In one way_ the invention of "
"printing mechanized and improved a practice that it was believed to be done "
"with God's help. Trithemius got so horrified that printing wasn't welcome. "
"But with new Spirits---freedoms of enterprise and speech---what was seen "
"even as a demonic invention became one of the main technologies that still "
"defines and reproduces the idea of humanity."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:78
msgid ""
"This opened the opportunity to independent authors. Printed text wasn't "
"anymore a matter of God's or authority's word but a secular and more "
"ephemeral Human's word. The massification of publishing also opened the "
"gates for less relevant and easy-to-read printed texts; but for the "
"incipient publishing industry it didn't matter: it was a way to catch more "
"profits and consumers."
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msgid ""
"Not only that, it reproduces the ideas that were around over and over again. "
"Yes, it growth the diversity of ideas but it also repeated speeches that "
"safeguard the state of things. How much books have been a device of freedom "
"and how much they have been a device of ideological reproduction? That is a "
"good question that we have to answer."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:90
msgid ""
"So authors without religious or political authority found a way to sneak "
"their names in printed text. It wasn't yet a function of property---I don't "
"like the word “function,” but I will use it anyways---but a function of "
"attribution: they wanted to publicly be know as the human who wrote those "
"texts. No God, no authority, no institution, but a person of flesh and bone."
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msgid ""
"But that also meant regular powerless people. Without backup of God or King, "
"who the fucks are you, little peasant? Publishers---a.k.a. printers in those "
"years---took advantage. The fascination to saw a newspaper article about "
"books you wrote is similar to see a Wikipedia article about you. You don't "
"gain directly anything, only reputation. It relies on you to made it "
"profitable."
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msgid ""
"During 18th century, authorship became a function of _individual_ "
"attribution, but not a function of property. So I think that is were the "
"notion of “creator” came out as an ace in the hole. In Germany we can track "
"one of the first robust attempts to empower this new kind of powerless "
"independent author."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:107
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"German Romanticism developed something that goes back to the Renaissance: "
"humans can also _create_ things. Sometimes we forget that Christianity has "
"been also a very messy set of beliefs. The attempt to made a consistent, "
"uniform and rationalized set of beliefs goes back in the diversity of "
"religious practices. So you could accept that printing text lost its "
"directly connection to God's word while you could argue some kind of "
"indirectly inspiration beyond our corporeal world. And you don't have to "
"rationalize it: you can't prove it, you just feel it and know it."
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msgid ""
"So german writers used that as foundations for independent authorship. No "
"God's or authority's word, no institution, but a person inspired by things "
"beyond our world. The notion of “creation” has a very strong religious and "
"metaphysical backgrounds that we can't just ignore them: act of creation "
"means the capacity to bring to this world something that it didn't belong to "
"it. The relationship between authorship and text turned out so imminent that "
"even nowadays we don't have any fucking idea why we accept as common sense "
"that authors have a superior and inalienable bond to its works."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:126
msgid ""
"But before the expansionism of German Romanticism notion of author, writers "
"were seen more as producers that sold their work to the owners of means of "
"production. So while the invention of printing facilitated a new kind of "
"secular and independent author, _in other hand_ it summoned Authorship Fog: "
"“Whenever you cast another Book spell, if Spirits of Printing is in the "
"command zone or on the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Author creature token "
"with flying and indestructible.” As material as a printed card we made magic "
"to grant authors a creative function: the ability to “produce from nothing” "
"and a bond that never dies or changes."
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msgid ""
"Authors as creators is a cool metaphor, who doesn't want to have some divine "
"powers? In the abstract discussion about the relationship between authors, "
"texts and freedom of speech, it is just a perfect fit. You don't have to "
"rely in anything material to grasp all of them as an unique phenomena. But "
"in the concrete facts of printed texts and the publishers abuse to authors "
"you go beyond attribution. You are not just linking an object to a subject. "
"Instead, you are grating property relationships between subject and an "
"object."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:145
msgid ""
"And property means nothing if you can't exploit it. At the beginning of "
"publishing industry and during all 18th century, publishers took advantage "
"of this new kind of “property.” The invention of the author as a property "
"function was the rise of new legislation. Germans and French jurists "
"translated this speech to laws."
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msgid ""
"I won't talk about the history of moral rights. Instead I want to highlight "
"how this gave a supposedly ethical, political and legal justification of "
"_the individualization_ of cultural commodities. Authorship began to be "
"associated inalienably to individuals and _a_ book started to mean _a_ "
"reader. But not only that, the possibilities of intellectual freedom were "
"reduced to a particular device: printed text."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:157
msgid ""
"More freedom translated to the need of more and more printed material. More "
"freedom implied the requirement of bigger and bigger publishing industry. "
"More freedom entailed the expansionism of cultural capitalism. Books "
"switched to commodities and authors became its owners. Moral rights were "
"never about the freedom of readers, but who was the owner of that "
"commodities."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:163
msgid ""
"Books stopped to be sources of oral and local public debate and became "
"private devices for an “universal” public debate: the Enlightenment. "
"Authorship put attribution in secondary place so individual ownership could "
"become its synonymous. A book for several readers and an author as an id for "
"an intellectual movement or institution became irrelevant against a book as "
"property for a particular reader---as material---and author---as speech."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:170
msgid ""
"And we are sitting here reading all this shit without taking to account that "
"ones of the main wins of our neoliberal world is that we have been talking "
"about objects, individuals and production of wealth. Who the fucks are the "
"subjects who made all this publishing shit possible? Where the fucks are the "
"communities that in several ways make possible the rise of authors? For fuck "
"sake, why aren't we talking about the hidden costs of the maintenance of "
"means of production?"
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"We aren't books and we aren't its authors. We aren't those individuals who "
"everybody are gonna relate to the books we are working on and, of course, we "
"lack of sense of community. We aren't the ones who enjoy all that wealth "
"generated by books production but for sure we are the ones who made all that "
"possible. _We are neglecting ourselves_."
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:184
msgid ""
"So don't come with those tales about the greatness of books for our culture, "
"the need of authorship to transfer wealth or to give attribution and how "
"important for our lives is the publishing production."
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"* Did you know that books have been mainly devices of ideological\n"
"  reproduction or at least mainly devices for cultural capitalism---most\n"
"  best-selling books aren't critical thinking books that free\n"
"  our minds, but text books with its hidden curriculum and\n"
"  self-help and erotic books that keep reproducing basic exploitable\n"
"  stereotypes?\n"
"* Did you realize that authorship haven't been the best way\n"
"  to transfer wealth or give attribution---even now more than\n"
"  before authors have to paid in order to be published at the\n"
"  same time that in the practice they lose all rights?\n"
"* Did you see how we keep to be worry about production no matter\n"
"  what---it doesn't matter that it would imply bigger chains\n"
"  of free labor or, as I prefer to say: chains of exploitation\n"
"  and “intellectual” slavery, because in order to be an\n"
"  scholar you have to embrace publishing industry and maybe\n"
"  even cultural capitalism?"
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#: content/md/003_dont_come.js:204
msgid ""
"Please, don't come with those tales, we already reached more fertile fields "
"that can generate way better stories. "
msgstr ""