{"id":37115,"date":"2012-04-26T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/even-for-one-such-as-me-who-could-just-placidly-go\/"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:39:15","slug":"even-for-one-such-as-me-who-could-just-placidly-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/even-for-one-such-as-me-who-could-just-placidly-go\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>even for one such as me who could just placidly go along ignoring this whole fuss, I actually have a very powerful motive for throwing everything I have, rhetorically, passionately, emotionally onto the side of the copyleft, and the reason being that the other side tells a lie about what artists do and how they really think and feel and thrive. And also, there is a risk for every artist of damage being done not just to the ethos of how art is made, but to the actual traditions and behaviors. If more and more people really buy into this image of the Promethean isolated creator who\u2019s only legitimate because he invents out of nothing \u2014 and it really informs the culture and the laws and the way art is taught and the way art is received \u2014 it\u2019s propagating a dangerous befuddlement about how we really go about things. We\u2019re in a really messy area. We pick stuff up and we fool around with it and it\u2019s stuff. It\u2019s stuff that\u2019s around us. Some of it is owned, in some sense, by someone else and some of it isn\u2019t, and sometimes we don\u2019t even know, and sometimes we\u2019re doing it half consciously. And we must. We must do all of these things. There\u2019s no other possibility<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2012\/apr\/26\/jonathan-lethem\/\">Rhizome | A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jomc.tumblr.com\/\">jomc<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>even for one such as me who could just placidly go along ignoring this whole fuss, I actually have a very powerful motive for throwing everything I have, rhetorically, passionately, emotionally onto the side of the copyleft, and the reason being that the other side tells a lie about what artists do and how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9ED","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}