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The Cost of Freedom is a book that was written in Pourrières, France from November 2nd to 6th. This book is not a statement about freedom and culture — it is a primal scream — the sum of our questions and desires. It is the raw expression of our lives. It talks about what is ultimately made through the dream of free culture: us.
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<h5 class="center"><small>This book is dedicated to Bassel Khartabil Sadafi, loved and celebrated Internet volunteer detained in Syria since March 15, 2012, and to all those who will recognize themselves in the stories told in these pages.</small></h5>
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<p>Bassel Khartabil, detained in Syria since March 15, 2012. Please visit <a href="http://freebassel.org">freebassel.org</a> and sign this <a href="https://www.change.org/p/immediate-release-of-bassel-safadi-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AF%D9%8A-freebassel">petition</a>
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<p>Freedom comes with many costs, not least responsibility. Social, psychological, financial, bodily, emotional: known and unknown costs, often to bystanders, turn any strategy to gain and protect freedom into an ambiguous quest. Sometimes it isn't clear what freedom means. Many people use and produce bits of free knowledge, but any serious attempt quickly runs into tremendous barriers, in every field. Participants receive unequal welcome due to gender, language, cultural or economic differences. Occasionally, the production of intangible assets may intersect with broader historical movements, redefining their meanings and exposing their participants to unlimited costs.</p>
<p>Considering the costs borne by millions to obtain, for example, freedom from slavery or freedom to vote, free knowledge movements seem rather safe and straightforward. By contrast, to consider the costs of free culture, free software or open scientific research may look adventurous, or perhaps just presumptuous. But this is what we will attempt to do, with appropriate humility. This book wants to discuss how free knowledge movements are built and the real costs attached to them. Activists, artists, designers, developers, researchers, and writers involved with free knowledge movements have worked together to see further than the fog of our news feeds and produce some sense from our different experiences.</p>
<p>This book is born in an attempt to free Bassel Khartabil Sadafi, loved and celebrated Internet volunteer detained in Syria since 15 March 2012. His name has been deleted from the Adra Prison's register where he was detained, on 3 October 2015. We have not received any information about his current status or whereabouts since.</p>
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<p>The introductory part of this book called <strong>Collective Memories</strong> gives voice to his friends and family that have been urging for his release and want him back in his normal life and freedom, immediately. </p>
<p>Seeing Bassel paying a high price for his participation in free culture, many of us have started to reflect on our own fates, actions, and choices. Why are we here today? What have we chosen? What have we given up in this process of sometimes extreme belief? The second part, <strong>OPENING: FREEDOM</strong>, is a recollection of personal, sometimes contradictory reflections and views about the experience of working within free culture for some years. The diversity of contributions express the many directions that have been taken to act.</p>
<p>The third part called <strong>ARCHITECTONICS OF POWER</strong> takes a step back to look at how we, as a society, deal or fail to deal with the different barriers that stand in our ways towards freedom. Different authors analyze the contradictions of their choices and daily activities with larger objectives and lifestyles associated with the free culture. The variety of professions and situations of the contributors offer an illustration stained with multiple tones.</p>
<p>Finally, the fourth part <strong>AFFORDANCES</strong> offers a reflection on theories and successful practices of free culture. It offers different perspectives on the nature, structure, motivations and limitations of existing levers towards liberation, not only legal and technological but also social and cultural.</p>
<p><strong>Once marginal, the free culture is today on the edge of becoming the new normal thanks to the Internet while being threatened in its fundamentals by its own success. The many contributions in this book offer a unique snapshot of its dreads and interrogations, and a tentative program for the reader to reflect on the future of freedom in our times.</strong></p>
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