been playing together with members of bands like Dungen and appears on a LP by Our Solar System in 2013. Political background Fleischer's political background is leftist, without any known party affiliation. In the early 2000s, he worked for some years as a journalist for Arbetaren, the weekly newspaper of the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden, a syndicalist union. Around the same time, he criticized parts of the Swedish political left for tendencies of nationalism and during the 2006 Lebanon War, he criticized Swedish anti-war demonstrators for siding up with Hezbollah supporters. Since 2010, Fleischer's writings has appeared several times in the anarchist magazine Brand and has written essays presenting the thought of the Marxian thinker Robert Kurz. Writing His essay Det postdigitala manifestet (2009, in Swedish) analyzes how the contemporary culture of digital abundance produces a reevaluation of physical presence, taking examples mainly from the area of music. It has been published also in Finnish and in 2013 selected parts of it was published in an English translation by E-flux magazine in 2013. His second book, the double volume Boken & Biblioteket, was published in October 2011, also in Swedish. The first book is about books, including discussions about the political economy of publishing, the history of print on demand, the durability of e-books, the aesthetics of audiobooks and robot publishing. The second book discusses the library both in terms of a selective institution, a digital interface and a post-digital space. Besides from his books, writings by Fleischer appears in a number of anthologies as well as in magazines and newspapers, though not much of it has been translated to languages other than Swedish. Bibliography Det postdigitala manifestet (2009), 82 pages, Boken & Biblioteket (2011). Musikens politiska ekonomi (2012). Tapirskrift (2013). Den svenska enhörningen: storyn om Spotify, with Pelle Snickars (2018). Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music, with Maria Eriksson, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (MIT Press, 2019). Notes External links Rasmus Fleischer's personal homepage Copyriot, blog 1978 births Living people Swedish bloggers People from Halmstad Intellectual property activism Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni Syndicalists Economic historians Musicians from Halmstad