Systemfiler is a platform for examining the broken drivers that shape Swedish cultural policy, the music industry, and mass media. I want to understand how and why Sweden keeps getting pushed into short-term thinking and pure market logic – and why our global consumer brands have been allowed to gain such disproportionate influence over our culture. Swedish politicians and state agencies always respond to this by folding in a nano second. Why?
From another angle, I want to understand why we seem to gravitate towards monocultures – both as strategy, tactic, and identity – despite (or is it because of?) our extreme individualism.
Getting to the bottom of this requires a mix of historical context, contemporary critique, analysis, and attempts at future casting.
How do we create a healthier reality for artists? What does it take to build genuine diversity? How do we build real resistance to charlatans, opportunists, and the business world’s endless hunt for profit?
Maybe we need a forced restart.
Texts are originally published in Swedish – link in the header.
/Mathias Strömberg
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