The Swedish Public Freedom Service or in Swedish:''Frihetsförmedlingen'' is an art project that considers itself a "self-organising authority", running since 2014 by the artists Lars Noväng and

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. Frihetsförmedlingen claims to be Sweden's largest provider of freedom. The website is a clear paraphrase of the

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. According to Noväng, the Freedom Service reflects the approach to work: freedom must be provided at all costs, without any reflection on why this should be so. The message of the Freedom Service comes through because of our relationship with bureaucracies. Noväng also argues that changes in the last 200 years or so have ''always'' been shifts in power, while not much that is fundamental to the construction of society has changed. We are largely marinated in the belief that waged work must be central. The freedom Service has also provided freedom brokers to the public. Something they have done in a number of places such as

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, Kalmar, Boden, Varberg and

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References

External links

The Swedish Public Freedom Service - Official website

Freedom through labor or freedom from labor? Labor-critique and the hegemonic discourses of labor (In swedish)
- Malin Ahrås Karlsson - Linköping university
The Swedish Public Freedom Service - Social media link
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