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nikola rickter, founder of mickotext
chapbooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook)
microtext published short texts a bit like digital chap books
variety of genres, freed of the genre
engage with all literary formats
digital is everywhere but the publisher's role has changed
"engaged publishing"
ethical publishing
def. of ethics: "doing something also for others"
showing marie kondo!!!
ok kondo is consumerist
mickrotexte published a book about minimalism but also about heimat (home)
a new concept of home
(a bit confusing)
florian adds that "cleaning up your house" is also Peterson' motto
Clara Balaguer
involved in the meme troll wars
political climate in philippines untenable
lack of urgency in the nl > keep feeling the urgency
easy to fall into stupor
this is a privileged space: no disorder, no fear, no failure
duterte not so benevolent dictator
philipino studies have become duterte's studies
deep listening workshop in philadelphia (hacked from pauline oliveros)
"why print 1000 copies, that's a fucking lot of trees
better to print 25-60 copies and give them to the right hands"
troll war made clara a minor figure
References: Ulysses Philadelphia / Mosquito Press / Hardworking Goolooking:
(https://walkerart.org/magazine/insights-2017-clara-balaguer-and-kristian-henson-office-of-culture-designhardworking-goodlooking)
Podmini Ray Murrey
scholar in digital humanities in bangalore
worked as a scholar in digital media and the history of the book
society divided in castes
straight from book to mobile (no laptop)
"fingertips feminist" feminist busy only on social media
"fingertip activists"
common in india, great discrimination towards other castes. suicides as result
academic publishing as a space to bring about new forms of feminism
"it's a dangerous time for academics"
academic publishing in india is a colonial endeavor, imported by the british
legitimacy = academia
"Container nostalgia" (printed formats remaining relevant or pdf - not epubs)
"Agility vs Virality"
Florian summarizing
"problem is too much truth" being critical about truth / "too much truth era" > not crisis;
infiltration as a strategy
urgency to the word urgent
trolling as a strategy
vernacular knowledge vs canonical knowledge
still a power in social media
not alternative facts but how you understand facts
attention spam society
Conversation
Clara: compositionist manifesto by latour
Podmini: in india the internet is not harnessed by the liberal left
constant denial of corporate tech
v little attempt to hack the system
german guy: "academia was never the place of freedom"
clara: "academia place of legitimacy", even the book
nikola richter: utopia of epub [? really? more clear? curious to hear more ;) later], all digital everybody can publish, we lost this utopia
clara: "i use instagram for longform publishing
miriam "how do we troll as publishers?"
clara: "publishing from precarity"
"centrality of journals in academic publishing: problem of access"
"academy is not a space of freedom but of censorship. and that's a good thing" (german guy quoting a french philosopher
shailoh: "what's the tactical side?"
a tactic: "writing in public (on her public) as a feminist act"
"meatspace activism is also needed"
"how activism is being banned" / "popular discriminatory media" / infrastructure complicity — in the context of platform economy; feeding algorithms and intensifying discourse.
clara: "organic troll farm"
florian asks: "aren't graffiti and small editions only cute gestures that won't help when it comes to refuse peterson?"
clara: "we have to use all the possible strategies"
no-platforming as strategy: protesting when a speaker is invited
"proper graphic design doesn't work in the philipines cause looks mistrustful"
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Urgent Publishing
Wednesday evening: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/urgent-publishing-16-05
Thursday below
Friday at the bottom
# Nishant Shah
netflix is scripted by an algo
twitch two home google assistants speaking to each other
bots developing their own language
modern scribes to copy penthouse self-help book
geofrrey chaucer, canterbury tales has buffled historians cause each chapter has a different styles
chaucer doesn't exist, he came to exist because of laws on blasphemy and heresy
if you just report what you're saying you are exempted from heresy
apple positioned itself as a tool for ripping burning mixing, basically as a pirating tool. this was in the global north. In the global south, the opposite: prevent ripping. Brand: "Malaria for media"
Nishant showing a slide that says "Same same but Different" <3
we need to think of the structures of authorship: (algorithmic) authority, punishment, power
as a result multiple genealogies of how authenticity is formed
# Carrier bag Theory of non-fiction
title: ursula le guin,
origin: carrier bag of human evolution
evolution looks like a bag in which you put and collect and bring stuff instead of violence
focus on gatherers rather than hunters
not on hero but relationships and processes
what does the carrier bag for non-fiction could look like?
a proposal to use the carrier bag as a publication framework
## Lotte
city as body, Paris
writer, walking through the city as bodily experience
outcome was a website, where process and outcomes came together
research the city of paris as a human body (like in odissey)
[also in many cosmogonies]
urban metabolism (build cities as organisms)
people walk faster in big cities
walking through paris and test the limits of my own body
tiredness
rules: no metro, silent, no music, no phone
in the end: a website with pins
# Posthumanities Publishing
Janneke Adema
Gary Hall
Coventry University, Centre for Postdigital Cultures
relationality, not about text as object or author as subject
how this helps to define urgency
modelarity
alternative way of binding research
Reference to Lev Manovich, New Media
software, cultural content not having fixed boundaries
actively modularized by users
real revolution is in the possibility of remixing, not in the image itself
standards to make culture more sharable
"helping cultural bits move around more easily"
critical stance to modularity of Lev Manovich
cultural differences
Tara McPherson, why are digital humanities so white?
Manovich mainly focuses on spacely modular
And says that culture is not being modular, but the distribution of it is making it modular
post-human perspective providing tools to take books appart as commodities
performance of scholary writing
ways of being and doing differently as media theorists
* experimental publishing
* alternative forms of publishing
* ?
disrupt humanities to make space
what are implications of de-centering the human?
technologies as tools that help these reconsiderations
rethinking the book, its authorship, publishing, (more)
3 projects that Janneke and Gary were involved in
* Living books about Life (Open Humanities Press)
http://livingbooksaboutlife.org
including multimedia material
emphasizing the duration of the books
anyone can edit
using a wiki, software that already questions stability, authorship
where to cut the books? who is making decisions?
what about spam or porn?
is it the editor, publisher, software who decides?
* photomediations: an open book,
http://photomediationsopenbook.net
experiment in open and hybrid publishing
redesign the coffee table book as online experience
the projected a time based approach
reusable content (flickr commons, europeana)
parallel:
- exhibition in Hamburger Bahnhof
- educationial online space http://bit.ly/pop-edu
* The disrupted Journale of Media Practice
questioning the journal
how publishing could become more part of scholar practice, perform research?
- curated conversations, to emphasize collaborative nature of project
- podcast
- ?
- annotation tool using Hypothesis https://web.hypothes.is/
the group was asked to publish their research
How to translate this platform publishing process to print?
- QR codes
- layout experiments with annotations
publishing as an "other" process
a distinct trajectory from doing research
# Axel Andersson, Kritik Labbet (a lab for criticism), Sweden
http://axelandersson.se
Post digital publishing and the Return of Locality
ref: Robert Smithson and site-specificty
How to be a critic in fast changing technologies
kritik labbet was funded between 2016-2018, now experimenting with other forms
using the word experiment, instead of project, to create space for failing
kritik-labbet: a lab for criticism
- critic cannot work as professional (economics)
- critics unable to deep up with technology
- critic unable to keep up with the other arts
tumblr blog [isn't that the risk that in order to keep up the critic turn into a social media manager?]
amateurization of criticism
rethink the public sphere, instead of thinking of media
expand the model of public sphere
private, public, none-public, non-private
* experiment: https://masskritik.tumblr.com
many visitors (online & local) publishing about the bookfair in Gotenberg
documenting the fair, multi-authorship
How can collective writing be critical publishing?
* experiment: The last mass mail
critical reviews on art works part of a fair, written by visitors
place / site, whilst contemplating locality?
what does it mean to be from a place?
site as being fractured (smithson)
# Lidia ! :)
Labour, marxist understanding, specifically Christian Fuchs & Sevignani
human labour in social media:
creating a product with exchange value,
while having no control over the production
switch to pelican
trying to publish more continously,
smaller contributions
# discussie time!
[how is the carrier bag connected ?]
[widening the carrier bag?]
including processes in publishing practices
Q&A
Florian: post-humanism as something very positiv, along the line of Rosi Bari....., no? Post Humanism fits many ideologies (Sillicon Valley, right wing, etc)? Isn't it a danger to use the term, if it includes so many discourses. Isn't it dangarous to include pervasise labour?
Gary: many versions of post-humanism. sometimes disagreements in department. Debate on Jordan Peterson last night, he is never going to stop publishing because of good arguments. How did the liberal human came into being? It doesn't matter to tell the truth anymore. A lot about attention. You can do that with lies, post-truth, being Trump. Monographs lost their weight. We try to think about different modes of beings. And how we can interact and engage differently. Sometimes we call it post-humanism, sometimes in-humanism. We don't want to become a brand. And brand post-humanism.
Florian: Uni Utrecht is branding post-humanism.
Shailoh: hmm? no
Gary: sometimes it's needed to do that
Janneke: post is post-humanities, post-humanism, but other forms of "post"ness
Mariam: role of collaboration multi-authorship in writing?
author: writing excel sheets in order to make hypertextual work
lotte: new forms of story telling
shailoh: bags are expandable, critique on smooth modularity, moments when database crash,
humanities has not being very friendly to humanity
post-humanist being more helpful to pervasive workers, when they are not following liberal intentions
lidia: no funding for the zine, interest in platform building
janneke: ethics of care while producing publications, being part of an editorial board should be recognized in academic cv's
?: publishing strategies that are presented are not new, part of a longer (art) history. Why do experimental publishing formats persist? Lidia's focus on conditions was very important. Liked as you said: "Who has the priviledge to leave the platforms?"
lidia: point of priviledge was an important start of the project. Who has the priviledge to use alternative networks (like federated publishing). Who gets heared? Who gets published?
janneke: Not how publishing looks like, but what publishing does. Thinking beyond what we're used to. Fighting a battle with conversative academia.
?: how does archiving and metadata come into discussions around experimental publishing & post-humanism. A practice that is tightly connected machine mechanisms.
# Memes as means
means, conditions
decolonial.meme.queens (instagram tag)
Finding holes in the maze, instead of being professional
# The hmm
works for bits of freedom, organises the hmm
the world wide web of gatekeepers
# Clara
remind myself I'm in a privileged position
qualities of a troll: cunning, obsessive, neurodiverse
when u venture outside of your echo chamber check yourself make sure you are not imprinted
I'm trolling not change my enemies mind but for ppl like me
trained graphic design aesthetics trigger mistrust, designers need to unlearn to make memes that speak to people that don't read visual western design language
trolling to have the message out there, even if it reaches a few
nlp, neural language programming
# Isabel
memes in Brazil, election of Bolsonaro
humour as tool of resistance
not him campaign
escuola de activismos (school of activism)
designativista, collective of graphic designers, how can we use the skills we have
# readersandpublishers
http://readersandpublishers.org/
# Marc, zine depo Arnhem
zine as the new materialism of networkcultires
[old punk is the new cute]
[new punk is the old authoritarianism]
zombie zines, zines without context of links, mainly with material from the internet
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# Conversation Florian & Roel
Varia
place that combines everyday technology
art, activism, media critique, also neighbourhood involvement
hosting federated networks
what are federated networks?
web, email
some degree of space to have a say about their system
sharing an infrastructure
where entities have a degree of autonomy in that network
specific focus on applications that run on top of the federated network
examples?
XMPP, instant chat across platforms
Mastodon, essentially twitter clone, but with a few BUTs
Fediverse, network of different implementations, one of those is Mastodon
instance?
a server that is running a particular software
collocial way: includes community that it is running
some location related, others topic/interest related
community rules
perfect technology for distributed troll farm?
yes it is
Mastodon since 2016, but longer history from free software projects: diaspora, gnu social
you could see relation between mastodon and 4chan, where people have been thinking about self-hosting, making your own platform, cyber-libetariasm,
another lineage: open web, w3c,
But with Mastodon, a lot of people don't come from the libetarian 4chan backgrounds
but from queer culture, bringing code of conducts
not a coincidence that in 2016, trump was elected, gamergate happened
before, federation was all about building a bigger network, the more connections the better
in Mastodon (a fork from GNU social), introduced the idea of blocking connections with some servers
What about a troll instance in the Fediverse?
Blocking allowed to disconnect
Code-of-Conduct is used as a place to define what is welcome and not
Yesterday: lot of talking to stay with the trouble?
danger of creating an organic supermarket, creating your own niche
stepping aside, where actually people should step in
Joining the Fediverse does not mean that you need to cut off lines with other platforms.
So for some Mastodon is a safe place to have specific conversations.
Fediverse to be a network that is complimentary.
What about centralization?
There is a similarity with older BBS networks, that got synces every night.
Doesn't it create privacy problems?
Mastodon is a publishing platform, not a private communication platform.
Twitter has PM, but these are not private, system admins can see them.
Publishing inherently is a public activity.
Mastodon & Diaspora have much better support for publishing, in terms of features.
How are they be used? What is published?
ActivityPub allows to make connections between projects.
Too much cloning happening atm still.
It brings a new group of people, interesting in free software publishing
Not computer science graduates, mostly men, free software.
Now groups of media designers, UX design, art, etc, that come with different attitudes and ideas.
front-end developer often under represented in software communities.
Questions
What about banning a video from a peertube instance?
finegrained tools for moderation and content visibility.
Boring question about governance?
Exciting question!
Mastodon: benevolant dictator model Eugen Rotcko
many contributions are not acknowledged, not writing code
examples of projects that are forking, but first focussing on the governance model
lot of innovation in how you organise such communities?
How easy is it for a third party to look at all the data?
It's all out in the open, because it's all about publishing in public.
Techno-social imaginary? What else is possible in this realm?
Issue tracker, place where discussions around imaginaries are happening and being recorded.
Could Wikipedia be saved with federation?
Where the biggest design issue is that everything needs to be merged.
Feminist Internet Principles
Most federated publishing platform, allow for code of conducts for the users.
But where is the platform itself being taken into account?
Traditionally peer2peer is seen as ideal.
Federation is introducing tools for a larger audience
But there is still a power in-balance between developers and users.
So this is a very good question, still unresolved.
joinmastodon.org page first listed all the instances
but now only listed
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