intros

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+# Memes as Means 
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+Presentations and discussion with Evelyn Austin, Clara Balaguer, Silvia dal Dosso & Noel David Nicolaus, and Isabel Löfgren, moderated by Inte Gloerich.
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+Opening by Inte Gloerich: https://vimeo.com/344050654
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+However trivial and frivolous the meme might seem, its function as a cultural and communicative object deserves investigation. The meme can bear witness to shifts in language and cultural norms. Memes can function as political agent: spread like a virus and change sentiment, become a talking point, or set an agenda. Are memes the ammunition of online culture wars? Have they contributed to the normalization of the alt-right? How to study these symbols and tropes, and how to create our own?
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+Using memes as a starting point, we look at online visual culture and how different popular communication styles have been incorporated into strategies of far-right movements. What are innovative ways to counter these movements on a transnational level? And how does the passing of Article 13 in the European Parliament affect our ability to freely express ourselves online? What does the meme have to say about positioning topical publications or research output?

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+#The Afterlife of Publications 
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+Presentations and discussion with Marc van Elburg, Krista Jantowski, and Alice Twemlow, moderated by Geert Lovink.
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+Plus: Project presentations: Cristina Garriga (Readers & Publishers) & Karolien Buurman (NXS).
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+Opening by Geert Lovink & Project Presentations: https://vimeo.com/345466909
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+What remains of a publication after it has been published? How does its status change in the post-production phase? Does it survive and thrive or will it suffer a slow, unnoticed death? Some works keep circulating, others do not. Fragments live on in search engines, on platforms, or in physical space, aggregated, fragmented, or re-contextualized. How does the materiality, positioning, and design of the work influence this afterlife? How to design for sustainability of the publication?
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+The constellation of readers, publishers, designers, and editors is under consideration. Why do we even publish and for whom? What does it mean to actually read nowadays? Why are aspects of time and space important in the positioning of a publication? When we shake off the idea of the book as a static object, we can start to look at other – social, emotional, material, and spiritual – aspects of publishing. The echoes of the afterlife will reverberate through new publishing strategies.

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+# The Carrier Bag Theory of Non-Fiction
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+PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION WITH JANNEKE ADEMA & GARY HALL, AXEL ANDERSSON, AND LÍDIA PEREIRA, MODERATED BY MIRIAM RASCH.
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+Plus: Project presentations: 100 Pins in Paris by Lotte Lentes & Bitterveld by Liesbeth Eugelink.
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+What promises does modular, non-linear publishing hold for writing and reading, research and collaboration? What potentialities of collectivity, collaboration, and commons can hybrid publishing processes set free? How would that challenge existing roles and practices? Modularity in form and process, after proving itself in software development, has conquered the world at large. It fits the dynamics of the market and allows us to communicate in bits and pieces, fierce, hyped-up, and snappy. Efficient medium, efficient messages. 
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+But modularity and non-linearity also contain a notion of critique. They can challenge myths of origin and originality, authoritarian authorship, single-voiced narratives, hero perspectives, and definitive truths. They can inspire a ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Non-Fiction’: publica-tions holding grains of knowledge and experience of various kinds and species, which can be laid out in different ways and directions. How would these forge meaningful connections and complex relations between contents, people, places, and futures?

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+#Post-Truth Publishing
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+WITH CLARA BALAGUER, PADMINI RAY MURRAY, MORTEN PAUL, AND  NIKOLA RICHTER, MODERATED BY FLORIAN CRAMER.
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+Inventing new ways of publishing between fast populism and slow academia. How to counter misinformation and stimulate open public discussions through a speedy publishing process, high quality content and spot-on positioning?

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+#synchronicityofparasites
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+The evening #synchronicityofparasites is organised by Marc van Elburg of the Zinedepo in Motel Spatie, Arnhem. Working with theories on the parasite as a metaphor for media culture, Marc found himself in a hotel in Ljubljana one day right next to an art space called P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. which he did not previously know of. This coincidence can be explained by the inherent synchronicity of parasites, which is probably also why we planned our publishing conference on the exact same day as Marc’s event!
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+With:
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+Anders M. Gullestad, author of ‘Literature and the Parasite’
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+Anna Poletti, author of Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture
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+Wilfried Houjebek, psychogeographer, Cryptoforestry