From aab392eb6499e3a1ebeb3023f2df215481cf6964 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lidia_p Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:25:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added varia members collective notes --- raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-15-05.txt | 119 ++++++ raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-16-05.txt | 401 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 520 insertions(+) create mode 100644 raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-15-05.txt create mode 100644 raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-16-05.txt diff --git a/raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-15-05.txt b/raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-15-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ac473a --- /dev/null +++ b/raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-15-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +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" + +{laptop battery is dying goodbyeeeeeee} + + + + diff --git a/raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-16-05.txt b/raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-16-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afa64c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/raw/debris/notes/urgent-publishing-16-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,401 @@ +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 + + +--- + +17 - 05 + +# 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 + +--- + + + + +