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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"
 {laptop battery is dying goodbyeeeeeee}
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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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 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
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