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}