diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index fb81d47..9636847 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -70,16 +70,15 @@ publish: "$(PELICAN)" "$(INPUTDIR)" -o "$(OUTPUTDIR)" -s "$(PUBLISHCONF)" $(PELICANOPTS) -.PHONY: html help clean regenerate serve serve-global devserver publish +.PHONY: html help clean regenerate serve serve-global devserver publish # Print - -md=$(wildcard content/*.md) +md=$(wildcard content/Essays/*.md) md2pdf=$(md:%.md=%.pdf) %.pdf: %.md themes/basic/static/css/print.css pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint -c themes/basic/static/css/print.css $< -o $@ print: $(md2pdf) - $(shell mv content/*.pdf content/print/) + $(shell mv content/Essays/*.pdf content/print/) diff --git a/content/Essays/Mel-Hogan_Pandemics-Dark-Cloud.md b/content/Essays/Mel-Hogan_Pandemics-Dark-Cloud.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..100c518 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/Essays/Mel-Hogan_Pandemics-Dark-Cloud.md @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +Title: The Pandemic's Dark Cloud +Author: Mel Hogan + +"The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud" was written in November 2020 as a +reflection on the relationship between the pandemic and environmental +media, with a focus on "the cloud" and its undergirding networked +infrastructure. The central idea of this piece is to demonstrate the +interconnectedness of all things -- covid, care, community, nature, +ewaste, racism, greed -- in both the making and undoing of our modern +communication systems. + +This piece is intended as a provocation, so your thoughts and feelings +are very welcomed! + +*Mél Hogan is the Director of the *[*Environmental Media Lab +(EML)*](https://www.environmentalmedialab.com/)* and *[*Associate +Professor*](https://www.melhogan.com/)* at the University of Calgary, +Canada. She is also an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of +Communication. Career highlights so far include keynoting the 2020 +McLuhan lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, and giving a plenary +at transmediale 2020.\ +\@mel\_hogan / melhogan.com / mhogan\@ucalgary.ca* + +# The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud by Mél Hogan + +As the pandemic settled into consciousness across the globe, humans +devolved. People in countries where the response to COVID-19 was most +mismanaged started to snack a lot.^[^1]^ Pre-sliced packaged +charcuterie. Ritz crackers. Oreo cookies. In their growing helplessness, +people also sharply increased their consumption of alcohol, especially +women in the US.^[^2]^ For some it was drugs. Those lucky enough to keep +their job doubled down on work, staying at their stations or desks for +longer hours -- part avoidance and part stuckness into systems that +could offer no other plan. + +The dread by now is cumulative. Pick your pain: covid19, white +supremacy, climate catastrophe. People are reaching new levels of +"doomscrolling" on social media, playing online video games, and +"binge-watching" Netflix as ways to pass the time, waiting on the virus +to run its course, or for politicians to make a plan. As things shut +down, Zoom quickly took over as the way to communicate at a safe social +distance. Education quickly became clicking at screens. No more shopping +in person meant ordering by way of interfaces. All of these screens more +or less allowed things to continue, if not as normal, as a viable +alternative in the meantime. It remains to be seen if this online world +we've adopted so quickly is the new normal, and here to stay, or if +it'll reflect to us the inefficiencies of how we lived before and save +us from ourselves. Or, maybe it will call into question the terrible +inequities that are only made more evident by this pandemic. + +By April, the news media were already reporting that lockdowns had meant +cleaner air and clearer water.^[^3]^ Satellite images showed less +pollution over China and the US. Animals were found roaming freely in +different parts of India.^[^4]^ "Nature is healing" became a popular +meme celebrating the lessening of human impact and nature's +recovery.^[^5]^ But were the effects of lockdown, or quarantine, of +humans being trapped in their homes, and of doing everything online, +truly a more sustainable way of going about life? Had the turn to "the +cloud" proven to be the weightless way forward? Social isolation and +disinformation propagation problems aside, could the internet become a +tool to inadvertently save the environment? + +In thinking of the internet and the many devices connected to it, these +account for approximately 2-4% of global greenhouse emissions, which +only promise to double by 2025.^[^6]^ Data centres and vast server farms +(where data is stored and transmitted) draw more than 80% of their +energy from fossil fuel power stations. Online video alone -- porn, +Netflix, YouTube, Zoom -- generated 60% of the world's total data flows +before covid19 hit. A Google search uses as much energy as cooking an +egg or boiling water in an electric kettle.^[^7]^ Yearly emails for work +(and not accounting for spam) have been calculated to be equal in terms +of CO2 emissions to driving 320 kilometres.^[^8]^ These numbers have +likely gone up considerably since the pandemic.^[^9]^ This way of living +wasn't sustainable then, and it certainly isn't now. + +There are search engines (eg. Ecosia^[^10]^) and add-ons (eg. +Carbonalyser by The Shift Project,^[^11]^ green-algorithms.org^[^12]^) +that help measure user impacts on the environment, but these miss +addressing the bigger questions -- such as moving away from confronting +personal use to the systemic, material, and ideological issues baked +into the internet. Why is the internet like this? The question is more +political than it is purely technological. It's more emotional, even, +than it is political. Because we've drifted so far away from +understanding nature as inherent to human and non-human wellbeing alike, +towards unrelenting and exploitative capitalism and extractivism, it +means we now have these massively entangled systems that reinforce one +another, generate profit for the very few, but in the end benefit +nothing and nobody.^[^13]^ These systems are harder to abolish or undo, +so instead we turn to solutions that lessen their impacts, and we +consider the rest inevitable -- or worse, natural. We might, for +example, shift data centers to cooler climates to save on cooling costs, +we might develop more efficient software, we might offer carbon +offsetting and plant trees, but none of these technofixes reach the +heart of the our current predicament: our solutions and our problems +originate from the same short-sighted, greed-driven, competitive, and +market-driven agendas that caused this global deadly pandemic in the +first place. + +In 2020, we are generating 50 million tons worldwide of electronic +waste, with an annual growth of 5%.^[^14]^ This means that we produce +e-waste at three times the rate that humans reproduce. Much e-waste is +toxic and severely impacts land, water, plants, animals, and humans. +This damage is permanent. At the other end of the supply chain, fields +of wheat and corn have become lakes of toxic sludge to accommodate the +rare earth mining industry.^[^15]^ From Mongolia to China to the Congo, +people labour in dangerous conditions, mining through the ore-laden mud +to find rare minerals to power our devices. Elsewhere, people work +endless shifts to assemble computers, phones, tablets. It should be no +surprise then that the internet that connects this all is toxic too, +evidenced by both the work of content moderators who filter the +internet, and the shady tactics used by Big Tech to evade taxes to get +filthy rich off the backs of this global human-powered machine. As Ron +Deibert put it recently in his 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, "If we continue +on this path of unbridled consumption and planned obsolescence, we are +doomed."^[^16]^ + +So we can either become extinct from the repercussions of our centuries +old destructive neoliberal colonial institutions, as the planet pushes +back with more pandemics, storms, and violence, or we can get together +and admit to our failures as colonisers. These failures tap into +something profound, deeply broken, about what settlers have historically +valued and continue to enact. We are living largely in the dark +fantasies of ghosts -- and these old, settler ideas haunt and break us. +We can imagine better. We can make other decisions. We can tune our +emotions to move from awareness to anxiety to action. We return public +lands to Indigenous peoples. We defund police and dismantle white +supremacy. We transform ourselves, and our communication systems will +follow. + +[^1]: [*https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2020/May/1/6-Snack-Sales-Soar-During-Pandemic\_Marketing*](https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2020/May/1/6-Snack-Sales-Soar-During-Pandemic_Marketing) + [*https://news.italianfood.net/2020/04/02/pre-sliced-packaged-charcuterie-partly-offsets-pandemic-blow/*](https://news.italianfood.net/2020/04/02/pre-sliced-packaged-charcuterie-partly-offsets-pandemic-blow/) + [*https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/16078-the-snack-trends-predicted-to-persist-post-pandemic*](https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/16078-the-snack-trends-predicted-to-persist-post-pandemic) + +[^2]: [*https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/americans-are-handling-coronavirus-pandemic-by-binging-on-snacks/*](https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/americans-are-handling-coronavirus-pandemic-by-binging-on-snacks/) + [*https://www.herworld.com/gallery/life/wellness/overeating-binge-eating-covid19-pandemic-work-home/*](https://www.herworld.com/gallery/life/wellness/overeating-binge-eating-covid19-pandemic-work-home/) + +[^3]: [*https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/coronavirus-shutdowns-have-unintended-climate-benefits-n1161921*](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/coronavirus-shutdowns-have-unintended-climate-benefits-n1161921) + +[^4]: [*https://www.planetofstudents.com/blog/social-awareness/effects-of-lockdown-on-the-environment/*](https://www.planetofstudents.com/blog/social-awareness/effects-of-lockdown-on-the-environment/) + +[^5]: [*https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/coronavirus-meme-nature-is-healing-we-are-the-virus*](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/coronavirus-meme-nature-is-healing-we-are-the-virus) + +[^6]: [*https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think*](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think) + +[^7]: [*https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jan/12/carbon-emissions-google*](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jan/12/carbon-emissions-google) + +[^8]: [*https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think*](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think) + and + [*https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-55002423*](https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-55002423) + +[^9]: [*https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/*](https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/) + +[^10]: [*https://www.ecosia.org/*](https://www.ecosia.org/) + +[^11]: [*https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/*](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/) + +[^12]: [*http://www.green-algorithms.org/*](http://www.green-algorithms.org/) + +[^13]: [*https://landback.org/manifesto/*](https://landback.org/manifesto/) + +[^14]: [*https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189*](https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189) + +[^15]: [*https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html*](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html) + +[^16]: [*https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert*](https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert) diff --git a/content/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md b/content/Essays/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md similarity index 99% rename from content/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md rename to content/Essays/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md index 18d822e..a80cad0 100644 --- a/content/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md +++ b/content/Essays/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ Title: Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis? -Author: Recommon -Category: Articles +Author: Recommon.org *"Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis?"* diff --git a/content/zabala_warning.md b/content/Essays/zabala_warning.md similarity index 99% rename from content/zabala_warning.md rename to content/Essays/zabala_warning.md index 5e75ce1..8a8cf05 100644 --- a/content/zabala_warning.md +++ b/content/Essays/zabala_warning.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ Title: The Philosophy of Warnings Author: Santiago Zabala -Category: Articles + +

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diff --git a/content/mel-hogan-pandemics-dark-cloud.md b/content/mel-hogan-pandemics-dark-cloud.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5cb4c70..0000000 --- a/content/mel-hogan-pandemics-dark-cloud.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,142 +0,0 @@ -Title: The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud -Author: Mél Hogan -Category: Articles - -# The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud - -As the pandemic settled into consciousness across the globe, humans -devolved. People in countries where the response to COVID-19 was most -mismanaged started to snack a lot.[^1] Pre-sliced packaged charcuterie. -Ritz crackers. Oreo cookies. In their growing helplessness, people also -sharply increased their consumption of alcohol, especially women in the -US.[^2] For some it was drugs. Those lucky enough to keep their job -doubled down on work, staying at their stations or desks for longer -hours -- part avoidance and part stuckness into systems that could offer -no other plan. - -The dread by now is cumulative. Pick your pain: covid19, white -supremacy, climate catastrophe. People are reaching new levels of -"doomscrolling" on social media, playing online video games, and -"binge-watching" Netflix as ways to pass the time, waiting on the virus -to run its course, or for politicians to make a plan. As things shut -down, Zoom quickly took over as the way to communicate at a safe social -distance. Education quickly became clicking at screens. No more shopping -in person meant ordering by way of interfaces. All of these screens more -or less allowed things to continue, if not as normal, as a viable -alternative in the meantime. It remains to be seen if this online world -we've adopted so quickly is the new normal, and here to stay, or if -it'll reflect to us the inefficiencies of how we lived before and save -us from ourselves. Or, maybe it will call into question the terrible -inequities that are only made more evident by this pandemic. - -By April, the news media were already reporting that lockdowns had meant -cleaner air and clearer water.[^3] Satellite images showed less -pollution over China and the US. Animals were found roaming freely in -different parts of India.[^4] "Nature is healing" became a popular meme -celebrating the lessening of human impact and nature's recovery.[^5] But -were the effects of lockdown, or quarantine, of humans being trapped in -their homes, and of doing everything online, truly a more sustainable -way of going about life? Had the turn to "the cloud" proven to be the -weightless way forward? Social isolation and disinformation propagation -problems aside, could the internet become a tool to inadvertently save -the environment? - -In thinking of the internet and the many devices connected to it, these -account for approximately 2-4% of global greenhouse emissions, which -only promise to double by 2025.[^6] Data centres and vast server farms -(where data is stored and transmitted) draw more than 80% of their -energy from fossil fuel power stations. Online video alone -- porn, -Netflix, YouTube, Zoom -- generated 60% of the world's total data flows -before covid19 hit. A Google search uses as much energy as cooking an -egg or boiling water in an electric kettle.[^7] Yearly emails for work -(and not accounting for spam) have been calculated to be equal in terms -of CO2 emissions to driving 320 kilometres.[^8] These numbers have -likely gone up considerably since the pandemic.[^9] This way of living -wasn't sustainable then, and it certainly isn't now. - -There are search engines (eg. Ecosia[^10]) and add-ons (eg. Carbonalyser -by The Shift Project,[^11] green-algorithms.org[^12]) that help measure -user impacts on the environment, but these miss addressing the bigger -questions -- such as moving away from confronting personal use to the -systemic, material, and ideological issues baked into the internet. Why -is the internet like this? The question is more political than it is -purely technological. It's more emotional, even, than it is political. -Because we've drifted so far away from understanding nature as inherent -to humans and non-humans alike, towards unrelenting and exploitative -capitalism and extractivism, it means we now have these massively -entangled systems that reinforce one another, generate profit for the -very few, but in the end benefit nothing and nobody.[^13] These systems -are harder to abolish and undo, so instead we turn to solutions that -lessen their impacts, and we consider the rest inevitable -- or worse, -natural. We might, for example, shift data centers to cooler climates to -save on cooling costs, we might develop more efficient software, we -might offer carbon offsetting and plant trees, but none of these -technofixes reach the heart of the our current predicament: our -solutions and our problems originate from the same short-sighted, -greed-driven, competitive, and market-driven agendas that caused this -global deadly pandemic in the first place. - -In 2020, we are generating 50 million tons worldwide of electronic -waste, with an annual growth of 5%.[^14] This means that we produce -e-waste at three times the rate that humans reproduce. Much e-waste is -toxic and severely impacts land, water, plants, animals, and humans. -This damage is permanent. At the other end of the supply chain, fields -of wheat and corn have become lakes of toxic sludge to accommodate the -rare earth mining industry.[^15] From Mongolia to China to the Congo, -people labour in dangerous conditions, mining through the ore-laden mud -to find rare minerals to power our devices. Elsewhere, people work -endless shifts to assemble computers, phones, tablets. It should be no -surprise then that the internet that connects this all is toxic too, -evidenced by both the work of content moderators who filter the -internet, and the shady tactics used by Big Tech to evade taxes to get -filthy rich off the backs of this global human-powered machine. As Ron -Deibert put it recently in his CBC Massey Lectures, "If we continue on -this path of unbridled consumption and planned obsolescence, we are -doomed."[^16] - -So we can either become extinct from the repercussions of our centuries -old destructive neoliberal colonial institutions, as the planet pushes -back with more pandemics, storms, and violence, or we can get together -and admit to our failures as colonisers. These failures tap into -something profound, deeply broken, about what settlers have historically -valued and continue to enact. We are living largely in the dark -fantasies of ghosts -- and these old, settler ideas haunt and break us. -We can imagine better. We can make other decisions. We can tune our -emotions to move from awareness to anxiety to action. We return public -lands to Indigenous peoples. We defund and dismantle white supremacy. We -transform ourselves, and our communication systems will follow. - -[^1]: [[https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2020/May/1/6-Snack-Sales-Soar-During-Pandemic\_Marketing]{.underline}](https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2020/May/1/6-Snack-Sales-Soar-During-Pandemic_Marketing) - [[https://news.italianfood.net/2020/04/02/pre-sliced-packaged-charcuterie-partly-offsets-pandemic-blow/]{.underline}](https://news.italianfood.net/2020/04/02/pre-sliced-packaged-charcuterie-partly-offsets-pandemic-blow/) - [[https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/16078-the-snack-trends-predicted-to-persist-post-pandemic]{.underline}](https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/16078-the-snack-trends-predicted-to-persist-post-pandemic) - -[^2]: [[https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/americans-are-handling-coronavirus-pandemic-by-binging-on-snacks/]{.underline}](https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/americans-are-handling-coronavirus-pandemic-by-binging-on-snacks/) - [[https://www.herworld.com/gallery/life/wellness/overeating-binge-eating-covid19-pandemic-work-home/]{.underline}](https://www.herworld.com/gallery/life/wellness/overeating-binge-eating-covid19-pandemic-work-home/) - -[^3]: [[https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/coronavirus-shutdowns-have-unintended-climate-benefits-n1161921]{.underline}](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/coronavirus-shutdowns-have-unintended-climate-benefits-n1161921) - -[^4]: [[https://www.planetofstudents.com/blog/social-awareness/effects-of-lockdown-on-the-environment/]{.underline}](https://www.planetofstudents.com/blog/social-awareness/effects-of-lockdown-on-the-environment/) - -[^5]: [[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/coronavirus-meme-nature-is-healing-we-are-the-virus]{.underline}](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/coronavirus-meme-nature-is-healing-we-are-the-virus) - -[^6]: [[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think]{.underline}](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think) - -[^7]: [[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jan/12/carbon-emissions-google]{.underline}](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jan/12/carbon-emissions-google) - -[^8]: [[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think]{.underline}](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think) - -[^9]: [[https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/]{.underline}](https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/) - -[^10]: [[https://www.ecosia.org/]{.underline}](https://www.ecosia.org/) - -[^11]: [[https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/]{.underline}](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/) - -[^12]: [[http://www.green-algorithms.org/]{.underline}](http://www.green-algorithms.org/) - -[^13]: [[https://landback.org/manifesto/]{.underline}](https://landback.org/manifesto/) - -[^14]: [[https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189]{.underline}](https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189) - -[^15]: [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html]{.underline}](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html) - -[^16]: [[https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert]{.underline}](https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert) diff --git a/content/pages/instruction-sheet.md b/content/pages/instruction-sheet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4777812 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/pages/instruction-sheet.md @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +Title: About + +# A Nourishing Network + +*A Nourishing Network *is a publishing project that aims at documenting +and circulating current research done by a network of artists, activists +and programmers that collaborate with the Austrian net culture +initiative *servus.at.* Especially in this moment of reduced mobility +and physical encounters, the publication stimulates the circulation of +materials and their further development in a community that usually +gathers in small-sized events and festivals. + +The project is a continuation of *Art Meets Radical Openness*--*AMRO* +in short--a bi-yearly festival organized by servus.at in Linz +([https://radical-openness.org](https://radical-openness.org/)). The +festival creates space for discussions around the current impact of +internet technologies and platforms. It aims to imagine possible (real) +sustainable models for computational infrastructures, as an alternative +to the growing techno-solutionist trend. + +*A Nourishing Network* is produced as a hybrid publishing process +realised by Manetta Berends and Alice Strete from the Rotterdam +initiative Varia ([https://varia.zone](https://varia.zone/)). + +The project emerged as a response to the following three departure +points: + +**Another lost occasion for degrowth?** + +At the beginning many thought that the spring lockdowns of 2020 might +have been a great opportunity to embrace less impactful lifestyles and +production models. As soon as the measurements loosened up, the level of +consumption rose to pre-lockdowns levels. Was the emerging environmental awareness overshadowed by a „sort of" return to normality? + +**Re-centralization or blooming alternatives?** + +During the first wave of lockdown, data-avid proprietary services gained +a more central role within online ecosystems and daily life. Faced with +this new context, communities dealing with free and open source software +continued to work on alternative platform models. What happened? And +what could be further explored? + +**Artdiversity loss: is now Zoom the best art gallery 2020?** + +In 2020 many cultural initiatives were forced to shift towards online +videocalls, where often the materiality of bodies and matter is +deprioritised. As the spectrum of technical possibilities offered by +(centralised) digital platforms currently shape and actively format the +field of the arts, how can we make space to experiment with alternative +formats? + +## How the nourishing network works: + +The publication is in itself an experiment: one in peer-to-peer +publishing starting from the *feed* as a potentially multi-directional +circulation device. Through web-syndication protocols and mail art +practices, this publication engages with complex circulation flows, +thereby exploring the social dynamics of such networked forms of +publishing. Borrowing from food terminology, the activity of +*nourishing* translates into an act of continuous care within the +network and for the network itself. + +A subscription to the digital and/or postal feed, nourishes her +subscribers with a stream of essays. The feeds are available at +[https://](https://a-nourishing-network.radical-openness.org/)[a-nourishing-network.radical-openness.org](https://a-nourishing-network.radical-openness.org/) +and can be digested in different ways: as RSS, Atom and ActivityPub +streams, or as a stream of physical publications which are distributed +through a "postal feed" throughout Europe. + +## How to circulate within the Nourishing Network? + +The project is an invitation to stimulate circulation by further +disseminating the material in online and offline ways. Each subscriber +to the postal feed will receive two copies of the publication in order +to extend the circulation network with one step -- by sending it to +someone who might appreciate it. Similarly, the feed is prepared to +circulate in online networks. + +Finally, to enforce feedback and more spontaneous responses to the +articles, we are open for contributions from the community of readers. + diff --git a/content/text.md b/content/text.md deleted file mode 100644 index cdff604..0000000 --- a/content/text.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -Title: First thing -Date: 2020-11-13 16:46 -Category: Projections - -First website page! diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py index cb99f6d..fd8ca5a 100644 --- a/pelicanconf.py +++ b/pelicanconf.py @@ -5,14 +5,17 @@ # https://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/settings.html AUTHOR = 'Servus' -SITENAME = 'Nourishing Network' -SITEURL = 'https://vvvvvvaria.org/amro/' +SITENAME = 'A Nourishing Network' +SITEURL = 'https://vvvvvvaria.org/amro' TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Amsterdam' DEFAULT_DATE = 'fs' DEFAULT_LANG = 'en' +# DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = True +# DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU = True + # Feed settings FEED_DOMAIN = SITEURL RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = False @@ -28,12 +31,16 @@ CATEGORY_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/ATOM/category/{slug}' AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = None PATH = 'content' -STATIC_PATHS = [ 'images', 'favicon.ico' ] +PAGE_PATHS = ['pages'] +# STATIC_PATHS = [ 'images', 'favicon.ico', 'essays', 'projections' ] THEME = 'themes/basic' THEME_STATIC_DIR = 'theme' DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 10 +DEFAULT_CATEGORY = '' +USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY = True + # Uncomment following line if you want document-relative URLs when developing -RELATIVE_URLS = True +RELATIVE_URLS = True \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/themes/basic/static/css/main.css b/themes/basic/static/css/main.css index 83eaa1f..2daf78b 100644 --- a/themes/basic/static/css/main.css +++ b/themes/basic/static/css/main.css @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ header, #instructions, footer{ position: relative; - width: 100%; + width: calc(100% - 4em); margin: 2em 0; padding: 2em; border: 1px dotted magenta; diff --git a/themes/basic/templates/base.html b/themes/basic/templates/base.html index 8a82565..5b09cc2 100644 --- a/themes/basic/templates/base.html +++ b/themes/basic/templates/base.html @@ -9,18 +9,20 @@ {% endblock head %} -
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