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+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)

content/Essays/recommon-org-infrastructure-mega-corridors.md

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 Title: Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis?
-Author: Recommon
+Author: Recommon.org
-Category: Articles
 
 *"Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis?"*
 

content/Essays/zabala_warning.md

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 Title: The Philosophy of Warnings
 Author: Santiago Zabala
-Category: Articles
+
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content/mel-hogan-pandemics-dark-cloud.md

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-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)

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+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.
+

content/text.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Title: First thing
-Date: 2020-11-13 16:46
-Category: Projections 
-
-First website page!

pelicanconf.py

@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@
 # https://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/settings.html
 
 AUTHOR = 'Servus'
-SITENAME = 'Nourishing Network'
+SITENAME = 'A Nourishing Network'
-SITEURL = 'https://vvvvvvaria.org/amro/'
+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

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;

themes/basic/templates/base.html

@@ -9,18 +9,20 @@
 	{% endblock head %}
 </head>
 <body>
-
 	<header id="banner">
 		<p>HEADER</p>
 		<h1><a href="{{ SITEURL }}/">{{ SITENAME }}{% if SITESUBTITLE %} <strong>{{ SITESUBTITLE }}</strong>{% endif %}</a></h1>
 		<nav id="menu">
-			<ul>
+			<div class="links">
 			{% if DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU %}
 				{% for cat, null in categories %}
-					<a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ cat.url }}"><li{% if cat == category %} class="active"{% endif %}>{{ cat }}</li></a>
+					<a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ cat.url }}">{{ cat }}</a>
 				{% endfor %}
 			{% endif %}
-			</ul>
+			{% for page in pages %}
+				<a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ page.link }}">{{ page.title }}</a>
+			{% endfor %}
+			</div>
 		</nav>
 	</header>
 	<div id="subscribe">
@@ -33,10 +35,6 @@
 			<li>mail: <a href="#">subscribe</a>, <a href="#">unsubscribe</a></li>
 		</ul>
 	</div>
-	<div id="instructions">
-		<h2>Instruction Sheet</h2>
-		<p>...</p>
-	</div>
 
 	<section id="content">
 	{% block content %}

themes/basic/templates/index.html

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 			<a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ article.url }}" title="Permalink to {{ article.title|striptags }}">{{ article.title }}</a>
 		</h2>
 		<div class="post-info">
+			<div class="author">
+				{{ article.author }}
+			</div>
+			<br>
 			<div class="date">
 				{{ article.locale_date }}
 			</div>