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Title: The Pandemic's Dark Cloud
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Author: Mel Hogan
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"The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud" was written in November 2020 as a
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reflection on the relationship between the pandemic and environmental
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media, with a focus on "the cloud" and its undergirding networked
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infrastructure. The central idea of this piece is to demonstrate the
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interconnectedness of all things -- covid, care, community, nature,
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ewaste, racism, greed -- in both the making and undoing of our modern
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communication systems.
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This piece is intended as a provocation, so your thoughts and feelings
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are very welcomed!
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*Mél Hogan is the Director of the *[*Environmental Media Lab
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(EML)*](https://www.environmentalmedialab.com/)* and *[*Associate
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Professor*](https://www.melhogan.com/)* at the University of Calgary,
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Canada. She is also an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of
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Communication. Career highlights so far include keynoting the 2020
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McLuhan lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, and giving a plenary
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at transmediale 2020.\
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\@mel\_hogan / melhogan.com / mhogan\@ucalgary.ca*
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# The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud by Mél Hogan
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As the pandemic settled into consciousness across the globe, humans
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devolved. People in countries where the response to COVID-19 was most
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mismanaged started to snack a lot.^[^1]^ Pre-sliced packaged
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charcuterie. Ritz crackers. Oreo cookies. In their growing helplessness,
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people also sharply increased their consumption of alcohol, especially
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women in the US.^[^2]^ For some it was drugs. Those lucky enough to keep
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their job doubled down on work, staying at their stations or desks for
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longer hours -- part avoidance and part stuckness into systems that
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could offer no other plan.
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The dread by now is cumulative. Pick your pain: covid19, white
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supremacy, climate catastrophe. People are reaching new levels of
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"doomscrolling" on social media, playing online video games, and
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"binge-watching" Netflix as ways to pass the time, waiting on the virus
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to run its course, or for politicians to make a plan. As things shut
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down, Zoom quickly took over as the way to communicate at a safe social
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distance. Education quickly became clicking at screens. No more shopping
|
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in person meant ordering by way of interfaces. All of these screens more
|
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or less allowed things to continue, if not as normal, as a viable
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alternative in the meantime. It remains to be seen if this online world
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we've adopted so quickly is the new normal, and here to stay, or if
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it'll reflect to us the inefficiencies of how we lived before and save
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us from ourselves. Or, maybe it will call into question the terrible
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inequities that are only made more evident by this pandemic.
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By April, the news media were already reporting that lockdowns had meant
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cleaner air and clearer water.^[^3]^ Satellite images showed less
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pollution over China and the US. Animals were found roaming freely in
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different parts of India.^[^4]^ "Nature is healing" became a popular
|
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meme celebrating the lessening of human impact and nature's
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recovery.^[^5]^ But were the effects of lockdown, or quarantine, of
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humans being trapped in their homes, and of doing everything online,
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truly a more sustainable way of going about life? Had the turn to "the
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cloud" proven to be the weightless way forward? Social isolation and
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disinformation propagation problems aside, could the internet become a
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tool to inadvertently save the environment?
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In thinking of the internet and the many devices connected to it, these
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account for approximately 2-4% of global greenhouse emissions, which
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only promise to double by 2025.^[^6]^ Data centres and vast server farms
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(where data is stored and transmitted) draw more than 80% of their
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energy from fossil fuel power stations. Online video alone -- porn,
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Netflix, YouTube, Zoom -- generated 60% of the world's total data flows
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before covid19 hit. A Google search uses as much energy as cooking an
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egg or boiling water in an electric kettle.^[^7]^ Yearly emails for work
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(and not accounting for spam) have been calculated to be equal in terms
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of CO2 emissions to driving 320 kilometres.^[^8]^ These numbers have
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likely gone up considerably since the pandemic.^[^9]^ This way of living
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wasn't sustainable then, and it certainly isn't now.
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There are search engines (eg. Ecosia^[^10]^) and add-ons (eg.
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Carbonalyser by The Shift Project,^[^11]^ green-algorithms.org^[^12]^)
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that help measure user impacts on the environment, but these miss
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addressing the bigger questions -- such as moving away from confronting
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personal use to the systemic, material, and ideological issues baked
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into the internet. Why is the internet like this? The question is more
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political than it is purely technological. It's more emotional, even,
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than it is political. Because we've drifted so far away from
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understanding nature as inherent to human and non-human wellbeing alike,
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towards unrelenting and exploitative capitalism and extractivism, it
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means we now have these massively entangled systems that reinforce one
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another, generate profit for the very few, but in the end benefit
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nothing and nobody.^[^13]^ These systems are harder to abolish or undo,
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so instead we turn to solutions that lessen their impacts, and we
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consider the rest inevitable -- or worse, natural. We might, for
|
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example, shift data centers to cooler climates to save on cooling costs,
|
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we might develop more efficient software, we might offer carbon
|
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offsetting and plant trees, but none of these technofixes reach the
|
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heart of the our current predicament: our solutions and our problems
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originate from the same short-sighted, greed-driven, competitive, and
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market-driven agendas that caused this global deadly pandemic in the
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first place.
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In 2020, we are generating 50 million tons worldwide of electronic
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waste, with an annual growth of 5%.^[^14]^ This means that we produce
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e-waste at three times the rate that humans reproduce. Much e-waste is
|
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toxic and severely impacts land, water, plants, animals, and humans.
|
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This damage is permanent. At the other end of the supply chain, fields
|
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of wheat and corn have become lakes of toxic sludge to accommodate the
|
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rare earth mining industry.^[^15]^ From Mongolia to China to the Congo,
|
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people labour in dangerous conditions, mining through the ore-laden mud
|
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to find rare minerals to power our devices. Elsewhere, people work
|
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endless shifts to assemble computers, phones, tablets. It should be no
|
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surprise then that the internet that connects this all is toxic too,
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evidenced by both the work of content moderators who filter the
|
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internet, and the shady tactics used by Big Tech to evade taxes to get
|
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filthy rich off the backs of this global human-powered machine. As Ron
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Deibert put it recently in his 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, "If we continue
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on this path of unbridled consumption and planned obsolescence, we are
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doomed."^[^16]^
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So we can either become extinct from the repercussions of our centuries
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old destructive neoliberal colonial institutions, as the planet pushes
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back with more pandemics, storms, and violence, or we can get together
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and admit to our failures as colonisers. These failures tap into
|
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something profound, deeply broken, about what settlers have historically
|
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valued and continue to enact. We are living largely in the dark
|
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fantasies of ghosts -- and these old, settler ideas haunt and break us.
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We can imagine better. We can make other decisions. We can tune our
|
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emotions to move from awareness to anxiety to action. We return public
|
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lands to Indigenous peoples. We defund police and dismantle white
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supremacy. We transform ourselves, and our communication systems will
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follow.
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[^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)
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[*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/)
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[*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)
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[^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/)
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[*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/)
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[^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)
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[^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/)
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[^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)
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[^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)
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[^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)
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[^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)
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and
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[*https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-55002423*](https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-55002423)
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[^9]: [*https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/*](https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/)
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[^10]: [*https://www.ecosia.org/*](https://www.ecosia.org/)
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[^11]: [*https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/*](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/)
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[^12]: [*http://www.green-algorithms.org/*](http://www.green-algorithms.org/)
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[^13]: [*https://landback.org/manifesto/*](https://landback.org/manifesto/)
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[^14]: [*https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189*](https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189)
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[^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)
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[^16]: [*https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert*](https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert)
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Title: Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis?
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Author: Recommon
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Category: Articles
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Author: Recommon.org
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*"Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis?"*
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Title: The Philosophy of Warnings
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Author: Santiago Zabala
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Category: Articles
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Title: The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud
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Author: Mél Hogan
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Category: Articles
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# The Pandemic\'s Dark Cloud
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As the pandemic settled into consciousness across the globe, humans
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devolved. People in countries where the response to COVID-19 was most
|
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mismanaged started to snack a lot.[^1] Pre-sliced packaged charcuterie.
|
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Ritz crackers. Oreo cookies. In their growing helplessness, people also
|
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sharply increased their consumption of alcohol, especially women in the
|
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US.[^2] For some it was drugs. Those lucky enough to keep their job
|
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doubled down on work, staying at their stations or desks for longer
|
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hours -- part avoidance and part stuckness into systems that could offer
|
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no other plan.
|
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|
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The dread by now is cumulative. Pick your pain: covid19, white
|
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supremacy, climate catastrophe. People are reaching new levels of
|
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"doomscrolling" on social media, playing online video games, and
|
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"binge-watching" Netflix as ways to pass the time, waiting on the virus
|
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to run its course, or for politicians to make a plan. As things shut
|
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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
|
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alternative in the meantime. It remains to be seen if this online world
|
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we've adopted so quickly is the new normal, and here to stay, or if
|
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it'll reflect to us the inefficiencies of how we lived before and save
|
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us from ourselves. Or, maybe it will call into question the terrible
|
||||
inequities that are only made more evident by this pandemic.
|
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|
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By April, the news media were already reporting that lockdowns had meant
|
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cleaner air and clearer water.[^3] Satellite images showed less
|
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pollution over China and the US. Animals were found roaming freely in
|
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different parts of India.[^4] "Nature is healing" became a popular meme
|
||||
celebrating the lessening of human impact and nature's recovery.[^5] But
|
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were the effects of lockdown, or quarantine, of humans being trapped in
|
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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
|
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weightless way forward? Social isolation and disinformation propagation
|
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problems aside, could the internet become a tool to inadvertently save
|
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the environment?
|
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|
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In thinking of the internet and the many devices connected to it, these
|
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account for approximately 2-4% of global greenhouse emissions, which
|
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only promise to double by 2025.[^6] Data centres and vast server farms
|
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(where data is stored and transmitted) draw more than 80% of their
|
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energy from fossil fuel power stations. Online video alone -- porn,
|
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Netflix, YouTube, Zoom -- generated 60% of the world's total data flows
|
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before covid19 hit. A Google search uses as much energy as cooking an
|
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egg or boiling water in an electric kettle.[^7] Yearly emails for work
|
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(and not accounting for spam) have been calculated to be equal in terms
|
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of CO2 emissions to driving 320 kilometres.[^8] These numbers have
|
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likely gone up considerably since the pandemic.[^9] This way of living
|
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wasn't sustainable then, and it certainly isn't now.
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There are search engines (eg. Ecosia[^10]) and add-ons (eg. Carbonalyser
|
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by The Shift Project,[^11] green-algorithms.org[^12]) that help measure
|
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user impacts on the environment, but these miss addressing the bigger
|
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questions -- such as moving away from confronting personal use to the
|
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systemic, material, and ideological issues baked into the internet. Why
|
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is the internet like this? The question is more political than it is
|
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purely technological. It's more emotional, even, than it is political.
|
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Because we've drifted so far away from understanding nature as inherent
|
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to humans and non-humans alike, towards unrelenting and exploitative
|
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capitalism and extractivism, it means we now have these massively
|
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entangled systems that reinforce one another, generate profit for the
|
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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,
|
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natural. We might, for example, shift data centers to cooler climates to
|
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save on cooling costs, we might develop more efficient software, we
|
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might offer carbon offsetting and plant trees, but none of these
|
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technofixes reach the heart of the our current predicament: our
|
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solutions and our problems originate from the same short-sighted,
|
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greed-driven, competitive, and market-driven agendas that caused this
|
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global deadly pandemic in the first place.
|
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|
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In 2020, we are generating 50 million tons worldwide of electronic
|
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waste, with an annual growth of 5%.[^14] This means that we produce
|
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e-waste at three times the rate that humans reproduce. Much e-waste is
|
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toxic and severely impacts land, water, plants, animals, and humans.
|
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This damage is permanent. At the other end of the supply chain, fields
|
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of wheat and corn have become lakes of toxic sludge to accommodate the
|
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rare earth mining industry.[^15] From Mongolia to China to the Congo,
|
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people labour in dangerous conditions, mining through the ore-laden mud
|
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to find rare minerals to power our devices. Elsewhere, people work
|
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endless shifts to assemble computers, phones, tablets. It should be no
|
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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
|
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doomed."[^16]
|
||||
|
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So we can either become extinct from the repercussions of our centuries
|
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old destructive neoliberal colonial institutions, as the planet pushes
|
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back with more pandemics, storms, and violence, or we can get together
|
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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.
|
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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
|
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lands to Indigenous peoples. We defund and dismantle white supremacy. We
|
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transform ourselves, and our communication systems will follow.
|
||||
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[^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)
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[[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/)
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[[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)
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[^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/)
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[[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/)
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[^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)
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[^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/)
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[^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)
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[^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)
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[^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)
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[^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)
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[^9]: [[https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/]{.underline}](https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/)
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[^10]: [[https://www.ecosia.org/]{.underline}](https://www.ecosia.org/)
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[^11]: [[https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/]{.underline}](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/carbonalyser/)
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[^12]: [[http://www.green-algorithms.org/]{.underline}](http://www.green-algorithms.org/)
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[^13]: [[https://landback.org/manifesto/]{.underline}](https://landback.org/manifesto/)
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[^14]: [[https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189]{.underline}](https://www.thebalancesmb.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878189)
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[^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)
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[^16]: [[https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert]{.underline}](https://munkschool.exposure.co/a-qa-with-ron-deibert)
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content/pages/instruction-sheet.md
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content/pages/instruction-sheet.md
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Title: About
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# A Nourishing Network
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*A Nourishing Network *is a publishing project that aims at documenting
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and circulating current research done by a network of artists, activists
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and programmers that collaborate with the Austrian net culture
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initiative *servus.at.* Especially in this moment of reduced mobility
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and physical encounters, the publication stimulates the circulation of
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materials and their further development in a community that usually
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gathers in small-sized events and festivals.
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The project is a continuation of *Art Meets Radical Openness*--*AMRO*
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in short--a bi-yearly festival organized by servus.at in Linz
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([https://radical-openness.org](https://radical-openness.org/)). The
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festival creates space for discussions around the current impact of
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internet technologies and platforms. It aims to imagine possible (real)
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sustainable models for computational infrastructures, as an alternative
|
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to the growing techno-solutionist trend.
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|
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*A Nourishing Network* is produced as a hybrid publishing process
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realised by Manetta Berends and Alice Strete from the Rotterdam
|
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initiative Varia ([https://varia.zone](https://varia.zone/)).
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The project emerged as a response to the following three departure
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points:
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**Another lost occasion for degrowth?**
|
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|
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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?
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|
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**Re-centralization or blooming alternatives?**
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|
||||
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?**
|
||||
|
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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.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
|
||||
Title: First thing
|
||||
Date: 2020-11-13 16:46
|
||||
Category: Projections
|
||||
|
||||
First website page!
|
||||
@ -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
|
||||
@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ header,
|
||||
#instructions,
|
||||
footer{
|
||||
position: relative;
|
||||
width: 100%;
|
||||
width: calc(100% - 4em);
|
||||
margin: 2em 0;
|
||||
padding: 2em;
|
||||
border: 1px dotted magenta;
|
||||
|
||||
@ -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 %}
|
||||
|
||||
@ -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>
|
||||
|
||||
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Reference in New Issue
Block a user