diff --git a/cron.sh b/cron.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb48aae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cron.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# This will pump all the pads with a __PUBLISH__ tag into a folder "publish" as meta.json, txt, html and dhtml
+poetry run etherpump pull --meta --html --text --publish-opt-in --publish __PUBLISH__ --pub publish --css ../stylesheet.css --fix-names
+
+echo "Making the Etherpump index now ..."
+
+# This will make an index for the dump
+poetry run etherpump index input \
+ publish/*.meta.json \
+ --templatepath templates \
+ --title "Notes, __MAGICWORDS__, readers & more ..." \
+ --output index.html
+
+# tmp
+
+#rm -r ../publish/
+#mv publish ../
+#mv index.html ../
+
+echo "Done!"
+
+
+
+# This will save a pad.css file every hour from the pad https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/pad.css
+# cp publish/pad.css /srv/etherpad-lite/src/altetherpad/src/static/skins/no-skin/pad.css
diff --git a/etherpump/commands/pull.py b/etherpump/commands/pull.py
index 9ba42c4..ad44e66 100644
--- a/etherpump/commands/pull.py
+++ b/etherpump/commands/pull.py
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ def build_argument_parser(args):
action="store_true",
help="ensure `--publish` is honoured instead of `--nopublish`",
)
+ parser.add_argument(
+ "--magic-words",
+ default=False,
+ help="store all magic words used in a page in the meta.json file",
+ )
return parser
@@ -367,6 +372,40 @@ async def handle_pad(args, padid, data, info, session):
# once the content is settled, compute a hash
# and link it in the metadata!
+
+ # include magic words
+ if args.magic_words:
+
+ ##########################################
+ ## INCLUDE __XXX__ MAGIC WORDS
+ ##########################################
+ pattern = r'[__\w+?__]'
+ magic_words = re.match(pattern, string)
+ magic_words = magic_words.groups()
+ print(magic_words)
+ if args.publish_opt_in and args.publish not in text:
+ await try_deleting(
+ (
+ p + raw_ext,
+ p + ".raw.html",
+ p + ".diff.html",
+ p + ".meta.json",
+ )
+ )
+ print("[ ] {} (deleted, reason: publish opt-out)".format(padid))
+ skipped += 1
+ return False
+
+ ver["path"] = p + raw_ext
+ ver["url"] = quote(ver["path"])
+ async with await trio.open_file(ver["path"], "w") as f:
+ try:
+ # Note(decentral1se): unicode handling...
+ safe_text = text.encode("utf-8", "replace").decode()
+ await f.write(safe_text)
+ except Exception as exception:
+ print("PANIC: {}".format(exception))
+
links = []
if args.css:
links.append({"href": args.css, "rel": "stylesheet"})
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
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index 0000000..83f4cd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/index.html
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+
+
+
+ Welcome! The pages below have been deliberately published by their authors in order to share their thoughts, research and process in an early form. This page represents one of Varia's low-effort publishing tools. The pages are all produced through Varia's Etherpad instance.
+
+
+ Etherpad is used as collaborative writing tool to take notes, create readers, coordinate projects and document gatherings that happen in and around Varia. For example wg.membermeeting10.
+
+
+ This index is updated every 60 minutes.
+
When people change how they speak or act in order to conform to dominant norms, we call it “code-switching.” And, like other types of codes we have explored in this book, the practice of code-switching is power-laden. Justine Cassell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human–Computer Interaction Institute, creates educational programs for children and found that avatars using African American Vernacular English lead Black children “to achieve better results in teaching scientific concepts than when the computer spoke in standard English.” But when it came to tutoring the children for class presentations, she explained that “we wanted it [sc. the avatar] to practice with them in ‘proper English.’ Standard American English is still the code of power, so we needed to develop an agent that would train them in code switching.” This reminds us that whoever defines the standard expression exercises power over everyone else, who is forced to fit in or else risks getting pushed out. But what is the alternative? ። ፥This is also a problem in Dutch Universities and art spaces where you have to write in English. The thoughts you express in a second language are always more difficult to be precise. I tutor math which should be a universal language but find that children who have non Dutch speaking parents will miss fine distinctions in the questions they are asked. may i ask what level is that? highschool havo/vwo oh i see, got confused with uni yes I was an external examiner as well at an art school BA level where the English was sometimes so bad it made it hard to read. It was like reading google translate i have had the same problem and i must say that i wonder whether the fact that only non dutch have to obtain a toefl explains why its usually with dutch students i get most difficulties
+
+
+
When I first started teaching at Princeton, a smart phone app, Yik Yak, was still popular among my students. It was founded in 2013 and allowed users to post anonymously while voting “up” and voting “down” others’ posts, and was designed to be used by people within a five-mile radius (sounds a bit like zuckerberg's hot or not / pre facebook voting website). It was especially popular on college campuses and, like other social media sites, the app reinforced and exposed racism and anti-Black hatred among young people. As in Internet comments sections more broadly, people often say on Yik Yak what they would not say in person, and so all pretense of racial progress is washed away by spending just five minutes perusing the posts.
+
+
But the difference from other virtual encounters is that users know that the racist views on Yik Yak are held by people in close proximity – those you pass in the dorm, make small talk with in the dining hall, work with on a class project. I logged on to see what my students were dealing with, but quickly found the toxicity to consist “overwhelmingly of … racist intellectualism, false equivalences, elite entitlement, and just plain old ignorance in peak form. White supremacy upvoted by a new generation … truly demoralizing for a teacher. So I had to log off. Real education could start by making people aware of the fact that digital bullying is still bullying. And writing has consequences
+
hhhm, i also believe some design reinforces bullying, twitter for instance seems to have a tendancy to exacerbate conflict and harassment. Not trying to deresponsibilise people but some systems work better than some others at exacerbating tendancies.
+
This relates to coding and algorithms that favour dissent
+
+
Racism, I often say, is a form of theft. Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community. ¡ I knew that such direct exposure to this kind of unadulterated racism among people whom I encounter every day would quickly steal my enthusiasm for teaching. The fact is, I do not need to be constantly exposed to it to understand that we have a serious problem – exposure, as I discussed it in previous chapters, is no straightforward good. My experience with Yik Yak reminded me that we are not going to simply “age out” of White supremacy, because the bigoted baton has been passed and a new generation is even more adept at rationalizing racism. 、This is also a big problem under Dutch students who put all their racism in the category joke. or even make it pass as an opinion of equal value to an other (thinking about FR right now) yes even more dangerous. The whole idea that there should be a debate about racism plays into this as well. Racism is not a debatable subject in the sense whether we are for or against it indeed and somewhat this strategy has only just made it more audible
+
+
+
Yik Yak eventually went out of business in 2017, but what I think of as NextGen Racism is still very much in business … more racially coded than we typically find in anonymous posts. Coded speech, as we have seen, reflects particular power dynamics that allow some people to impose their values and interests upon others. As one of my White male students wrote – in solidarity with the Black Justice League, a student group that was receiving hateful backlash on social media after campus protests:
+
+
+
+ “To change Yik Yak, we will have to change the people using it. To change those people, we will have to change the culture in which they – and we – live. To change that culture, we’ll have to work tirelessly and relentlessly towards a radical rethinking of the way we live – and that rethinking will eventually need to involve all of us.”
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+
I see this as a call to rewrite dominant cultural codes rather than simply to code-switch. It is a call to embed new values and new social relations into the world. Whereas code-switching is about fitting in and “leaning in” to play a game created by others, perhaps what we need more of is to stretch out the arenas in which we live and work to become more inclusive and just.
+
+
If, as Cathy O’Neil writes, “Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide,” then what we need is greater investment in socially just imaginaries. aplausse, I like this bit too, I think that spending time imagining moral can be quite interesting, a lot can come up. This, I think, would have to entail a socially conscious approach to tech development that would require prioritizing equity over efficiency, social good over market imperatives. Given the importance of training sets in machine learning, another set of interventions would require designing computer programs from scratch and training AI “like a child,” so as to make us aware of social biases. As I am reading I am thinking of the term "Super-code". That everything just writes ontop of each other... (that makes me think of palimpsest) but a part in me do more like this idea of traing AI as children. Like some kind of reprograming of what we have. Like move away from thinking that we need something "new" maybe, but how can it be reprogramed. but to program is to create a set of instructions, so I am thinking that programming if using the same material that has been passed through generation (something that could be alike the concept of cultural archive), then it's still gonna generate problems perhaps I think that is a good point. I am just sitting and trying to imagine how the online or tech world would look like if you were only aloowed to express positive feelings. Like instagram without a commentary field. But maybe the lack of likes would then say things.
+
(Instagram actually feels like a very positive social network)It dose, but maybe I am biteing my own tail now, you can also be positive towards racism right?! or display oppressive benevolance even :-/ Yes!
+
You can also like images of not so nice people and posts. Maybe here the moral imagination comes in... (btw I think we are moving soon to the last thingy)Back to the other pad you mean? https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech ;-)Sure! ah we have 3 mins sorry But rehinking posetively, ading what is undernieth here, I am also thinking that, if I am thinking posetivily, that we might will see changes like what is described coming, I was listening to a radio program a couple of years ago, where they were speaksing about how now it is possible to understand the damages the tech world can do in reltion to social justice or social relationships. Maybe there will be more laws around in the future, so it at least will not be so accecible.
+
at least we are kind of lucky to be in Europe I think, but what i sometimes fear is that the legal framework often appears too late Think that is a good point too! have you added the obama comment?No it was not me!
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The key is that all this takes time and intention, which runs against the rush to innovate that pervades the ethos of tech marketing campaigns. But, if we are not simply “users” but people committed to building a more just society, it is vital that we demand a slower and more socially conscious innovation. The nonprofit AI research company Open AI says, as a practical model for this approach, that it will stop competing and start assisting another project if it is value-aligned and safety-conscious, because continuing to compete usually short “changes “adequate safety precautions” and, I would add, justice concerns.
+
+
+ Ultimately we must demand that tech designers and decision-makers become accountable stewards of technology, able to advance social welfare. For example, the Algorithmic Justice League has launched a Safe Face Pledge that calls on organizations to take a public stand “towards mitigating the abuse of facial recognition analysis technology. This historic pledge prohibits lethal use of the technology, lawless police use, and requires transparency in any government use” and includes radical commitments such as “show value for human life, dignity, and rights.” Tellingly, none of the major tech companies has been willing to sign the pledge to date.”
+
+
“Nevertheless, there are some promising signs that the innocent do-good ethos is shifting and that more industry insiders are acknowledging the complicity of technology in systems of power. For example, thousands of Google employees recently condemned the company’s collaboration on a Pentagon program that uses AI to make drone strikes more effective. And a growing number of Microsoft employees are opposed to the company’s contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit.” Much of this reflects the broader public outrage surrounding the Trump administration’s policy of family separation, which rips thousands of children from their parents and holds them in camps reminiscent of the racist regimes of a previous era.
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+
The fact that computer programmers and others in the tech industry are beginning to recognize their complicity in making the New Jim Code possible is a worthwhile development. It also suggests that design is intentional and that political protest matters in shaping internal debates and conflicts within companies. This kind of “informed refusal” 𐏐 expressed by Google and Microsoft employees is certainly necessary as we build a movement to counter the New Jim Code, but we cannot wait for worker sympathies to sway the industry.
+
+
Where, after all, is the public outrage over the systematic terror exercised by police in Black neighborhoods with or without the aid of novel technologies? Where are the open letters and employee petitions refusing to build crime production models that entrap racialized communities? Why is there no comparable public fury directed at the surveillance techniques, from the prison system to the foster system, that have torn Black families apart long before Trump’s administration? The selective outrage follows long-standing patterns of neglect and normalizes anti-Blackness as the weather, as Christina Sharpe notes, whereas non-Black suffering is treated as a disaster. This is why we cannot wait for the tech industry to regulate itself on the basis of popular sympathies.
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+ Some conversation starters... (feel free to add your own)
+
+
+ ¡ "Racism is a form of theft Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community." I appreciate this sentence, it makes me think that there are parts of social relation that can exist in spite of / across a racist society, which are at some point of our lives stolen from us. (LINE 9)
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+ ፥ Can we think about the "codes" of the dominant classes we can perceive around us? (and which ones would you say are "undesirable?) (LINE 3)
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+ ። What code-switching do we perform ourselves? To aid a code "vanishing" do we need to stop performing? (LINE 3)
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+ 𐏐 How can we encourage an "informed refusal" in the users of racist technologies, not only the workers? (LINE 25)
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+ 、 Why are we more adept at "rationalizing racism."?(LINE 9)
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+Beyond Code-Switching
+
+ When people change how they speak or act in order to conform to dominant norms, we call it “code-switching.” And, like other types of codes we have explored in this book, the practice of code-switching is power-laden. Justine Cassell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human–Computer Interaction Institute, creates educational programs for children and found that avatars using African American Vernacular English lead Black children “to achieve better results in teaching scientific concepts than when the computer spoke in standard English.” But when it came to tutoring the children for class presentations, she explained that “we wanted it [sc. the avatar] to practice with them in ‘proper English.’ Standard American English is still the code of power, so we needed to develop an agent that would train them in code switching.” This reminds us that whoever defines the standard expression exercises power over everyone else, who is forced to fit in or else risks getting pushed out. But what is the alternative? ። ፥This is also a problem in Dutch Universities and art spaces where you have to write in English. The thoughts you express in a second language are always more difficult to be precise. I tutor math which should be a universal language but find that children who have non Dutch speaking parents will miss fine distinctions in the questions they are asked. may i ask what level is that? highschool havo/vwo oh i see, got confused with uni yes I was an external examiner as well at an art school BA level where the English was sometimes so bad it made it hard to read. It was like reading google translate i have had the same problem and i must say that i wonder whether the fact that only non dutch have to obtain a toefl explains why its usually with dutch students i get most difficulties
+
+ When I first started teaching at Princeton, a smart phone app, Yik Yak, was still popular among my students. It was founded in 2013 and allowed users to post anonymously while voting “up” and voting “down” others’ posts, and was designed to be used by people within a five-mile radius (sounds a bit like zuckerberg's hot or not / pre facebook voting website). It was especially popular on college campuses and, like other social media sites, the app reinforced and exposed racism and anti-Black hatred among young people. As in Internet comments sections more broadly, people often say on Yik Yak what they would not say in person, and so all pretense of racial progress is washed away by spending just five minutes perusing the posts.
+
+ But the difference from other virtual encounters is that users know that the racist views on Yik Yak are held by people in close proximity – those you pass in the dorm, make small talk with in the dining hall, work with on a class project. I logged on to see what my students were dealing with, but quickly found the toxicity to consist “overwhelmingly of … racist intellectualism, false equivalences, elite entitlement, and just plain old ignorance in peak form. White supremacy upvoted by a new generation … truly demoralizing for a teacher. So I had to log off. Real education could start by making people aware of the fact that digital bullying is still bullying. And writing has consequences
+ hhhm, i also believe some design reinforces bullying, twitter for instance seems to have a tendancy to exacerbate conflict and harassment. Not trying to deresponsibilise people but some systems work better than some others at exacerbating tendancies.
+ This relates to coding and algorithms that favour dissent
+
+ Racism, I often say, is a form of theft. Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community. ¡ I knew that such direct exposure to this kind of unadulterated racism among people whom I encounter every day would quickly steal my enthusiasm for teaching. The fact is, I do not need to be constantly exposed to it to understand that we have a serious problem – exposure, as I discussed it in previous chapters, is no straightforward good. My experience with Yik Yak reminded me that we are not going to simply “age out” of White supremacy, because the bigoted baton has been passed and a new generation is even more adept at rationalizing racism. 、This is also a big problem under Dutch students who put all their racism in the category joke. or even make it pass as an opinion of equal value to an other (thinking about FR right now) yes even more dangerous. The whole idea that there should be a debate about racism plays into this as well. Racism is not a debatable subject in the sense whether we are for or against it indeed and somewhat this strategy has only just made it more audible
+
+ Yik Yak eventually went out of business in 2017, but what I think of as NextGen Racism is still very much in business … more racially coded than we typically find in anonymous posts. Coded speech, as we have seen, reflects particular power dynamics that allow some people to impose their values and interests upon others. As one of my White male students wrote – in solidarity with the Black Justice League, a student group that was receiving hateful backlash on social media after campus protests:
+
+ “To change Yik Yak, we will have to change the people using it. To change those people, we will have to change the culture in which they – and we – live. To change that culture, we’ll have to work tirelessly and relentlessly towards a radical rethinking of the way we live – and that rethinking will eventually need to involve all of us.”
+
+ I see this as a call to rewrite dominant cultural codes rather than simply to code-switch. It is a call to embed new values and new social relations into the world. Whereas code-switching is about fitting in and “leaning in” to play a game created by others, perhaps what we need more of is to stretch out the arenas in which we live and work to become more inclusive and just.
+
+ If, as Cathy O’Neil writes, “Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide,” then what we need is greater investment in socially just imaginaries. aplausse, I like this bit too, I think that spending time imagining moral can be quite interesting, a lot can come up. This, I think, would have to entail a socially conscious approach to tech development that would require prioritizing equity over efficiency, social good over market imperatives. Given the importance of training sets in machine learning, another set of interventions would require designing computer programs from scratch and training AI “like a child,” so as to make us aware of social biases. As I am reading I am thinking of the term "Super-code". That everything just writes ontop of each other... (that makes me think of palimpsest) but a part in me do more like this idea of traing AI as children. Like some kind of reprograming of what we have. Like move away from thinking that we need something "new" maybe, but how can it be reprogramed. but to program is to create a set of instructions, so I am thinking that programming if using the same material that has been passed through generation (something that could be alike the concept of cultural archive), then it's still gonna generate problems perhaps I think that is a good point. I am just sitting and trying to imagine how the online or tech world would look like if you were only aloowed to express positive feelings. Like instagram without a commentary field. But maybe the lack of likes would then say things.
+ (Instagram actually feels like a very positive social network)It dose, but maybe I am biteing my own tail now, you can also be positive towards racism right?! or display oppressive benevolance even :-/ Yes!
+ You can also like images of not so nice people and posts. Maybe here the moral imagination comes in... (btw I think we are moving soon to the last thingy)Back to the other pad you mean? https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/abolitionist_tech ;-)Sure! ah we have 3 mins sorry But rehinking posetively, ading what is undernieth here, I am also thinking that, if I am thinking posetivily, that we might will see changes like what is described coming, I was listening to a radio program a couple of years ago, where they were speaksing about how now it is possible to understand the damages the tech world can do in reltion to social justice or social relationships. Maybe there will be more laws around in the future, so it at least will not be so accecible.
+ at least we are kind of lucky to be in Europe I think, but what i sometimes fear is that the legal framework often appears too late Think that is a good point too! have you added the obama comment?No it was not me!
+
+
+ The key is that all this takes time and intention, which runs against the rush to innovate that pervades the ethos of tech marketing campaigns. But, if we are not simply “users” but people committed to building a more just society, it is vital that we demand a slower and more socially conscious innovation. The nonprofit AI research company Open AI says, as a practical model for this approach, that it will stop competing and start assisting another project if it is value-aligned and safety-conscious, because continuing to compete usually short “changes “adequate safety precautions” and, I would add, justice concerns.
+
+ Ultimately we must demand that tech designers and decision-makers become accountable stewards of technology, able to advance social welfare. For example, the Algorithmic Justice League has launched a Safe Face Pledge that calls on organizations to take a public stand “towards mitigating the abuse of facial recognition analysis technology. This historic pledge prohibits lethal use of the technology, lawless police use, and requires transparency in any government use” and includes radical commitments such as “show value for human life, dignity, and rights.” Tellingly, none of the major tech companies has been willing to sign the pledge to date.”
+
+ “Nevertheless, there are some promising signs that the innocent do-good ethos is shifting and that more industry insiders are acknowledging the complicity of technology in systems of power. For example, thousands of Google employees recently condemned the company’s collaboration on a Pentagon program that uses AI to make drone strikes more effective. And a growing number of Microsoft employees are opposed to the company’s contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit.” Much of this reflects the broader public outrage surrounding the Trump administration’s policy of family separation, which rips thousands of children from their parents and holds them in camps reminiscent of the racist regimes of a previous era.
+
+ The fact that computer programmers and others in the tech industry are beginning to recognize their complicity in making the New Jim Code possible is a worthwhile development. It also suggests that design is intentional and that political protest matters in shaping internal debates and conflicts within companies. This kind of “informed refusal” 𐏐 expressed by Google and Microsoft employees is certainly necessary as we build a movement to counter the New Jim Code, but we cannot wait for worker sympathies to sway the industry.
+
+ Where, after all, is the public outrage over the systematic terror exercised by police in Black neighborhoods with or without the aid of novel technologies? Where are the open letters and employee petitions refusing to build crime production models that entrap racialized communities? Why is there no comparable public fury directed at the surveillance techniques, from the prison system to the foster system, that have torn Black families apart long before Trump’s administration? The selective outrage follows long-standing patterns of neglect and normalizes anti-Blackness as the weather, as Christina Sharpe notes, whereas non-Black suffering is treated as a disaster. This is why we cannot wait for the tech industry to regulate itself on the basis of popular sympathies.
+
+
+Some conversation starters... (feel free to add your own)
+
+¡ "Racism is a form of theft Yes, it has justified the theft of land, labor, and life throughout the centuries. But racism also robs us of our relationships, stealing our capacity to trust one another, ripping away the social fabric, every anonymous post pilfering our ability to build community."
+I appreciate this sentence, it makes me think that there are parts of social relation that can exist in spite of / across a racist society, which are at some point of our lives stolen from us. (LINE 9)
+
+፥ Can we think about the "codes" of the dominant classes we can perceive around us? (and which ones would you say are "undesirable?) (LINE 3)
+
+። What code-switching do we perform ourselves? To aid a code "vanishing" do we need to stop performing? (LINE 3)
+
+𐏐 How can we encourage an "informed refusal" in the users of racist technologies, not only the workers? (LINE 25)
+
+、 Why are we more adept at "rationalizing racism."?(LINE 9)
+
+__PUBLISH__
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Empathy talk is everywhere. I have used it myself as shorthand, as a way to index the lack of social cohesion and justice (is that what empathy is?) I once heard a really nice description of empathy, & how it differs from sympathy & pity. Pity = looking down on someone and feeling sorry. Sympathy = sitting across from someone and saying 'I understand'. Empathy = the ability to crawl into someone else's skin & truly feel what that person is experiencing. They probably said it much more poetic way then I just did but that 'bout sums it up.I think they work for the text later on, with this VR stuff. I think we use empathy when really we mean sympathy, because we rarely feel what others feel., and as a gentler way to invoke the need for solidarity. Empathy is woven more and more into the marketing of tech products. (and design education)all education if we read on. Since when was that a tick box for curriculum? I participate in a lot of conferences for primary and secondary school educators and I see how the product expos at these events promise these teachers’ that gadgets and software will cultivate empathy in students. Virtual reality (VR) technology in particular is routinely described as an “empathy machine” because of the way it allows us to move through someone else’s world. Perhaps it does, in some cases. But, as some critics emphasize, this rhetoric creates a moral imperative to sell headsets and to consume human anguish, and in the process “pain is repurposed as a site of economic production”!!!all our natrual resources, minerals and emotions can be exploited:
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“Imagine a VR live stream of a police killing. This, tragically, will soon cease to be science fiction: within years, you will be able to experience an extremely convincing simulation of what it’s like to be murdered by a cop fuuuuuck wtf??. Will this lead to the cop’s conviction, or to meaningful criminal justice reform? Recent history suggests the answer is no. But the content will probably go viral, as its affective intensity generates high levels of user engagement. And this virality will generate revenue for the company that owns the platform.”:(
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Empathy makes businesses grow. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, venture capitalists invested almost $1.2 billion in VR technologies, almost 50 percent more than in the previous quarter. In 2017, following the devasting hurricane in Puerto Rico, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company’s VR app to “visit” the island as part of Facebook’s partnership with the Red Cross recovery effort. (i remember this, and how gross it was; something else that comes to mind is the viral image of zuckerberg prancing around down a corridor during a conference while everyone else was wearing a VR headset) While Zuckerberg was immersed in the scene, those watching the live feed saw his cartoon avatar touring through the wreckage alongside another company executive who, at one point, comments: “it’s crazy to feel like you’re in the middle of it.”(omg sounds more like disaster tourism; wreckage from the comfort of your own home if you're rich!)20 In response to criticism, Zuckerberg apologized by saying:
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When I ask my students to question their assumptions about various issues, I often use the analogy of “lenses” – encouraging a different lens so that we may look anew at all that we take for granted. Well, now, the lenses are no longer metaphorical. But, as anthropologist John L. Jackson has noted, “seeing through another person’s eyes is not the same thing as actually seeing that person. In fact, one precludes the other, by definition, unless the gaze is (tellingly) merely into a mirror.” Being the other, conceived of in this way, is an extension of what bell hooks calls “eating the other.” [consuming the other as a form of pain tourism]>insert head exploding emoji< Tech designers have created actual headsets that we can don, our physical body in one world as our mind travels through another. Or is that really how it works? By simply changing what (as opposed to how) we see, do we really leave behind all our assumptions and prior experiences as we journey into virtual reality? Perhaps we overestimate how much our literal sight dictates our understanding of race and inequity more broadly? Sight is completely overestimated. We've become so accustomed to see suffering (as an external experience), simple things such as walking past a homeless person are completely normal. I wonder if that renders our understanding of inequality to the superficial. What injustices / unequity are invisible to the 'eye'? Not sure if that goes off Benjamin's point ...
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So how can we apply this lesson to the promises surrounding VR? Even as we are seeing and experiencing something different, we do not simply discard our prior perceptions of the world. << What? / and what if the sentence was: even if we are seeing and experiencing something exactly the same, ... ? (so 1: i don't understand the sentence, that's why i asked 'what?" 2. what if we flip the sentence around focusing on the thing we're seeing that we don't experience the same way, bc of beliefs e.g., what would follow after the comma?)One of the problems with VR is that it can present another opportunity for “poverty porn” and cultural tourism that reinforces current power dynamics between those who do the seeing and those who are watched. ꘏
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Even so, what makes and will continue to make VR and other empathy machines so appealing, not just for big business but also for numerous NGOs, the United Nations, and the UNICEF, which are using it to fundraise for human rights campaigns (ugh), is that they seem to offer a technical fix (so, seem to, but don't, right?) for deep-seated divisions that continue to rip the social fabric. “For instance, there is growing buzz around using VR for “immersive career and vocational training” for prisoners to gain job and life skills prior to release. At first glance, we might be tempted to count this as an abolitionist tool that works to undo the carceral apparatus by equipping former prisoners with valuable skills and opportunities. But what will the job market be like for former prisoners who have used VR? Research shows that there is widespread discrimination in the labor market, especially against African Americans convicted of a felony. And the labor market is already shaped by a technology that seeks to sort out those who are convicted of crimes, or even arrested, regardless of race. A US National Employment Law Project report shows that a staggering number of people – 65 million – “need not apply” for jobs from the numerous companies who outsource background checks to firms that, reportedly, look “just” at the facts (arrested? convicted?). When such technological fixes are used by employers to make hiring decisions in the name of efficiency, there is little opportunity for a former felon, including those who have used VR, to garner the empathy of an employer who otherwise might have been willing to ponder over the circumstances of an arrest or conviction.
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+ ። Thinking about the quote from Osagie Obasogie "Seeing is not believing. Rather, to believe, in a sense, is to see." How could we re-position ourselves and our "beliefs" / truths if we consider this comment? (LINE 17) be more aware of and practice sympathy? trying not the be the centre of our own existence?
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[ref: 'Carne Y Arena'. VR installation re: mexican border. In Amsterdam 2018.
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+ Empathy talk is everywhere. I have used it myself as shorthand, as a way to index the lack of social cohesion and justice (is that what empathy is?) I once heard a really nice description of empathy, & how it differs from sympathy & pity. Pity = looking down on someone and feeling sorry. Sympathy = sitting across from someone and saying 'I understand'. Empathy = the ability to crawl into someone else's skin & truly feel what that person is experiencing. They probably said it much more poetic way then I just did but that 'bout sums it up.I think they work for the text later on, with this VR stuff. I think we use empathy when really we mean sympathy, because we rarely feel what others feel., and as a gentler way to invoke the need for solidarity. Empathy is woven more and more into the marketing of tech products. (and design education)all education if we read on. Since when was that a tick box for curriculum? I participate in a lot of conferences for primary and secondary school educators and I see how the product expos at these events promise these teachers’ that gadgets and software will cultivate empathy in students. Virtual reality (VR) technology in particular is routinely described as an “empathy machine” because of the way it allows us to move through someone else’s world. Perhaps it does, in some cases. But, as some critics emphasize, this rhetoric creates a moral imperative to sell headsets and to consume human anguish, and in the process “pain is repurposed as a site of economic production”!!!all our natrual resources, minerals and emotions can be exploited:
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+ Empathy makes businesses grow. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, venture capitalists invested almost $1.2 billion in VR technologies, almost 50 percent more than in the previous quarter. In 2017, following the devasting hurricane in Puerto Rico, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company’s VR app to “visit” the island as part of Facebook’s partnership with the Red Cross recovery effort. (i remember this, and how gross it was; something else that comes to mind is the viral image of zuckerberg prancing around down a corridor during a conference while everyone else was wearing a VR headset) While Zuckerberg was immersed in the scene, those watching the live feed saw his cartoon avatar touring through the wreckage alongside another company executive who, at one point, comments: “it’s crazy to feel like you’re in the middle of it.”(omg sounds more like disaster tourism; wreckage from the comfort of your own home if you're rich!)20 In response to criticism, Zuckerberg apologized by saying:
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+ When I ask my students to question their assumptions about various issues, I often use the analogy of “lenses” – encouraging a different lens so that we may look anew at all that we take for granted. Well, now, the lenses are no longer metaphorical. But, as anthropologist John L. Jackson has noted, “seeing through another person’s eyes is not the same thing as actually seeing that person. In fact, one precludes the other, by definition, unless the gaze is (tellingly) merely into a mirror.” Being the other, conceived of in this way, is an extension of what bell hooks calls “eating the other.” [consuming the other as a form of pain tourism]>insert head exploding emoji< Tech designers have created actual headsets that we can don, our physical body in one world as our mind travels through another. Or is that really how it works? By simply changing what (as opposed to how) we see, do we really leave behind all our assumptions and prior experiences as we journey into virtual reality? Perhaps we overestimate how much our literal sight dictates our understanding of race and inequity more broadly? Sight is completely overestimated. We've become so accustomed to see suffering (as an external experience), simple things such as walking past a homeless person are completely normal. I wonder if that renders our understanding of inequality to the superficial. What injustices / unequity are invisible to the 'eye'? Not sure if that goes off Benjamin's point ...
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+ I am reminded of a study by sociologist Osagie Obasogie, author of Blinded by Sight, in which he interviewed people who were blind from birth, asking them about their experiences of race. He found that, like everyone else, they had learned to “see” – that is, perceive – racial distinctions and hierarchies through a variety of senses and narratives that did not depend on actual sight. (ah! other ways to sense hierarchy) From this, Obasogie compels us to question two things: sight as an objective transmitter of reality and colorblindness as a viable legal framework and social ideology. If blind people admit to seeing race, why do sighted people pretend not see it? mic drop In his words, “our seemingly objective engagements with the world around us are subordinate to a faith that orients our visual experience (would be a great exercise to work through what forces we are subordinate to) and, moreover, produces our ability to see certain things. Seeing is not believing. Rather, to believe, in a sense, is to see.” i see it when i believe it።
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+ So how can we apply this lesson to the promises surrounding VR? Even as we are seeing and experiencing something different, we do not simply discard our prior perceptions of the world. << What? / and what if the sentence was: even if we are seeing and experiencing something exactly the same, ... ? (so 1: i don't understand the sentence, that's why i asked 'what?" 2. what if we flip the sentence around focusing on the thing we're seeing that we don't experience the same way, bc of beliefs e.g., what would follow after the comma?)One of the problems with VR is that it can present another opportunity for “poverty porn” and cultural tourism that reinforces current power dynamics between those who do the seeing and those who are watched. ꘏
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+ Even so, what makes and will continue to make VR and other empathy machines so appealing, not just for big business but also for numerous NGOs, the United Nations, and the UNICEF, which are using it to fundraise for human rights campaigns (ugh), is that they seem to offer a technical fix (so, seem to, but don't, right?) for deep-seated divisions that continue to rip the social fabric. “For instance, there is growing buzz around using VR for “immersive career and vocational training” for prisoners to gain job and life skills prior to release. At first glance, we might be tempted to count this as an abolitionist tool that works to undo the carceral apparatus by equipping former prisoners with valuable skills and opportunities. But what will the job market be like for former prisoners who have used VR? Research shows that there is widespread discrimination in the labor market, especially against African Americans convicted of a felony. And the labor market is already shaped by a technology that seeks to sort out those who are convicted of crimes, or even arrested, regardless of race. A US National Employment Law Project report shows that a staggering number of people – 65 million – “need not apply” for jobs from the numerous companies who outsource background checks to firms that, reportedly, look “just” at the facts (arrested? convicted?). When such technological fixes are used by employers to make hiring decisions in the name of efficiency, there is little opportunity for a former felon, including those who have used VR, to garner the empathy of an employer who otherwise might have been willing to ponder over the circumstances of an arrest or conviction.
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+። Thinking about the quote from Osagie Obasogie "Seeing is not believing. Rather, to believe, in a sense, is to see." How could we re-position ourselves and our "beliefs" / truths if we consider this comment? (LINE 17) be more aware of and practice sympathy? trying not the be the centre of our own existence?
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+꘏ Poverty porn reinforcing power dynamics ... our obsession with VR ... I am curious to think about what it means for the art world to be so obsessed with this VR shit ... VR as escapism ? (LINE 19)
+ [ref: 'Carne Y Arena'. VR installation re: mexican border. In Amsterdam 2018.
+ https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/alejandro-g-inarritu-carne-y-arena-virtually-present-physically-invisible] the artist here writes "My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition in an attempt to break the dictatorship of the frame, within which things are just observed, and claim the space to allow the visitor to go through a direct experience walking in the immigrants’ feet, under their skin, and into their hearts." How do you feel about that? Into their hearts!
+ It sounds rather violent. And without knowing the project too well, just from this line, it does seem like a perfect illustration as to how not only the tech industry is benefitting from "poverty porn" or "pain tourism" but also the art world.
+፥ Is empathy even a desirable requirement for social change? (LINE 25)
+ I think trust is a better fuel for social relations; trust the other when they say they are hurting instead of constantly requiring proof after proof after proof. There's enough proof, what else is needed?
+ that is a nice way to think about it. I am remembering articles surfacing during peak covid times about the racial bias towards the pain of minority people, particularly in the uk. None white people's "proof of pain" is not taken as seriously as white people's "pain" by medical staff. Good point! It also makes me think of the horrible images circulating on social media of the dead bodies of Black people in the US. It felt very perverse to have access to that or to see these digital images regurgitated by various platforms (mainly Twitter).
+ Yes re: trust! This idea of trust also flows back to Glissant's idea of the right to opacity I think, where we should be able to accept what we don't understand. To trust also what we don't understand in order to be able to live & work next to one another. ah yes very nice to bring that in.
+ in therapy circles it isn't, sympathy is though. empathy can be a way of diverting from your own problems/responsibilities and even obstructing meaningful connection. ooh that is an interesting perspective, diversion.
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+ Read & Repair feat. Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
+ <http://varia.zone/en/rr-stone-throw-1.html> Thursday, 23rd July 2020. 16:00-18:00 CEST
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+ Welcome to our pad for the workshop.
+ A few things you should know about this space: - The pads are not listed on search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it. - Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely. - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies. - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
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+ Today we are going to read parts of the chapter,
+ Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice
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+ Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
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+ We are going to post the text from the book into the pad, and will send you a download link to the whole book at the end of the workshop. We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.
+ Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading. You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation. amy, cristina and julie will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.
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+ Introduction coming now!
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+ Today we are going to read parts of the chapter, Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice from
+ Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
+ You can download it laterrr. We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.
+ Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading. You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation. amy will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.
+ We will converse through typed out language here on the pad. Parts of our typing will go towards
+ stone throw, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections.
+ In this process of learning together, we wish that our process is recorded as a way to share it with others, but that, like us, it takes a different shape with time. This is why the debris we gather today from the workshop will be recorded with your consent and put on a website (as a txt file), where each time it is viewed, the traces we leave today will be corrupted until eventually they will stop being accessible. The more they are viewed, the faster they fade away. At the end of the sites life, only links to our references will remain.
+ Our Debris form an experimental exercise in consent giving. We will explain this again when when we come to the last exercise, but we want to highlight now that no text will be used without checking with you. _DEBRIS_ consent
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+ Close Reading of the Introduction to Chapter 5
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+ We will intermittently post 1 section at a time from Ruha Benjamin's introduction to the chapter. As you read, you may wish to annotate or contextualise the writing in your own experience. We would like to add our comments around or inside of the text as a way to bring it closer to us. We will remove the colour of the paragraphs, so we can see our personal colours, and recognise that other voices are on the pad. We welcome discussion.
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The power of the New Jim Code [ref below] is that it allows racist habits and logics to enter through the backdoor of tech design, in which the humans who create the algorithms are hidden from view. In the previous chapters I explored a range of discriminatory designs – some that explicitly work to amplify hierarchies, many that ignore and thus replicate social divisions, and a number that aim to fix racial bias but end up doing the opposite. In one sense, these forms of discriminatory design – engineered inequity, default discrimination, coded exposure, and technological benevolence – fall on a spectrum that ranges from most obvious to oblivious in the way it helps produce social inequity. But, in a way, these differences are also an artifact of marketing, mission statements, and willingness of designers to own up to their impact. It will be tempting, then, to look for comparisons throughout this text and ask: “Is this approach better than that?” But in writing this book here? I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach “better than that?” [and here] oops! But in writing this book I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach; in entangling the seeming differences rather than disentangling for the sake of easy distinctions between good and bad tech.
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On closer inspection, I find that the varying dimensions of the New Jim Code draw upon a shared set of methods that make coded inequity desirable and profitable to a wide array of social actors across many settings; it appears with the emphasis on appears because it has many subjective inputs to rise above human subjectivity (it has impartiality) because it is purportedly tailored to individuals, not groups (it has personalization/customisation), and “ranks people according to merit, not prejudice (or positioning) – all within the framework of a forward-looking (i.e. predictive) enterprise that promises social progress. These four features of coded inequity prop up unjust infrastructures (prop up, and also generate), but not necessarily to the same extent at all times and in all places, and definitely not without eliciting countercodings that retool solidarity and rethink justice.
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These forms of resistance are what I think of as abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code. And, as with abolitionist practices of a previous era, not all manner of gettin’ free should be exposed. Recall that Frederick Douglass, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass ) the philosopher of fugitivity, reprimanded those who revealed the routes that fugitives took to escape slavery [makes me think of the dogma that all information should be free that some people profess], declaring that these supposed allies turned the underground railroad into the upperground railroad. Likewise, some of the efforts of those resisting the New Jim Code necessitate strategic discretion [[keep]], while others may be effectively tweeted around the world in an instant.
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Thirty minutes after proposing an idea for an app “that converts your daily change into bail money to free black people,” Compton, California-born Black trans tech developer Dr. Kortney Ziegler added: “It could be called Appolition” (Figure 5.1). The name is a riff on abolition and a reference to a growing movement toward divesting resources from policing and prisons and reinvesting in education, employment, mental health, and a broader support system needed to cultivate safe and thriving communities. Calls for abolition are never simply about bringing harmful systems to an end but also about envisioning new ones. After all, the etymology of “abolition” includes Latin root words for “destroy” (abolere) and “grow” (olere).(do you have to have one for the other to exist, destruction and growth? a cycle?)
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And, lest we be tempted to dismiss prison abolition as a far-fetched dream (or nightmare, depends)(oh, why the contradiction? fear of the unknown?), it is also worth considering how those who monopolize power and privilege already live in an abolitionist reality! As executive director of Law for Black Lives, Marbre Stahly-Butts, asserts:
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As a political movement, prison abolition builds on the work of slavery abolitionists of a previous era and tools like Appolition bring the movement into the digital arena. Days after the original tweet first circulated, Ziegler partnered with Tiffany Mikell to launch the app and began collaborating with the National Bail Out movement, a network of organizations that attempt to end cash bail and pretrial detention and to get funds into the hands of local activists who post bail. In September 2017 Ziegler was planning a kickoff event with the modest goal of enrolling 600 people. But after the launch in November the project garnered 8,000 enrollments, which landed Appolition in the top ten most innovative companies in 2018. The whole system of bail for (minor) crimes should be reconsidered. You are not guilty yet but already paying. This targets the poor.
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+ This exercise is adjusted because we are going over time! We wanted to go over our notes, on all 3 pads. We want to skim through the conversations by others in the text, and see what resonates with us.
+ If we are not happy for a comment to be published then we do a strikethrough DEBRIS and we will not use it as DEBRIS. We want this to be a practice of consent giving from you all.
+ Our debris will be presented on a temporary online site, stone throw, which will be a way to share aspects of this workshop with a secondary audience - but not forever.
+ Thank you all so much for visiting us here and learning together, we really appreciate your energy and thoughts! Ruha Benjamin's epub can be downloaded here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9383965BB44F1EEAA77666F30B89D447
+ it's nice to have the epub but we should all think if we can also afford to buy the book and support the authors work if possible. We collectively own 1 copy but yes we should buy more! (yeah we were thinking about it as a loan for the few who joined as if it was a physical copy but it's true it is better to try to buy it if you can) yes, a good point. for those who can afford it, you can buy it from: https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology
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+Read & Repair feat. Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
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+Thursday, 23rd July 2020. 16:00-18:00 CEST
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+Housekeeping
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+Welcome to our pad for the workshop.
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+A few things you should know about this space:
+- The pads are not listed on search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
+- Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely.
+- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+- Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct
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+We have some guidelines for pad use here:
+» Be supportive. Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
+» If you have a question, ask. This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.» Don't delete text from other people, just add.
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+Today we are going to read parts of the chapter, Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice from Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
+We are going to post the text from the book into the pad, and will send you a download link to the whole book at the end of the workshop.
+We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.
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+Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading.
+You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation.
+amy, cristina and julie will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.
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+We will converse through typed out language here on the pad.
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+Introduction coming now!
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+Today we are going to read parts of the chapter, Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice from Race After Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
+You can download it laterrr.
+We are not reading the whole book and we are not starting at the beginning.
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+Today is an experiment in distanced collective reading.
+You can read at your own pace and / or we have a number of exercises prepared that we can use to start conversation.
+amy will add the exercises and quotes on the pad intermittently.
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+We will converse through typed out language here on the pad.
+Parts of our typing will go towards stone throw, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections.
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+In this process of learning together, we wish that our process is recorded as a way to share it with others, but that, like us, it takes a different shape with time. This is why the debris we gather today from the workshop will be recorded with your consent and put on a website (as a txt file), where each time it is viewed, the traces we leave today will be corrupted until eventually they will stop being accessible. The more they are viewed, the faster they fade away.
+At the end of the sites life, only links to our references will remain.
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+Our Debris form an experimental exercise in consent giving. We will explain this again when when we come to the last exercise, but we want to highlight now that no text will be used without checking with you.
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+Exercise 1
+Close Reading of the Introduction to Chapter 5 - Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice
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+We will intermittently post 1 section at a time from Ruha Benjamin's introduction to the chapter.
+As you read, you may wish to annotate or contextualise the writing in your own experience. We would like to add our comments around or inside of the text as a way to bring it closer to us.
+We will remove the colour of the paragraphs, so we can see our personal colours, and recognise that other voices are on the pad. We welcome discussion.
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+Chapter 5
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+ The power of the New Jim Code [ref below] is that it allows racist habits and logics to enter through the backdoor of tech design, in which the humans who create the algorithms are hidden from view. In the previous chapters I explored a range of discriminatory designs – some that explicitly work to amplify hierarchies, many that ignore and thus replicate social divisions, and a number that aim to fix racial bias but end up doing the opposite. In one sense, these forms of discriminatory design – engineered inequity, default discrimination, coded exposure, and technological benevolence – fall on a spectrum that ranges from most obvious to oblivious in the way it helps produce social inequity. But, in a way, these differences are also an artifact of marketing, mission statements, and willingness of designers to own up to their impact. It will be tempting, then, to look for comparisons throughout this text and ask: “Is this approach better than that?” But in writing this book here? I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach “better than that?” [and here] oops! But in writing this book I have admittedly been more interested in connections rather than in comparisons; in how this seemingly more beneficent approach to bypassing bias in tech relates to that more indifferent or avowedly inequitable approach; in entangling the seeming differences rather than disentangling for the sake of easy distinctions between good and bad tech.
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+Has the author mentioned examples in the prior chapters? Would love some ref .Yes, she mentions a few discriminatory designs. We will link the book at the end. e.g Is it web based / networked / an app ? the book? the 'design'. I am imagining some kind of interface but have trouble thinking into what else... there is a description of an app "appolition" below as example. Yes, one other such example is "new artificial intelligence techniques for vetting job applicants" which are biased against POC or women. Cool thanks! these programs are based on data of the past and therefore have the prejudices of the past built into them. Data is not neutral but biased by previous ways of collecting precisely
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+ Thirty minutes after proposing an idea for an app “that converts your daily change into bail money to free black people,” Compton, California-born Black trans tech developer Dr. Kortney Ziegler added: “It could be called Appolition” (Figure 5.1). The name is a riff on abolition and a reference to a growing movement toward divesting resources from policing and prisons and reinvesting in education, employment, mental health, and a broader support system needed to cultivate safe and thriving communities. Calls for abolition are never simply about bringing harmful systems to an end but also about envisioning new ones. After all, the etymology of “abolition” includes Latin root words for “destroy” (abolere) and “grow” (olere).(do you have to have one for the other to exist, destruction and growth? a cycle?)
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+ Source: Twitter @fakerapper July 23, 2017 at 2:58 p.m.
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+ And, lest we be tempted to dismiss prison abolition as a far-fetched dream (or nightmare, depends)(oh, why the contradiction? fear of the unknown?), it is also worth considering how those who monopolize power and privilege already live in an abolitionist reality! As executive director of Law for Black Lives, Marbre Stahly-Butts, asserts:
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+ “There’s a lot of abolitionist zones in the US. You go to the Hamptons, its abolitionist. You go to the Upper West Side, its abolitionist. You go to places in California where the medium income is over a million dollars, abolitionist. There’s not a cop to be seen. And so, the reality is that rich White people get to deal with all of their problems in ways that don’t involve the police, or cages, or drug tests or things like that. The reality is that people actually know that police and cages :( don’t keep you safe, if it’s your son or your daughter".
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+ As a political movement, prison abolition builds on the work of slavery abolitionists of a previous era and tools like Appolition bring the movement into the digital arena. Days after the original tweet first circulated, Ziegler partnered with Tiffany Mikell to launch the app and began collaborating with the National Bail Out movement, a network of organizations that attempt to end cash bail and pretrial detention and to get funds into the hands of local activists who post bail. In September 2017 Ziegler was planning a kickoff event with the modest goal of enrolling 600 people. But after the launch in November the project garnered 8,000 enrollments, which landed Appolition in the top ten most innovative companies in 2018. The whole system of bail for (minor) crimes should be reconsidered. You are not guilty yet but already paying. This targets the poor.
+ In general, for what I can connect between this and Europe, the very fact that prisonners also need financial resources to access decent food and sanitary products also reinforces disparities in resources. The whole system accomodates better people with revenues.
+ And probably if you don't have money in prison you are vulnerable to other abuses which may lead you to the need of self-defense and new charges against you. Hhhm how do you think?
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+ More important for our discussion is that Appolition is a technology with an emancipatory ethos, a tool of solidarity that directs resources to getting people literally free. In fact, many White people who have signed up say that they see it as a form of reparation, (I am not sure how I feel about 'repair', it still seems heirarchical?/fixing the racist system? but the app seems really important, I kind of feel like it is a way to make a problem visable. To establish a knowledge about how problematic the system is and showing that, as the code do not do, as a group you are able to change politics...but yeah, then the word repair feels a bit off...)(I read 'repair' differently to 'reparation')I think I am scared of white people paying off their guilt instead of doing other forms of activism, or trying to change the fucked up system. Though this is a neccessary intermediate stage for change.) so true
+ also, ultimately the money is going back into an oppressive system, so it's not really repairing, looks more like damage control
+ below it is explained that the bail money can be reused as it is paid back by the system when you are not guilty or do time (indeed ta)
+ [btw are we talking about reparations in general or in this particular example?] it reads like personal reparations instead of institutional
+ [right! i was thinking of the state paying reparations] i can understand that because I also never thought of it in a personal context.Maybe I could wish that it would be more of an awakaning among white people reather than a reperation. It reads a bit like white people again do not take a close look at them selfs. But maybe it is also like a thinking "error" in a way, that within a western way of thinking we like to look for a "fix". yes and you can do this fast and easily, just donating the money, pop! (and you keep your distance still, you do not have to get to know any black people, you can just be that western, white, colonial "saviour" again):( One thing that will fix it, make the bad go away, so maybe I am curious how then the autor links this to the erliser description of looking at relations rather than comparing. good thing to remember yes. Likw what is the relations that accure for whit people useing the app?
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+ one small way to counteract the fact that the carceral system uses software that codes for inequity. To date, Appolition has raised $230,000, that money being directed to local organizations whose posted bails have freed over 65 people. As the National Bail Out network explains, “[e]veryday an average of 700,000 people are condemned to local jails and separated from their families. A majority of them are there simply because they cannot afford to pay bail.” :( this part connect really well with the yes we mean literally abolish the police article.
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+ When Ziegler and I sat on a panel together at the 2018 Allied Media Conference [this is a great organisation btw], he addressed audience concerns that the app is diverting even more money to a bloated carceral system. As Ziegler clarified, money is returned to the depositor after a case is complete, so donations are continuously recycled to help individuals. Interest in the app has grown so much that Appolition has launched a new version, which can handle a larger volume of donations and help direct funds to more organizations.
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+ But the news is not all good. As Ziegler explained, the motivation behind ventures like Appolition can be mimicked by people who do not have an abolitionist commitment. He described a venture that the rapper Jay-Z is investing [for profit? i.e not donating to.I think Promise makes money because it charges. aargh. This is so depressing :( why is Jay-Z investing in sth like this??] i guess he hasn't heard of appolition? he could've freed lots of ppl by now :'( we should tell him! ok lets drop him an email on it! :) Jay-Z also tried to make money out of Occupy so this guy has a record of pretending to stand for a good cause or political issue but in reality is just trying to earn more money. millions in, called Promise. Although Jay-Z and others call it a “decarceration start-up” (bleurgh) lol my thought exactlyI'm sick too. because it addresses the problem of pretrial detention, which impacts disproportionately Black and Latinx people who cannot afford bail, Promise is in the business of tracking individuals [never a good idea] [tracking them going to places that are over subscribed and underfunded. Putting your money in the wrong place Jaaaay] via the app and GPS monitoring. And, whereas a county can spend up to $200 a day holding someone in jail, Promise can charge $17.8 [holding them in another kind of jail, so this becomes the CIC toch?] This is why the organization BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) issued a warning that Promise
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+ "helps expand the scope of what the Prison Industrial Complex is and will be in the future. The digital sphere and tech world of the 2000’s [sic] is the next sector to have a stronghold around incarceration, and will mold what incarceration looks like and determine the terrain on which prison abolitionists have to fight as a result."
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+ BYP100 extends the critique of abolitionist organizations like Critical Resistance [we'll be using one of their scripts on Sunday], which describes “the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political ‘problems’” (reading this makes me think abt the question 'whether destruction is necessary for growth' again, & in truth I don't see another option)destruction doesn't have to be a bad thing, pow! BOOM BOOM It depends on how you see radical change. If you want to change the education system you might need to abandon schools in their current form. otherwise it will just be small changes but still classrooms and the associated architecture that has little room for teaching otherwise Yes exactly, & I think this is the big frustration with any kind of established institution trying to make changes within their structures; they don't work, because the structures are inherently broken & unjust. Abandon & abolition is not destruction, but it's similar? mmm nice. though we can't abandon the PIC we have to take it down/apart. Yeah & maybe this is the issue with all (most) 'institutions' bc they belong to systems of oppression, abandoning a school doesn't mean the structures change? yes. But if you're a head teacher you don't want to destroy your school haha.
+ under the description prison–industrial complex (PIC). The Corrections Project[http://correctionsproject.com/prisonmaps/pic4.htm] has created a map of all these interests, with prisons and jails at the core and extending to law enforcement, prison guard unions, prison construction companies and vendors, courts, urban and rural developers, corporations, the media, and more.
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+ It is important to note that there is debate about whether “PIC” is an accurate and useful descriptor. Some prefer “corrections industrial complex,” [CIC] to draw attention to probation and surveillance as the fastest growing [because most profitable] part of the industry. Others offer a more far-reaching critique by questioning how industrial and complex the PIC really is since the corrections arena is still overwhelmingly public – the budget is less than 1 percent of the GDP, less than 0.5 percent of the incarcerated being employed by private firms. It is also an overwhelmingly decentralized enterprise, run at the local, county, and state levels rather than masterminded by a central government entity, as is for example the Pentagon vis-à-vis the military–industrial complex.
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+ Even so, the term “PIC” has been useful as a rhetorical device for drawing widespread attention to the exponential growth of prison and policing since 1980 and for highlighting the multiple investments of a wide range of entities. Profit, in this context, is made not only in cash, but also in political power, property, TV ratings, and other resources from economic to symbolic, including the fact that many companies now invest in e-corrections as a fix for prison overcrowding. [venture capitalist PIC]
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+ If both Appolition and Promise apply digital tools to helping people who cannot afford bail to get out of cages, why is Promise a problem for those who support prison abolition? Because it creates a powerful mechanism that makes it easier to put people back in; ...promising not to let u out of their sight! and, rather than turning away from the carceral apparatus, it extends it into everyday life. I think this is a valid point. That is is also importnat to work for that people will never have to go back into jail again. Like work needs to be done on several levels at the same time. And maybe then it is important to talk about relations again. do we need systems totally outside of the current carceral system that we use?
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+ Whereas the money crowdfunded for Appolition operates like an endowment that is used to bail people out, Promise is an investment and collaborates with [+extends the reach of] law enforcement. The company, which received $3 million in venture capital, is not in the business of decarceration but is part of the “technocorrections” [strong term, keeper] industry, which seeks to capitalize on very real concerns about “mass incarceration and the political momentum of social justice organizing. Products like Promise make it easier and more cost-effective for people to be tracked and thrown back into jail for technical violations. One “promise” here is to the state – that the company can keep track of individuals – and another to the taxpayer – that the company can cut costs. As for the individuals held captive, the burden of nonstop surveillance is arguably better than jail, but a digital cell is still a form of high-tech social control. all surveillance should be scrutinized as it is basically a form of distrust of citizens and seldom works for their protection. Protection against the state is necessary. or our own surveillance on the state?! the Tweede Kamer is continually misinformed or uninformed which makes the option of checking the state a lot more difficult. So the government withdraws from surveillance while at the same time surveilling its citizens more and more.
+ Promise, in this way, is exemplary of the New Jim Code; and it is dangerous and insidious precisely because it is packaged as social betterment. Scary :/ This, along with the weight of Jay Z’s celebrity, will make it difficult to challenge Promise (actually I think he got some backlash when peopel realised people would end up with bracelets). But if this company is to genuinely contribute contribute to decarceration, it would need to shrink the carceral apparatus, not extend it and make it more encompassing. After all, prison conglomerates such as Geo Group and CoreCivic are proving especially adept at reconfiguring their business investments, leaving prisons and detention centers and turning to tech alternatives, for instance ankle monitors and other digital tracking devices. In some cases the companies that hold lucrative government contracts to imprison asylum seekers are the same ones that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hires to provide social services to these very people, as they continue to be monitored remotely. While not being locked in a cage is an improvement, the alternative is a “form of coded inequity and carceral control; and it is vital that people committed to social justice look beyond the shiny exterior of organizations that peddle such reforms. (starting to get some Foucault/Deleuze vibes) bound to happen dividuals.
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+ A key tenet of prison abolition is that caging people works directly against the safety and well-being of communities because jails and prisons do not address the underlying reasons why people harm themselves and others – in fact they exacerbate the problem by making it even more difficult to obtain any of the support needed to live, work, and make amends for harms committed. Coincidentally heard a radio item about a case in the Netherlands which also discussed the bureaucracy that isn't in favor of supporting people who return to jail regularly (because they keep on finding themselves in the same circuit and quite often are also addicts unable to restrain themselves and without options thus entering a viscious circle as soon as they leave prison) with the underlying issues they need to tackle in order to change the status quo of their ending up in jail all the time. do you have the ref by any chance? I'll try to find it, it was an article i listened to on Blendle, an app to listen to news and other items. >> it's difficult retrieving the article, because I don't remember the title or the original source -_-' btw striking difference about the prison/emprisonment rhetoric in NL (though far from knowledgeable on the topic) is it seems to be far less focused on ethnicity/ethnic inequality. for anyone interested to read a little more I found this (Dutch source and language): https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/waarom-zoveel-gevangenen-opnieuw-in-de-fout-gaan-tien-oorzaken-van-recidive and https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/gevangenisstraf-vergroot-vaak-kans-op-recidive yes would also be interested, In sweden we have KRIS which stands for Criminals rights in the society, they work with this... But in the age of the New Jim Code, as BYP100 noted, this abolitionist ethos must be extended beyond the problem of caging, to our consideration of technological innovations marketed as supporting prison reform. reformist reform, not radical (as in of or to do with a root
+ or foundation).
+
+ Coding people as “risky” kicks in an entire digital apparatus that extends incarceration well beyond the prison wall.[same logic to the tracking apps that were proposed as a way to tackle COVID infections] Think of it this way. Yes, it is vital to divert money away from imprisonment to schools and public housing, if we really want to make communities stronger, safer, and more supportive for all their members. But, as Critical Resistance has argued, simply diverting resources in this way is no panacea, because schools and public housing as they currently function are an extension of the PIC (how can we get society to accept this?): many operate with a logic of carcerality and on policies that discriminate against those who have been convicted of crimes. Pouring money into them as they are will only make them more effective in their current function as institutions of social control. DESTRUCTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION But maybe we need something else, now I am saying it a bit more in general; like the differece between revolution and reformation. Maybe we need like something totally differnt...destruction of that which is controlling? That is different for everyone ... and very discriminatory, I retract that idea. We have to look beyond the surface of what they say they do to what they actually do, in the same way in which I am calling on all of us to question the “do good” rhetoric of the tech industry. Some social anarchy is needed where education depends on enriching yourself mentally, socially and practically. A non-competitive system without grades but with a strong sense of collectivity from a diverse perspective.
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+ For prison abolitionists, “we don’t just want better funded schools (although that might be an important step). We also demand the power to shape the programs and institutions in our communities” and to propose a new and more humane vision of how resources and technology are used. This requires us to consider not only the ends but also the means. How we get to the end matters. If the path is that private companies, celebrities, and tech innovators should cash in on the momentum of communities and organizations that challenge mass incarceration, the likelihood is that the end achieved will replicate the current social order.
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+ Let us shift, then, from technology as an outcome to toolmaking as a practice, so as to consider the many different types of tools needed to resist coded inequity, to build solidarity, and to engender liberation. Initiatives like Appolition offer a window into a wider arena of “design justice” that takes many forms (see Appendix), some of which I will explore below. But first allow me a reflection on the growing discourse around technology and empathy (rather than equity or justice).
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+This is the end of the Introduction to Chapter 5.
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+For Exercise 2
+First we have to make a Collective Decision.
+There are 5 more sections of this chapter:
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+ * Selling Empathy +1+1+1+1
+ * In this chapter, Ruha Benjamin discusses the claim that tech can promote more empathy, and the way it has been used to promote business growth. She mentions notably questions which arose from Mark Zuckerbeg's tone deaf Virtual Reality visit of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. These questions include for instance the politics of VR technology construction, whether empathy necessarily relies on "seeing", turning dramatic events into entertainment, but also who are we prompted to develop empathy for through immersive experiences.
+ * Rethinking Design Thinking +1+1
+ * In this extract, Benjamin asks which humans are prioritised by "human centered design" approach. She questions definitions of design and design-speak, leading her to think about design as a colonising project "to the extent that it is used to describe any and everything"...
+ * Beyond Code-Switching +1+1 +1+1+1
+ * In this excerpt, Benjamin talks about code switching, which consists in adapting to the norms of the dominant class. This applies for instance to situations where afro american children are confronted with "standard" English. Taking the example of Yik Yak, an app that allowed to post anonymously while voting up or down and commenting on other posts within a geographically constrained area, Benjamin explores how coded speech reflects certain power dynamics. She then argues in favour of code rewriting rather than code switching before discussing the limits of expecting the tech industry to self regulate on the basis of sympathies.
+ * Audits and Other Abolitionist Tools +1
+ * Here, Benjamin talks about auditing experiments, which have been used to demonstrate continued discrimination in real estate and hiring practices in the post civil rights era, in relation to AI. She argues for justice-oriented, emancipatory approach to data production, analysis, and public engagement.
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+With the time we have left, can you write +1 next to the chapter you would like to read. You can add +1 to multiple chapters, if you are interested in more than one.
+We will choose the most "popular" text to read.
+Depending on group size, we may split into smaller groups and we will go to different pads, each with its own questions and chances for discussion. The exercise will continue similarly to this pad, but we made new ones for the different chapters, links to them are coming down here ...
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+This exercise is adjusted because we are going over time!
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+We want to skim through the conversations by others in the text, and see what resonates with us.
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+Ruha Benjamin's epub can be downloaded here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9383965BB44F1EEAA77666F30B89D447
+it's nice to have the epub but we should all think if we can also afford to buy the book and support the authors work if possible. We collectively own 1 copy but yes we should buy more! (yeah we were thinking about it as a loan for the few who joined as if it was a physical copy but it's true it is better to try to buy it if you can)
+yes, a good point. for those who can afford it, you can buy it from: https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology
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+ ## Janneke Wesseling (PhD arts Leiden)
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+ criticality in fine art as a given trajectories: conceptual art, duchamp, greenwald, adorno, artistic research artistic research / critical making creative industries as a problematic frame, industry, ict
+ Forms of criticality in the arts: * self-criticality - critical to the position of the artist * engaged criticality - Dan Graham, Hans Haag(?)
+ More recent forms: * cross-boundary critical practices * dialog as important tool
+
+ ## Lukas (de Waag)
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+ creative commons consortium book published by the waag Matt ... : criticality as linguistic practice, making as a non-linguistic practice critical making as a performative practice(?, didn't expand on this)
+
+ ## Florian & Zeljko
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+ Zeljko: initiator Mama medialab Zagred (research & activist space) Few weeks ago, at the Willem de Kooning, with Zeljko and Gabriella Fontana(?): queer sports, taking the binary competition out of sports Florian: this example is very everyday, activist aspect, practical artistic research Sports as identity forming system, that is not questioned.
+ ginger coons, graduated PhD student in critical making in Toronto outcome of a workshop was thrown away, not important
+ What is making? What falls in the definition? Wat is excluded and what is included? Is it important to attach this to physical objects? This excludes performative practices. Sometimes the object is completely disgarded in the practice, as the process is the most important. The funding structures play an important role in practice. Zeljko: it's difficult to discuss any term, without placing it in a specific context.
+ Three-sided footbal A project by Danish artist Asger Jorn Historical trajectory of queer sports? - situationist games in the 60s - cobra - the imaginist bauhaus (first group using the term "artistic research") Florian: What is the difference between these examples and queer sports?
+ Ref.: Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (1957), Asger Jorn A manifesto written in the context of the founding of "design school only" Bauhaus A quote that could be read as a definition of artistic research: - artistic research = human science - which is for us: concerned science (or better according to Florian: engaged science) - Should be carried out by artists with assistance of scientists
+ Why critical making is difficult to define? Western tradition of understanding what is knowledge, science and art. Liberal arts (arts = science, technology & art) - higher arts "Artes Liberales": grammer (now poetics & literature), music, math, astronomy, "arithmetica" - lower arts "Artes Mechanicae": alchemy, architecture, mining, textile, painting, metal work, sports, dancing, singing, acting, etc Is "critical" covering the higher arts? And "making" the lower arts?
+ Which synced with the tradition of doing a PhD in the past, where you can have a PhD in literature, but it is less common to do a PhD in visual arts. [BUT, also in technology contexts, critical and making is already "rooted" in both the higher arts (math) and lower arts (making).]
+ Sidenote: Dutch art schools -> bauhaus structure, plus idea of workshops ("stations"?)
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+ ### Q&A
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+ Klaas: the data science is also been moved from higher arts to lower arts. Ginger: where is the thinking in this diagram? Critique has been done through language. Here, thinking is been done through making? Florian: poetics > a science of making (Aristotle). Western divide between mind and body. Critical Making is a project that questions this divide. And Queer Sports is a great example. ? : is there such thing as queer documentation? Zeljko: a project in France, granted recently. A zine as a newsletter. Sometimes leaving traces is the most interesting critical outcome. Florian: Femke with Constant and OSP is making documentation as a central part of their practice, and see it as a critical and experimental practice in itself. The open source field is a great example of where documentation is questioned and researched. **(!)** Shailoh: slippages of terms in critical making. How do you deal with that?
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+ ## Constant (Femke)
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+ Femke will speak about Constant's practice in relation to: * criticality * matter * practice * (not making)
+ Constant is running since 1997, we will loop back at the end of the presentation. Constant's practice: feminisms (activist/theoretical), collective practices, free software
+ criticality, not Frankfurter Schule, not Asgern Jorn (though sometimes his work crosses) complex collectivities collectivities as a non-equalist practice, how to do collectivity through difference
+ Femke shows the budget, important to be talking about things in context Constant received a 5 year grant Constant feels therefor the extreme responsibility to have a radical practice
+ diffractive practice ref.: Helen Pritchard with Karen Barad in: Animal Hackers (2018) a provocation to the divide of making & thinking
+ worksessions thinking and making together intensive undisciplined situations not collapsing disciplines, but more interested in collaborations and what happens in other dimensions while working together
+ - combining different subjects/techniques/tools/ to think beyond borders - Constant as mediating infrastructure
+ TSGO, How can we observe while being entangled? NWAA, rethinking networked infrastructures (activist, protocols, feminist server summit)
+ "There is a smell of hackathons and sprints in this type of work situations, but we can never go on for 24hours, we also need time to eat and sleep."
+ Etherbox Documentation is not a goal in itself, but something that can be activated during the session but also shared with others.
+ Donna Haraway (1997) - less interested in the critical practice of reflection - of showing once-again that the emporer has no clothes - than in finding a way to diffract ...
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+ ## Q&A
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+ Klaas: Why matter is an alternative to making? Femke: Not a direct answer, but being here is part of that. Making always comes with the idea of the tabula rasa, of the not-there-yet. Constant is more interested in working with matter that is already there ..(?). It makes more sense to focus on matter, criticality and practice. Florian: Constant's work, in relation to FLOSS, where the Makefile is a crucial tool. A tool to compile source code on your specific system. Isn't that a concept of making that is quite close to Constant? It is not the tabula rasa. Femke: Not trying to do away with making, but trying to focus on the things that *matter* for us. ;) There is something in the free in free software that always comes back to freedom and autonomy. And the Makefile has something like that. You cannot do the same presentation on someone else's laptop. Because there is not such a thing as "a copy without a cause". There are many details that talk about the specific materiality of systems. It was a good reminder that at the one hand there is a lot of inspiring stuff in FLOSS (working with authorship/collectivity/more) but there is always a risk of depending on ideas of freedom and autonomy. **(!)**
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+ ## Nina (representative of Dyne.org)
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+ 4 FLOSS freedoms
+ * Dyne uses FLOSS, public money for public code * interdisciplinarity of art and science * environmentally sustainable
+ making software for community engagement < > liberation (beyond empowerment) shaped by environment and systems that we live in (there is no tabula rasa, you cannot imagine a self outside a context) algorithms, something else is deciding how you see the world (as a thing that is changing the way we think, monoculture of the mind)
+ the non-customizable features of recent media (fb, and others) makes it even harder to convince kids that things can be done differently
+ Decode privacy by design example: tool to sign petitions in Barcelona, using blockchain's smart contracts freedom as in, everybody that wants to use a tool linux as in, floss alternative to windows and mac, using FLOSS freedoms (anarchy on its best) devone, Dyne's fork of debian without systemd [i didn't catch why systemd was a problem, systemd is taking over more and more things within a GNU/Linux system that it's not designed for] See https://www.fossmint.com/devuan-without-systemd-why-should-you-use-it/
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+ As the story goes, the Linux philosophy includes that programs should be designed to do one thing and do it well. Systemd was designed to run multiple tasks besides booting the computer and because this is not in line with the Linux philosophy (according to some developers,) certain Linux enthusiasts have decided to avoid using it.
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+ ## Q&A
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+ Klaas: does the work of Dyne fall under critical making? Nina: yes, not defined yet Klaas: Dyne's practice is very code based. Code as a tool to liberate. What is the artist role in the organisation? Nina: There is an artist in residency, looking at smart contracts ..... Dyne can then tie back and improve. The core practice of Dyne is community based. Klaas: Does code come after other things?
+ Femke: Not wanting to go for solutionism, but at the same time there is a question of scale? And the question of the role of critical software. What do you think holds it back to scale? Does Dowse need to be used in every household? Nina: Yes. We have created a possible solution, possible design. Priviledged ivory tower that runs critical software, but does not reach communities. It's much about a balance. **Can we make critical making and critical design an applied practice?** Florian: Femke what do you think about that? Femke: Worksessions as infrastructure. Scale without letting go of complexities. Can we make infrastructures that allow people to think together? How do we deal with priviledges? How do we deal with that? We're thinking about **impact**. Without having a consensus on the complexity that is at hand. Wheter we call it critical making or diffractive practices, we need practices that can handle complexity. Klaas: ? Femke: Find modes of observing impact. Sometimes we don't even know what something does. And sometimes we don't need to know. The whole spectrum needs to be rethought, and that is why Constant is interested in methodologies. Nina: Role of activist organisations, 3% of active citizens to make a change. How can we use critical making to do that? Performances, actions. But how can such groups connect to others? Femke: Intruiged to see how Dyne is rooted in activism, and democracy/public/? are mentioned as roots of Dyne. How do these institutions form Dyne? Nina: Democracy as in, small groups making decisions around questions and move on. Moving within current institutions to make a change. Femke: Is Dyne an institution? Nina: no, and Constant? Femke: Constant is an institution, as it works with archive, history, it is an association with members, which is a legal form already. How to come to terms with institutionality, without using the norms of other institutions. Klaas: Can we critically make institutions? Shailoh: Rethinking making as use? How does use already challenge ownership? For example: something is not "mine" i'm "only" borrowing it. Femke: How do these complex collectivities work out? Related to critical post-humanist work, thinking about other entities that have a stake. Institutions are one of them. As places that work with histories and futures. There is work to do, to revive institutional work, as a potential to develop forms of ongoinness in this world. Another Donna Haraway term. Ongoinness and institutions are closely linked. Archiving, publishing, are all ways that can be oppressive and normative, but they can also support complexities. Practices of ongoinness that stay with complexities.
+ Anarchist tendencies vs. institutionalisation
+ Institution: The act of instituting. A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the life of a community or society: the institutions of marriage and the family. Informal One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.
+ Question this vs. knee jerk reaction against. Interesting contrast in the discussion ...
+ *m(b)ad* idea: Free software inspired performance where people "dress up" as a socialist, anarchist and capitalist and then talk about how free software works for them. Bask in the subjectivity of each narrative to show that this isn't a one horse race
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+ ## Shailoh
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+ (...)
+ Cybernetic summerschool @ West
+ inflatable pipeline to show Shell's financial contribution to education "#mind the pipeline" became the online/offline campaign tool police: "this is a protest" shailoh: "no this is art"
+ hypocracy - what they say is not what they do whataboutism -
+ criticality as a form of cultural capital you gain the discourse and a higher position in the cultural field who benefits from being critical?
+ Thinking of working with inflatables as the practice of "dotteren" opening up a new space of desire, working together the inflatable pipe becoming a media spectacle, blocking space to promote a festival that is sponsored by Shell
+ Tools for Action - a collective working with inflatables, but not only with inflatables slogan: "be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together" occupying space of potential in public space
+ the maker movement "making" as a word that comes from common language it's very vernacular "How to make almost anything" (90s slogan that is present in the maker movement) 1. adding/multiplying/conjoining (connect, layer of combine materials and operations, welding, hyperlinking, hosting, 3D printing, casting, gluing, weaving, painting, soldering) 2. subtracting/dividing/seperating (remove or seperate materials and data, cutting, parsing, sawing, carving, laser cutting) 3. transforming techniques (blowing glass, baking) 4. measuring techniques (sensors, processing, investigative tools)
+ to make / to hack
+ Some troubles with making
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+ ## Pia
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+ artist making performances
+ "embedded proximity"
+ thinking institutions
+ "as if" collective imaginations "not yet" things that could or might happen in the future
+ a parasite is relational part and not a part of the host body being a self and non-self
+ convention of radical administration(?), in Bristol organised by Kate Bridge everyone joined as a organisation/institution
+ intervention in the material itself threatment of the problem at the level that the problem is happening
+ Ref.: Sarah Ahmed - Queer Phenomenology
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+ ## Q&A
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+ Shailoh: A world already been made. Drawing exercises to stretch potentional/actual/past/future.
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+ "SunZilla is a solar-powered generator that provides a clean and easy-to-use alternative for off-grid electricity supply. Its battery storage ensures a reliable and flexible supply even at night or on less sunny days." https://sunzilla.de/
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+ Shailoh: What happens to documentation in a parasitical practice? Pia: For me it doesn't work in the traditional way, like video's to be replayed in an exhibition setting. But sometimes i cite performances that i did before, which is a way to document for me.
+ Pia: Working with the moment of saying "i". Quoting performances from the past, qouting others as if i'm them.
+ Shailoh: The inflatable pipeline without a #tag, was poetic, ambigious. But it didn't work (? is that what she said? yes, she said noone understood the untagged pipe, therefore people were just ignoring it rather than being curious) Language was an important techniques, to make the pipeline speak and make a statement. It hyperlinked to a web campaign. A hashtag as a hyperlanguistic tool.
+ * critique from outside * critique from within * expansive critique * distributed critique * generative occupation
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(what if you're not invited to critique? what work needs to be done within a community? it is not waiting to be given permission to intervene.)
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+ ## Conversation
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+ [a chair sitting exercise]
+ performativity in language (i swear) and code (being executable) ?
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+ Dani Ploeger (not sure about spelling) in the context of Critical Making, artist should just do shit, and then think whether it is critical and how it is critical Art education is mainly goal oriented, whilst we must provoke ourselves to go to places we would not go otherwise.
+ Pia making does not have to be muscle in the dirt kind of practice. That it is more than shutting your brain and just making something
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+ # Friday
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+ ## West
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+ Marcel Breuer - architect of the ambassy a blocked corner of the city, because of threats 1959-1991 (cold war), capitalism vs. socialism 2001-2016 (post 9/11), christianity vs. islam
+ Alphabetum, exhibition in the coffee room Assemble, collective that made furniture connecting to the building, inviting new audiences to the art gallery
+ Instituut voor Kunst & Kritiek (IKK) project by West, thinking through art Kunstgeschenk, inviting a writer/journalist, that goes into conversation
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+ ## Waag (Lukas)
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+ De Waag used to host guilts
+ How technology has an effect on society. Research groups around code, care, make learn, interface Which are working as labs: open design, open welab, fablab, smart citizens, commons, sensors Booklets: open design, users as designers, critical making, and ?
+ [fairphone, decode - both projects creating products, bigger scale] [art presentations, labs, making - educational projects, research]
+ New project: AI for society lab, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, collaboration with Femke Herregraven
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+ ## Het Nieuwe Instituut
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+ merge of multiple institutes "museum" is a policy slot, but there is no fixed collection discursive programme, in which the HNI started to insert matter critical making has been embodied educational programme: engaging many audiences, specially under 18, designing around complex questions Happening next week Neuhaus programme: how should we reply today to learning questions, like bauhaus did 100 years ago.
+ https://neuhaus.hetnieuweinstituut.nl, symposium + following curriculum. HNI aims to engage with academies, adopting some of the aspects of Neuhaus. HNI develops a material critical practice.
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+ ## Common patterns of critical making
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+ mind/body language/matter (language as matter, matter as language) diffractive instead of reflective (Karen Barad was very present yesterday, in 4 presentations)
+ critical making is performative process/outcome in action performative action artefacts perform, the action never stops (materialist ideas)
+ not making-from-scratch (matter instead of making) - Femke yesterdat adding/substracting/transforming existing matter not knowing, not-yet-knowing, finding out as you go (attentive attitude) wildly different kind of artefacts
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+ pragmatically/politically
+ collectives, different ways of knowing simultaniously cultural dimension, sustained in a culture / (intellectual) infrastructure critical making artefacts exist in an ecology (also possible to generate this ecology) critical making want to be auditable, open source practice, performative capacity, all parts remain in action
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+ ## Frans-Willem Korsten
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+ Works with Renee Turner on critical pedagogies (? was that the name?)
+ What can making mean? Or how can we sensibly, productively make under critical conditions?
+ Background in humanities, positionings in other fields: - art/literature boundaries of law - 70s: collectives, wild gardenings, https://ecokathedraal.nl
+ - activism: fighting for a school in the centre of the city. Nobody is coming out of such a trajectory without skars. - source of social democracy in the 19th century and its long breath, under poverty and despair. Collective suffering in 19th suffering. Consumer society destroyed this memory. - VTV in Utrecht in the city, thread of end of economy now, possible activism ahead - humanities as decoration or as co-makers, crossovers NWO, humanities as domain of reflection
+ How can we make under critical conditions?
+ critically committed pedagogies with Renee Turner think of an act in their circle that they would do oke to read critical texts, but thinking of an act was difficult for students
+ Assessing the conditions to make with
+ Dutch citizen conditions: - intensive care (tubes, infrastructure) - addicted (consumption, car, money) - held hostage (house is not made by them, hostage in their own houses)
+ Spaces for self-building, will that make a difference? Different models of self-organization? How do we make these collectives?
+ How much forms of making did we thrown overboard?
+ an example: Dutch Waterschap (Polderboards) need of setting a task, a deeply felt need (not a desire) new ground, that is not there yet, but that needs to be developped if we want to sustain ourselves
+ but we need to take people out of current intensive care conditions in order to change a situation in order to see what is needed
+ Polderboards need legal support that their work is recognized autonomous in the sense of, being based in political authority
+ making new grounds has to involve making new laws
+ self-sufficiency * electricity * water * money (example of a coop bank in 1864, Noord-Brabant Christian Bond, Boerenleenbank (1898))
+ coop-bank became as nasty as the others ? > ? Ra > Rabobank
+ union, offering concrete alternatives only through making we can make people critical to those conditions
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+ ## Ginger
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+ educator, research, designer interested in the place of the user former member of critical making lab in Toronto, faculty of information
+ critical making lab, research lab, run by Matt Ratto faculty that has the second most number of women (after nursing, before education)
+ Ref.: article from 2011 by Matt Ratto, information society, laying out critical making in a bit more depth - as a pedagogical practice and research practice - engaging in hands-on making - studying the underlying functioning of a complex system
+ having problems with the word making
+ - divides critical thinking / embodies practices of knowing
+ There is a lot of Dewey, knowing with your hands
+ - it's more about makers, rather then making (?)
+ In the university, there was a preception that the critical research lab was a service bureau sidenote to the gym at the wdka, it's very hard to book!
+ critical making as a belief that it will create future skills markable technical skills
+ the technical skillset is not what was required to have the educator job technical skillset was not the aimed outcome of the critical making lab
+ discussion around the objects that were produced, to show it to others the thing is not the focus, it is about the process
+ anecdote: 1st year master of critical making in toronto moral objects by Bruno Latour, speed bump as sleeping police men someone made a small model of a trafic light, showed how it is not about the object or end result process of understanding a system through making it, which is a personal process
+ Ginger sees 3 versions of the word "critical making" John Meda (?) (independently defined), Matt Rato, ?
+ critical making as a research methodology often viewed as un-scientific
+ Ref.: 2014 special issue, Journal: information society, critical making as research methodology, there is a table inside of this issue
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+ ## Q&A
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+ Frans: What are the conditions to critical make in? ginger: discursive making is not necessarily the object
+ Frans: Critical Making as defining a different attitude towards things happening in the world. The object is helping me to define another attitude. ginger: In your examples, new understanding is needed in the context of crisises in the world. In my understanding it is mostly about understanding systems. There is something cybernetic about it. Frans: People are living in their own houses. What am i making, through these conditions, with a mortage that allows me to live in this house. ginger: Even though if i'm trying to make my own bio-reactor, the research process that i undertake to do that, is different from me going through a critical making process. Critical Making is not about understanding the thing that is in front of you, but something that is behind. Which is a different behavior then making a bio-gaz reactor. What is the role of metaphor? Frans: Any type of language is metaphor. Provoking to think. ginger: material turn in the social science, understanding the world through language. metaphor/allegory/
+ Klaas: perhaps not needed to speak about what critical making is, but what critical making does? There is a lot of work that surrounds it. ginger: it is the instrimentality of wanting to make a bio-gaz. Florian: what you're refusing is solutionism, right? critical making should not be seen as a solutionist practice. ginger: i would agree with that. though i would not want to take this word. but instrumentality.
+ Frans: using metaphor of living together. thinking about having a house as a making process. it opens up the process again. (Klaas: bringing it back to the compost bio-reactor .. is the problem that you know where you want to go?) ginger: capital view on making, thinking of a marxist remark. instrumental outcome. one of the values of the toronto school critical making approach, is that there is an instructional side on it. a stickiness that i struggle with. the rule of the productive object.
+ Frans: that's perhaps what is different here, i'm much interested in changing life ginger: do we need critical making to change my life? i can change my life without it.
+ Shailoh: is insight enough? if you have insight in a system and you see that we're fucked, what do you do? what if you have insight, but you cannot act? Ramon: how do you delineate(?) an act of thought to an act of action. Awareness of the entire system, when this is not possible, it is already in a process of reduction. Which is not opening up making, but closing off what making actually is. How do you deal with the presumed stability of those points? Making as a stable process? Which then can lead to action?
+ ginger: composting is not critical making for me, as for me it is a way of understanding systems, where reverse engineering fails. Which is a research perspective, instead of producing perspective.
+ Ramon: it's nothing new, Matt's frame is not new ginger: critical making is nothing new indeed,
+ Frans: marxist trajectories of what is matter and thought. deconstructivism. there are power and forces that manipulate our thoughts and feelings. Making would be a better way to create alternatives to the situation we are in today.
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+ ## Ramon Amaro
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+ in this situation of this symposium, a moment that is generative, productive, materialise contingency interventions are important in this discussion
+ embassy as an encounter of power acts of encounters
+ Ramon describes how he went to this embassy to renew his passport describing bodily experiences within the building
+ coherent invisibility the abstraction of power
+ we're not so much concerned with the act of participating but more how it can enact new forms of participating
+ looking at it as an ontological problem Ref.: "...... the money of the real" the re-ification of the black body as a commodity
+ alienation as a means of production mental process and physical process economical-social relationship techniques of the self (Foucault) liberate the difference that lies in the self interact in two forms - how do we build communities, build new relations -
+ this building was build to be exclusive
+ ontological scandal of difference in the field of machine learning (Ramon's background) practice of the artificial applied performance of knowledge production relations of difference, social entanglement angst for the artificial, they are more then themselves
+ encounter as a moment to freeze the self in time passport bringing the nation state in a material form
+ operation of re-inforcement trying to establish a relationship (making)
+ priorly existing operative mechanism that transforms who we are
+ what if the debates around algorithms changed to discussions around the angst this lives around it?
+ the moment we enter the door we create a relation with imperialism creating an angst, or ease, bringing alive the pre-existing feelings with this space which then katalyses (? how to spell that) action
+ two concepts - alienation (marxist concept) Before the economical and social is the mental? and physical? Alienation can become a katalysor of change.
+ us being at the embassy from a place of violence to a place of social, cultural?, convivial
+ reverse engineering objects that make logics possible (microphone to amplify a voice and create hierchy) (podium because Ramon takes the stage and the rest is passive audience)
+ How can these techniques become part of the work, to reshape the logics. Instead of being an object of angst.
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+ ## Anja Groten
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+ research from design background and specifically from the context of H&D
+ Hackers and Designers, currently 7 members by creating collaborative environments for learning and unlearning
+ developing critical standpoints, through the act of making together confronting dogma's, enchantments, reframe the discourse of "innovation"
+ (Anja's slides are sitting within the portal pages of different local networks)
+ reflection on the workshop format design as a mode of deciding what qualifies, and chooses for certain tools in its essence an excluding practice guided by intentions lead to an interest in collaborative making, to counteract individualized design practices
+ dominance of the workshop format premise, promise of the workshops can workshops actually create critical practices? can it confront contraints of design?
+ compitence that is shared with the group of participants hackathon-like workshop, presupposes a highly productive space "prototyping". only sucessfull when a product is created events to conclude a workshop over-structuring (exercises, documentation, etc) and creating a highly controlled environment and disallows contingency
+ Constand and Varia work situations: without a paradigm of concensus disagreement should be welcomed discussion disrupt the workshop, but connect all the participants present
+ situated knowledges, unlocatable and inresponsible knowledge claims (Haraway) the aspect of the unknown in relation of technology design maker, person that can be hold encountable
+ user/makers ref.: ..... ?
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+ encounter (meeting of adversaries)
+ collaborative making through a suspicious lens
+ collaborative making as social prototypes **(!)** "social technological literacy" term by ... ? reconnecting materiality and ???
+ Being limited to once own's perspective to technology ... sharing processes, misunderstandings, Donna Schön(?)
+ by presenting the making process to other the making process is disrupted this can be a surprise effect executing a skill - action/reflection
+ reflection happens while something is being produced the thing that is being made is shaped and reshaped
+ workshops might enforce collaboration but also publically presents a making process it can disrupt design processes
+ the likelihood of an outcome, is forced by conditions of the workshop
+ the workshop as sites where differences between makers may unfold they could disrupt an individualized design process
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+ ## Critical Makers reader
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+ Loes Bogers part of visual methodologies collective research in feminist artifical intelligence
+ INC reader "the factory is noting but an applied school and the school nothing but a factory" Villem Flusser (The Factory, 1999) a school where we learn to manage our robots
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+ social hierarchies & legacies
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+ ## Conversation
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+ (ginger) expanded notion of critical making (after Matt Ratto) deconstruction of artefacts in order to understand existing systems pedagogical and research practice
+ (frans willem) generative world building the already performative making nothing is as given, living in a house is already an existing situation
+ critical making in engagements of legal procedures
+ critical making on two different planes - engaged collectives, around a shared concern - individual moment, generatively engaging with the angst that comes with encounters with the violent preceding logics of material formations, the figuring encounter with systems that freeze and cut beings into taxonomies (user, citizen, threat, early adopter, refugee)
+ workshop comes with its own issues, need critical approach and should be open to not-yet-knowing, to contingencies, to difference, and acknowledges postions
+ ### pia
+ i am i i doubted if i was a parasite i was an invited guest i think i was a good guest
+ ### ramon
+ connect to the word "angst" and discuss how your connection to the word angst connects to the other connections to the word releasing identity to something that is malable, dynamic
+ ### anja
+ wifi networks brought to the room local networks
+ ### thalia
+ german bread as a result of gentrification food, bringing food feeding each other without speaking relation to queer sports food as a first thing defining culture sports and foods as example to think critically about making
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+ critical making material practices
+ this was an experimental conference a possible outcome of this conference: fine artists saying: i don't see myself being represented in the conference
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+# Critical Making Sympositum (Thursday)
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+## Janneke Wesseling (PhD arts Leiden)
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+criticality in fine art as a given
+trajectories: conceptual art, duchamp, greenwald, adorno, artistic research
+artistic research / critical making
+creative industries as a problematic frame, industry, ict
+
+Forms of criticality in the arts:
+* self-criticality - critical to the position of the artist
+* engaged criticality - Dan Graham, Hans Haag(?)
+
+More recent forms:
+* cross-boundary critical practices
+* dialog as important tool
+
+## Lukas (de Waag)
+
+creative commons consortium
+book published by the waag
+Matt ... : criticality as linguistic practice, making as a non-linguistic practice
+critical making as a performative practice(?, didn't expand on this)
+
+## Florian & Zeljko
+
+Zeljko: initiator Mama medialab Zagred (research & activist space)
+Few weeks ago, at the Willem de Kooning, with Zeljko and Gabriella Fontana(?): queer sports, taking the binary competition out of sports
+Florian: this example is very everyday, activist aspect, practical artistic research
+Sports as identity forming system, that is not questioned.
+
+ginger coons, graduated PhD student in critical making in Toronto
+outcome of a workshop was thrown away, not important
+
+What is making? What falls in the definition? Wat is excluded and what is included?
+Is it important to attach this to physical objects?
+This excludes performative practices.
+Sometimes the object is completely disgarded in the practice, as the process is the most important.
+The funding structures play an important role in practice.
+Zeljko: it's difficult to discuss any term, without placing it in a specific context.
+
+Three-sided footbal
+A project by Danish artist Asger Jorn
+Historical trajectory of queer sports?
+- situationist games in the 60s
+- cobra
+- the imaginist bauhaus (first group using the term "artistic research")
+Florian: What is the difference between these examples and queer sports?
+
+Ref.: Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (1957), Asger Jorn
+A manifesto written in the context of the founding of "design school only" Bauhaus
+A quote that could be read as a definition of artistic research:
+- artistic research = human science
+- which is for us: concerned science (or better according to Florian: engaged science)
+- Should be carried out by artists with assistance of scientists
+
+Why critical making is difficult to define?
+Western tradition of understanding what is knowledge, science and art.
+Liberal arts (arts = science, technology & art)
+- higher arts "Artes Liberales": grammer (now poetics & literature), music, math, astronomy, "arithmetica"
+- lower arts "Artes Mechanicae": alchemy, architecture, mining, textile, painting, metal work, sports, dancing, singing, acting, etc
+Is "critical" covering the higher arts?
+And "making" the lower arts?
+
+Which synced with the tradition of doing a PhD in the past, where you can have a PhD in literature, but it is less common to do a PhD in visual arts.
+[BUT, also in technology contexts, critical and making is already "rooted" in both the higher arts (math) and lower arts (making).]
+
+Sidenote: Dutch art schools -> bauhaus structure, plus idea of workshops ("stations"?)
+
+### Q&A
+
+Klaas: the data science is also been moved from higher arts to lower arts.
+Ginger: where is the thinking in this diagram? Critique has been done through language. Here, thinking is been done through making?
+Florian: poetics > a science of making (Aristotle). Western divide between mind and body. Critical Making is a project that questions this divide. And Queer Sports is a great example.
+? : is there such thing as queer documentation?
+Zeljko: a project in France, granted recently. A zine as a newsletter. Sometimes leaving traces is the most interesting critical outcome.
+Florian: Femke with Constant and OSP is making documentation as a central part of their practice, and see it as a critical and experimental practice in itself. The open source field is a great example of where documentation is questioned and researched. **(!)**
+Shailoh: slippages of terms in critical making. How do you deal with that?
+
+
+## Constant (Femke)
+
+Femke will speak about Constant's practice in relation to:
+* criticality
+* matter
+* practice
+* (not making)
+
+Constant is running since 1997, we will loop back at the end of the presentation.
+Constant's practice: feminisms (activist/theoretical), collective practices, free software
+
+criticality, not Frankfurter Schule, not Asgern Jorn (though sometimes his work crosses)
+complex collectivities
+collectivities as a non-equalist practice, how to do collectivity through difference
+
+Femke shows the budget, important to be talking about things in context
+Constant received a 5 year grant
+Constant feels therefor the extreme responsibility to have a radical practice
+
+diffractive practice
+ref.: Helen Pritchard with Karen Barad in: Animal Hackers (2018)
+a provocation to the divide of making & thinking
+
+worksessions
+thinking and making together
+intensive undisciplined situations
+not collapsing disciplines, but more interested in collaborations and what happens in other dimensions while working together
+
+- combining different subjects/techniques/tools/ to think beyond borders
+- Constant as mediating infrastructure
+
+TSGO, How can we observe while being entangled?
+NWAA, rethinking networked infrastructures (activist, protocols, feminist server summit)
+
+"There is a smell of hackathons and sprints in this type of work situations, but we can never go on for 24hours, we also need time to eat and sleep."
+
+Etherbox
+Documentation is not a goal in itself, but something that can be activated during the session but also shared with others.
+
+Donna Haraway (1997)
+- less interested in the critical practice of reflection
+- of showing once-again that the emporer has no clothes
+- than in finding a way to diffract ...
+
+## Q&A
+
+Klaas: Why matter is an alternative to making?
+Femke: Not a direct answer, but being here is part of that. Making always comes with the idea of the tabula rasa, of the not-there-yet. Constant is more interested in working with matter that is already there ..(?). It makes more sense to focus on matter, criticality and practice.
+Florian: Constant's work, in relation to FLOSS, where the Makefile is a crucial tool. A tool to compile source code on your specific system. Isn't that a concept of making that is quite close to Constant? It is not the tabula rasa.
+Femke: Not trying to do away with making, but trying to focus on the things that *matter* for us. ;) There is something in the free in free software that always comes back to freedom and autonomy. And the Makefile has something like that. You cannot do the same presentation on someone else's laptop. Because there is not such a thing as "a copy without a cause". There are many details that talk about the specific materiality of systems. It was a good reminder that at the one hand there is a lot of inspiring stuff in FLOSS (working with authorship/collectivity/more) but there is always a risk of depending on ideas of freedom and autonomy. **(!)**
+
+## Nina (representative of Dyne.org)
+
+4 FLOSS freedoms
+
+* Dyne uses FLOSS, public money for public code
+* interdisciplinarity of art and science
+* environmentally sustainable
+
+making software for community engagement < > liberation (beyond empowerment)
+shaped by environment and systems that we live in (there is no tabula rasa, you cannot imagine a self outside a context)
+algorithms, something else is deciding how you see the world (as a thing that is changing the way we think, monoculture of the mind)
+
+the non-customizable features of recent media (fb, and others) makes it even harder to convince kids that things can be done differently
+
+Decode
+privacy by design
+example: tool to sign petitions in Barcelona, using blockchain's smart contracts
+freedom as in, everybody that wants to use a tool
+linux as in, floss alternative to windows and mac, using FLOSS freedoms (anarchy on its best)
+devone, Dyne's fork of debian without systemd [i didn't catch why systemd was a problem, systemd is taking over more and more things within a GNU/Linux
+system that it's not designed for]
+See https://www.fossmint.com/devuan-without-systemd-why-should-you-use-it/
+As the story goes, the Linux philosophy includes that programs should be designed to do one thing and do it well. Systemd was designed to run multiple tasks besides booting the computer and because this is not in line with the Linux philosophy (according to some developers,) certain Linux enthusiasts have decided to avoid using it.
+
+## Q&A
+
+Klaas: does the work of Dyne fall under critical making?
+Nina: yes, not defined yet
+Klaas: Dyne's practice is very code based. Code as a tool to liberate. What is the artist role in the organisation?
+Nina: There is an artist in residency, looking at smart contracts ..... Dyne can then tie back and improve. The core practice of Dyne is community based.
+Klaas: Does code come after other things?
+
+Femke: Not wanting to go for solutionism, but at the same time there is a question of scale? And the question of the role of critical software. What do you think holds it back to scale? Does Dowse need to be used in every household?
+Nina: Yes. We have created a possible solution, possible design. Priviledged ivory tower that runs critical software, but does not reach communities. It's much about a balance. **Can we make critical making and critical design an applied practice?**
+Florian: Femke what do you think about that?
+Femke: Worksessions as infrastructure. Scale without letting go of complexities. Can we make infrastructures that allow people to think together? How do we deal with priviledges? How do we deal with that? We're thinking about **impact**. Without having a consensus on the complexity that is at hand. Wheter we call it critical making or diffractive practices, we need practices that can handle complexity.
+Klaas: ?
+Femke: Find modes of observing impact. Sometimes we don't even know what something does. And sometimes we don't need to know. The whole spectrum needs to be rethought, and that is why Constant is interested in methodologies.
+Nina: Role of activist organisations, 3% of active citizens to make a change. How can we use critical making to do that? Performances, actions. But how can such groups connect to others?
+Femke: Intruiged to see how Dyne is rooted in activism, and democracy/public/? are mentioned as roots of Dyne. How do these institutions form Dyne?
+Nina: Democracy as in, small groups making decisions around questions and move on. Moving within current institutions to make a change.
+Femke: Is Dyne an institution?
+Nina: no, and Constant?
+Femke: Constant is an institution, as it works with archive, history, it is an association with members, which is a legal form already. How to come to terms with institutionality, without using the norms of other institutions.
+Klaas: Can we critically make institutions?
+Shailoh: Rethinking making as use? How does use already challenge ownership? For example: something is not "mine" i'm "only" borrowing it.
+Femke: How do these complex collectivities work out? Related to critical post-humanist work, thinking about other entities that have a stake. Institutions are one of them. As places that work with histories and futures. There is work to do, to revive institutional work, as a potential to develop forms of ongoinness in this world. Another Donna Haraway term. Ongoinness and institutions are closely linked. Archiving, publishing, are all ways that can be oppressive and normative, but they can also support complexities. Practices of ongoinness that stay with complexities.
+
+Anarchist tendencies vs. institutionalisation
+
+Institution:
+ The act of instituting.
+ A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the
+ life of a community or society: the institutions of marriage and the family.
+ Informal One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.
+
+Question this vs. knee jerk reaction against. Interesting contrast in the discussion ...
+
+*m(b)ad* idea: Free software inspired performance where people "dress up" as a socialist, anarchist and capitalist and then talk about how free software works for them. Bask in the subjectivity of each narrative to show that this isn't a one horse race
+
+## Shailoh
+
+(...)
+
+Cybernetic summerschool @ West
+
+inflatable pipeline to show Shell's financial contribution to education
+"#mind the pipeline" became the online/offline campaign tool
+police: "this is a protest"
+shailoh: "no this is art"
+
+hypocracy - what they say is not what they do
+whataboutism -
+
+criticality as a form of cultural capital
+you gain the discourse and a higher position in the cultural field
+who benefits from being critical?
+
+Thinking of working with inflatables as the practice of "dotteren"
+opening up a new space of desire, working together
+the inflatable pipe becoming a media spectacle, blocking space to promote a festival that is sponsored by Shell
+
+Tools for Action - a collective working with inflatables, but not only with inflatables
+slogan: "be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together"
+occupying space of potential in public space
+
+the maker movement
+"making" as a word that comes from common language
+it's very vernacular
+"How to make almost anything" (90s slogan that is present in the maker movement)
+1. adding/multiplying/conjoining (connect, layer of combine materials and operations, welding, hyperlinking, hosting, 3D printing, casting, gluing, weaving, painting, soldering)
+2. subtracting/dividing/seperating (remove or seperate materials and data, cutting, parsing, sawing, carving, laser cutting)
+3. transforming techniques (blowing glass, baking)
+4. measuring techniques (sensors, processing, investigative tools)
+
+to make / to hack
+
+Some troubles with making
+
+## Pia
+
+artist making performances
+
+"embedded proximity"
+
+thinking institutions
+
+"as if" collective imaginations
+"not yet" things that could or might happen in the future
+
+a parasite is relational
+part and not a part of the host body
+being a self and non-self
+
+convention of radical administration(?), in Bristol
+organised by Kate Bridge
+everyone joined as a organisation/institution
+
+intervention in the material itself
+threatment of the problem at the level that the problem is happening
+
+Ref.: Sarah Ahmed - Queer Phenomenology
+
+## Q&A
+
+Shailoh: A world already been made.
+Drawing exercises to stretch potentional/actual/past/future.
+
+ potentional
+past future
+ actual
+
+Turning un-used patents into objects, parasitical attitude towards the patents.
+
+"SunZilla is a solar-powered generator that provides a clean and easy-to-use alternative for off-grid electricity supply. Its battery storage ensures a reliable and flexible supply even at night or on less sunny days." https://sunzilla.de/
+
+Shailoh: What happens to documentation in a parasitical practice?
+Pia: For me it doesn't work in the traditional way, like video's to be replayed in an exhibition setting. But sometimes i cite performances that i did before, which is a way to document for me.
+
+Pia: Working with the moment of saying "i". Quoting performances from the past, qouting others as if i'm them.
+
+Shailoh: The inflatable pipeline without a #tag, was poetic, ambigious. But it didn't work (? is that what she said? yes, she said noone understood the untagged pipe, therefore people were just ignoring it rather than being curious) Language was an important techniques, to make the pipeline speak and make a statement. It hyperlinked to a web campaign. A hashtag as a hyperlanguistic tool.
+
+* critique from outside
+* critique from within
+* expansive critique
+* distributed critique
+* generative occupation
+ (what if you're not invited to critique? what work needs to be done within a community? it is not waiting to be given permission to intervene.)
+
+
+## Conversation
+
+[a chair sitting exercise]
+
+performativity in language (i swear) and code (being executable) ?
+
+
+Dani Ploeger (not sure about spelling)
+in the context of Critical Making, artist should just do shit, and then think whether it is critical and how it is critical
+Art education is mainly goal oriented, whilst we must provoke ourselves to go to places we would not go otherwise.
+
+Pia
+making does not have to be muscle in the dirt kind of practice. That it is more than shutting your brain and just making something
+
+
+# Friday
+
+## West
+
+Marcel Breuer - architect of the ambassy
+a blocked corner of the city, because of threats
+1959-1991 (cold war), capitalism vs. socialism
+2001-2016 (post 9/11), christianity vs. islam
+
+Alphabetum, exhibition in the coffee room
+Assemble, collective that made furniture connecting to the building, inviting new audiences to the art gallery
+
+Instituut voor Kunst & Kritiek (IKK)
+project by West, thinking through art
+Kunstgeschenk, inviting a writer/journalist, that goes into conversation
+
+## Waag (Lukas)
+
+De Waag used to host guilts
+
+How technology has an effect on society.
+Research groups around code, care, make learn, interface
+Which are working as labs: open design, open welab, fablab, smart citizens, commons, sensors
+Booklets: open design, users as designers, critical making, and ?
+
+[fairphone, decode - both projects creating products, bigger scale]
+[art presentations, labs, making - educational projects, research]
+
+New project: AI for society lab, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, collaboration with Femke Herregraven
+
+## Het Nieuwe Instituut
+
+merge of multiple institutes
+"museum" is a policy slot, but there is no fixed collection
+discursive programme, in which the HNI started to insert matter
+critical making has been embodied
+educational programme: engaging many audiences, specially under 18, designing around complex questions
+Happening next week Neuhaus programme: how should we reply today to learning questions, like bauhaus did 100 years ago.
+https://neuhaus.hetnieuweinstituut.nl, symposium + following curriculum.
+HNI aims to engage with academies, adopting some of the aspects of Neuhaus.
+HNI develops a material critical practice.
+
+## Common patterns of critical making
+
+mind/body
+language/matter (language as matter, matter as language)
+diffractive instead of reflective (Karen Barad was very present yesterday, in 4 presentations)
+
+critical making is performative
+process/outcome
+in action
+performative action
+artefacts perform, the action never stops (materialist ideas)
+
+not making-from-scratch (matter instead of making) - Femke yesterdat
+adding/substracting/transforming existing matter
+not knowing, not-yet-knowing, finding out as you go (attentive attitude)
+wildly different kind of artefacts
+
+pragmatically/politically
+collectives, different ways of knowing simultaniously
+cultural dimension, sustained in a culture / (intellectual) infrastructure
+critical making artefacts exist in an ecology (also possible to generate this ecology)
+critical making want to be auditable, open source practice, performative capacity, all parts remain in action
+
+## Frans-Willem Korsten
+
+Works with Renee Turner on critical pedagogies (? was that the name?)
+
+What can making mean?
+Or how can we sensibly, productively make under critical conditions?
+
+Background in humanities, positionings in other fields:
+- art/literature boundaries of law
+- 70s: collectives, wild gardenings, https://ecokathedraal.nl
+- activism: fighting for a school in the centre of the city. Nobody is coming out of such a trajectory without skars.
+- source of social democracy in the 19th century and its long breath, under poverty and despair. Collective suffering in 19th suffering. Consumer society destroyed this memory.
+- VTV in Utrecht in the city, thread of end of economy now, possible activism ahead
+- humanities as decoration or as co-makers, crossovers NWO, humanities as domain of reflection
+
+How can we make under critical conditions?
+
+critically committed pedagogies with Renee Turner
+think of an act in their circle that they would do
+oke to read critical texts, but thinking of an act was difficult for students
+
+Assessing the conditions to make with
+
+Dutch citizen conditions:
+- intensive care (tubes, infrastructure)
+- addicted (consumption, car, money)
+- held hostage (house is not made by them, hostage in their own houses)
+
+Spaces for self-building, will that make a difference?
+Different models of self-organization?
+How do we make these collectives?
+
+How much forms of making did we thrown overboard?
+
+an example: Dutch Waterschap (Polderboards)
+need of setting a task, a deeply felt need (not a desire)
+new ground, that is not there yet, but that needs to be developped
+if we want to sustain ourselves
+
+but we need to take people out of current intensive care conditions
+in order to change a situation
+in order to see what is needed
+
+Polderboards need legal support
+that their work is recognized
+autonomous in the sense of, being based in political authority
+
+making new grounds
+has to involve making new laws
+
+self-sufficiency
+* electricity
+* water
+* money (example of a coop bank in 1864, Noord-Brabant Christian Bond, Boerenleenbank (1898))
+
+coop-bank became as nasty as the others
+? > ?
+Ra > Rabobank
+
+union, offering concrete alternatives
+only through making we can make people critical to those conditions
+
+## Ginger
+
+educator, research, designer
+interested in the place of the user
+former member of critical making lab in Toronto, faculty of information
+
+critical making lab, research lab, run by Matt Ratto
+faculty that has the second most number of women (after nursing, before education)
+
+Ref.: article from 2011 by Matt Ratto, information society, laying out critical making in a bit more depth
+- as a pedagogical practice and research practice
+- engaging in hands-on making
+- studying the underlying functioning of a complex system
+
+having problems with the word making
+
+- divides critical thinking / embodies practices of knowing
+
+There is a lot of Dewey, knowing with your hands
+
+- it's more about makers, rather then making (?)
+
+In the university, there was a preception that the critical research lab was a service bureau
+sidenote to the gym at the wdka, it's very hard to book!
+
+critical making as a belief that it will create future skills
+markable technical skills
+
+the technical skillset is not what was required to have the educator job
+technical skillset was not the aimed outcome of the critical making lab
+
+discussion around the objects that were produced, to show it to others
+the thing is not the focus, it is about the process
+
+anecdote: 1st year master of critical making in toronto
+moral objects by Bruno Latour, speed bump as sleeping police men
+someone made a small model of a trafic light,
+showed how it is not about the object or end result
+process of understanding a system through making it, which is a personal process
+
+Ginger sees 3 versions of the word "critical making"
+John Meda (?) (independently defined), Matt Rato, ?
+
+critical making as a research methodology
+often viewed as un-scientific
+
+Ref.: 2014 special issue, Journal: information society, critical making as research methodology, there is a table inside of this issue
+
+## Q&A
+
+Frans: What are the conditions to critical make in?
+ginger: discursive making is not necessarily the object
+
+Frans: Critical Making as defining a different attitude towards things happening in the world. The object is helping me to define another attitude.
+ginger: In your examples, new understanding is needed in the context of crisises in the world. In my understanding it is mostly about understanding systems. There is something cybernetic about it.
+Frans: People are living in their own houses. What am i making, through these conditions, with a mortage that allows me to live in this house.
+ginger: Even though if i'm trying to make my own bio-reactor, the research process that i undertake to do that, is different from me going through a critical making process. Critical Making is not about understanding the thing that is in front of you, but something that is behind. Which is a different behavior then making a bio-gaz reactor. What is the role of metaphor?
+Frans: Any type of language is metaphor. Provoking to think.
+ginger: material turn in the social science, understanding the world through language. metaphor/allegory/
+
+Klaas: perhaps not needed to speak about what critical making is, but what critical making does? There is a lot of work that surrounds it.
+ginger: it is the instrimentality of wanting to make a bio-gaz.
+Florian: what you're refusing is solutionism, right? critical making should not be seen as a solutionist practice.
+ginger: i would agree with that. though i would not want to take this word. but instrumentality.
+
+Frans: using metaphor of living together. thinking about having a house as a making process. it opens up the process again.
+(Klaas: bringing it back to the compost bio-reactor .. is the problem that you know where you want to go?)
+ginger: capital view on making, thinking of a marxist remark. instrumental outcome. one of the values of the toronto school critical making approach, is that there is an instructional side on it. a stickiness that i struggle with. the rule of the productive object.
+
+Frans: that's perhaps what is different here, i'm much interested in changing life
+ginger: do we need critical making to change my life? i can change my life without it.
+
+Shailoh: is insight enough? if you have insight in a system and you see that we're fucked, what do you do? what if you have insight, but you cannot act?
+Ramon: how do you delineate(?) an act of thought to an act of action. Awareness of the entire system, when this is not possible, it is already in a process of reduction. Which is not opening up making, but closing off what making actually is. How do you deal with the presumed stability of those points? Making as a stable process? Which then can lead to action?
+
+ginger: composting is not critical making for me, as for me it is a way of understanding systems, where reverse engineering fails. Which is a research perspective, instead of producing perspective.
+
+Ramon: it's nothing new, Matt's frame is not new
+ginger: critical making is nothing new indeed,
+
+Frans: marxist trajectories of what is matter and thought. deconstructivism. there are power and forces that manipulate our thoughts and feelings. Making would be a better way to create alternatives to the situation we are in today.
+
+
+## Ramon Amaro
+
+in this situation of this symposium,
+a moment that is generative, productive, materialise contingency
+interventions are important in this discussion
+
+embassy as an encounter of power
+acts of encounters
+
+Ramon describes how he went to this embassy to renew his passport
+describing bodily experiences within the building
+
+coherent invisibility
+the abstraction of power
+
+we're not so much concerned with the act of participating
+but more how it can enact new forms of participating
+
+looking at it as an ontological problem
+Ref.: "...... the money of the real"
+the re-ification of the black body as a commodity
+
+alienation as a means of production
+mental process and physical process
+economical-social relationship
+techniques of the self (Foucault)
+liberate the difference that lies in the self
+interact in two forms
+- how do we build communities, build new relations
+-
+
+this building was build to be exclusive
+
+ontological scandal of difference
+in the field of machine learning (Ramon's background)
+practice of the artificial
+applied performance of knowledge production
+relations of difference, social entanglement
+angst for the artificial, they are more then themselves
+
+encounter as a moment to freeze the self in time
+passport bringing the nation state in a material form
+
+operation of re-inforcement
+trying to establish a relationship (making)
+
+priorly existing operative mechanism that transforms who we are
+
+what if the debates around algorithms changed to discussions around the angst this lives around it?
+
+the moment we enter the door
+we create a relation with imperialism
+creating an angst, or ease,
+bringing alive the pre-existing feelings with this space
+which then katalyses (? how to spell that) action
+
+two concepts
+- alienation (marxist concept)
+Before the economical and social is the mental? and physical?
+Alienation can become a katalysor of change.
+
+us being at the embassy
+from a place of violence
+to a place of social, cultural?, convivial
+
+reverse engineering objects that make logics possible
+(microphone to amplify a voice and create hierchy)
+(podium because Ramon takes the stage and the rest is passive audience)
+
+How can these techniques become part of the work, to reshape the logics.
+Instead of being an object of angst.
+
+## Anja Groten
+
+research from design background
+and specifically from the context of H&D
+
+Hackers and Designers, currently 7 members
+by creating collaborative environments for learning and unlearning
+
+developing critical standpoints, through the act of making together
+confronting dogma's, enchantments, reframe the discourse of "innovation"
+
+(Anja's slides are sitting within the portal pages of different local networks)
+
+reflection on the workshop format
+design as a mode of deciding what qualifies, and chooses for certain tools
+in its essence an excluding practice
+guided by intentions
+lead to an interest in collaborative making, to counteract individualized design practices
+
+dominance of the workshop format
+premise, promise of the workshops
+can workshops actually create critical practices?
+can it confront contraints of design?
+
+compitence that is shared with the group of participants
+hackathon-like workshop, presupposes a highly productive space "prototyping". only sucessfull when a product is created
+events to conclude a workshop
+over-structuring (exercises, documentation, etc) and creating a highly controlled environment and disallows contingency
+
+Constand and Varia work situations:
+without a paradigm of concensus
+disagreement should be welcomed
+discussion disrupt the workshop, but connect all the participants present
+
+situated knowledges, unlocatable and inresponsible knowledge claims (Haraway)
+the aspect of the unknown in relation of technology design
+maker, person that can be hold encountable
+
+user/makers
+ref.: ..... ?
+ how technology works <> encounter
+ relation shapes perspectives on technology
+ we do not have the same perspective on tech than makers have
+
+habitual modes of making
+
+encounter (meeting of adversaries)
+
+collaborative making through a suspicious lens
+
+collaborative making as social prototypes **(!)**
+"social technological literacy" term by ... ?
+reconnecting materiality and ???
+
+Being limited to once own's perspective to technology ...
+sharing processes, misunderstandings,
+Donna Schön(?)
+
+by presenting the making process to other
+the making process is disrupted
+this can be a surprise effect
+executing a skill - action/reflection
+
+reflection happens while something is being produced
+the thing that is being made is shaped and reshaped
+
+workshops might enforce collaboration
+but also publically presents a making process
+it can disrupt design processes
+
+the likelihood of an outcome, is forced by conditions of the workshop
+
+the workshop as sites where differences between makers may unfold
+they could disrupt an individualized design process
+
+## Critical Makers reader
+
+Loes Bogers
+part of visual methodologies collective
+research in feminist artifical intelligence
+
+INC reader
+"the factory is noting but an applied school and the school nothing but a factory" Villem Flusser (The Factory, 1999)
+a school where we learn to manage our robots
+
+1. epistemology & critique
+ Maria Dada, The counter-testimony of the Maker
+2. labour: sociality & community
+ Lori Emerson & Maya Livio, provocations for collective feminist knowledge-making
+3. (un)learning (with) technology
+ Graham Harwood (YoHa), teaching critical technical practice (a fork, alive thinking alongside technical objects)
+4. spaces and institutions
+ Bernhard Garnicnig, Making it up - radical pedagogies for institutional unlearning
+5. materiality & posthuman making
+
+social hierarchies & legacies
+
+## Conversation
+
+(ginger)
+expanded notion of critical making (after Matt Ratto)
+deconstruction of artefacts in order to understand existing systems
+pedagogical and research practice
+
+(frans willem)
+generative world building
+the already performative making
+nothing is as given, living in a house is already an existing situation
+
+critical making in engagements of legal procedures
+
+critical making on two different planes
+- engaged collectives, around a shared concern
+- individual moment, generatively engaging with the angst that comes with encounters with the violent preceding logics of material formations, the figuring encounter with systems that freeze and cut beings into taxonomies (user, citizen, threat, early adopter, refugee)
+
+workshop comes with its own issues, need critical approach
+and should be open to not-yet-knowing, to contingencies, to difference, and acknowledges postions
+
+### pia
+
+i am i
+i doubted if i was a parasite
+i was an invited guest
+i think i was a good guest
+
+### ramon
+
+connect to the word "angst"
+and discuss how your connection to the word angst connects to the other connections to the word
+releasing identity to something that is malable, dynamic
+
+### anja
+
+wifi networks brought to the room
+local networks
+
+### thalia
+
+german bread as a result of gentrification
+food, bringing food
+feeding each other without speaking
+relation to queer sports
+food as a first thing defining culture
+sports and foods as example to think critically about making
+
+## Conversation
+
+concept of affordances
+a chair affords sitting on
+objects carry norms and instructions in them
+
+critical making
+material practices
+
+this was an experimental conference
+a possible outcome of this conference:
+fine artists saying: i don't see myself being represented in the conference
+
+do we still call it crtical making at the end of the research project?
+there will be a second symposium next year (probably at HNI in Rotterdam)
+
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+ Digital Solidarity Networks in times of the pandemic
+ a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality
+ > Let's chat further on IRC, in the #digital-solidarity-networks channel on Freenode > For access from the web browser, you can use https://webchat.freenode.net/?#digital-solidarity-networks to join the channel (no password needed)
+ To whoever encounters this pad: this is work-in-progress, please join!
+ This is the start of a listing of some resources regarding mutual aid strategies and social closeness through alternative digital infrastructures in times of physical distancing, remote working or care giving, etc. This pad contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.). Other attitudes are possible!
+ In such a context, we feel the response-ability to suggest a different approach to technology. One that promotes collective networks of solidarity that don't rely on data extractivist models, reconsider the figure of the user, and can be adapted to the specificities of each situation. Luckily, there are already plenty of kickass, inspiring initiatives doing great work in this arena. With this pamphlet, we hope to share some of them.
+ At the same time, we cannot ignore that it takes effort, and a great amount of privilege, to abandon these corporate tech solutions once and for all. Ease-of-use in times of urgency, network effects, family members whose contact is dependent on the usage of mainstream social networking platforms, complicated political situations where these are sadly the most convenient choice, the need for an online presence in times of structural precarity, etc, are all considerations that should not be discarded and are the reality for most of us. In fact, and precisely because of such considerations, we are not advocating a purist approach. We are all entangled with Big Tech, but we would prefer to critique, limit and eventually abandon our dependencies. However, with this pamphlet we hope to provide a counterpoint to approaches such as https://techagainstcoronavirus.com/, which promote technologies that reinforce capitalist ideals of productivity in situations of crisis (i.e.: "business as usual").
+ So if you are interested in experimenting with other digital infrastructures, we invite organisations, collectives and individuals to look closer into these alternatives and support them to the best of their abilities, by either hosting their own versions of the software, therefore diminishing the visitor load, or providing financial compensation for their services.
+ Meanwhile, smaller groups do not have to wait for these organisations to finally put their tech-hearts in the right place .... There are many tools and hosting initiatives to start exploring and engaging.
+ We have curated this list from a similar perspective to those articulated by the tennets of the Feminist Server Manifesto (https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml ), ...
+ The list will perhaps be slowly updated as new projects and groups are announced depending on our energies, how the virus and our governments respond to each other, ... etc etc, no pressure, no productivity claims. We try to not apologize for not being always available.
+
+
+
+ Translations of the above text:
+ - generated French translation https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks_french
+ - Portuguese translation https://pajuba.frama.wiki/wiki:solidariedade_feminista
+
+
+
+ General resources
+
+
+
Hacking with Care ("The collective explores well-being and care as components of hacking and activism, while also seeking to liberate care, and to inspire alliances between "caregivers" of different competences.") - https://hackingwithcare.in/
+
Een poging tot een verzameling van activiteiten voor kleuters en ouders - activities for preschoolers and parents (mostly in Dutch and French) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes
+
Chatons - distributed load of Framasoft - https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft, one of their members, but distributed over the different Chatons servers (have a look - auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other servers are proposed.
podcast with Jitsi founder/project lead Emil Ivov & Randy Ksar who works at 8x8 who hired the Jitsi team and acquired the Jitsi Technology https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi
+
∏node propose the ANTIVIRUS program : an open collective anti isolation radio show made from your home. Everyday at 20h (Paris time) - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
+
+
+
+ * Extractive software relies on a business model where the user produces economic value for the tech company in exchange for its free (free as in beer, not as in freedom) services (e.g.: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, et al). However, the exchange rate(?) is often disproportional and can have direct consequences for democracy, society and basic human rights(?), while generating profits in the order of the billions for the company (e.g.: US$40 billion (2017) for Facebook and US$110 billion (2017) for Google.)
+
+
+ ____ U _____ u _ ____ __ __ _____ U ___ u ____ U _____ u _ ____ U | _"\ u \| ___"|/U /"\ u | _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ U | _"\ u \| ___"|/U /"\ u | _"\ \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \/ /| | | | \ V / | | | | | | \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \/ /| | | | | _ < | |___ / ___ \ U| |_| |\U_|"|_u /| |\.-,_| |_| | | _ < | |___ / ___ \ U| |_| |\ |_| \_\ |_____| /_/ \_\ |____/ u |_| u |_|U \_)-\___/ |_| \_\ |_____| /_/ \_\ |____/ u // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_ .-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_ (__) (__)(__) (__)(__) (__)(__)_) \_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__)(__) (__)(__) (__)(__)_)
+
+
+ Statements, snippets, sharp quotes, good jokes
+
+ Framatalk statement (video chat service hosted by Framasoft) - https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/
+
+
+
+
+ 16 Mars 2020 : Framatalk est en surcharge d'utilisation
+
+
+ Nous demandons aux personnes relevant de l'éducation nationale (profs, élèves, personnel administratif) de ne pas utiliser nos services durant le confinement et de demander conseil à leurs référent·es.
+
+
+ Nous savons que le ministère de l'éducation nationale a les moyens, les compétences et la visibilité pour créer les services en ligne nécessaires à son bon fonctionnement durant un confinement. Notre association loi 1901 ne peut pas compenser le manque de préparation et de volonté du ministère.
+
+
+
+ Merci de réserver nos services aux personnes qui n'ont pas les moyens informatiques d'une institution nationale
+
+ (individus, associations, petites entreprises et coopératives, collectifs, familles, etc.).
+
+
+ Le formulaire ci-dessous vous permettra de créer un salon chez un hébergeur éthique aléatoire en qui nous avons confiance.
+
+
+
+ March 16, 2020: Framatalk is in overload of use
+
+
+ We ask the people in charge of national education (teachers, students, administrative staff) not to use our services during containment and to ask their referents for advice.
+
+
+ We are aware that the Ministry of Education has the means, skills and visibility to create the online services necessary for its proper functioning during a containment. Our association law 1901 cannot compensate for the lack of preparation and willingness of the Ministry.
+
+
+
+ Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution
+
+ (individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).
+
+
+ The form below will allow you to create a room at a random ethical host we trust.
+
-- because "if you're having a committee meeting via Zoom and you use the chat function to privately write to someone, your colleagues may not see it in real time, but it shows up when the chat is downloaded and put in the minutes folder"... https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233
+
+ What to say when colleagues propose to work with software that is not maintained by the university or school, but is a free service hosted by someone else? How to rely on someone else's infrastructure as an educational institution, without engaging with that infrastructure?
+
+
+
+
+
-- what data is captured?
+
-- by whom and for whom is the tool made? with what ideology? (is this important? or is pragmatism more important these days?) (how to still project in the future, while remaining pragmatic?)
+
-- how to support upstream?
+
+
+
+
For example, from whereby.com's vision page:
+
+ Flexible working allows employees to choose the location they want to work from (and often also what time they work). Whether it’s a home office, a coworking space, library or an airport - each individual knows best what works for them, and how they do their best work.
+
Libros Vol 1 y 2 en formato GIT y traducciones que existen (ingles, frances, castellano, italiano, neerlandes, etc): https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec
+
+
+
+ ---
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+
+ Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia! You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
+ VISIBILITY: - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
+ PRIVACY: - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private. - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
+ RETENTION: - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely. - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
+ ACCESSIBILITY: - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups. - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+ CODE OF CONDUCT: - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
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+Digital Solidarity Networks in times of the pandemic
+a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality
+
+> Let's chat further on IRC, in the #digital-solidarity-networks channel on Freenode
+> For access from the web browser, you can use https://webchat.freenode.net/?#digital-solidarity-networks to join the channel (no password needed)
+
+To whoever encounters this pad: this is work-in-progress, please join!
+
+This is the start of a listing of some resources regarding mutual aid strategies and social closeness through alternative digital infrastructures in times of physical distancing, remote working or care giving, etc. This pad contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.). Other attitudes are possible!
+
+In such a context, we feel the response-ability to suggest a different approach to technology. One that promotes collective networks of solidarity that don't rely on data extractivist models, reconsider the figure of the user, and can be adapted to the specificities of each situation. Luckily, there are already plenty of kickass, inspiring initiatives doing great work in this arena. With this pamphlet, we hope to share some of them.
+
+At the same time, we cannot ignore that it takes effort, and a great amount of privilege, to abandon these corporate tech solutions once and for all. Ease-of-use in times of urgency, network effects, family members whose contact is dependent on the usage of mainstream social networking platforms, complicated political situations where these are sadly the most convenient choice, the need for an online presence in times of structural precarity, etc, are all considerations that should not be discarded and are the reality for most of us. In fact, and precisely because of such considerations, we are not advocating a purist approach. We are all entangled with Big Tech, but we would prefer to critique, limit and eventually abandon our dependencies. However, with this pamphlet we hope to provide a counterpoint to approaches such as https://techagainstcoronavirus.com/, which promote technologies that reinforce capitalist ideals of productivity in situations of crisis (i.e.: "business as usual").
+
+So if you are interested in experimenting with other digital infrastructures, we invite organisations, collectives and individuals to look closer into these alternatives and support them to the best of their abilities, by either hosting their own versions of the software, therefore diminishing the visitor load, or providing financial compensation for their services.
+
+Meanwhile, smaller groups do not have to wait for these organisations to finally put their tech-hearts in the right place .... There are many tools and hosting initiatives to start exploring and engaging.
+
+We have curated this list from a similar perspective to those articulated by the tennets of the Feminist Server Manifesto (https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml ), ...
+
+The list will perhaps be slowly updated as new projects and groups are announced depending on our energies, how the virus and our governments respond to each other, ... etc etc, no pressure, no productivity claims. We try to not apologize for not being always available.
+
+
+Translations of the above text:
+- generated French translation https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks_french
+- Portuguese translation https://pajuba.frama.wiki/wiki:solidariedade_feminista
+
+
+General resources
+
+ * Coronavirus Tech Handbook - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
+ * Pirate Care Syllabus https://syllabus.pirate.care/
+ * Digital Self-Defense Knowledgebase https://defendourmovements.org/
+ * Detroit Community Technology Project https://detroitcommunitytech.org/ // https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=teachcommtech
+ * Consentful Tech Project https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project
+ * prendre soin https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/prendre-soin/137
+ * Mental Health Resources Varia pad - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/mentalhealthc19-resources
+ * GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report - https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf
+ * Hacking with Care ("The collective explores well-being and care as components of hacking and activism, while also seeking to liberate care, and to inspire alliances between "caregivers" of different competences.") - https://hackingwithcare.in/
+ * Tactical Tech's Security in a Box - https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/security-in-a-box / https://securityinabox.org/en/
+ * Tactical Tech's Gender and Technology - https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology / https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
+ * Dear cultural institution, There is an elephant in the room! - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant
+ * Dear student, teacher, worker in an educational institution, https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html (September 2020 follow up!)
+ * We, Computer Users, demand the right to … https://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/
+ * The Politics of Covid-19 Syllabus - https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/
+ * Een poging tot een verzameling van activiteiten voor kleuters en ouders - activities for preschoolers and parents (mostly in Dutch and French) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes
+ * Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
+ * 'Collective Health as Really Beautiful Artwork' by The Feminist Economics Department (the FED) - https://tinyletter.com/Feminist_Economics_Department/letters/collective-health-as-really-beautiful-artwork
+ * Hackers and Hospitals https://libreplanet.org/wiki/HACKERS_and_HOSPITALS
+ * The Pandemic Imagination Reading Club - https://salwafoundation.nl/Session-1-The-Pandemic-Imagination
+ * A People's History of Sillicon Valley Syllabus https://pad.riseup.net/p/social_movements_and_tech_change-keep
+ * The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest - http://titipi.org/
+
+
+Connected lists
+
+ * Online tools for the pandemic by the Faces + Eclectic Tech Carnival mailing lists https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic
+ * Social Practices COVID-19 Teaching Resources https://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Social_Practices_COVID-19_Teaching_Resources
+ * A collection of open-source tools, apps and services recommended by Tactical Technology https://myshadow.org/resources
+ * Collaborative Tool Inventory https://pad.puscii.nl/p/collaborative_tool_inventory
+ * HKU Utrecht's list of recently opened online cultural resources: museums, libraries, streaming of operas, etc. https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MEDIA-onlineArt_and_resources
+ * Sharing is Caring https://wiki.mur.at/SharingIsCaring the hands-on infowiki provided by mur.at (in German)
+ * Autonomous Fabric's SUPPORT and RESOURCE pad for self-organised initiatives in Rotterdam and beyond https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Autonomous_Fabric_of_Rotterdam
+ * LibrePlanet Remote Communication https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication
+ * Collection of initiatives to help each other in the COVID-19 crisis https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19
+ * Servers: From autonomous servers to feminist servers https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers
+
+
+ ____ U _____ u _ ____ __ __ _____ U ___ u _ _ ____ U _____ u
+U | _"\ u\| ___"|U /"\ u| _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ U |"|u| |/ __"| \| ___"|/
+ \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \//| | | | \ V / | | | | | | \| |\| <\___ \/ | _|"
+ | _ < | |___ / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u /| |.-,_| |_| | | |_| |u___) | | |___
+ |_| \_\ |_____|/_/ \_\|____/ u |_| u |_|U\_)-\___/ <<\___/ |____/>>|_____|
+ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_.-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ (__) )( )( (__<< >>
+ (__) (__(__) (__(__) (__(__)_)\_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__)
+
+
+Non-extractive* software hosters
+
+ * Multi-service
+ * Lurk (small scale) - https://lurk.org/
+ * discussion lists, xmpp chat, microblogging, wiki, mastodon
+ * Framasoft (medium scale) - https://framasoft.fr/en/ - Frama is in overload mode..
+ * pads, forms, agenda, slides, chat, video-calling, maps, microblogging, notes, mindmaps, calculators, etc.
+ * Chatons - distributed load of Framasoft - https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft, one of their members, but distributed over the different Chatons servers (have a look - auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other servers are proposed.
+ * Riseup - https://riseup.net/
+ * email, chat, VPN, mailing lists, etherpads
+ * Autistici/Inventati - https://www.autistici.org/
+ * Systemli https://www.systemli.org/
+ * xmpp chat, email, etherpad, web hosting, ticker
+ * disroot ( www.disroot.org ) xmpp, jitsi, etherpad, taiga, email, diaspora, nextcloud
+ * autonomic coop: https://autonomic.zone - worker coop which provides software hosting
+ * Video chat
+ * Jitsi
+ * instances where Jitsi is hosted:
+ * by the jitsi team: https://meet.jit.si/
+ * lurk.org: https://meet.lurk.org/ (almost stable) - not working at the moment
+ * surf.nl: https://edu.nl/meet, https://videobelpilot.surf.nl/ (in partnerships with NL educational institutions)
+ * greenhost.net: https://meet.greenhost.net/
+ * mayfirst: https://meet.mayfirst.org/
+ * autistici inventati: https://vc.autistici.org/
+ * systemli: https://meet.systemli.org/
+ * disroot: https://calls.disroot.org
+ * guifi net: https://meet.guifi.net
+ * waag: https://meet.waag.org/
+ * Domaine Public http://conf.domainepublic.org
+ * Freifunk München: https://meet.ffmuc.net/
+ * collective tools: https://meet.collective.tools/
+ * vc4all: https://beeldbellen.vc4all.nl/
+ * Praatbox: https://praatbox.be/
+ * + many more! (more: https://fediverse.blog/~/DonsBlog/videochat-server dead)
+ * (more more: )
+ * + many many more (with annotations!): https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances
+ * Big Blue button https://bigbluebutton.org - to install on your own server, their version is not a good demo, Modest version available on https://bbb.faimaison.net/b - Faimaison indicates that their server can handle conversations from 2 to 10 people. https://www.faimaison.net/actualites/outils-tele-cooperation-covid19.html
+ * The Onling Meeting Cooperative: https://www.org.meet.coop (demo @ )
+ * Audio chat
+ * Mumble
+ * instances of Mumble:
+ * Espora - https://mumble.espora.org/
+ * Mayfirst - https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/mumble
+ * Textual chat
+ * Freenode IRC
+ * for example http://freenode.net/ (server IRC), accessible via the web interface: https://webchat.freenode.net/
+ * Collaborative writing
+ * Etherpad, examples of instances:
+ * Wikimedia Etherpad - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/
+ * Riseup - https://pad.riseup.net/
+ * FramaPad - https://framapad.org/fr/
+ * + many others!
+ * CodiMD
+ * CodiMD - https://demo.codimd.org/
+ * Cryptpad
+ * Cryptpad - https://cryptpad.fr/
+ * Collaborative Drawing
+ * Excalidraw https://excalidraw.com/
+ * WBO https://wbo.ophir.dev/
+ * Streaming
+ * https://live.autistici.org/
+ * https://echo.lurk.org
+ * https://cytu.be/
+ * File sharing
+ * Riseup - https://share.riseup.net/
+ * Firefox https://send.firefox.com/ - Mozilla - yes or no?
+ * hostb - https://hostb.org/
+
+
+ ____ U _____ u _ ____ __ __ _____ U ___ u _ _ ____ _____ _ _ _
+U | _"\ u\| ___"|U /"\ u| _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ ___ | \ |"| / __"| u|_ " _|U /"\ u |"| |"|
+ \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \//| | | | \ V / | | | | | | |_"_| <| \| |<\___ \/ | | \/ _ \/U | | uU | | u
+ | _ < | |___ / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u /| |.-,_| |_| | | | U| |\ |uu___) | /| |\ / ___ \ \| |/__\| |/__
+ |_| \_\ |_____|/_/ \_\|____/ u |_| u |_|U\_)-\___/ U/| |\u |_| \_| |____/>>u |_|U /_/ \_\ |_____||_____|
+ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_.-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ .-,_|___|_,-|| \\,-)( (___// \\_ \\ >> // \\ // \\
+ (__) (__(__) (__(__) (__(__)_)\_) (__) (__) (__) (__) \_)-' '-(_/(_") (_(__) (__) (__(__) (__(_")("_(_")("_)
+
+
+Non-extractive* software
+
+(would be nice to add personal experiences maybe another chapter?)
+
+ * Video chat/voice chat
+ * Jitsi - https://jitsi.org/
+ * podcast with Jitsi founder/project lead Emil Ivov & Randy Ksar who works at 8x8 who hired the Jitsi team and acquired the Jitsi Technology https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi
+ * Wahay - https://wahay.org (did not get it to work)
+ * Mumble - https://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php
+ * Apache Open Meetings - https://openmeetings.apache.org/
+ * unhangout - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/
+ * Jami - https://jami.net/download/ (not tested, comes with a blockchain part? not sure what is underneath the interfaces to handle the chatting and calling https://jami.net/the-jami-blockchain-switches-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-authority/ )
+ * Streaming
+ * Icecast (audio/video streaming server) - https://icecast.org/
+ * streaming with icecast notes https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast
+ * Butt streaming tool, if you have Icecast config you can use https://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/support
+ * Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) - https://obsproject.com/
+ * Open Streaming Platform - https://openstreamingplatform.com/
+ * Metastream - https://getmetastream.com/
+ * VideoLAN streaming solution - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
+ * Gstreamer - https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer
+ --> notes about self-hosting streaming software: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/streaming
+ * CyTube https://github.com/calzoneman/sync
+ * Studiolink - (german docs) High Quality audio stream integration - https://studio-link.de/
+ * Chat
+ * XMPP/Jabber
+ * server software: https://prosody.im/, https://www.ejabberd.im/
+ * clients: https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html
+ * Conversations (Android) (!) - https://conversations.im/ (also available in f-droid!)
+ * Dino (Linux Desktop) - https://dino.im/
+ * Gajim (Windows, Linux, Mac) - https://gajim.org/
+ * Chatsecure (iOS), Siskin (iOS), Monal (iOS)
+ * ConverseJS (web-client) - https://conversejs.org/, installed at different places:
+ * https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html
+ --> further reading: https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messaging.html
+ --> XMPP bots: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/explore/repos?q=bots&topic=1
+ * IRC
+ * server software listing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons
+ * recommendations: ?
+ * IRC client listing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients
+ * kiwi-irc (web-client) - https://webchat.freenode.net/?#varia
+ * weechat (command line) - https://weechat.org/
+ * Game development
+ * Twine - http://twinery.org/
+ * Ren'Py - https://www.renpy.org/
+ * Bitsy - http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html
+ * Fabularium (app) - https://fossdroid.com/a/fabularium.html
+ --> more links: http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html
+ * Godot - https://godotengine.org/
+ * Library softwarehttps://post.lurk.org/about
+ * Bibliotecha - https://bibliotecha.info/
+ * Calibre - https://calibre-ebook.com/
+ * File sharing
+ * OnionShare - https://onionshare.org/
+ * Secure browsing
+ * Tor Browser - https://www.torproject.org/download/
+
+Self-hosting (with others)
+ --> more links: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/self-hosting-together
+
+ * Freedombox - https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
+ * https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud (great listing of many tools !)
+ * Freedombone - https://freedombone.net/
+ * Yunohost - https://yunohost.org/#/
+ * Practical guides and much more - https://homebrewserver.club/
+ * Feminist servers checklist: https://pad.riseup.net/p/femservers-checklist-security
+ * Run Your Own - https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Main_Page
+ * Homebrewserver Club - https://homebrewserver.club/
+ * Streaming guides https://p-node.org/documentation/streams
+ * Local Network wifi zone (short distance) - http://www.mazizone.eu/
+ * Subnodes - https://github.com/chootka/subnodes-lighttpd + http://subnodes.org/
+ * Occupy Here - https://github.com/occupyhere/occupy.here
+ * Run your own social: How to run a small social network site for your friends - https://runyourown.social/
+
+
+ ____ U _____ u _ ____ __ __ _____ U ___ u U _____ u_ _ _ U ___ __ __
+U | _"\ u\| ___"|U /"\ u| _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ \| ___"|| \ |"| U |"| u \/"_ \\ \ / /
+ \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \//| | | | \ V / | | | | | | | _|"<| \| |>_ \| |/ | | | |\ V /
+ | _ < | |___ / ___ \U| |_| |U_|"|_u /| |.-,_| |_| | | |___U| |\ || |_| |_,-.-,_| |_| U_|"|_u
+ |_| \_\ |_____|/_/ \_\|____/ u |_| u |_|U\_)-\___/ |_____||_| \_| \___/-(_/ \_)-\___/ |_|
+ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_.-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ << >>|| \\,-_// \\.-,//|(_
+ (__) (__(__) (__(__) (__(__)_)\_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__(_") (_(__) (__)\_) (__)
+
+
+Alternative social networks
+
+ * WeDistribute "a publication dedicated to Free Software, decentralized communication technologies, and sustainability" - https://wedistribute.org/
+ * Welcome to the Fediverse - https://fediverse.party/
+
+Microblogging
+ * Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/about // https://instances.social/
+ * Pleroma - https://pleroma.social/ // https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma
+ * Misskey - https://join.misskey.page/en/ // https://fediverse.party/en/misskey
+
+Macroblogging
+ * Socialhome - https://socialhome.network/ // https://fediverse.party/en/socialhome
+ * Hubzilla - https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project // https://fediverse.party/en/hubzilla
+ * Diaspora - https://diasporafoundation.org/ // https://fediverse.party/en/diaspora
+
+Activist organising
+ * Crabgrass - https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/crabgrass
+ * Used for example by riseup https://we.riseup.net/
+
+Digital libraries
+
+ * Aaaaarg - https://aaaaarg.fail/
+ * Memory of the World - https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/ , https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/
+ * Internet Archive - https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ + https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
+ * Library Genesis - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ - https://whereislibgen.now.sh/
+ * Sci-Hub - https://mg.scihub.ltd/ , https://sci-hub.tw
+ * Monoskop - https://monoskop.org , https://monoskop.org/log/
+ * Z Library - https://b-ok.cc/ , https://booksc.xyz/
+ * Imperial Library of Trantor - https://trantor.is/
+ * LibriVox - https://librivox.org/
+ * The Anarchist Library - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
+
+
+Non-extractive* software initatives and use examples
+
+ * Libre Planet moved their conference fully online - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming
+ * running Gstreamer and Icecast
+ * Love Chaos Quarantine https://www.lovechaosquarantine.zone/
+ * adhoc online festival
+ * running https://hoffnung3000.de/
+ * Radio On the Radio, online Varia stream (14-03) - https://varia.zone/en/pages/stream.html
+ * using Icecast
+ * ∏node propose the ANTIVIRUS program : an open collective anti isolation radio show made from your home. Everyday at 20h (Paris time) - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
+ * Online Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (15-03) - https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1629/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-1
+ * running on a Mediawiki
+ * Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern: "An exercise that might be of use to others: in Anthro of Networks, we asked students to use a networked-writing platform (Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical) to document 24hrs of their networked activity - a mini-auto-ethnography. Some were revelatory! https://anthronetworks.wordsinspace.net/spring2020/req" - https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1238679065827082244
+ * using Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical
+ * Data Vis Book Club happening regularly online - https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers
+ * running Etherpad
+ * Anti-University - https://2020.antiuniversity.org/
+ * running https://hoffnung3000.de/
+ * Streaming video, a link between pandemic and climate crisis https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/04/16/streaming-video-a-link-between-pandemic-and-climate-crisis-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-2/
+ * Read & Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks - http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html
+ * 3 Adventures in the Ether , a Choose Your Own Adventure game on the windows of Varia - http://varia.zone/en/3-adventures-in-the-ether.html
+
+ Radio/Streaming
+ ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
+
+ * PUB - http://pub.sandberg.nl
+ * Rietveld - http://radio.rietveldacademie.nl/
+ * Hammam Radio - https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/
+ * Radio Quarentena - https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/
+ * Echoraeume - http://echoraeume.klingt.org/ in Vienna
+ * Domes FM - http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio in Liverpool observatory
+ * Radio Calafou - https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou Calafou radio from a eco-industrial post-capitalist colony in Catalonia✨
+ * LAG radio - https://leftover.puscii.nl/ https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/
+ * MayDay Radio Marathon - http://oscillation-festival.be/
+ * List of streamings from Greece to Palestine to Asia - http://und-athens.com/journal/quarantine-list-1
+ * pNode - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
+ * Strike Radio - http://strikeradio.org/about/
+ * https://mutantradio.net/
+ * Ràdio Web MACBA - https://rwm.macba.cat/en
+ * Reboot http://reboot.fm/
+ * n10 http://www.n10.as/
+ * Yamakan https://yamakan.place/palestine/
+ * Leftover radio https://leftover.puscii.nl/
+ * https://radioee.net/ (nice way to present the podcasts)
+ * radio in between spaces https://www.inbetweenspaces.net/
+ * p-node https://p-node.org/
+ * https://yamakan.place/palestine/
+ * https://radiorelativa.eu/
+ * Baba Radio http://www.babaradio.online/
+ * Radio Implicancies https://issue.xpub.nl/12/
+
+
+* Extractive software relies on a business model where the user produces economic value for the tech company in exchange for its free (free as in beer, not as in freedom) services (e.g.: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, et al). However, the exchange rate(?) is often disproportional and can have direct consequences for democracy, society and basic human rights(?), while generating profits in the order of the billions for the company (e.g.: US$40 billion (2017) for Facebook and US$110 billion (2017) for Google.)
+
+
+ ____ U _____ u _ ____ __ __ _____ U ___ u ____ U _____ u _ ____
+U | _"\ u \| ___"|/U /"\ u | _"\ \ \ / / |_ " _| \/"_ \/ U | _"\ u \| ___"|/U /"\ u | _"\
+ \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \/ /| | | | \ V / | | | | | | \| |_) |/ | _|" \/ _ \/ /| | | |
+ | _ < | |___ / ___ \ U| |_| |\U_|"|_u /| |\.-,_| |_| | | _ < | |___ / ___ \ U| |_| |\
+ |_| \_\ |_____| /_/ \_\ |____/ u |_| u |_|U \_)-\___/ |_| \_\ |_____| /_/ \_\ |____/ u
+ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_ .-,//|(_ _// \\_ \\ // \\_ << >> \\ >> |||_
+ (__) (__)(__) (__)(__) (__)(__)_) \_) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__) (__)(__) (__)(__) (__)(__)_)
+
+
+Statements, snippets, sharp quotes, good jokes
+
+Framatalk statement (video chat service hosted by Framasoft) - https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/
+
+ 16 Mars 2020 : Framatalk est en surcharge d'utilisation
+ Nous demandons aux personnes relevant de l'éducation nationale (profs, élèves, personnel administratif) de ne pas utiliser nos services durant le confinement et de demander conseil à leurs référent·es.
+ Nous savons que le ministère de l'éducation nationale a les moyens, les compétences et la visibilité pour créer les services en ligne nécessaires à son bon fonctionnement durant un confinement. Notre association loi 1901 ne peut pas compenser le manque de préparation et de volonté du ministère.
+ Merci de réserver nos services aux personnes qui n'ont pas les moyens informatiques d'une institution nationale (individus, associations, petites entreprises et coopératives, collectifs, familles, etc.).
+ Le formulaire ci-dessous vous permettra de créer un salon chez un hébergeur éthique aléatoire en qui nous avons confiance.
+
+ March 16, 2020: Framatalk is in overload of use
+ We ask the people in charge of national education (teachers, students, administrative staff) not to use our services during containment and to ask their referents for advice.
+ We are aware that the Ministry of Education has the means, skills and visibility to create the online services necessary for its proper functioning during a containment. Our association law 1901 cannot compensate for the lack of preparation and willingness of the Ministry.
+ Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution (individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).
+ The form below will allow you to create a room at a random ethical host we trust.
+
+A trans*feminist infrastructure implies... - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvC21LSXgAIMPtl.jpg
+
+---
+
+Q's & multiple A's
+
+ * What to say when somebody wants to use Zoom or Skype or Microsoft Teams for a video call?
+
+ -- data extractivism!
+ -- spying tools! ("if zoom is not the primary window on your screen for more than 30sec, the administrator of the session gets a notification")
+ -- stocks!
+ -- side story: "Working from Home? Zoom tells your boss if you're not paying attention" - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdnmm/working-from-home-zoom-tells-your-boss-if-youre-not-paying-attention + https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
+ -- Because Big Tech is already making enough money from the pandemic - https://reporterre.net/Pour-Amazon-le-coronavirus-est-une-affaire-tres-profitable
+ -- Because these tools are made for managing employees. They do not have a culture of activism, art or education built in.
+ -- Because Zoom iOS App is sending info to Facebook, even if the user has no Facebook account https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account update: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook
+ -- because "if you're having a committee meeting via Zoom and you use the chat function to privately write to someone, your colleagues may not see it in real time, but it shows up when the chat is downloaded and put in the minutes folder"... https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233
+ -- because Zoom is not taking measures to protect its users against harrassment: Citizen Lab report: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/
+ -- because Zoom has serious privacy issues https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ + https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing
+
+ * What to say when colleagues propose to work with software that is not maintained by the university or school, but is a free service hosted by someone else? How to rely on someone else's infrastructure as an educational institution, without engaging with that infrastructure?
+
+ -- what data is captured?
+ -- by whom and for whom is the tool made? with what ideology? (is this important? or is pragmatism more important these days?) (how to still project in the future, while remaining pragmatic?)
+ -- how to support upstream?
+
+ For example, from whereby.com's vision page:
+ Flexible working allows employees to choose the location they want to work from (and often also what time they work). Whether it’s a home office, a coworking space, library or an airport - each individual knows best what works for them, and how they do their best work.
+
+
+ Or the statement Framasoft wrote on the 16th of March 2020, see line 245.
+
+---
+
+Reading list
+
+ * Let's first get things done! on division of labour and technopolitical practices of delegation in times of crisis http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/
+ * Solidarity as Infrastructure - https://www.systemli.org/en/2020/03/15/solidarity-as-infrastructure.html
+ * Pervasive Labour Union - http://ilu.servus.at/
+ * On paranoia and reparative reading - https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation
+ * Other geometries vocabulary - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies
+ * Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of the Coronavirus - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f87d66914e6b2a2c51b657/t/5e7bbeef7811c16d3a8768eb/1585168132614/AAFCZine3_CareintheTimeofCoronavirus.pdf
+ * Complaint and Survival - https://feministkilljoys.com/2020/03/23/complaint-and-survival/
+ * Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures https://sci-hub.shop/https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1640740
+ * Libro de soberania tecnologica (2014) Volumen 1:
+ Cast: https://radioslibres.net/wp-content/uploads/media/uploads/documentos/dossier-st-cast-2014-06-30.pdf
+ French: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/dossier-st1.pdf
+ Italian: http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec1/it/
+ * Libro de soberania tecnologica (2018) Volumen 2:
+ Cast: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-es-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-13-v2.pdf
+ French: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-fr-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf
+ English: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-en-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf
+ * Libros Vol 1 y 2 en formato GIT y traducciones que existen (ingles, frances, castellano, italiano, neerlandes, etc): https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec
+ * Cartography of Exhaustion: Nihilism Inside Out, Peter Pál Pelbart - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58360af69ff37c59db161054
+ * Coronavirus and philosophers - http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/
+ * One hundred years of crisis https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/326411/one-hundred-years-of-crisis/
+ * The universal right to breathe https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/
+ * Ten Premises For A Pandemic https://www.ianalanpaul.com/ten-premises-for-a-pandemic/
+ * Feminist Autonomous Infrastructures https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures
+
+
+Viewing list
+
+ * https://www.artez.nl/en/webinar-crisis-education-critical-education with an analysis of the issues with extractive software in education by Seda Guerses
+
+Listening list
+
+ * We Be Imagining Podcast - A Chance to Transgress https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast/episode-chance-9dtjd4-b5neb
+
+
+---
+
+Concrete political and institutional responses [welp, not sure yet how to title]
+
+ * #internet4all - https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/ [did not dive into this one yet, did one of you?]
+ * "From net neutrality to public internet" - https://techaction.nyc/posts/from-net-neutrality-to-public-internet/
+ * Statement of the EDPB Chair on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak - https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news_en
+ * pressing pause in a time of crisis: https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/pressing-pause-in-a-time-of-crisis
+ * State of Emergency https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/state-of-emergency
+ * GreenNet compilation of OS tools: https://www.apc.org/en/node/36165/
+
+
+
+---
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+ Mirror from Constant's etherpad <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant> (17/07/2019)
+ ---
+ It has been a while now that Constant* is trying to address cultural institutions (that we love and respect!) about their use of commercial platforms and proprietary technology. It is always awkward to bring these things up, because it can easily feel like blaming and also Constant cannot but actually does not want to solve these issues for others. So how then to communicate the urgency for change, to talk about the potential but also the responsibility of institutions to do things differently? How to do that in a generous and maybe even poetic way? We started writing this letter, imagining that it can be completed, copied, changed and sent by other people with the same concerns. It is far from perfect, but this is how far we got. We’ll keep on trying!
+ All the best,
+
+ Constant
+
+
+ “Dear cultural institution,
+
+
+ There is an elephant in the room! You and many of your colleagues confided your institutions’ networked communication, some of your digital archives and also your collaboration tools to tech giants. You rely more and more on so-called ‘free’ services provided by Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. You know already that these tools and platforms are infused with capitalist values, modernist ideas of progress and dreams of seamlessness. You are of course aware that the Terms of Use you once signed do not give you any agency over your data, let alone over the organising logic of the infrastructure. It raises issues of institutional framing and sustainability. What does it mean that you communicate through commercial platforms? What would become of your documents if Dropbox / YouTube / Google Drive / Facebook / WhatsApp ... radically changed its terms of service?
+
+
+ By ignoring the elephant in the room, you seem to accept that your computational practice depends on the fortunes of Sillicon Valley billiardaires. You allow tech giants to embed themselves into institutional life, into publicly funded cultural initiatives, including ones that are dedicated to transformation, political love and commoning. You pull your public, your participants, your co-workers, your students deeper into the intricate webs of commercial agencies that weave themselves into and around us. By continuing to unstate the presence of the GAFAM corporations at work in your institution, you contribute to the proliferation of personal and professional practices that constrain the possibilities of life, in order for everyone to be always available, optimised and surveyed, to provide ever more data, more quantifiable outcomes.
+
+
+ This is not just about replacing one toolset with 'fairer' ones, although it is part of it obviously. It is first of all about taking time to foreground processes that tech-giants want us to stay out of sight. To learn together how to experience technology differently, to develop convivial and critical relationships that foreground vulnerability, mutual dependency and care-taking. It means to study, to discuss and to experiment. Collectively, we can develop other imaginations for what technology could mean. It is a process of transition: from expecting efficiency to allowing curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity and from solution to possibility.
+
+
+ It can be as simple as taking a moment to read the terms of use. Or to sit together with your team and discuss what could be different in your workflow. You can start using community-run decentralised services offered by one of the organisations listed below. Maybe you replace some of your proprietary software by Free, Libre and Open Source tools. Or install non-proprietary operating systems like Ubuntu on your office machines. You can start using an independent mailservice, share files through services hosted on your own server or on the servers of neighbouring organisations. You can quit Facebook, or cancel your Google accounts. You can report bugs, and collaborate with developer teams to give valuable feedback about the tools you use in or need for your institution. Of course someone has to take care of these processes, and sustain them. But you can collaborate with other organisations to make this happen.
+
+
+ This is where you as a cultural institution present an opportunity. A beginning of a transition towards affective infrastructures of people, tools, protocols, platforms, and practices.”
+
+ Discussions, campaigns, further reading:
+
+ Nubo, cooperative that wants to provide trustworthy services that will allow one to live a digital life with confidence, with an ethical basis (Belgium) https://nubo.coop
+
+
+ Chatons, collective of independant, transparent, open, neutral and ethical hosters providing FLOSS-based online services (France) http://chatons.org/
+
+
+ *Constant is a non-profit association, based in Brussels since 1997, collectively run and active in the field between art, media and technology. Constant develops, researches and experiments on the intersection of feminismes, copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software.
+ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+ SOME RECENT ATTEMPTS + RESPONSES
+
+
+ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+ Manifestly Haraway, Donna Haraway discussing with Cary Wolfe, 2016: cw: Let’s start with a problem that we all agree we share. dh: We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. And we need resolutely to keep cosmopolitical practices going here, focusing on those practices that can build a common-enough world. Bruno says this, too. Common is not capital C. "Common.” How can we build—compose—a better water policy in the state of California and its various, many parts? How can we truly learn to compose rather than decry or impose?
+ Ulises A. Mejias in Fibreculture Journal 20: Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond, 2012: « A typical drawing of a network depicts a series of nodes connected by lines, representing the links. As a mental exercise, I want to call attention to the space between the nodes. This space surrounding the nodes is not blank, and we can even give it a name: the paranodal. Because of nodocentrism we tend to see only the nodes in a network, but the space between nodes is not empty, it is inhabited by multitudes of paranodes that simply do not conform to the organising logic of the network, and cannot be seen through the algorithms of the network. The paranodal is not a utopia—it is not nowhere, but somewhere (beyond the nodes). It is not a heterotopia, since it is not outside the network but within it as well. The paranodal is an atopia, because it constitutes a difference that is everywhere. »
+ Wendy Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and control in the age of fiberoptics, 2006: « We must explore the democratic potential of communications technologies – a potential that stems from our vulnerabilities rather than our control. And we must face and seize freedom with determination rather than fear and alibis. »
+ Lauren Berlant, The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times, 2016: « What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructures that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence. What remains is the potential we have to common infrastructures that absorb the blows of our agressive need for the world to accommodate us. »
+
+
+
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+__PUBLISH__
+
+Mirror from Constant's etherpad (17/07/2019)
+
+---
+
+It has been a while now that Constant* is trying to address cultural institutions (that we love and respect!) about their use of commercial platforms and proprietary technology. It is always awkward to bring these things up, because it can easily feel like blaming and also Constant cannot but actually does not want to solve these issues for others. So how then to communicate the urgency for change, to talk about the potential but also the responsibility of institutions to do things differently? How to do that in a generous and maybe even poetic way? We started writing this letter, imagining that it can be completed, copied, changed and sent by other people with the same concerns. It is far from perfect, but this is how far we got. We’ll keep on trying!
+
+All the best,
+
+
+Constant
+
+
+“Dear cultural institution,
+
+There is an elephant in the room! You and many of your colleagues confided your institutions’ networked communication, some of your digital archives and also your collaboration tools to tech giants. You rely more and more on so-called ‘free’ services provided by Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. You know already that these tools and platforms are infused with capitalist values, modernist ideas of progress and dreams of seamlessness. You are of course aware that the Terms of Use you once signed do not give you any agency over your data, let alone over the organising logic of the infrastructure. It raises issues of institutional framing and sustainability. What does it mean that you communicate through commercial platforms? What would become of your documents if Dropbox / YouTube / Google Drive / Facebook / WhatsApp ... radically changed its terms of service?
+
+By ignoring the elephant in the room, you seem to accept that your computational practice depends on the fortunes of Sillicon Valley billiardaires. You allow tech giants to embed themselves into institutional life, into publicly funded cultural initiatives, including ones that are dedicated to transformation, political love and commoning. You pull your public, your participants, your co-workers, your students deeper into the intricate webs of commercial agencies that weave themselves into and around us. By continuing to unstate the presence of the GAFAM corporations at work in your institution, you contribute to the proliferation of personal and professional practices that constrain the possibilities of life, in order for everyone to be always available, optimised and surveyed, to provide ever more data, more quantifiable outcomes.
+
+This is not just about replacing one toolset with 'fairer' ones, although it is part of it obviously. It is first of all about taking time to foreground processes that tech-giants want us to stay out of sight. To learn together how to experience technology differently, to develop convivial and critical relationships that foreground vulnerability, mutual dependency and care-taking. It means to study, to discuss and to experiment. Collectively, we can develop other imaginations for what technology could mean. It is a process of transition: from expecting efficiency to allowing curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity and from solution to possibility.
+
+It can be as simple as taking a moment to read the terms of use. Or to sit together with your team and discuss what could be different in your workflow. You can start using community-run decentralised services offered by one of the organisations listed below. Maybe you replace some of your proprietary software by Free, Libre and Open Source tools. Or install non-proprietary operating systems like Ubuntu on your office machines. You can start using an independent mailservice, share files through services hosted on your own server or on the servers of neighbouring organisations. You can quit Facebook, or cancel your Google accounts. You can report bugs, and collaborate with developer teams to give valuable feedback about the tools you use in or need for your institution. Of course someone has to take care of these processes, and sustain them. But you can collaborate with other organisations to make this happen.
+
+This is where you as a cultural institution present an opportunity. A beginning of a transition towards affective infrastructures of people, tools, protocols, platforms, and practices.”
+
+
+Discussions, campaigns, further reading:
+ * Technological Sovereignity https://www.ritimo.org/La-Souverainete-Technologique-Volume2
+ * De-Googlify the Internet, campaign against the centralization of digital lives by web giants https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en + https://chatons.org/
+ * Data Detox Kit, sanitize your data practice in 8 days of self-treatment https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/detox
+ * 50 ways to quit Facebook http://networkcultures.org/blog/2018/04/13/facebook-liberation-army-link-list-april-12-2018/
+ * Fuck-off Google https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-to-our-friends
+ * C02GLE, ecological footprint of virtuality (Joana Moll) http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/CO2GLE_about.html
+
+Tools:
+ * Mastodon, community-owned, ad-free social media platform https://joinmastodon.org/ - https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235
+ * seenthis, short-blogging platform https://seenthis.net/
+ * Ubuntu, open source software operating system https://www.ubuntu.com/
+ * LibreOffice, office suite (docs, spreadsheets, presentations) https://www.libreoffice.org/
+ * f-droid, installable catalogue of Free and Open Source Software applications for the Android platform https://f-droid.org/
+ * duckduckgo !
+
+Providers of Free, Libre and Open Source on-line services:
+ * Framasoft, association promoting digital freedoms by providing on-line tools and services https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list - https://framasoft.org/en/
+ * April, association for the promotion of F/Loss with Chapril https://www.chapril.org/
+ * Domaine Public, Hébergeur indépendant et autogéré (Brussels) http://domainepublic.net/
+ * Nubo, cooperative that wants to provide trustworthy services that will allow one to live a digital life with confidence, with an ethical basis (Belgium) https://nubo.coop
+ * Chatons, collective of independant, transparent, open, neutral and ethical hosters providing FLOSS-based online services (France) http://chatons.org/
+ * Libre hosters https://libreho.st/ & https://github.com/libresh/awesome-librehosters
+
+
+*Constant is a non-profit association, based in Brussels since 1997, collectively run and active in the field between art, media and technology. Constant develops, researches and experiments on the intersection of feminismes, copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software.
+
+//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+SOME RECENT ATTEMPTS + RESPONSES
+
+ * Discussion at Varia, Rotterdam https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-questions and a response to the Elephant letter: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant-letter (April 2019)
+ * Tender infrastructures study-day (contribution to School of Love, 2018) https://apass.be/a-pass-meets-sol-school-of-love/
+ * Monday Readings (with Martino Morandi, Seda Guerses, Sina Seifee, 2018) https://apass.be/monday-readings/
+ * Regime Change / Mythological Statement of commitment (with Kate Rich, Magda Tyzlik-Carver, 2016) https://apass.be/common-conference/
+
+//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+Manifestly Haraway, Donna Haraway discussing with Cary Wolfe, 2016:
+cw: Let’s start with a problem that we all agree we share.
+dh: We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. And we need resolutely to keep cosmopolitical practices going here, focusing on those practices that can build a common-enough world. Bruno says this, too. Common is not capital C. "Common.” How can we build—compose—a better water policy in the state of California and its various, many parts? How can we truly learn to compose rather than decry or impose?
+
+Ulises A. Mejias in Fibreculture Journal 20: Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond, 2012:
+« A typical drawing of a network depicts a series of nodes connected by lines, representing the links. As a mental exercise, I want to call attention to the space between the nodes. This space surrounding the nodes is not blank, and we can even give it a name: the paranodal. Because of nodocentrism we tend to see only the nodes in a network, but the space between nodes is not empty, it is inhabited by multitudes of paranodes that simply do not conform to the organising logic of the network, and cannot be seen through the algorithms of the network. The paranodal is not a utopia—it is not nowhere, but somewhere (beyond the nodes). It is not a heterotopia, since it is not outside the network but within it as well. The paranodal is an atopia, because it constitutes a difference that is everywhere. »
+
+Wendy Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and control in the age of fiberoptics, 2006:
+« We must explore the democratic potential of communications technologies – a potential that stems from our vulnerabilities rather than our control. And we must face and seize freedom with determination rather than fear and alibis. »
+
+Lauren Berlant, The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times, 2016:
+« What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructures that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence. What remains is the potential we have to common infrastructures that absorb the blows of our agressive need for the world to accommodate us. »
+
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+ __NO_PUBLISH__
+
+ Stek (NL) = Graft (EN) = Greffe (FR)
+
+ Stekje = Little graft
+
+
+
+
+
+ etherstekje EtherStekje etherStekje is the name of the current thoughts emanating from the Relearn.Curved.Rotterdam session around Publishing vs Indexing vs Dumping through etherpads and etherdump.
+ etherstack
+
+ ethersteak
+
+
+ https://www.documenta14.de/images/d14_Sokol_Beqiri_Adonis_Grafted_Oak_Tree_And_Marble_Polytechnion_%C2%A9_Dimitris_Parthimos.jpg,1440
+ Visual reference: Sokol Beqiri @ documenta14 — Oak grafting between Kassel and Athens
+ Context: Etherdump exists as a tool to archive / backup / save / publish / dump / reformat an etherpad instance. This tool came to be from a realisation of a certain dependency on the etherpad tool itself. Organisations such as Constant, Varia and Relearn use etherpads heavily. The very nature of the software means that if you have the url of the pad, it is 'publicly accessible' and therefor 'published'.
+ etherStekje from Rotterdam Discussions on the etherdump software quickly "stek-ed" into multiple conversations. We realised that talking about Etherdump installed at Constant, Varia or Relearn are actually three different conversations, as there are two versions of the Etherdump involved (opt-out and opt-in) (__ NOPUBLISH __ or __ PUBLISH __ keys), there are different notions of "public" (public as in the internet, public as in the changing group of relearners) and different modes of writing, creating all sorts of content (notes, texts, executables or otherwise).
+ Etherstekje proposes to facilitate exchange of * (processes, ideas, code, references, methodologies...) within and outside of Relearn, both within pads at a specific point of the curve and from one point of the curve to the next. Etherstekje could bring elements from pads into terminal use (ssh sessions — through motd) and into browser through relearn.local homepage, and creates transversal etherdump connections. It creates interdependencies and entanglements between vocabularies, contexts, files...
+ The idea of a stekje in a pad came from usage of markup syntax like HIGHLIGHT{} inside the pad. Publishing vs Indexing was a table discussion during which Relearn attendants fantasized about other __KEY__ declarations that could be made at the top of or in the body of pads. A list of these dream-keys exists in: http://relearn.local:9001/p/publish-index . Later the HIGHLIGHT{} markup was considered as it was used before in Christoph Haag's makefile publishing process (used for the conversations.tools book for example).
+ In an earlier conversation on Saturday evening, after a long energetic day of working, there was a moment of realisation that the word "etherdump" did not cover the Relearn use of tool anymore. The etherdump was flying and there were many directions it was taking and could take. One of the groups started to work on using the etherpad and etherdump as a place to write executable files, which triggered a possible convertion of the ether"dump" into an ether"stack". It reminded us to Relearn 2017, where the "unibash" scripts were already running from multiple etherpads.
+ Thinking about using the etherDump process to broadcast outwards of the pad and etherdump environment lead us to think about how elements of one pad often cross-seeds to another research / writing topic. If a regular pad dumping / pad publishing process let us set a __PAD_OF_THE_MONTH__ could it also let us extract ETHERSTEKJE{} lines to a non pad destination. Like a planting shed of graphs that are being nurtured by a tree surgeon.
+ Etherstekje could be a form of federation. It could allow for processes to happen in a specific place and moment, without losing contact with the others.
+ There are multiple ideas at the moment, of how snippets of pads can be selected to be "etherstek-ed". One strategy would be to collect potential-stek-messages on an etherpad. Another strategy would be to add mark-up within the lines, notes, drafts, scribbles and scripts on the pads.
+ fork branch stekje cross-pollinate
+ A "stekje" supports the potential to grow its own roots.
+ Would this be an act of copying or cutting?
+ __STEK_ME__
+ How could etherstekje be executed ?
+ OE! The roaming server teams stepped in for a second. :) Etherdump is now being executed from a pad: http://relearn.local:9001/p/etherstekjes
+ The pad has a symbolic link to the executed file of the etherdump.
+ / / /
+ Why doesn't the etherpad not support local, peer-to-peer, ... It works, as it is accessible (bash in browser, cross-system, ... ) Possible connections to other protocols?
+ Generate etherdumps ... for different uses. Each one having a specific set of magic words, convert to * actions, Changing the tools to fit your collective experience ...
+ granular outputs / formats / usages granular input protocol / ?
+ - input from local (your favourite text editor) - input from federation (ether2ether / dump2dump / )
+ how to make it soft software?
+ What could be a socket to use for inputs and the same for outputs?
+ writing modes - local - private (only me) - collaborative - software-of-choice (choose your software of choice while sharing the same writing environment)
+ What do we want to sync?
+
+
+
+
+
documents
+
index
+
+
+
+ Are we reinventing the file system? filesystem through the browser is read-only,
+ Is this still etherstekje? Or etherOS?
+ A version of etherOS and see if we can think of a version of this system, that still runs without etherpad. What are the aspects of etherpad, that makes us need etherpad. etherpad-central-thinking or non-etherpad-central-thinking
+ / / /
+ file A(1) on computer 1 file A(2) on computer 2
+ Script(s) in between that do - conflict resolution - detect A(2)'s presence, when A(1) is in the same network
+ the dat protocol is close to doing this?
+ / / /
+ federated etherstekje .........
+ ActivityPub ?
+ Parallel jokes ... an irc bot that speaks to the #relearn channel an email being send out to once the relearn server is connected to the
+ EtherFed !!
+ Sending messages from the etherdump via ActivityPub Receiving messages from others to the etherdump via ActivityPub
+
+
+ Long tails
+ <https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html> - Etherbox documentation (2018) <http://pipelines.constantvzw.org/> - Promiscuous Pipelines worksession (2014) etherbox documentation <https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#guide-to-using-your-etherbox>
+
+
+
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+
+ Stek (NL) = Graft (EN) = Greffe (FR)
+ Stekje = Little graft
+
+
+ * |
+ * \|/|/
+ * \|\\|//|/
+ * \|\|/|/
+ * \\|//
+ * \|/
+ * \|/
+ * |
+ _\|/__|_\|/____\|/_
+
+ Links
+* Varia etherdump (semi-public) https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
+* Constant etherdump (public) http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/
+* Relearn etherdump (local, public to the group) http://relearn.local/etherdump/
+* Etherdump https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/aa/etherdump
+* Varia's __PUBLISH__ branch https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/tree/publish-vs-nopublish
+
+ * (the commit with notes: https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/decentral1se/etherdump/commit/f9bb4444e239c78977643c0548b0300cfb8911b2 )
+
+
+etherstekje
+EtherStekje
+etherStekje is the name of the current thoughts emanating from the Relearn.Curved.Rotterdam session around Publishing vs Indexing vs Dumping through etherpads and etherdump.
+ etherstack
+ ethersteak
+
+ https://www.documenta14.de/images/d14_Sokol_Beqiri_Adonis_Grafted_Oak_Tree_And_Marble_Polytechnion_%C2%A9_Dimitris_Parthimos.jpg,1440
+Visual reference: Sokol Beqiri @ documenta14 — Oak grafting between Kassel and Athens
+
+Context:
+Etherdump exists as a tool to archive / backup / save / publish / dump / reformat an etherpad instance. This tool came to be from a realisation of a certain dependency on the etherpad tool itself. Organisations such as Constant, Varia and Relearn use etherpads heavily. The very nature of the software means that if you have the url of the pad, it is 'publicly accessible' and therefor 'published'.
+
+etherStekje from Rotterdam
+Discussions on the etherdump software quickly "stek-ed" into multiple conversations. We realised that talking about Etherdump installed at Constant, Varia or Relearn are actually three different conversations, as there are two versions of the Etherdump involved (opt-out and opt-in) (__ NOPUBLISH __ or __ PUBLISH __ keys), there are different notions of "public" (public as in the internet, public as in the changing group of relearners) and different modes of writing, creating all sorts of content (notes, texts, executables or otherwise).
+
+Etherstekje proposes to facilitate exchange of * (processes, ideas, code, references, methodologies...) within and outside of Relearn, both within pads at a specific point of the curve and from one point of the curve to the next. Etherstekje could bring elements from pads into terminal use (ssh sessions — through motd) and into browser through relearn.local homepage, and creates transversal etherdump connections. It creates interdependencies and entanglements between vocabularies, contexts, files...
+
+The idea of a stekje in a pad came from usage of markup syntax like HIGHLIGHT{} inside the pad. Publishing vs Indexing was a table discussion during which Relearn attendants fantasized about other __KEY__ declarations that could be made at the top of or in the body of pads. A list of these dream-keys exists in: http://relearn.local:9001/p/publish-index . Later the HIGHLIGHT{} markup was considered as it was used before in Christoph Haag's makefile publishing process (used for the conversations.tools book for example).
+
+In an earlier conversation on Saturday evening, after a long energetic day of working, there was a moment of realisation that the word "etherdump" did not cover the Relearn use of tool anymore. The etherdump was flying and there were many directions it was taking and could take. One of the groups started to work on using the etherpad and etherdump as a place to write executable files, which triggered a possible convertion of the ether"dump" into an ether"stack". It reminded us to Relearn 2017, where the "unibash" scripts were already running from multiple etherpads.
+
+Thinking about using the etherDump process to broadcast outwards of the pad and etherdump environment lead us to think about how elements of one pad often cross-seeds to another research / writing topic. If a regular pad dumping / pad publishing process let us set a __PAD_OF_THE_MONTH__ could it also let us extract ETHERSTEKJE{} lines to a non pad destination. Like a planting shed of graphs that are being nurtured by a tree surgeon.
+
+Etherstekje could be a form of federation. It could allow for processes to happen in a specific place and moment, without losing contact with the others.
+
+There are multiple ideas at the moment, of how snippets of pads can be selected to be "etherstek-ed". One strategy would be to collect potential-stek-messages on an etherpad. Another strategy would be to add mark-up within the lines, notes, drafts, scribbles and scripts on the pads.
+
+fork
+branch
+stekje
+cross-pollinate
+
+A "stekje" supports the potential to grow its own roots.
+
+Would this be an act of copying or cutting?
+
+__STEK_ME__
+
+How could etherstekje be executed ?
+
+OE! The roaming server teams stepped in for a second. :)
+Etherdump is now being executed from a pad: http://relearn.local:9001/p/etherstekjes
+The pad has a symbolic link to the executed file of the etherdump.
+
+/ / /
+
+Why doesn't the etherpad not support local, peer-to-peer, ...
+It works, as it is accessible (bash in browser, cross-system, ... )
+Possible connections to other protocols?
+
+Generate etherdumps ... for different uses.
+Each one having a specific set of magic words, convert to * actions,
+Changing the tools to fit your collective experience ...
+
+granular outputs / formats / usages
+granular input protocol / ?
+
+- input from local (your favourite text editor)
+- input from federation (ether2ether / dump2dump / )
+
+how to make it soft software?
+
+What could be a socket to use for inputs
+and the same for outputs?
+
+writing modes
+- local
+- private (only me)
+- collaborative
+- software-of-choice (choose your software of choice while sharing the same writing environment)
+
+What do we want to sync?
+
+ * documents
+ * index
+
+Are we reinventing the file system?
+filesystem through the browser is read-only,
+
+Is this still etherstekje?
+Or etherOS?
+
+A version of etherOS and see if we can think of a version of this system, that still runs without etherpad.
+What are the aspects of etherpad, that makes us need etherpad.
+etherpad-central-thinking or non-etherpad-central-thinking
+
+/ / /
+
+file A(1) on computer 1
+file A(2) on computer 2
+
+Script(s) in between that do
+- conflict resolution
+- detect A(2)'s presence, when A(1) is in the same network
+
+the dat protocol is close to doing this?
+
+/ / /
+
+federated etherstekje .........
+
+ActivityPub ?
+
+Parallel jokes ...
+an irc bot that speaks to the #relearn channel
+an email being send out to once the relearn server is connected to the
+
+EtherFed !!
+
+Sending messages from the etherdump via ActivityPub
+Receiving messages from others to the etherdump via ActivityPub
+
+
+ Long tails
+ - Etherbox documentation (2018)
+ - Promiscuous Pipelines worksession (2014)
+etherbox documentation
+
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+ __PUBLISH__ __PUB.CLUB__
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+ Web-Syndication
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+PubSubHubbub (haha) = WebSub = PuSH = PubSub
+h-feed
+
+__PUBLISH__
+__PUB.CLUB__
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+Web-Syndication
+
+ * web-syndication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication
+ * the "feed": https://indieweb.org/feed
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+
+ * Pandoc-rss: https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss
+ * Python library: https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser, https://feedparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
+ * RSS bots:
+ * feed2toot "Feediverse": https://github.com/edsu/feediverse
+ * rss2irc: https://github.com/gehaxelt/python-rss2irc & https://crschmidt.net/formal/writing/ircupdates.html
+ * rss-to-twitter
+ * Extentions:
+ * Drupal RSS feed modules: https://www.drupal.org/node/310468
+ * RSS to email (?)
+ * proprietary services:
+ * https://fliprss.com/
+ * https://mailchimp.com/features/rss-to-email/
+ * https://feedrabbit.com/
+ * https://www.feed2mail.com/
+ * free software / open source
+ * https://github.com/wking/rss2email (last commit in 2015)
+ * https://github.com/ngsankha/feed-mailer/blob/master/feed_email.py (python script)
+ * Example of RSS feed of Varia's website: https://varia.zone/feeds/all-nl.rss.xml
+ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
+ * Rich Site Summary (RSS 1.0)
+ * Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
+ * RSS icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feed-icon.svg
+ * more RSS icons: http://feedicons.com/
+ * RSS 1.0 Specification maintained by Aaron Schwartz: https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/
+ * RSS 2.0 Specification: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
+ * RSS good practice tips: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/35/miller/
+ * Nice RSS gifs: http://write.flossmanuals.net/audio-production/what-is-rss/static/WhatIs-Podcasting-rss_icon_collection-en.gif
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+ RSS Title
+ This is an example of an RSS feed
+ http://www.example.com/main.html
+ 2020 Example.com All rights reserved
+ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000
+ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000
+ 1800
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+ Here is some text containing an interesting description.
+ http://www.example.com/blog/post/1
+ 7bd204c6-1655-4c27-aeee-53f933c5395f
+ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000
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+ * Thunderbird extention
+ * FeedReader (!) (Debian/Ubuntu)
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+ * website as AP feed (!): Activitypub micro blogging https://microblog.pub/ https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub https://jlelse.blog/feeds/
+ * Activitypub vs. RSS/ATOM blogpost: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take
+ * fed.brid.gy, external server to turn a static site into a fediverse actor https://fed.brid.gy/ https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed (... runs by default on google cloud)
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+ Floppy Totaal: Magnetic Flux
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+ Speed Floppy Data Workshop - Talk by Adam of Pionerska Records / Floppy Not New(s)
+
+ Focus on design: how design of the floppy diy industry looks like Work on floppy for Pionerska Records started in 2018 Tapedeck was broken Nice, small and comfortable Limitation means fun
+ "The History of Music on Floppy Disk" Music Industry doesn't like floppies; they don't even have a chance to become a proper music format because of cd's However, 1986 - Alpha -> pre-music floppy release 1988 - Stanislav Bunin (won Chopin competition) // Chopin on a floppy, midi files 1993 - Billy Idol's Cyberpunk - First album on floppy + interface to navigate music, lyrics and other extra material 1996 - Brian Eno's Generative Music 1 (good resolution bc it is generated on the fly) / not even a cd release, you need floppy to play the music Radiohead's Ok Computer promo on a floppy (screensavers, etc) Modern audio floppy disk history - Demoscene, underground punks, vaporwave, chiptune, drone, ambient, noise, lobit and sound art Distribution of demoscene audio floppies (amiga, etc) - friends send friends who send their friends etc - Sneakernet Module files - instruction to play samples Floppy Diskette Reviews - Yeah I Know It Sucks
+
+ Why is Adam focused on floppies?
+ All free time is spent with discovering artists, floppies, designing, releasing Do not take part in the quality competition small things travel faster, limitations increase creativity floppies can change or stop the game element of surprise almost out of use, after billions produced floppies became obsolete and there was no time to investigate what to do with it not retromania, reintrepertation, exploration of all the potential the object is an important part of it floppies helped enable pc revolution, independent software etc
+ Swop label
+ ogg vorbis container - good for compressing music and working with low bitrate; very little compression artifacts Adam asks for the artists "why do you want to release on the floppy disk?" and write something about it to the audience (question for later: what was the best response?)
+ Using the object for design purposes only Floppy covers Tinder on a floppy disk Business cards Advertising purposes
+
+
+ Talk by Remute
+
+
+ Limited - Hybrid release 3.5' mod files, no compression on .wav files - date back to amiga, roots on the demoscene
+
+
they won't sound compressed, generates music in real time
+
contains all the samples (lo-fi) of the track and the sequencing data
+
a good mod file doesn't let you hear the difference between wav and mod
+
+ cruise missile only 64 kb (Limited) the floppy holds 6 of the tracks most of floppy releases are not rhythmic, but denis wanted it so he used the mod file active since 2002, released plenty and the usual way 2017 - fed up with the business model, pushing things to the max, also production wise 200GB sample libraries, getting lost in possibilities how to focus on ideas again? floppy disk! forces you to focus on very essential and important ideas that can fix rid of all the sample libraries, keep only the essential necessary minimalism, saved from maximalism and too many possibilities small creative room, creative power to focus on important ideas - floppy disk special thing with composing mod files - programmed, instructions, not recording -> new way for Denis to record forced to throw away all the knowledge, and get back to pro(?)tracker for Amiga - very small and efficient files without protracker Limited would not be possible beginning of the love affair with small file sizes - how to push things to the minimum? what is the next step in making music small and effective. what other format? SEGA MEGADRIVE CARTRIDGE (4MB) - Technoptimist - 900 KB (14 tracks?) + video is also generated in real time, only just a set of instructions technoptimistic uses no samples at all, only a set of instructions that generates the music once the console loads the cartridge compressing music to the absolute minimum working with 2 other famous demosceners (Titan) - very good to cram out very good performance from old computers single release of the album on a floppy disk, different versions of the track red eyes (e.g.: amiga mix), bonus tracks metal plate release - contains a qr code on the back (always trying new formats) later on dj set using rpi running simulators, PT1210 (dj software for the amiga) interesting creative playground, saving denis from becoming totally out of ideas and lost in possibilities. Floppy is indeed like jesus, dying to become the icon of saving used it for archiving and games, always there - rediscovered it for his album Greatest demoscene party in Europe is in Germany, in April - name is Revision
+
+
+ Talk by Sascha Muller aka Dr Condor
+
+ Talking about performance tonight Using a program, ReBirth (1997), for the pc - at that time, Sascha only used Atari ST or Amiga usign rebirth, Sascha released his floppy disks Sascha found an old box of floppies with music that he made in the early 90s. 50 tracks. How to release it? You need ReBirth to play Sascha's floppies ReBirth RB-338 20/50 Kb file size Floppy + ReBirth = 50 tracks on one release! This was the start of Sascha's floppy releases Release - floppy, poster and pin Why on ReBirth? Because there is a great scene of users of this program, target audience Nowadays you can't buy this program, but you can download its files (original maker of hardware emulator on this software is Roland, legal trouble) How can it be so small in filesize? The complete sound will be emulated by the program, only the instructions to play are stored on the disk and interpreted by the sounc card (?), similar to a midi file tonight, it will also be loaded from the floppy disk Premiere tonight Still some people working with ReBirth You can modify the floppy disk content, a remix of sorts Small file size, but hi-fi sound, doesn't have any sort of compression Hack floppies, Sascha doesn't only release on floppy, but also mods them "You killed the big floppy!" was heard from the audience Release floppy with the floppy drive to circumvent the problem that people might not be able to play it anymore Part of the art is the effort you go through to be able to play and hear the releases Remute: In common, all three have the adventure needed to be able to play their music Sascha learned about the ogg-vobis compression from Adam, will try it
+
+
+ Joint roundtable conversation
+
+
+ Adam: You must build your audience; travel, talk to the people, gather and form networks, make friends. Community, scene.
+ Niek: Could you do something similar with a different medium? Physical medium. Floppy as a reactionary thing. Historically, floppy was not necessarily a medium of music distribution. Lately, slow rise of labels popping up. Community aspect. Most times, the music comes second to the medium. Denis, however, uses the medium for creative challenge.
+ Remute: Tries not to limit his audience, doesn't force the people, everything available on Spotify. But I recommend the full journey.
+ Sascha: I force my audience. I want to enforce the point that dance music is not only to be gotten on cassette, vynil. Dance music is also recommended for the floppy. It can sound really good. Or worst. Getting people on a journey, on a challenge. In Texas there's a shop which only sells cassettes.
+ Adam: People said: "You like the fetishism!" Yes, I do.
+ Sascha: When you buy a physical copy, you always know where to buy it. Feeling. The reason why I still do physical releases.
+ Adam: Collectionism. Sharing collections and reactivating them. Small floppy community, needed to build a bigger one, like a virus. Spreading and sharing collections. Good to experiment with this art. Super to work with the formats. No drivers or objects to play most of these obsolete objects anymore.
+ Niek: What do you feel about the existing standards? For example, streaming services.
+ Adam: I never tried this.
+ Remute: Spotify is too easy. Listening to music on formats that you need to work for is rewarding, a satisfying journey. People listen to music differently now that streaming services exist. There is no rewarding feeling anymore. Everything is too easy.
+ Sascha: Spotify is the grave of the music. Only there to consume, not to listen to music. No anticipation anymore (e.g.: Rolling Stones releases). Consume it everydaym whenever and wherever you want. People don't take the time to really listen to an album. They listen to it on their way to work, not appreciating it, but just consuming it. No depth.
+ Audience member: Music has become like information. You can overload. You just sample stuff, you just quickly scan it.
+ Sascha: You cannot dive or feel the music. Too much.
+ Audience member: You don't engage emotionally with it.
+ Niek: Difficult to create a community around streaming services.
+ Adam: If you compare it with Netflix: filter bubble, creating completely different Netflixes. Streaming works similarly. Deeper and deeper into sci-fi.
+ Sascha: The algorithm is choosing for you what you should listen, creating echo chambers.
+ Adam: Human aspect allows you to discover more.
+ Sascha: Physical format allows you to discover new things and be more adventurous.
+ Niek: What could be the next thing for the floppy scene?
+ Remute: Special player for floppies. It could hit the mainstream if there would be such a thing. Too much effort, for some people, to get a floppy drive. This could be the next thing for the floppy scene.
+ Adam: It would have to be 2x faster than normal floppy scene
+ Remute: If you could have a very fast drive which could load the music instantly.
+ Adam: It could be done with a Rpi.
+ Niek: Would you want such a device, then?
+ Remute: It would probably decrease the adventure, but it would be more convenient! It would be a nice thing to invent!
+ Niek: It shoulnd't become too easy, right?
+ Sascha: No. When you copy my music (...) A floppy walkman would be a nice idea.
+ Thomas: It could bring new people to the floppy scene who would never play anything from a computer. Getting the FloppyMan would also require some effort, big stores wouldn't be able to get it.
+ Niek: It could happen that the iconic value of the floppy would create a huge, over-inflated market. How much working with the floppy is fetishizing a false history of this format. What other format?
+ Remute: The floppy has a very big, strong history. Connection with the floppy disk. Emotional bond with this format. Another emotional object is the cartridge. I don't think there is another format, right now, who has such an emotional value.
+ Audience member: Can your floppies be played with an android phone?
+ Remute: Yes, mine can.
+ Adam: I started making them, floppy players. It can play every format. Not yours *points at Sascha* But still the speed needs to be faster, it is not ideal. Some are working well, but some are not.
+ Mathijs: Some drives are really shitty, some are better.
+ Niek: Floppies are not unlimited. They are breaking down, they are not being produced anymore.
+ Remute: I wish someone would produce them, I got so many broken ones.
+ Adam: it is a huge market in China, they are still using there.
+ Sascha: I think they will rebuild a company for making floppies. The same thing happened with vynil and polaroid. In Austria they are now inventing a vynil to be used with lasers. 60 minutes per side. When the market realises that people are buying more floppy disks, then they will produce them.
+ Adam: On Discogs they say the sales are increasing for disks. However, still a big difference from vynil sales.
+ Lídia: Wouldn't a new floppy market kill the whole fun thing of scavenging for floppies? Does any of you have a point about recycling?
+ Remute: It kills the adventure, but more reliable The recycling aspect doesn't apply too much on the floppy, because it is not such a reliable format. It breaks down very easily.
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+Floppy Totaal: Magnetic Flux
+
+Speed Floppy Data Workshop - Talk by Adam of Pionerska Records / Floppy Not New(s)
+
+Focus on design: how design of the floppy diy industry looks like
+Work on floppy for Pionerska Records started in 2018
+Tapedeck was broken
+Nice, small and comfortable
+Limitation means fun
+
+"The History of Music on Floppy Disk"
+Music Industry doesn't like floppies; they don't even have a chance to become a proper music format because of cd's
+However, 1986 - Alpha -> pre-music floppy release
+1988 - Stanislav Bunin (won Chopin competition) // Chopin on a floppy, midi files
+1993 - Billy Idol's Cyberpunk - First album on floppy + interface to navigate music, lyrics and other extra material
+1996 - Brian Eno's Generative Music 1 (good resolution bc it is generated on the fly) / not even a cd release, you need floppy to play the music
+Radiohead's Ok Computer promo on a floppy (screensavers, etc)
+Modern audio floppy disk history - Demoscene, underground punks, vaporwave, chiptune, drone, ambient, noise, lobit and sound art
+Distribution of demoscene audio floppies (amiga, etc) - friends send friends who send their friends etc - Sneakernet
+Module files - instruction to play samples
+Floppy Diskette Reviews - Yeah I Know It Sucks
+
+Why is Adam focused on floppies?
+All free time is spent with discovering artists, floppies, designing, releasing
+Do not take part in the quality competition
+small things travel faster, limitations increase creativity
+floppies can change or stop the game
+element of surprise
+almost out of use, after billions produced floppies became obsolete and there was no time to investigate what to do with it
+not retromania, reintrepertation, exploration of all the potential
+the object is an important part of it
+floppies helped enable pc revolution, independent software etc
+
+Swop label
+
+ogg vorbis container - good for compressing music and working with low bitrate; very little compression artifacts
+Adam asks for the artists "why do you want to release on the floppy disk?" and write something about it to the audience (question for later: what was the best response?)
+
+Using the object for design purposes only
+Floppy covers
+Tinder on a floppy disk
+Business cards
+Advertising purposes
+
+
+Talk by Remute
+
+Limited - Hybrid release 3.5'
+mod files, no compression on .wav files - date back to amiga, roots on the demoscene
+ * they won't sound compressed, generates music in real time
+ * contains all the samples (lo-fi) of the track and the sequencing data
+ * a good mod file doesn't let you hear the difference between wav and mod
+
+cruise missile only 64 kb (Limited)
+the floppy holds 6 of the tracks
+most of floppy releases are not rhythmic, but denis wanted it so he used the mod file
+active since 2002, released plenty and the usual way
+2017 - fed up with the business model, pushing things to the max, also production wise
+200GB sample libraries, getting lost in possibilities
+how to focus on ideas again? floppy disk! forces you to focus on very essential and important ideas that can fix
+rid of all the sample libraries, keep only the essential
+necessary minimalism, saved from maximalism and too many possibilities
+small creative room, creative power to focus on important ideas - floppy disk
+special thing with composing mod files - programmed, instructions, not recording -> new way for Denis to record
+forced to throw away all the knowledge, and get back to pro(?)tracker for Amiga - very small and efficient files
+without protracker Limited would not be possible
+beginning of the love affair with small file sizes - how to push things to the minimum?
+what is the next step in making music small and effective. what other format? SEGA MEGADRIVE CARTRIDGE (4MB) - Technoptimist - 900 KB (14 tracks?) + video is also generated in real time, only just a set of instructions
+technoptimistic uses no samples at all, only a set of instructions that generates the music once the console loads the cartridge
+compressing music to the absolute minimum
+working with 2 other famous demosceners (Titan) - very good to cram out very good performance from old computers
+single release of the album on a floppy disk, different versions of the track red eyes (e.g.: amiga mix), bonus tracks
+metal plate release - contains a qr code on the back (always trying new formats)
+later on dj set using rpi running simulators, PT1210 (dj software for the amiga)
+interesting creative playground, saving denis from becoming totally out of ideas and lost in possibilities. Floppy is indeed like jesus, dying to become the icon of saving
+used it for archiving and games, always there - rediscovered it for his album
+Greatest demoscene party in Europe is in Germany, in April - name is Revision
+
+
+Talk by Sascha Muller aka Dr Condor
+
+Talking about performance tonight
+Using a program, ReBirth (1997), for the pc - at that time, Sascha only used Atari ST or Amiga
+usign rebirth, Sascha released his floppy disks
+Sascha found an old box of floppies with music that he made in the early 90s. 50 tracks. How to release it?
+You need ReBirth to play Sascha's floppies
+ReBirth RB-338
+20/50 Kb file size
+Floppy + ReBirth = 50 tracks on one release! This was the start of Sascha's floppy releases
+Release - floppy, poster and pin
+Why on ReBirth? Because there is a great scene of users of this program, target audience
+Nowadays you can't buy this program, but you can download its files (original maker of hardware emulator on this software is Roland, legal trouble)
+How can it be so small in filesize? The complete sound will be emulated by the program, only the instructions to play are stored on the disk and interpreted by the sounc card (?), similar to a midi file
+tonight, it will also be loaded from the floppy disk
+Premiere tonight
+Still some people working with ReBirth
+You can modify the floppy disk content, a remix of sorts
+Small file size, but hi-fi sound, doesn't have any sort of compression
+Hack floppies, Sascha doesn't only release on floppy, but also mods them
+"You killed the big floppy!" was heard from the audience
+Release floppy with the floppy drive to circumvent the problem that people might not be able to play it anymore
+Part of the art is the effort you go through to be able to play and hear the releases
+Remute: In common, all three have the adventure needed to be able to play their music
+Sascha learned about the ogg-vobis compression from Adam, will try it
+
+
+Joint roundtable conversation
+
+Adam: You must build your audience; travel, talk to the people, gather and form networks, make friends. Community, scene.
+Niek: Could you do something similar with a different medium? Physical medium. Floppy as a reactionary thing. Historically, floppy was not necessarily a medium of music distribution. Lately, slow rise of labels popping up. Community aspect. Most times, the music comes second to the medium. Denis, however, uses the medium for creative challenge.
+Remute: Tries not to limit his audience, doesn't force the people, everything available on Spotify. But I recommend the full journey.
+Sascha: I force my audience. I want to enforce the point that dance music is not only to be gotten on cassette, vynil. Dance music is also recommended for the floppy. It can sound really good. Or worst. Getting people on a journey, on a challenge. In Texas there's a shop which only sells cassettes.
+Adam: People said: "You like the fetishism!" Yes, I do.
+Sascha: When you buy a physical copy, you always know where to buy it. Feeling. The reason why I still do physical releases.
+Adam: Collectionism. Sharing collections and reactivating them. Small floppy community, needed to build a bigger one, like a virus. Spreading and sharing collections. Good to experiment with this art. Super to work with the formats. No drivers or objects to play most of these obsolete objects anymore.
+Niek: What do you feel about the existing standards? For example, streaming services.
+Adam: I never tried this.
+Remute: Spotify is too easy. Listening to music on formats that you need to work for is rewarding, a satisfying journey. People listen to music differently now that streaming services exist. There is no rewarding feeling anymore. Everything is too easy.
+Sascha: Spotify is the grave of the music. Only there to consume, not to listen to music. No anticipation anymore (e.g.: Rolling Stones releases). Consume it everydaym whenever and wherever you want. People don't take the time to really listen to an album. They listen to it on their way to work, not appreciating it, but just consuming it. No depth.
+Audience member: Music has become like information. You can overload. You just sample stuff, you just quickly scan it.
+Sascha: You cannot dive or feel the music. Too much.
+Audience member: You don't engage emotionally with it.
+Niek: Difficult to create a community around streaming services.
+Adam: If you compare it with Netflix: filter bubble, creating completely different Netflixes. Streaming works similarly. Deeper and deeper into sci-fi.
+Sascha: The algorithm is choosing for you what you should listen, creating echo chambers.
+Adam: Human aspect allows you to discover more.
+Sascha: Physical format allows you to discover new things and be more adventurous.
+Niek: What could be the next thing for the floppy scene?
+Remute: Special player for floppies. It could hit the mainstream if there would be such a thing. Too much effort, for some people, to get a floppy drive. This could be the next thing for the floppy scene.
+Adam: It would have to be 2x faster than normal floppy scene
+Remute: If you could have a very fast drive which could load the music instantly.
+Adam: It could be done with a Rpi.
+Niek: Would you want such a device, then?
+Remute: It would probably decrease the adventure, but it would be more convenient! It would be a nice thing to invent!
+Niek: It shoulnd't become too easy, right?
+Sascha: No. When you copy my music (...) A floppy walkman would be a nice idea.
+Thomas: It could bring new people to the floppy scene who would never play anything from a computer. Getting the FloppyMan would also require some effort, big stores wouldn't be able to get it.
+Niek: It could happen that the iconic value of the floppy would create a huge, over-inflated market. How much working with the floppy is fetishizing a false history of this format. What other format?
+Remute: The floppy has a very big, strong history. Connection with the floppy disk. Emotional bond with this format. Another emotional object is the cartridge. I don't think there is another format, right now, who has such an emotional value.
+Audience member: Can your floppies be played with an android phone?
+Remute: Yes, mine can.
+Adam: I started making them, floppy players. It can play every format. Not yours *points at Sascha* But still the speed needs to be faster, it is not ideal. Some are working well, but some are not.
+Mathijs: Some drives are really shitty, some are better.
+Niek: Floppies are not unlimited. They are breaking down, they are not being produced anymore.
+Remute: I wish someone would produce them, I got so many broken ones.
+Adam: it is a huge market in China, they are still using there.
+Sascha: I think they will rebuild a company for making floppies. The same thing happened with vynil and polaroid. In Austria they are now inventing a vynil to be used with lasers. 60 minutes per side. When the market realises that people are buying more floppy disks, then they will produce them.
+Adam: On Discogs they say the sales are increasing for disks. However, still a big difference from vynil sales.
+Lídia: Wouldn't a new floppy market kill the whole fun thing of scavenging for floppies? Does any of you have a point about recycling?
+Remute: It kills the adventure, but more reliable The recycling aspect doesn't apply too much on the floppy, because it is not such a reliable format. It breaks down very easily.
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+ Chatlog of conversation that happened on chat.florence.social that details the community management and governance behind funkwhale URL: https://chat.florencesoc.org/general/pl/9iaghjj9t7b7xgzz7uju86pyde (requires login)
+
+ Maloki
+ I wanted to reach out to you and talk about the Anti-abuse work Ginny did with y'all to see what we could reuse here (after checking in with and / or crediting Ginny too) Wed, May 22, 2019
+
+ Eliot
+ 9:37 AM Sure! Do you want to have this discussion here? I'm going to ask her if she want to join too
+
+ Eliot
+ 7:12 PM So I'm following the progress you are doing on #Florence for a few months, and I'm quite curious of how you are organizing and structuring the contributions, the roadmap, etc. 7:14 PM Somehow, we're facing similar questions with Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio), which is a personnal project I started a few years ago, and which I'd like to see growing beyond myself. 7:16 PM For little more than a year now, I've been lookin for ways to open the governance of the project to the community. And not only open it passively, but actively integrate potential contributors. 7:17 PM Your initial attempt with #ForkTogether, last july, reminded me it was a critical to work on this, sooner than later, and the longer we'll wait the harder it'll be. 7:19 PM One of our first moves was to have discussions on a public forum (cf https://socialhub.network/t/rebooting-funkwhales-forum/94) and not only on semi-public, hard to follow chat rooms 7:20 PM In parallel, we also started to organize monthly meetings with other community members. We called those meetings "Funkwhale Sync". Cf our first announcement: https://socialhub.network/t/funkwhale-sync-1/82
+ 7:22 PM We commited to document everything (I mean, as much as possible), to ensure newcomers would actually be able to join discussions, but also browse the project history and understand the motivations between past decisions. 7:23 PM From my experience, having those discussions on a public forum, and not only in text chats really, really improved the quality of our communication
+
+ Eliot
+ 7:31 PM In January 2019, we started to realize our lack of commitment regarding diversity and inclusivity was hurting the project and pushing potential contributors away. Initially we wanted to launch our association (the legal entity that is supposed to back the project) as soon as possible, but we decided to wait until we had more confidence in our ability to offer a safe space to the community.
+ 7:31 PM At this point, we hired Ginny to help us. 7:35 PMPinned Her work with us focuses on two aspects:
+
+
the safety and inclusivity of the community
+
the safety and inclusivity of the software
+ We improved #1 through various measures. Mainly, by writing a code of conduct and appointing dedicated moderators to enforce it. In itself, Funkwale's #CoC is built on top of the contributor covenant, the post-meritocracy manifesto, and also custom content. 7:37 PM Here again, one of the challenge was to have an open discussion about it. To some extent we did, and we left as much time as possible to integrate feedback between our first draft and the publication of the final version 7:38 PM Of course not everyone agreed with the idea of a #CoC, or its content, and people left. Sometimes by telling us, but also silently. 7:40 PM We're not done working on the the safety and inclusivity of the community though. There is a big challenge in ensuring our discussions are accessible and inclusive. For exemple, up until recently, our meetings were audio based. And some people reported that this was de facto excluding trans women, as it could trigger disphoria. 7:42 PM So we switched to text-based meeting, which are working quite good so far. I expect we'll have similar changes to make on a regular basis, and we've yet to come with a solution to detect such issues up front. 7:44 PMPinned Now, in terms of safety and inclusivity of the software itself, Ginny conducted a big audit of Funkwhale to find potential issues and loopholes. 7:45 PM That wasn't really a surprise for me, but we have a lot of things to work on. After the audit, we opened a poll to the community to find what were the priorities in the issues we discovered. Based on the feedback, we prioritized items and put those on our roadmp. 7:47 PM We had a similar process to build our general roadmpd:
+
+
Open a discussion to gather ideas
+
Follow with a poll to prioritize items
+
Add items ranked by priority on the roadmap
+ 7:47 PM Our plan for next releases it to take a few items from each pool of features (general features and anti-harassment features), and develop them. And do that for each release. 7:48 PM We're still figuring out how to maintain the roadmap, because building an initial roadmap like we did isn't the same as integrating feature requests and ideas on a regular basis. 7:51 PM Recently, we decided that our efforts paid off and that we could proceed to the launch of the association. In fact, even if we agreed in January not to launch the collective, we continued to work on it, and especially to find candidates and write the statutes. 7:52 PM The final statutes (including an english version) can be found here, and should be published on our website soon. 7:53 PM It's worth noting that our CoC and moderation team is considered as a dedicated, separated power in the collective. We designed it that way to ensure project managers (what we name the Steering Commitee) don't hold all the power. 7:54 PM The moderation team is also elected by the collective members during our general assemblies. 7:55 PM We had our first general assembly last Sunday, which was basically about finding a name for the collective, approving our statutes and elect our candidates. 7:56 PM So, it's still pretty recent and we will need some time before we can share feedback regarding how well our statutes are actually working 7:58 PM One unusual bit in the statutes is our custom voting system. Someone came with the idea during a sync meeting a few months ago, and we decided to give it a try. Basically, it's built to reduce the weight of cisgendered white men in the votes.
+
+ melody @social.adorable.space
+ 7:59 PM Fair warning -- moderator elections tend to be very messy and tend to select moderators who are popular contributors in the community rather than people who have the appropriate skillset to be a moderator -- people tend to think of moderation as unskilled labor so they aren't as concerned about just picking people who are well-liked rather than skilled at community management, just be aware that you're probably going to see that become volatile eventually
+
+
+ Eliot
+ 7:59 PM Thank you @melody @social.adorable.space indeed, we didn't consider that 8:00 PM however, there is a strict separation between moderation work and project management/development work in our statutes 8:00 PM It's likely popular contributors would apply for the Steering Commitee and not the Moderation Commitee
+
+ melody @social.adorable.space
+ 8:01 PM Yeah, I haven't read all your links yet, I just saw the words "moderator elections" and thought to raise it.
+
+ Eliot
+ 8:01 PM Yep that makes sense 8:02 PM That's pretty much it, sorry for the noise on the channel. I'm not sure how helpful it is for you, if you have some questions or feedback regarding what I shared, just let me know
+ 8:03 PM (And I have LOTS of questions regarding Florence too!)
+
+ Eliot
+ 8:10 PM I remember #Florence (or ForkTogether maybe) had a wiki or something with interesting content, is it still available somewhere?
+
+ melody @social.adorable.space
+ 8:11 PM Voting system feels...I get the spirit, I don't know that I trust its soundness.
+
+ Eliot
+ 8:16 PM I'm not sure either how it will work for us, that's kind of an experiment. 8:17 PM The rationale was that, especially in the steering commitee, we didn't want a majority of cis white male to have a majority on important decisions that could have impact regarding the development of anti-harassement features (or the inclusion of potentially dangerous features)
+
+ melody @social.adorable.space
+ 8:26 PM Yeah, I understand the logic, I think identity is a poor proxy for this and a form of modified consensus with a strong block option might have been better 8:27 PM If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem
+
+ Eliot
+ 8:33 PM Wouln't a strong block option allow problematic situations (e.g someone using it to block anything they don't like) ? 8:38 PM If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem I agree with that and we want everyone to feel concerned about those issues. 8:39 PM When it comes to deciding on those matters, I tend to think people who are experiencing it should have a stronger voice (hence the proxy on identity you mention, I really like that terminology btw!)
+
+ melody @social.adorable.space
+ 8:55 PM In practice, not really. There's strong social pressure around when it's appropriate to use a block in a full consensus model, with guidelines that tend to strongly suggest they should only be used in cases where the decision is an existential threat to the group or an important violation of its values, and unless the steering committee is something like full public no-barriers membership you kind of assume that a small group of people all acting in good faith are not going to abuse blocks to break things. Blocks can usually be overridden somehow, if necessary, though, and somebody abusing them to prevent important votes on sketchy grounds and who will not participate in efforts to create a more acceptable proposal should probably be removed from the committee 8:56 PM That would be a separate process but the ability to remove bad faith participants from committees and working groups is important for consensus to work 8:59 PM In very large groups, or groups where minority voices are dramatically crowded out, even a fairly strong block can sometimes not be enough to overcome a normal vote For instance, social.coop had a simple majority on a vote, but a 90% threshold to overcome a block. I blocked a vote on a version of their code of conduct because it was hostile to reporters and tried to force people into mediation with their harassers, and it nearly passed anyway just on the momentum of the prior voting history and the overwhelming demographics. (edited) 9:02 PM So even with a relatively strong block, overcoming it isn't always hard enough, and when you combine that with guidelines on when it's appropriate to block and the shared purpose and values of the group, you mostly just have to trust that the right people will be in the room putting it into practice, and will do so in good faith. 9:05 PM I guess the other thing about it is that a block doesn't mean "I block this, and we won't talk about it anymore" a block is the start of a new conversation and a prompt to revisit the proposal, not an end to the conversation. Sometimes the concern motivating the block is severe enough that nobody brings a similar proposal again -- that could realistically be the case for some features with an initially unrecognized dangerous flaw or like, a proposal to start doing deep tracking or malicious advertisements, but in most cases a block should be starting a conversation on how to achieve the shared goals with a proposal that presents a more acceptable means 9:07 PM "block" is confusing in that way I guess in the concept of a social media platform where a block tends to mean "get this away from me forever and i never want to see it again" but it's more like warning people to stop before they drive off a cliff 9:08 PM it's a mechanism that can be used to allow a minority (mathematical) vote to prevent major catastrophes Thu, May 23, 2019
+
+ Eliot
+ 8:41 AM Thank you for the detailed explanation. I wish we'd have this discussion before we voted our statutes, this could indeed have been a better alternative to what we were trying to achieve!
+
+ melody @social.adorable.space
+ 8:45 AM It happens
+
+ Eliot
+ 8:46 AM We'll do better next time
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+Chatlog of conversation that happened on chat.florence.social that details the community management and governance behind funkwhale
+URL: https://chat.florencesoc.org/general/pl/9iaghjj9t7b7xgzz7uju86pyde (requires login)
+
+Maloki
+I wanted to reach out to you and talk about the Anti-abuse work Ginny did with y'all to see what we could reuse here (after checking in with and / or crediting Ginny too)
+Wed, May 22, 2019
+
+Eliot
+9:37 AM
+Sure! Do you want to have this discussion here? I'm going to ask her if she want to join too
+
+Eliot
+7:12 PM
+So I'm following the progress you are doing on #Florence for a few months, and I'm quite curious of how you are organizing and structuring the contributions, the roadmap, etc.
+7:14 PM
+Somehow, we're facing similar questions with Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio), which is a personnal project I started a few years ago, and which I'd like to see growing beyond myself.
+7:16 PM
+For little more than a year now, I've been lookin for ways to open the governance of the project to the community.
+And not only open it passively, but actively integrate potential contributors.
+7:17 PM
+Your initial attempt with #ForkTogether, last july, reminded me it was a critical to work on this, sooner than later, and the longer we'll wait the harder it'll be.
+7:19 PM
+One of our first moves was to have discussions on a public forum (cf https://socialhub.network/t/rebooting-funkwhales-forum/94) and not only on semi-public, hard to follow chat rooms
+7:20 PM
+In parallel, we also started to organize monthly meetings with other community members. We called those meetings "Funkwhale Sync". Cf our first announcement: https://socialhub.network/t/funkwhale-sync-1/82
+7:22 PM
+We commited to document everything (I mean, as much as possible), to ensure newcomers would actually be able to join discussions, but also browse the project history and understand the motivations between past decisions.
+7:23 PM
+From my experience, having those discussions on a public forum, and not only in text chats really, really improved the quality of our communication
+
+Eliot
+7:31 PM
+In January 2019, we started to realize our lack of commitment regarding diversity and inclusivity was hurting the project and pushing potential contributors away.
+Initially we wanted to launch our association (the legal entity that is supposed to back the project) as soon as possible, but we decided to wait until we had more confidence in our ability to offer a safe space to the community.
+
+7:31 PM
+At this point, we hired Ginny to help us.
+7:35 PMPinned
+Her work with us focuses on two aspects:
+ 1. the safety and inclusivity of the community
+ 1. the safety and inclusivity of the software
+We improved #1 through various measures. Mainly, by writing a code of conduct and appointing dedicated moderators to enforce it.
+In itself, Funkwale's #CoC is built on top of the contributor covenant, the post-meritocracy manifesto, and also custom content.
+7:37 PM
+Here again, one of the challenge was to have an open discussion about it. To some extent we did, and we left as much time as possible to integrate feedback between our first draft and the publication of the final version
+7:38 PM
+Of course not everyone agreed with the idea of a #CoC, or its content, and people left. Sometimes by telling us, but also silently.
+7:40 PM
+We're not done working on the the safety and inclusivity of the community though. There is a big challenge in ensuring our discussions are accessible and inclusive.
+For exemple, up until recently, our meetings were audio based. And some people reported that this was de facto excluding trans women, as it could trigger disphoria.
+7:42 PM
+So we switched to text-based meeting, which are working quite good so far.
+I expect we'll have similar changes to make on a regular basis, and we've yet to come with a solution to detect such issues up front.
+7:44 PMPinned
+Now, in terms of safety and inclusivity of the software itself, Ginny conducted a big audit of Funkwhale to find potential issues and loopholes.
+7:45 PM
+That wasn't really a surprise for me, but we have a lot of things to work on.
+After the audit, we opened a poll to the community to find what were the priorities in the issues we discovered.
+Based on the feedback, we prioritized items and put those on our roadmp.
+7:47 PM
+We had a similar process to build our general roadmpd:
+ 1. Open a discussion to gather ideas
+ 1. Follow with a poll to prioritize items
+ 1. Add items ranked by priority on the roadmap
+7:47 PM
+Our plan for next releases it to take a few items from each pool of features (general features and anti-harassment features), and develop them.
+And do that for each release.
+7:48 PM
+We're still figuring out how to maintain the roadmap, because building an initial roadmap like we did isn't the same as integrating feature requests and ideas on a regular basis.
+7:51 PM
+Recently, we decided that our efforts paid off and that we could proceed to the launch of the association.
+In fact, even if we agreed in January not to launch the collective, we continued to work on it, and especially to find candidates and write the statutes.
+7:52 PM
+The final statutes (including an english version) can be found here, and should be published on our website soon.
+7:53 PM
+It's worth noting that our CoC and moderation team is considered as a dedicated, separated power in the collective.
+We designed it that way to ensure project managers (what we name the Steering Commitee) don't hold all the power.
+7:54 PM
+The moderation team is also elected by the collective members during our general assemblies.
+7:55 PM
+We had our first general assembly last Sunday, which was basically about finding a name for the collective, approving our statutes and elect our candidates.
+7:56 PM
+So, it's still pretty recent and we will need some time before we can share feedback regarding how well our statutes are actually working
+7:58 PM
+One unusual bit in the statutes is our custom voting system. Someone came with the idea during a sync meeting a few months ago, and we decided to give it a try.
+Basically, it's built to reduce the weight of cisgendered white men in the votes.
+
+melody @social.adorable.space
+7:59 PM
+Fair warning -- moderator elections tend to be very messy and tend to select moderators who are popular contributors in the community rather than people who have the appropriate skillset to be a moderator -- people tend to think of moderation as unskilled labor so they aren't as concerned about just picking people who are well-liked rather than skilled at community management, just be aware that you're probably going to see that become volatile eventually
+
+
+Eliot
+7:59 PM
+Thank you @melody @social.adorable.space indeed, we didn't consider that
+8:00 PM
+however, there is a strict separation between moderation work and project management/development work in our statutes
+8:00 PM
+It's likely popular contributors would apply for the Steering Commitee and not the Moderation Commitee
+
+melody @social.adorable.space
+8:01 PM
+Yeah, I haven't read all your links yet, I just saw the words "moderator elections" and thought to raise it.
+
+Eliot
+8:01 PM
+Yep that makes sense
+8:02 PM
+That's pretty much it, sorry for the noise on the channel. I'm not sure how helpful it is for you, if you have some questions or feedback regarding what I shared, just let me know
+
+8:03 PM
+(And I have LOTS of questions regarding Florence too!)
+
+Eliot
+8:10 PM
+I remember #Florence (or ForkTogether maybe) had a wiki or something with interesting content, is it still available somewhere?
+
+melody @social.adorable.space
+8:11 PM
+Voting system feels...I get the spirit, I don't know that I trust its soundness.
+
+Eliot
+8:16 PM
+I'm not sure either how it will work for us, that's kind of an experiment.
+8:17 PM
+The rationale was that, especially in the steering commitee, we didn't want a majority of cis white male to have a majority on important decisions that could have impact regarding the development of anti-harassement features (or the inclusion of potentially dangerous features)
+
+melody @social.adorable.space
+8:26 PM
+Yeah, I understand the logic, I think identity is a poor proxy for this and a form of modified consensus with a strong block option might have been better
+8:27 PM
+If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem
+
+Eliot
+8:33 PM
+Wouln't a strong block option allow problematic situations (e.g someone using it to block anything they don't like) ?
+8:38 PM
+If a large supermajority or your entire steering committee is unconcerned about the risks of harassment or abuse, at that point you have a larger problem
+I agree with that and we want everyone to feel concerned about those issues.
+8:39 PM
+When it comes to deciding on those matters, I tend to think people who are experiencing it should have a stronger voice (hence the proxy on identity you mention, I really like that terminology btw!)
+
+melody @social.adorable.space
+8:55 PM
+In practice, not really. There's strong social pressure around when it's appropriate to use a block in a full consensus model, with guidelines that tend to strongly suggest they should only be used in cases where the decision is an existential threat to the group or an important violation of its values, and unless the steering committee is something like full public no-barriers membership you kind of assume that a small group of people all acting in good faith are not going to abuse blocks to break things. Blocks can usually be overridden somehow, if necessary, though, and somebody abusing them to prevent important votes on sketchy grounds and who will not participate in efforts to create a more acceptable proposal should probably be removed from the committee
+8:56 PM
+That would be a separate process but the ability to remove bad faith participants from committees and working groups is important for consensus to work
+8:59 PM
+In very large groups, or groups where minority voices are dramatically crowded out, even a fairly strong block can sometimes not be enough to overcome a normal vote
+For instance, social.coop had a simple majority on a vote, but a 90% threshold to overcome a block. I blocked a vote on a version of their code of conduct because it was hostile to reporters and tried to force people into mediation with their harassers, and it nearly passed anyway just on the momentum of the prior voting history and the overwhelming demographics.
+(edited)
+9:02 PM
+So even with a relatively strong block, overcoming it isn't always hard enough, and when you combine that with guidelines on when it's appropriate to block and the shared purpose and values of the group, you mostly just have to trust that the right people will be in the room putting it into practice, and will do so in good faith.
+9:05 PM
+I guess the other thing about it is that a block doesn't mean "I block this, and we won't talk about it anymore" a block is the start of a new conversation and a prompt to revisit the proposal, not an end to the conversation. Sometimes the concern motivating the block is severe enough that nobody brings a similar proposal again -- that could realistically be the case for some features with an initially unrecognized dangerous flaw or like, a proposal to start doing deep tracking or malicious advertisements, but in most cases a block should be starting a conversation on how to achieve the shared goals with a proposal that presents a more acceptable means
+9:07 PM
+"block" is confusing in that way I guess in the concept of a social media platform where a block tends to mean "get this away from me forever and i never want to see it again" but it's more like warning people to stop before they drive off a cliff
+9:08 PM
+it's a mechanism that can be used to allow a minority (mathematical) vote to prevent major catastrophes
+Thu, May 23, 2019
+
+Eliot
+8:41 AM
+Thank you for the detailed explanation. I wish we'd have this discussion before we voted our statutes, this could indeed have been a better alternative to what we were trying to achieve!
+
+melody @social.adorable.space
+8:45 AM
+It happens
+
+Eliot
+8:46 AM
+We'll do better next time
+
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+ Other geometries: https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/
+
+
+ Aan-en-On-Af-Hankelijkheid
+
+ So-and-Sovereignity
+
+ Κυριαρχία.λ.π
+ "Maybe it is not about replacing one term by another, but to find ways to cut diagonally through them" (Martino)
+
+ Affective Infrastructures
+
+ Gevoelige infrastructuren
+
+ Infraestructuras Afectivas
+
+ Infraestructuras Afectivas
+
+ Infrastructures affectives
+
+ Infrastructuri afective
+
+ Υποδομές που μεριμνούν
+ "What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructures that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence." (Lauren Berlant)
+
+ Affirmative Technologies
+
+ Bejahende (affirmative) Technologien
+
+ Bevestigingstechnologie / Bekrachtigingstechnologie
+
+ Technologies affirmatives
+
+ Tecnologias Afirmativas
+
+ Tecnologías Afirmativas
+
+ Tehnologii Afirmative
+
+ Καταφατικές (ως προς το σύστημα) Τεχνολογίες
+
+ Technologies that implement affirmative ethics.
+ "Calling for hybridized poly-lingualism and creolization on a global scale is an affirmative answer to the coercive mono-culturalism imposed by the colonial and imperial powers. The ethics of productive affirmation is a different way of handling the issue of how to deal with pain and traumas and to operate in situations which are extreme, while working to bring out the generative force of zoe – life beyond the ego-bound human" (Rosi Braidotti)
+
+ Agenciamiento relacional (?)
+ Libre arbitre relatif
+
+ Livre arbítrio relacional (?)
+ Relational Agency
+
+ Relațional Arbitru
+
+ Relationales Handeln (agency = act?)
+ Σχεσιακή Δυνατότητα Δράσης
+ "Agency is not held, it is not a property of persons or things; rather, agency is an enactment, a matter of possibilities for reconfiguring entanglements." (Lauren Berlant)
+
+ Ahnenhafte Netzwerke
+
+ Ancestral Networks
+
+ Redes Ancestrais
+
+ Redes Ancestrales
+
+ Réseaux Ancestraux
+
+ Rețea Ancestrală
+
+ Reti Ataviche
+
+ Vooroudernetwerken
+
+ Προγονικά Δίκτυα
+ "Networks that have life in the center" (Tatiana)
+
+ Alianțe Încurcate
+
+ Alianzas incómodas
+
+ Ongemakkelijke Samenwerkingsverbanden
+
+ Unbehagliche Bündnisse
+
+ Uneasy Alliances
+
+ Ανήσυχες Συμμαχίες
+
+
+ Also-Spaces
+
+ Auch-Räume
+
+ Ook-Ruimtes
+
+ Χώροι-Επίσης
+
+ (Reinaart Vanhoe)
+
+
+ Ambitieuze Ambivalentie
+
+ Ambivalence ambitieuse
+
+ Ambivalencia Aspiracional
+
+ Ambivalență Pretențioasă
+
+ Aspirational Ambivalence
+
+ Διφορούμενη Φιλοδοξία
+
+ See: Affective Infrastructures
+
+ (Lauren Berlant)
+
+
+ Ambivalente Precariteit
+
+ Ambivalente Prekarität
+
+ Ambivalent Precarity
+
+ Precariedad Ambivalente
+
+ Precariedade Ambivalente
+
+ Precaritate Ambivalentă
+
+ Précarité ambivalente
+
+ Διφορούμενη Αβεβαιότητα
+
+ "Precarity is ambivalent, because we are always dependent on other people, from the begining, but other people can also harm us, so we need an understanding of ethics to cope with this ambivalence." (Judith Butler)
+
+ And-And-Networks
+
+ En-En-Netwerken
+
+ Rețele Și-Și
+
+ Y Y Redes
+
+
+ A Rămâne cu Neajunsul
+
+ Blijvend met problemen / Bij de problemen blijven
+
+ Permanecer Con la Dificultad (?)
+ Staying With the Trouble
+
+ Παραμένοντας σε εμπλοκή με το πρόβλημα
+ (Donna Haraway)
+
+ Archipelagic
+
+ Archipelagisch
+
+ Archipiélago
+
+ Και-και-Δίκτυα
+ (Edouard Glissant)
+
+ Autonimías Enredadas
+
+ Autonomie Coinvolte
+
+ Autonomies emmêlées
+
+ Entangled Autonomies
+
+ Verknoopte Autonomie
+
+ Διαπλεκόμενες Αυτονομίες
+
+
+ Auto-organizados (multiple selves?)
+ Organisiertes Selbst / Selbstorganisiert (multiple selves?)
+ Organizați-prin-sine (multiple selves?)
+ Selves-organised
+
+ Αυτο(ί)-οργανωμένοι
+
+
+ Brekingstechnologieën
+
+ Diffractive Technologies diffracting technologies
+
+ Tecnologias Difractivas
+
+ Tecnologías Difractivas
+
+ Τεχνολογίες που προκαλούν διάθλαση
+
+
+ co-autonomy
+ (Relearn)
+
+ Collectieve Individuatie
+
+ Collective Individuation
+
+ Individuação colectiva
+
+ Individuación colectiva
+
+ Individualisation collective
+
+ Individuare Colectivă
+
+ Συλλογική Εξατομίκευση
+ (Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin with Gilbert Simondon)
+
+ Collectively Individuating
+
+
+ Co-transformação
+
+ Co-transformación
+
+ Co-transformatie
+
+ Co-transformation
+
+ Συν-μεταμόρφωση
+ "... what all of these new transgressive, intersectional, and integrative movements [of techno-feminism] have in common is an attitude of care or concern. In many ways, they are caring, worrying, ready to take responsibility, anchored in the here and now, and on the lookout for new types of relations. While searching for answers to global and local problems, engaging in scientific research, and devising technological solutions, this attitude of care contributes to the establishment of a new form of knowledge, a knowledge that rejects objectivization and is interested not only in observations and representations but also in transformations – in forging relations with things, in being affected, and thus in changing itself and the world in a process of co-transformation." (Cornelia Solfrank)
+
+ Co-transforming
+
+
+ Derde ruimte
+
+ Third Space
+
+ "A liminal space in between colliding cultures “which gives rise to something different, something new and unrecognizable, a new area of negotiation of meaning and representation." (Homi Bhabha)
+
+
+ Deep Implicancy
+ (Denise Ferreira Silva)
+
+ Dividual Networks
+
+ Redes Dividuais
+
+ Redes Individuales
+
+ Zonderlijke Netwerken
+
+ Διασπάσιμα (ως προς το κέντρο τους) Δίκτυα
+
+ Network technologies that put dividuality at the center
+
+ Enkel meerzijdig zijn
+
+
+ Être singulier pluriel
+
+ (Jean-Luc Nancy)
+
+ Eccentric technologies
+ (Hope A. Olson)
+
+ En medio de (?)
+
+ Midden-innig
+
+ Nepantla
+
+ Orizont-izare
+
+ (?) Μεταίχμιο
+
+
+ "Nepantla is the point of contact y el lugar between worlds—between imagination and physical existence, between ordinary and nonordinary (spirit) realities." (Gloria Anzaldúa)
+
+
+ Eigenartige Netzwerke
+
+ Queer Networks
+
+ Redes Queer
+
+
+ Κουήρ Δίκτυα
+
+
+ Estudios Promiscuos
+
+ Promiscuidade Estudada
+
+ Studied Promiscuity
+
+
+ Μελετημένη Μοιχεία
+
+
+
+ (Kara Keeling)
+
+
+
+ Feministische Servers
+
+ Feminist Servers
+
+ Server Feminist
+
+ Serveur féministe
+
+ Servidores Feministas
+
+ Servidores Feministas
+
+ Φεμινιστικός Σέρβερ
+
+ Choose your dependencies!
+
+
+ Feminist Infrastructures
+
+ Feministische Infrastructuren
+
+ Infraestructuras Feministas
+
+ Infraestructuras Feministas
+
+ Infrastructures féministes
+
+ Φεμινιστικές Υποδομές
+
+
+ ... Federadas
+
+ Federated ...
+
+ ... Fédéré
+
+ Gefedereerde ...
+
+ Ομοσπονδιακά ...
+
+
+ Indeterminate Precarity
+
+ Onbepaalde bestaansonzekerheid
+
+ Precariedad Indeterminadad
+
+ Precarietá Indefinita
+
+ Précarité incertaine
+
+ Ακαθόριστη Επισφάλεια
+ "Indeterminacy, the unplanned nature of time, is frightening, but thinking through precarity makes it evident that indeterminacy also makes life possible." (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)
+
+ Interdependent Networks
+
+ Tussen-afhankelijke Netwerken
+
+ Réseaux interdépendants
+
+ Rețele Interdependente
+
+ Αλληλοεξαρτημένα Δίκτυα
+
+ Redes Interdependientes
+
+ Redes Interdependentes
+
+
+ Interdépendance possible
+
+ Interdependencia habitable
+
+ Interdependência habitável
+
+ Interdependență Suportabilă
+
+ Leefbare Tussen-afhankelijkheid
+
+ Livable Interdependency
+
+ Ζωτική Αλληλοεξάρτηση
+ (Judith Butler)
+
+ Internet Paranodal
+
+ Internet para-nodal
+
+ Paranodal Internet
+
+ Para-puntig Internet
+
+ Παρακομβικό Διαδίκτυο
+
+ What is outside and beyond the form of the network?
+ "The paranode is the horizon, the site of futurity that contra-internet practices move toward. As contra-infrastructure and theoretical model, the paranode proposes two militancies: the practical search for antiwebs, which is not a killing or disappearing but a commons to come; and the intellectual task of making thinkable that which is not only outside the internet but also beyond the network form itself." (Zach Blas)
+
+ Intersectional Technologies
+
+ Technologies intersectionnelles
+
+ Tecnologías interseccionales
+
+ Tecnologias Intersectionais
+
+ Tehnologii Intersecționale
+
+ Tussendoorsnedige technologieën
+
+ Διατομεακές Τεχνολογίες
+
+
+ Intra-doorsnedigheid
+
+ Intra-seccionalidad
+
+ Intra-sectionalidade
+
+ Intra-sectionality
+
+ Intra-sectionnalité
+
+ Ενδό-τομεακότητα
+
+
+ Kruisbestuiving
+
+ Mestizaje
+
+ Métissage
+
+ Επιμιξία
+ "If we posit métissage as, generally speaking, the meeting and synthesis of two differences, creolization seems to be a limitless métissage, it’s elements diffracted and its consequences unforeseeable. Creolization diffracts, whereas certain forms of métissage can concentrate one more time" (Edouard Glissant) "métissage(?) is proposed to the ch´ixi as a decolonizing force of the crossbreeding. Far from fusion or hybridity, it is a question of living together and inhabiting contradictions. Not to deny one part or the other, nor to seek a synthesis, but to admit the permanent fighting in our subjectivity between the indigenous and the european." (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui)
+
+ Mogelijke Verdergaandheid
+
+ Possible Ongoingness
+
+ Πιθανή ?
+ We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. (Donna Haraway)
+
+ Niet-onafhankelijke relationaliteit
+
+ Non-sovereign relationality
+
+ Rationalité non souveraine
+
+ Relacionalidad no soberana
+
+ Relaționalitate Nonsuverană
+
+ Μη-κυριαρχική Σχεσιακότητα
+ (Lauren Berlant)
+
+ Ondermeent
+
+ Undercommons
+
+ Untergemeingut
+ "After all, the subversive intellectual came under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love. Her labor is as necessary as it is unwelcome. The university needs what she bears but cannot bear what she brings. And on top of all that, she disappears. She disappears into the underground, the downlow lowdown maroon community of the university, into the undercommons of enlightenment, where the work gets done, where the work gets subverted, where the revolution is still black, still strong." (Stefano Harney & Fred Moten)
+
+ Overgankelijke Opschorting
+
+ Transitional Suspension
+
+ Vorrübergehender Aufschub
+
+ Μεταβατική Αναστολή
+ "Learning to be awkward, to be graceful, to leap, and to fall is a training in attention and also in revisceralizing one's bodily intuition. It is a training that collapses getting hurt with making a life, but that includes the welcoming of exposure alongside of a dread of it. There can be no change in life without revisceralization. This involves all kinds of loss and transitional suspension." (Lauren Berlant)
+
+ Poiesis Solidaria
+
+ Solidarity Poiesis
+
+ Αλληλέγγυα Ποίηση
+ "I believe it is crucial to enable a poetics that generates infrastructures of their own kind, ones that can be seen as sensuous, ‘non-reproductive’ extensions of our sociality. After all, that which can be deemed crucial for imagination is the sensuousness that imagination is operating with: the resistance of the concrete to any form of abstraction or reduction." (Robin Vanbesien)
+
+ Răspuns-abilitate
+
+ Reaktionsfähigkeit
+
+ Response-ability
+
+ Respuesta Responsable (?)
+
+ Ver-Antwoord-elijkheid
+
+ Ικανότητα να ανταποκριθώ υπεύθυνα
+
+ The ability to react to something but also taking responsability for that response.
+ "Blaming Capitalism, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Modernization, or some other “not us”for ongoing destruction webbed with human numbers will not work either. These issues demand difficult, unrelenting work; but they also demand joy, play, and response-ability to engage with unexpected others." (Donna Haraway)
+
+ Solidaire technologieën
+
+ Solidaridad Tecnológica
+
+ Solidary Technology
+
+ Αλληλέγγυα Τεχνολογία
+
+
+ Symbiogenesis
+ (Lynn Margulin)
+
+ Sym-poëtisch
+
+ Sym-poiesis
+
+ Συν-ποίηση
+ (Donna Haraway)
+
+ Trans-seccionalidad
+
+ Trans-sectionaliteit
+
+ Trans-sectionality
+
+ Μετα-τομεακότητα (?)
+
+
+ Undercommoning
+
+
+
+ Dear Reader, here are some trans*feminist reworkings of vocabularies and imaginaries linked to 'sovereignity', 'freedom', 'independence' and 'autonomy'. This cluster of words is often used in activist tech-communities to talk about the kind of tools, softwares, networks and servers we need and want. We have learned to understand them as positive, but they implicitly and sometimes explicitly foreground separation rather than relation. They evoke techno-utopias elsewhere, instead of staying with the trouble that we are already entangled in. This bookmark proposes other ways we might speak about the desirable and desired horizons of technology. Many of the terms on this list modify existing concepts; rather than trying to replace them they introduce dynamic tension.
+
+
+ Beste Lezer, hier zijn wat trans*feministische herwerkingen van het taalgebruik en de verbeelding rond termen als soevereiniteit, vrijheid, onafhankelijkheid en autonomie. Dit cluster aan woorden komt je vaak tegen in technologisch-activistische gemeenschappen. Daar worden ze gebruikt om het te hebben over de soorten gereedschappen, softwares, netwerken en servers die we nodig hebben en in de wereld willen zien. We hebben ze leren kennen als positieve termen waar we ons achter kunnen scharen. Het zijn echter termen die impliciet en soms ook expliciet (af)scheiding inplaats van relatie benadrukken. Het zijn ook termen die technische-utopias elders veronderstellen, in tijd of plaats. Hoe kunnen we in de buurt blijven van de problematiek waar we nu mee te maken hebben. Deze boekenlegger stelt een woordenschat voor die we kunnen gebruiken om anders te spreken over wenselijke en gewenste technologische vergezichten. Vanuit de wens ze niet te vervangen, maar van een dynamische spanning te voorzien, zijn veel van de termen op deze lijst aanpassingen van bestaande concepten.
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+
+ Αγαπητοί Αναγνώστες, εδώ θα βρείτε τρανς-φεμινιστικές επαναπροσεγγίσεις λέξεων και φαντασιακών (σκέψεων) που συνδέονται με έννοιες 'κυριαρχίας', 'ελευθερίας', 'ανεξαρτησίας' και 'αυτονομίας'. Αυτό το σύμπλεγμα λέξεων χρησιμοποιείται συχνά σε κοινότητες τεχνολογικού ακτιβισμού όταν μιλάμε για τους τύπους εργαλείων, προγραμμάτων, δικτύων και τεχνολογικών υποδομών (server) που θέλουμε και έχουμε ανάγκη. Περιλαμβάνει όρους που έχουμε μάθει να καταλαβαίνουμε ως θετικούς, αλλά σιωπηρά ή ρητά προβάλλουν τον διαχωρισμό αντί της συσχέτισης. Όροι που παραπέμπουν σε τεχνο-ουτοπίες Aλλού, αντί να παραμένουν σε εμπλοκή με τα υπάρχοντα προβλήματα. Ο παρών σελιδοδείκτης προτείνει εναλλακτικούς τρόπους να μιλήσουμε για επιθυμητους τεχνολογικούς ορίζοντες. Πολλοί όροι σ'αυτή τη λίστα τροποποιούν υπάρχοντες έννοιες - αντι να επιδιώκουν την αντικατάστασή τους, ενεργοποιούν εντάσεις.
+
+
+ Querido lector, he aquí algunas modificaciones trans*feministas de vocabulario e imaginarios vinculados a la `soberanía', la `Libertad', la `Independencia' y la `Autonomía'. Este grupo de palabras se utilizan a menudo en las comunidades tecnológicas activistas para hablar sobre el tipo de herramientas, softwares, redes y servidores que necesitamos y queremos. Hemos aprendido a entenderlas como positivas, pero implícita y a veces explícitamente, como una separación más que como una relación. Evocan las tecno-utopías en otros lugares, en lugar de quedarnos con el problema que ya estamos viviendo. Este marcador propone otras formas en las que podemos hablar sobre los horizontes deseables y deseados de la tecnología. Muchos de los términos de esta lista modifican los conceptos existentes; en lugar de tratar de reemplazarlos, introducen una tensión dinámica.
+
+
+ Antwerpen, Abril/Avril/april 2019
+
+ Networks with An Attitude
+
+
+ Sources:
+ Cornelia Sollfrank, The Beautiful Warriors - Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century. Introduction by Cornelia Sollfrank (Translated by Valentine A. Pakis) https://transversal.at/blog/the-beautiful-warriors
+ reinaart vanhoe, http://vanhoe.org/paginas/alsospace.html
+ Gloria Anzaldúa, “Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015). Jean-Luc Nancy Kara Keeling, Queer OS Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994 Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Cambridge, Massachussetts – London, England: Harvard University Press, 2015) Lauren Berlant, 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times', in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34.3 (2016): pp. 393–419] Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman. Polity, 2013 Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui Donna Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin. In: Environmental Humanities 6(1):159-165, May 2015 Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016 Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Autonomedia, 2016 Robin Vanbesien (eds). Solidarity Poiesis: I will come and steal you, 2017 Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin Isabelle Stengers, The challenge of ontological politics. In: A world of many worlds / edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (2018). Denise Ferreira da Silva, On difference without separability (2016) Lynn Margulin Peter Sloterdijk, interviews Hope A. Olson, Mapping Beyond Dewey’s Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains
+
+ "Does recuperating "autonomous zones" and "safe spaces” of smaller networks represent effective resistence to the new technological formalism of big tech’s computational social scientists? Or does it simply highlight the fact that the twin ideals of autonomy and participation that were once seen as not only related but actually entailing one another have proved themselves to be all too frequently incomensurable as to be a participant is always to be enrolled in some kind of infrastructure ?"
+ David Garcia, Nettime (02/07/2019)
+
+
+
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+This vocabulary was brought to Varia during the Relearn session in April 2019.
+
+__PUBLISH__
+
+---
+
+Other geometries: https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/
+
+Aan-en-On-Af-Hankelijkheid
+So-and-Sovereignity
+Κυριαρχία.λ.π
+"Maybe it is not about replacing one term by another, but to find ways to cut diagonally through them" (Martino)
+
+Affective Infrastructures
+Gevoelige infrastructuren
+Infraestructuras Afectivas
+Infraestructuras Afectivas
+Infrastructures affectives
+Infrastructuri afective
+Υποδομές που μεριμνούν
+"What remains for our pedagogy of unlearning is to build affective infrastructures that admit the work of desire as the work of an aspirational ambivalence." (Lauren Berlant)
+
+Affirmative Technologies
+Bejahende (affirmative) Technologien
+Bevestigingstechnologie / Bekrachtigingstechnologie
+Technologies affirmatives
+Tecnologias Afirmativas
+Tecnologías Afirmativas
+Tehnologii Afirmative
+Καταφατικές (ως προς το σύστημα) Τεχνολογίες
+Technologies that implement affirmative ethics.
+"Calling for hybridized poly-lingualism and creolization on a global scale is an affirmative answer to the coercive mono-culturalism imposed by the colonial and imperial powers. The ethics of productive affirmation is a different way of handling the issue of how to deal with pain and traumas and to operate in situations which are extreme, while working to bring out the generative force of zoe – life beyond the ego-bound human" (Rosi Braidotti)
+
+Agenciamiento relacional (?)
+Libre arbitre relatif
+Livre arbítrio relacional (?)
+Relational Agency
+Relațional Arbitru
+Relationales Handeln (agency = act?)
+Σχεσιακή Δυνατότητα Δράσης
+"Agency is not held, it is not a property of persons or things; rather, agency is an enactment, a matter of possibilities for reconfiguring entanglements." (Lauren Berlant)
+
+Ahnenhafte Netzwerke
+Ancestral Networks
+Redes Ancestrais
+Redes Ancestrales
+Réseaux Ancestraux
+Rețea Ancestrală
+Reti Ataviche
+Vooroudernetwerken
+Προγονικά Δίκτυα
+"Networks that have life in the center" (Tatiana)
+
+Alianțe Încurcate
+Alianzas incómodas
+Ongemakkelijke Samenwerkingsverbanden
+Unbehagliche Bündnisse
+Uneasy Alliances
+Ανήσυχες Συμμαχίες
+
+Also-Spaces
+Auch-Räume
+Ook-Ruimtes
+Χώροι-Επίσης
+(Reinaart Vanhoe)
+
+Ambitieuze Ambivalentie
+Ambivalence ambitieuse
+Ambivalencia Aspiracional
+Ambivalență Pretențioasă
+Aspirational Ambivalence
+Διφορούμενη Φιλοδοξία
+See: Affective Infrastructures
+(Lauren Berlant)
+
+Ambivalente Precariteit
+Ambivalente Prekarität
+Ambivalent Precarity
+Precariedad Ambivalente
+Precariedade Ambivalente
+Precaritate Ambivalentă
+Précarité ambivalente
+Διφορούμενη Αβεβαιότητα
+"Precarity is ambivalent, because we are always dependent on other people, from the begining, but other people can also harm us, so we need an understanding of ethics to cope with this ambivalence." (Judith Butler)
+
+And-And-Networks
+En-En-Netwerken
+Rețele Și-Și
+Y Y Redes
+
+A Rămâne cu Neajunsul
+Blijvend met problemen / Bij de problemen blijven
+Permanecer Con la Dificultad (?)
+Staying With the Trouble
+Παραμένοντας σε εμπλοκή με το πρόβλημα
+(Donna Haraway)
+
+Archipelagic
+Archipelagisch
+Archipiélago
+Και-και-Δίκτυα
+(Edouard Glissant)
+
+Autonimías Enredadas
+Autonomie Coinvolte
+Autonomies emmêlées
+Entangled Autonomies
+Verknoopte Autonomie
+Διαπλεκόμενες Αυτονομίες
+
+Auto-organizados (multiple selves?)
+Organisiertes Selbst / Selbstorganisiert (multiple selves?)
+Organizați-prin-sine (multiple selves?)
+Selves-organised
+Αυτο(ί)-οργανωμένοι
+
+Brekingstechnologieën
+Diffractive Technologies diffracting technologies
+Tecnologias Difractivas
+Tecnologías Difractivas
+Τεχνολογίες που προκαλούν διάθλαση
+
+co-autonomy
+(Relearn)
+
+Collectieve Individuatie
+Collective Individuation
+Individuação colectiva
+Individuación colectiva
+Individualisation collective
+Individuare Colectivă
+Συλλογική Εξατομίκευση
+(Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin with Gilbert Simondon)
+
+Collectively Individuating
+
+Co-transformação
+Co-transformación
+Co-transformatie
+Co-transformation
+Συν-μεταμόρφωση
+"... what all of these new transgressive, intersectional, and integrative movements [of techno-feminism] have in common is an attitude of care or concern. In many ways, they are caring, worrying, ready to take responsibility, anchored in the here and now, and on the lookout for new types of relations. While searching for answers to global and local problems, engaging in scientific research, and devising technological solutions, this attitude of care contributes to the establishment of a new form of knowledge, a knowledge that rejects objectivization and is interested not only in observations and representations but also in transformations – in forging relations with things, in being affected, and thus in changing itself and the world in a process of co-transformation." (Cornelia Solfrank)
+
+Co-transforming
+
+Derde ruimte
+Third Space
+"A liminal space in between colliding cultures “which gives rise to something different, something new and unrecognizable, a new area of negotiation of meaning and representation." (Homi Bhabha)
+
+Deep Implicancy
+(Denise Ferreira Silva)
+
+Dividual Networks
+Redes Dividuais
+Redes Individuales
+Zonderlijke Netwerken
+Διασπάσιμα (ως προς το κέντρο τους) Δίκτυα
+Network technologies that put dividuality at the center
+Enkel meerzijdig zijn
+Être singulier pluriel
+(Jean-Luc Nancy)
+
+Eccentric technologies
+(Hope A. Olson)
+
+En medio de (?)
+Midden-innig
+Nepantla
+Orizont-izare
+(?) Μεταίχμιο
+"Nepantla is the point of contact y el lugar between worlds—between imagination and physical existence, between ordinary and nonordinary (spirit) realities." (Gloria Anzaldúa)
+
+Eigenartige Netzwerke
+Queer Networks
+Redes Queer
+Κουήρ Δίκτυα
+Estudios Promiscuos
+Promiscuidade Estudada
+Studied Promiscuity
+Μελετημένη Μοιχεία
+(Kara Keeling)
+
+Feministische Servers
+Feminist Servers
+Server Feminist
+Serveur féministe
+Servidores Feministas
+Servidores Feministas
+Φεμινιστικός Σέρβερ
+Choose your dependencies!
+
+Feminist Infrastructures
+Feministische Infrastructuren
+Infraestructuras Feministas
+Infraestructuras Feministas
+Infrastructures féministes
+Φεμινιστικές Υποδομές
+
+... Federadas
+Federated ...
+... Fédéré
+Gefedereerde ...
+Ομοσπονδιακά ...
+
+Indeterminate Precarity
+Onbepaalde bestaansonzekerheid
+Precariedad Indeterminadad
+Precarietá Indefinita
+Précarité incertaine
+Ακαθόριστη Επισφάλεια
+"Indeterminacy, the unplanned nature of time, is frightening, but thinking through precarity makes it evident that indeterminacy also makes life possible." (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)
+
+Interdependent Networks
+Tussen-afhankelijke Netwerken
+Réseaux interdépendants
+Rețele Interdependente
+Αλληλοεξαρτημένα Δίκτυα
+Redes Interdependientes
+Redes Interdependentes
+
+Interdépendance possible
+Interdependencia habitable
+Interdependência habitável
+Interdependență Suportabilă
+Leefbare Tussen-afhankelijkheid
+Livable Interdependency
+Ζωτική Αλληλοεξάρτηση
+(Judith Butler)
+
+Internet Paranodal
+Internet para-nodal
+Paranodal Internet
+Para-puntig Internet
+Παρακομβικό Διαδίκτυο
+What is outside and beyond the form of the network?
+"The paranode is the horizon, the site of futurity that contra-internet practices move toward. As contra-infrastructure and theoretical model, the paranode proposes two militancies: the practical search for antiwebs, which is not a killing or disappearing but a commons to come; and the intellectual task of making thinkable that which is not only outside the internet but also beyond the network form itself." (Zach Blas)
+
+Intersectional Technologies
+Technologies intersectionnelles
+Tecnologías interseccionales
+Tecnologias Intersectionais
+Tehnologii Intersecționale
+Tussendoorsnedige technologieën
+Διατομεακές Τεχνολογίες
+
+Intra-doorsnedigheid
+Intra-seccionalidad
+Intra-sectionalidade
+Intra-sectionality
+Intra-sectionnalité
+Ενδό-τομεακότητα
+
+Kruisbestuiving
+Mestizaje
+Métissage
+Επιμιξία
+"If we posit métissage as, generally speaking, the meeting and synthesis of two differences, creolization seems to be a limitless métissage, it’s elements diffracted and its consequences unforeseeable. Creolization diffracts, whereas certain forms of métissage can concentrate one more time" (Edouard Glissant)
+"métissage(?) is proposed to the ch´ixi as a decolonizing force of the crossbreeding. Far from fusion or hybridity, it is a question of living together and inhabiting contradictions. Not to deny one part or the other, nor to seek a synthesis, but to admit the permanent fighting in our subjectivity between the indigenous and the european." (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui)
+
+Mogelijke Verdergaandheid
+Possible Ongoingness
+Πιθανή ?
+We all share this problem, and we all have very different ideas about what to do about it. That’s already hard enough. That does not mean the science is not settled on climate change, or that relativism reigns; it does mean learning to compose possible ongoingness inside relentlessly diffracting worlds. (Donna Haraway)
+
+Niet-onafhankelijke relationaliteit
+Non-sovereign relationality
+Rationalité non souveraine
+Relacionalidad no soberana
+Relaționalitate Nonsuverană
+Μη-κυριαρχική Σχεσιακότητα
+(Lauren Berlant)
+
+Ondermeent
+Undercommons
+Untergemeingut
+"After all, the subversive intellectual came under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love. Her labor is as necessary as it is unwelcome. The university needs what she bears but cannot bear what she brings. And on top of all that, she disappears. She disappears into the underground, the downlow lowdown maroon community of the university, into the undercommons of enlightenment, where the work gets done, where the work gets subverted, where the revolution is still black, still strong." (Stefano Harney & Fred Moten)
+
+Overgankelijke Opschorting
+Transitional Suspension
+Vorrübergehender Aufschub
+Μεταβατική Αναστολή
+"Learning to be awkward, to be graceful, to leap, and to fall is a training in attention and also in revisceralizing one's bodily intuition. It is a training that collapses getting hurt with making a life, but that includes the welcoming of exposure alongside of a dread of it. There can be no change in life without revisceralization. This involves all kinds of loss and transitional suspension." (Lauren Berlant)
+
+Poiesis Solidaria
+Solidarity Poiesis
+Αλληλέγγυα Ποίηση
+"I believe it is crucial to enable a poetics that generates infrastructures of their own kind, ones that can be seen as sensuous, ‘non-reproductive’ extensions of our sociality. After all, that which can be deemed crucial for imagination is the sensuousness that imagination is operating with: the resistance of the concrete to any form of abstraction or reduction." (Robin Vanbesien)
+
+Răspuns-abilitate
+Reaktionsfähigkeit
+Response-ability
+Respuesta Responsable (?)
+Ver-Antwoord-elijkheid
+Ικανότητα να ανταποκριθώ υπεύθυνα
+The ability to react to something but also taking responsability for that response.
+"Blaming Capitalism, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Modernization, or some other “not us”for ongoing destruction webbed with human numbers will not work either. These issues demand difficult, unrelenting work; but they also demand joy, play, and response-ability to engage with unexpected others." (Donna Haraway)
+
+Solidaire technologieën
+Solidaridad Tecnológica
+Solidary Technology
+Αλληλέγγυα Τεχνολογία
+
+Symbiogenesis
+(Lynn Margulin)
+
+Sym-poëtisch
+Sym-poiesis
+Συν-ποίηση
+(Donna Haraway)
+
+Trans-seccionalidad
+Trans-sectionaliteit
+Trans-sectionality
+Μετα-τομεακότητα (?)
+
+Undercommoning
+
+
+Dear Reader, here are some trans*feminist reworkings of vocabularies and imaginaries linked to 'sovereignity', 'freedom', 'independence' and 'autonomy'. This cluster of words is often used in activist tech-communities to talk about the kind of tools, softwares, networks and servers we need and want. We have learned to understand them as positive, but they implicitly and sometimes explicitly foreground separation rather than relation. They evoke techno-utopias elsewhere, instead of staying with the trouble that we are already entangled in. This bookmark proposes other ways we might speak about the desirable and desired horizons of technology. Many of the terms on this list modify existing concepts; rather than trying to replace them they introduce dynamic tension.
+
+Beste Lezer, hier zijn wat trans*feministische herwerkingen van het taalgebruik en de verbeelding rond termen als soevereiniteit, vrijheid, onafhankelijkheid en autonomie. Dit cluster aan woorden komt je vaak tegen in technologisch-activistische gemeenschappen. Daar worden ze gebruikt om het te hebben over de soorten gereedschappen, softwares, netwerken en servers die we nodig hebben en in de wereld willen zien. We hebben ze leren kennen als positieve termen waar we ons achter kunnen scharen. Het zijn echter termen die impliciet en soms ook expliciet (af)scheiding inplaats van relatie benadrukken. Het zijn ook termen die technische-utopias elders veronderstellen, in tijd of plaats. Hoe kunnen we in de buurt blijven van de problematiek waar we nu mee te maken hebben. Deze boekenlegger stelt een woordenschat voor die we kunnen gebruiken om anders te spreken over wenselijke en gewenste technologische vergezichten. Vanuit de wens ze niet te vervangen, maar van een dynamische spanning te voorzien, zijn veel van de termen op deze lijst aanpassingen van bestaande concepten.
+
+Αγαπητοί Αναγνώστες, εδώ θα βρείτε τρανς-φεμινιστικές επαναπροσεγγίσεις λέξεων και φαντασιακών (σκέψεων) που συνδέονται με έννοιες 'κυριαρχίας', 'ελευθερίας', 'ανεξαρτησίας' και 'αυτονομίας'. Αυτό το σύμπλεγμα λέξεων χρησιμοποιείται συχνά σε κοινότητες τεχνολογικού ακτιβισμού όταν μιλάμε για τους τύπους εργαλείων, προγραμμάτων, δικτύων και τεχνολογικών υποδομών (server) που θέλουμε και έχουμε ανάγκη. Περιλαμβάνει όρους που έχουμε μάθει να καταλαβαίνουμε ως θετικούς, αλλά σιωπηρά ή ρητά προβάλλουν τον διαχωρισμό αντί της συσχέτισης. Όροι που παραπέμπουν σε τεχνο-ουτοπίες Aλλού, αντί να παραμένουν σε εμπλοκή με τα υπάρχοντα προβλήματα. Ο παρών σελιδοδείκτης προτείνει εναλλακτικούς τρόπους να μιλήσουμε για επιθυμητους τεχνολογικούς ορίζοντες. Πολλοί όροι σ'αυτή τη λίστα τροποποιούν υπάρχοντες έννοιες - αντι να επιδιώκουν την αντικατάστασή τους, ενεργοποιούν εντάσεις.
+
+Querido lector, he aquí algunas modificaciones trans*feministas de vocabulario e imaginarios vinculados a la `soberanía', la `Libertad', la `Independencia' y la `Autonomía'. Este grupo de palabras se utilizan a menudo en las comunidades tecnológicas activistas para hablar sobre el tipo de herramientas, softwares, redes y servidores que necesitamos y queremos. Hemos aprendido a entenderlas como positivas, pero implícita y a veces explícitamente, como una separación más que como una relación. Evocan las tecno-utopías en otros lugares, en lugar de quedarnos con el problema que ya estamos viviendo. Este marcador propone otras formas en las que podemos hablar sobre los horizontes deseables y deseados de la tecnología. Muchos de los términos de esta lista modifican los conceptos existentes; en lugar de tratar de reemplazarlos, introducen una tensión dinámica.
+
+Antwerpen, Abril/Avril/april 2019
+Networks with An Attitude
+
+
+Sources:
+
+Cornelia Sollfrank, The Beautiful Warriors - Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century. Introduction by Cornelia Sollfrank (Translated by Valentine A. Pakis) https://transversal.at/blog/the-beautiful-warriors
+reinaart vanhoe, http://vanhoe.org/paginas/alsospace.html
+Gloria Anzaldúa, “Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).
+Jean-Luc Nancy
+Kara Keeling, Queer OS
+Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994
+Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Cambridge, Massachussetts – London, England: Harvard University Press, 2015)
+Lauren Berlant, 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times', in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34.3 (2016): pp. 393–419]
+Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman. Polity, 2013
+Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
+Donna Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin. In: Environmental Humanities 6(1):159-165, May 2015
+Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016
+Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Autonomedia, 2016
+Robin Vanbesien (eds). Solidarity Poiesis: I will come and steal you, 2017
+Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin
+Isabelle Stengers, The challenge of ontological politics. In: A world of many worlds / edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (2018).
+Denise Ferreira da Silva, On difference without separability (2016)
+Lynn Margulin
+Peter Sloterdijk, interviews
+Hope A. Olson, Mapping Beyond Dewey’s Boundaries: Constructing Classificatory Space for Marginalized Knowledge Domains
+
+
+"Does recuperating "autonomous zones" and "safe spaces” of smaller networks represent effective resistence to the new technological formalism of big tech’s computational social scientists? Or does it simply highlight the fact that the twin ideals of autonomy and participation that were once seen as not only related but actually entailing one another have proved themselves to be all too frequently incomensurable as to be a participant is always to be enrolled in some kind of infrastructure ?"
+
+David Garcia, Nettime (02/07/2019)
+
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+ # Ana & Ricardo - Why terminology matters
+
+ * open design
+ "open"? too many meanings
+ advocacy
+ Manufactura uses "free libre and open source software". Most questionmarks in the description of this talk.
+ Open Source Design manifesto (on a napkin):
+
+
I will find oppertunities to design in the open.
+
Share good and bad.
+
Share
+
Openly discuss
+
Improve my toolbox.
+
written by open design foundation started by a designer at Adobe
+ "free" was problematic, too close to "freedom" then open source was introduced
+ too much about not paying for free tools/fonts
+ most importantly about doing things together eg.: free to modify a font, adapting it to your own language
+ * open source design
+ more closely related to 4 free software freedoms
+
+ https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/
+ collaborations between designers & developers open source design > design for open source
+ sometimes happening through proprietary tools Example of Ubuntu (Canonical)'s design department using Mac/Adobe
+ * tools
+ Can we use proprietary software and still call it open source design? support/contribution vs. use
+ using is the biggest form of contribution
+ * manufactura
+ not open design but not sure how to call it?
+ Libre Design? F/LOSS Design?
+ Q&A:
+ Andreas (Scribus): not push people to use F/LOSS, but ... Ricardo: Releasing end products under open licenses can be oke. But using FLOSS tools will make more of a difference.
+ Eyol: Are tools not good enough? Or not well known enough? Or is it a question of mindset / bigger questions? Ana: If you're not changing your tools, you don't see what can be changed? Schools setting/following "industry standards" is not helping.
+ Q: Many problems between design & FLOSS. Aren't we dealing with bigger questions then tools? Ricardo: Terminology is a very precise way of approaching these questions, indeed.
+ --- [ Free software tools ... as in Gimp/Inkscape/etc, but these days, a lot of web open source/free software tools, which rely on web standards, browsers, pdf engines, ... "Freedom" resonating libertarian thinking, individual practice, design hero culture, ... ]
+
+
+ # Pascal Bies - Non-destructive procedural 2D-vector modelling
+
+
+ https://github.com/pasbi/ommpfritt
+
+ Doing vector Graphics differently. In a non-inkscape-way.
+ duplicating shapes (in inkscape) vs. cloner objects tool oriented vs. object oriented
+ cloner object mirror object instance object
+ following principles: DRY, KISS trying not to use: spaghetti code, copy/paste
+ WYSIWYM - what you see is what you mean
+ Q: Another software: Synfig https://www.synfig.org/
+
+
+
+ # FLOSS Educators BoF
+ >>> https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/lgm-floss-educator-bof
+
+
+
+ # A new spline - Ralph Levien
+
+ [> Relearn curve tools!]
+ Spiros demo
+ https://levien.com/garden/js/spiro.html
+
+
+ https://spline.technology/demo/
+
+ Research on splines, still developed. Will be the main technique in Runebender ( https://github.com/linebender/runebender ), the new type editor.
+ Sponsored by Google, allowed for full time development of this project.
+
+
+ # No design without research – Why and how to incorporate design research practices into our free software projects
+ Belén Barros Pena
+
+
Human computer interaction Interaction design and social sciences
+ Design? interaction design, software, how features behave, interfaces (not just the graphical ones)
+ Research? activity involving user in the design process
+ Can interaction design exist without research? Without involving users in the process.
+ In free software, this type of research is not always seen as necessary.
+ The naysayers - a classification:
+ 1. itch scratchers
+ Software only developed for an individual problem. Your itch is only your itch when you're the only one using the software.
+
+
+
users your itch
+
1 100%
+
2 50%
+
3 33%
+
+ When you release your code, you relase your itch.
+ 2. the scornful
+ Ford-like Designers have super power.
+ 3. The dismissive
+ Design research as in asking people what they think.
+ But design research is not about asking opinions. "Great designers are like great novelists: acute observers of human behaviour." - Don Norman, Workarounds Design research is about uncovering the common patterns.
+ 4. The defeatists
+ Research takes too much time, too much effort. And therefore it is not suitable to free software.
+ Research for software making, involves - time (6 interviews is enough, 5 interaction sessions of 45min is enough) - money (travel costs but there is jitsi ....., OBS video recording?, compensation in other forms) - effort (mainly about making sense of results, affinity diagrams in teams) - some common sense advice (keep it small, take time, research is an attitude)
+
+
+ # USER PERSPECTIVE in the funding model
+ Livio Fania www.selenox.com
+ we need to think about financing free software problem-solution thinking is not enough free != bad quality (question of advocacy/promotion) need of diversity, in users and developers
+ Questionnaire with 5 different FLOSS users/makers, nice
+ Livio proposes to divide tasks within a FLOSS project: - developer - project manager - community manager - user
+ Involved in building an online repository with FLOSS artists/designers
+ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHbKwa_YPwmhLSGZasThCZoientkZwdFCk3mqItA5_qwBFRA/viewform
+
+ "This form aims to build an online directory to connect artists from the free software community with other fellows and potential clients. One of the goals is also to showcase good quality work, in order to build credibility outside the community. So a selection will be made from a team of professionals of the graphic industry based on quality criteria [???]. The project is still a draft, so feel free to make comments or suggestions at the end of the form."
+
+ # Lightning talks
+
+
+ https://observablehq.com/
+
+
+ # PrePostPrint
+
+ Different way to make graphic design. research group
+ Before PrePostPrint > OLA: Outils Libres Alternatifs, series of 2 day sessions around a specific workflow or tool
+ pad2print paged.js
+ experimental workflows alternative/hacked/DIY tools
+ Q&A - Interesting part of experimental publishing workflows, is the changing of collaboration mode (parallel, not first editing then design) - Not often the case anymore that designers use one set of tools, often a tool is choosen in relation to a specific context or a specific way of collaborating - Are you involved in css standards? Are you pushing the other way as well? Yes, W3C,
+ # Freie Farbe
+ https://www.freiefarbe.de/
+
+ https://freecolour.org
+
+ HLC code >>> spectral data >>> ink formulation (ink supplier mixes the ink, according to the spectral data)
+
+ # Paged.js workshop
+
+ https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/
+
+
+
+ Pagedjs want to be invisible, the in-between. It's mostly based on web standards.
+ crucial to check if the browser supports @print statements Firefox does not support it. You can preview in firefox, but not print. Also remember that firefox and chrome interpret lineheight differently. Chrome does support it.
+ You can work in the margins with position: absolute; But it doesn't flow yet, parallel flow is not supported yet.
+ Sidenote: PoDoFo http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
+ RGB to CMYK pdf parser Also replacing specific colors is possible.
+ Julie: pixel in css is more precise (no difference between screen and print) W3C guy: they should be both precise you could see differences between pixels and points, but you shouldn't. This means that your screen is not set up correctly.
+ If you want to change font-size, you need to cmd out the * font-size: 1rem; in global/style.css
+ To have changing running headers, you can use pagedjs syntax: By copying:
+
+
+ https://mattermost.pagedmedia.org
+
+
+
+
+
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+__PUBLISH__
+
+# Ana & Ricardo - Why terminology matters
+
+* open design
+
+"open"?
+too many meanings
+
+advocacy
+
+Manufactura uses "free libre and open source software".
+Most questionmarks in the description of this talk.
+
+Open Source Design manifesto (on a napkin):
+ I will find oppertunities to design in the open.
+ Share good and bad.
+ Share
+ Openly discuss
+ Improve my toolbox.
+written by open design foundation
+started by a designer at Adobe
+
+"free" was problematic, too close to "freedom"
+then open source was introduced
+
+too much about not paying for free tools/fonts
+
+most importantly about doing things together
+eg.: free to modify a font, adapting it to your own language
+
+* open source design
+
+more closely related to 4 free software freedoms
+
+https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/
+collaborations between designers & developers
+open source design > design for open source
+
+sometimes happening through proprietary tools
+Example of Ubuntu (Canonical)'s design department using Mac/Adobe
+
+* tools
+
+Can we use proprietary software and still call it open source design?
+support/contribution vs. use
+
+using is the biggest form of contribution
+
+* manufactura
+
+not open design
+but not sure how to call it?
+
+Libre Design?
+F/LOSS Design?
+
+Q&A:
+
+Andreas (Scribus): not push people to use F/LOSS, but ...
+Ricardo: Releasing end products under open licenses can be oke. But using FLOSS tools will make more of a difference.
+
+Eyol: Are tools not good enough? Or not well known enough? Or is it a question of mindset / bigger questions?
+Ana: If you're not changing your tools, you don't see what can be changed? Schools setting/following "industry standards" is not helping.
+
+Q: Many problems between design & FLOSS. Aren't we dealing with bigger questions then tools?
+Ricardo: Terminology is a very precise way of approaching these questions, indeed.
+
+---
+[
+Free software tools ... as in Gimp/Inkscape/etc, but these days, a lot of web open source/free software tools, which rely on web standards, browsers, pdf engines, ...
+"Freedom" resonating libertarian thinking, individual practice, design hero culture, ...
+]
+
+
+# Pascal Bies - Non-destructive procedural 2D-vector modelling
+
+https://github.com/pasbi/ommpfritt
+
+Doing vector Graphics differently.
+In a non-inkscape-way.
+
+duplicating shapes (in inkscape) vs. cloner objects
+tool oriented vs. object oriented
+
+cloner object
+mirror object
+instance object
+
+following principles: DRY, KISS
+trying not to use: spaghetti code, copy/paste
+
+WYSIWYM - what you see is what you mean
+
+Q: Another software: Synfig https://www.synfig.org/
+
+
+# FLOSS Educators BoF
+>>> https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/lgm-floss-educator-bof
+
+
+# A new spline - Ralph Levien
+
+[> Relearn curve tools!]
+
+Spiros demo
+https://levien.com/garden/js/spiro.html
+
+https://spline.technology/demo/
+
+Research on splines, still developed.
+Will be the main technique in Runebender ( https://github.com/linebender/runebender ), the new type editor.
+
+Sponsored by Google, allowed for full time development of this project.
+
+
+# No design without research – Why and how to incorporate design research practices into our free software projects
+Belén Barros Pena
+
+ Slides: https://belenbarrospena.github.io/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/#/
+ Script: https://github.com/belenbarrospena/no_design_without_research_lgm2019/blob/master/README.md
+
+Human computer interaction
+Interaction design and social sciences
+
+Design?
+interaction design, software, how features behave, interfaces (not just the graphical ones)
+
+Research?
+activity involving user in the design process
+
+Can interaction design exist without research?
+Without involving users in the process.
+
+In free software, this type of research is not always seen as necessary.
+
+The naysayers - a classification:
+
+1. itch scratchers
+
+Software only developed for an individual problem.
+Your itch is only your itch when you're the only one using the software.
+
+ users your itch
+ 1 100%
+ 2 50%
+ 3 33%
+
+When you release your code, you relase your itch.
+
+2. the scornful
+
+Ford-like
+Designers have super power.
+
+3. The dismissive
+
+Design research as in asking people what they think.
+
+But design research is not about asking opinions.
+"Great designers are like great novelists: acute observers of human behaviour." - Don Norman, Workarounds
+Design research is about uncovering the common patterns.
+
+4. The defeatists
+
+Research takes too much time, too much effort.
+And therefore it is not suitable to free software.
+
+Research for software making, involves
+- time (6 interviews is enough, 5 interaction sessions of 45min is enough)
+- money (travel costs but there is jitsi ....., OBS video recording?, compensation in other forms)
+- effort (mainly about making sense of results, affinity diagrams in teams)
+- some common sense advice (keep it small, take time, research is an attitude)
+
+
+# USER PERSPECTIVE in the funding model
+Livio Fania
+www.selenox.com
+
+we need to think about financing free software
+problem-solution thinking is not enough
+free != bad quality (question of advocacy/promotion)
+need of diversity, in users and developers
+
+Questionnaire with 5 different FLOSS users/makers, nice
+
+Livio proposes to divide tasks within a FLOSS project:
+- developer
+- project manager
+- community manager
+- user
+
+Involved in building an online repository with FLOSS artists/designers
+https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHbKwa_YPwmhLSGZasThCZoientkZwdFCk3mqItA5_qwBFRA/viewform
+
+"This form aims to build an online directory to connect artists from the free software community with other fellows and potential clients. One of the goals is also to showcase good quality work, in order to build credibility outside the community. So a selection will be made from a team of professionals of the graphic industry based on quality criteria [???]. The project is still a draft, so feel free to make comments or suggestions at the end of the form."
+
+# Lightning talks
+
+https://observablehq.com/
+
+# PrePostPrint
+
+Different way to make graphic design.
+research group
+
+Before PrePostPrint > OLA: Outils Libres Alternatifs, series of 2 day sessions around a specific workflow or tool
+
+pad2print
+paged.js
+
+experimental workflows
+alternative/hacked/DIY tools
+
+Q&A
+- Interesting part of experimental publishing workflows, is the changing of collaboration mode (parallel, not first editing then design)
+- Not often the case anymore that designers use one set of tools, often a tool is choosen in relation to a specific context or a specific way of collaborating
+- Are you involved in css standards? Are you pushing the other way as well? Yes, W3C,
+
+# Freie Farbe
+https://www.freiefarbe.de/
+https://freecolour.org
+
+HLC code >>> spectral data >>> ink formulation (ink supplier mixes the ink, according to the spectral data)
+
+# Paged.js workshop
+https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/
+
+ Repository for the workshop: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/JulieBlanc/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art_workshop
+ Project repository: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/pagedjs
+
+Pagedjs want to be invisible, the in-between.
+It's mostly based on web standards.
+
+crucial to check if the browser supports @print statements
+Firefox does not support it. You can preview in firefox, but not print. Also remember that firefox and chrome interpret lineheight differently.
+Chrome does support it.
+
+You can work in the margins with position: absolute;
+But it doesn't flow yet, parallel flow is not supported yet.
+
+Sidenote: PoDoFo http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
+RGB to CMYK pdf parser
+Also replacing specific colors is possible.
+
+Julie: pixel in css is more precise (no difference between screen and print)
+W3C guy: they should be both precise
+you could see differences between pixels and points, but you shouldn't.
+This means that your screen is not set up correctly.
+
+If you want to change font-size, you need to cmd out the * font-size: 1rem; in global/style.css
+
+To have changing running headers, you can use pagedjs syntax:
+By copying:
+ h1{
+ string-set: chapTitle content(text);
+ }
+ @top-center{
+ content: string(chapTitle);
+ }
+
+By moving:
+ h1 {
+ position: running content(text);
+ }
+ @top-center{
+ content: element(chapTitle);
+ }
+
+Don't use section/div by default, used a lot!
+
+Use "target-counter" to make
+- TOC page numbers
+- refer to other pages, like "see page 6"
+
+A full finished version of this book: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/samples/printing-in-relation-to-graphic-art
+Another important repo is: https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/tools/experiments
+ Tools for bleed, cropmarks, generating an index
+ (but there is bleed in the center fold)
+
+https://mattermost.pagedmedia.org
+
+
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+ maxigas-configs
+
+ __PUBLISH__
+
+ '|| ||' | '||' '|' '||' ..|'''.| | .|'''.| ..|'''.| ..|''|| '|. '|' '||''''| '||' ..|'''.| .|'''.| ||| ||| ||| || | || .|' ' ||| ||.. ' .|' ' .|' || |'| | || . || .|' ' ||.. ' |'|..'|| | || || || || .... | || ''|||. || || || | '|. | ||''| || || .... ''|||. | '|' || .''''|. | || || '|. || .''''|. . '|| '|. . '|. || | ||| || || '|. || . '|| .|. | .||. .|. .||. .| ||. .||. ''|...'| .|. .||. |'....|' ''|....' ''|...|' .|. '| .||. .||. ''|...'| |'....|'
+ If you've ever seen the desktop environment maxigas configured then you know!
+ * The nice window system -> https://wiki.debian.org/XWindowSystem
+ * ~/.Xresources is the config file. * If you're using Debian you already have this, so nothing needed to install! * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources
+
+ * The nice tiling window manager -> https://github.com/Airblader/i3
+ * You only need to install this if you want those nice "gaps" * https://github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Building-from-source
+ * ~/.config/i3/config + ~/.config/i3status/config * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3status/config
+
+ * The nice customisable terminal -> https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/urxvt.1
+ * sudo apt-get install urxvt-unicode * ~/.urxvt/ext/ + ~/.Xresources * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources
+
+ * The nice X compositor -> https://github.com/chjj/compton
+ * sudo apt-get install compton compton-conf * ~/.config/compton.conf * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/compton/compton.conf
+
+ * The nice font -> https://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
+ * sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata + sudo fc-cache -fv * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L15
+
+ * The nice clipboard manager -> https://linux.die.net/man/1/xsel + https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt
+ * You'll need to copy / pasta stuff! * sudo apt-get install xsel clipit * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L12
+
+ * The nice desktop image manager -> https://feh.finalrewind.org/
+ * sudo apt-get install feh * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L125
+
+ * The nice colourscheme -> https://terminal.sexy/
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L1-18
+
+ * The nice window switcher -> https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
+ * sudo apt-get install rofi * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L62-67
+
+
+
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+
+'|| ||' | '||' '|' '||' ..|'''.| | .|'''.| ..|'''.| ..|''|| '|. '|' '||''''| '||' ..|'''.| .|'''.|
+ ||| ||| ||| || | || .|' ' ||| ||.. ' .|' ' .|' || |'| | || . || .|' ' ||.. '
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+
+If you've ever seen the desktop environment maxigas configured then you know!
+
+* The nice window system -> https://wiki.debian.org/XWindowSystem
+ * ~/.Xresources is the config file.
+ * If you're using Debian you already have this, so nothing needed to install!
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources
+
+* The nice tiling window manager -> https://github.com/Airblader/i3
+ * You only need to install this if you want those nice "gaps"
+ * https://github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Building-from-source
+ * ~/.config/i3/config + ~/.config/i3status/config
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3status/config
+
+* The nice customisable terminal -> https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/urxvt.1
+ * sudo apt-get install urxvt-unicode
+ * ~/.urxvt/ext/ + ~/.Xresources
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources
+
+* The nice X compositor -> https://github.com/chjj/compton
+ * sudo apt-get install compton compton-conf
+ * ~/.config/compton.conf
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/compton/compton.conf
+
+* The nice font -> https://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
+ * sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata + sudo fc-cache -fv
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L15
+
+* The nice clipboard manager -> https://linux.die.net/man/1/xsel + https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt
+ * You'll need to copy / pasta stuff!
+ * sudo apt-get install xsel clipit
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L12
+
+* The nice desktop image manager -> https://feh.finalrewind.org/
+ * sudo apt-get install feh
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/i3/config#L125
+
+* The nice colourscheme -> https://terminal.sexy/
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L1-18
+
+* The nice window switcher -> https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
+ * sudo apt-get install rofi
+ * https://git.coop/decentral1se/dotfiles/blob/master/roles/restore/files/xresources/xresources#L62-67
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+ Minimal Viable Learning
+
+ <https://www.schoolofcommons.org/labs/minimum-viable-learning> September 2020 - December 2020
+ __PUBLISH__ Published on the etherdump of Varia: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
+
+ __LEARNING_TOGETHER__ __PEDAGOGY__ __TOOLS__
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< Minimalism is for us a departure point to make space for other possible forms of technologically mediated learning. (...) Important for us is to understand how minimal technologies can maximise a learning experience. >
+
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+
+ ***About this pad***
+
+ Welcome to our ***pad*** , aka Etherpad, an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, that allows authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time. As you may be noticing it also displays each author's text in their own color. Etherpads typically also have a chat box as another form of communication between editors.
+ In this project we dive into the Etherpad as a learning environment, as a place for collective learning with/from each other. And we ask:
+ How is (or could) Etherpad be an educational environment? How could minimal and viable tools shape collective learning? How could collective learning shape minimal and viable tools?
+ Unpacking the title ...
+
+ Minimal
+
+ Minimal computing. How is the etherpad minimal? And how not? What is the computational ecological impact of this technologies?
+
+ Viable
+
+ Viable for collective work. For Varia, a tool becomes viable if we can work with it collectively. How is the etherpad a viable tool for being together and learning together? And how not? On accessibility:
+
+
the colour code assigned to authorship may not be readable if one is colour blind; colour schemes can be adjusted to the need though won't solve the issue in the case of achromatopsia (seeing in grayscale);
+
in case of dyslexia fast moving text while typing, not defining clear breaks or text hierarchy can also exlude people to participate;
+
+
+ Learning
+
+ Exploring modes of learning together online.
+ Hospitallity — how to be a host? Moderation
+ COllective Conditions on the Etherpad
+ We gathered examples of collective usages of the etherpad, how different communities set the conditions, conduct codes, scores and more for collective learning experiences.
+
+ ***Etherpad instances***
+
+ Hosting initiatives
+ * <https://framapad.org/en/> (Framasoft, FR) * <https://framapad.org/en/info/> (listing by Framasoft)
+ Artist-run pads
+ * <https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/> (Varia, NL) * <https://altpad.vvvvvvaria.org/> (Varia, NL) * <https://pad.constantvzw.org/> (Constant, BE)
+ *
+
+
+
+
+ ***Etherpad welcome messages/padtiquettes***
+
+
+ -- Varia:
+ v _____ v _____ _ _ v _____ v ____ ____ _ ____ \| ___"|/ |_ " _| |'| |'| \| ___"|/v | _"\ v v| _"\ vv /"\ v | _"\ | _|" V | | /| |_| |\ | _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | | | |___ /| |\ v| A |v | |___ | _ < I | __/ / ___ \ v| |_| |\ |_____| v |_|v |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| A/_/ \_\ |____/ v << >> _// \\_ // \\ << >> // \\_ ||>>_ \\ >> |||_ (_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__) (_P_)(_A_)_D_) (__) (__)
+ Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia! You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
+ VISIBILITY: - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
+ PRIVACY: - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private. - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
+ RETENTION: - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely. - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
+ ACCESSIBILITY: - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups. - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+ CODE OF CONDUCT: - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
+ If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/> add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.
+
+ -- Wikimedia Etherpad
+
+
Welcome to the WMF etherpad installation. Please keep in mind all current as well as past content in any pad is public. Removing content from a pad does not mean it is deleted. Keep in mind as well that there is no guarantee that a pad's contents will always be available. A pad may be corrupted, deleted or similar. Please keep a copy of important data somewhere else as well
+
+
+ -- Puscii Etherpad
+
+
Welcome to the PUSCII Pad!
+
+
This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!
+
+
Please note this is a public pad, anyone who knows the name of the pad can join in... do NOT use this for confidential information!
+
+
Pads that have not been used for more then 3 months will be deleted.
This is an etherpad service hosted by Riseup. Riseup provides secure online communication tools for people and groups working for liberatory social change.
+
+
Riseup depends on donations from users like you to keep going. Please visit https://riseup.net/donate to contribute.
+
+
WARNING: This "pad" is a collaborative document that can be edited by anyone who has the URL. If you use an obvious name for the pad, it could be guessed.
+
+
WARNING: This pad will be DELETED if 60 days go by with no edits. There is NO WAY to recover the pad after this happens, so be careful!
+
+
If you want a pad to be kept for up to one year (365 days) without edits, append the word "-keep" to the end of the pad name.
+
+
If you want a pad to be deleted after one day, append the word "-tmp" to the end of the pad name.
+ You might wonder: What will happen at 6pm UTC?
+
+
(This is the agenda, please don't write in this part, but below. If you have questions, ask them in the chat. Thanks!)
+
+
We'll start the session with some intros.
+
+
+ Then we'll take ten minutes for each paper.
+
+
We'll work through them in the following order:
+
+
(...)
+
(...)
+
(...)
+
+
+ That's how it works:
+
+
+
+
+ I (Lisa) will announce when we'll get to the next paper in the chat to the right.
+
+
+ Then we'll discuss it together.
+
+
+
+ The question(s) for each paper is always the same:
+
+
+ What were your impressions reading this paper? What did you like about it? Did you find something unexpecting in it? How will it prove useful for future visualizations you'll create? Would you recommend reading it, and if so, to who?
+
+
+ If you feel like it, you can write down your name behind your answer.
+
+
+ (Please don't paste answers to a paper before we get to it.)
+
+
+
+ If you want to react to an answer from someone, you can do so directly below their answer.
+
+
+ We'll figure it out as we go :)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Afterwards, if you still have time, you can leave your feedback & what book you'd like to read next.
+
+
+
--------------------------
+
+ Ground rules:
+
+
+ 1. Be supportive. Be curious. Be nice. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
+
+ 1. If you have a question, ask. There are many data vis beginners in this room, so you're not alone with not knowing stuff.
+
+ 1. Don't delete text from other people, just add.
+
+ 1. Don't even copy and paste text from other people (since that will seem like you've wrote it), just your own.
+
+
+
--------------------------
+
+ Who's here?
+
+
It would be great to know who made it here! Please write down your name & Twitter handle, where you live & what you're doing, and why you were interested to read data vis papers. (All of these information are voluntary. You're welcome to participate completely anonymously.)
- The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it. It is indexed on the Varia website here <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/>
+
- Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely.
+
- The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
tagging systems using keywords/magic words/spells:
+
collectively decide for a list of words/ shared vocabulary to be used for annotating the text; for example:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/ They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.
+
+
+ __CHOIR__ We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)
+
+
+ __CANWEDISCUSS__ If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.
+
+
+ __POW__ We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
questions for :
+
- do we call them still magic words? or spells?
+
- how to deal with the specific meaning of a magic word for one session, in relation to the magic words functioning across the whole etherpump ...
+
+
+
+
+
+
Define a system for agreeing and disagreeing
+
+
+
+1
+
-1
+
!!!!!
+
★ ☆
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Defining sections
+
+
*・゜゚・*:.。..。.:*・*:.。. .。.:*・゜゚・*
+
using white space
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Highliting sections
+
+
using font symbols or ascii:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
* * * * * * * *
+
* new section *
+
* * * * * * * *
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Creating Groups
+
+
write down a list of topics and ask participants to add their name under it according to their interests;
+
if the number is uneven across groups negotiate how to make it more even;
+
+
+
tactics for randomizing group formations:
+
write down the name of the participants and order their names alphabetically accoring to the second letter of their names;
+
ask what is the favorite fruit of the participants; order the fruit alphabetically and cluster the corresponding participants into groups;
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Meditation (and making breaks)
+
timing the exercises or activities in the etherpad helps participants guide their work process and make breaks accordingly; leave '⏲' notes that guide the timing:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
⏲ 5 - 10 min
+
⏲ we will be back at 11h30 ⏲
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
include stretching or breathing exercises in between tasks, this helps remind other of moving their bodies and taking breaks; it is also an oppportunity for sharing knowledge on aerobics, yoga poses, meditation techniques,..
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Hosting: how to welcome and invite everyone to participate?
+
listening
+
writing
+
inviting to respond/ participate
+
checking in
+
use the chat to ask participants how are they feeling;
+
if the tasks are clear;
+
if adjustments need to be made;
+
check in if any of the participants has disabilities or any conditions;
+
check in if participants can follow the pad in terms of connectivity or underlying network conditions;
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Parallel conversations: the pad editor vs the chat;
+
define along with the participants what threads to be noted down on the pad and which other to be done over the chat;
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Conviviality
+
+
if there is a lunch break in between sessions you can ask participants to share their recipes, funny facts or curiosities around the food they are having. Like sharing a meal or sitting around the same table together.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/publish/minimal-viable-learning.raw.txt b/publish/minimal-viable-learning.raw.txt
new file mode 100644
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+Minimal Viable Learning
+
+
+September 2020 - December 2020
+
+__PUBLISH__ Published on the etherdump of Varia: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
+
+__LEARNING_TOGETHER__
+__PEDAGOGY__
+__TOOLS__
+
+
+ < Minimalism is for us a departure point to make space for other possible forms of technologically mediated learning. (...) Important for us is to understand how minimal technologies can maximise a learning experience. >
+
+
+***About this pad***
+
+Welcome to our ***pad*** , aka Etherpad, an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, that allows authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time. As you may be noticing it also displays each author's text in their own color. Etherpads typically also have a chat box as another form of communication between editors.
+
+In this project we dive into the Etherpad as a learning environment, as a place for collective learning with/from each other. And we ask:
+
+How is (or could) Etherpad be an educational environment?
+How could minimal and viable tools shape collective learning?
+How could collective learning shape minimal and viable tools?
+
+Unpacking the title ...
+
+Minimal
+
+Minimal computing.
+How is the etherpad minimal? And how not?
+What is the computational ecological impact of this technologies?
+
+Viable
+
+Viable for collective work.
+For Varia, a tool becomes viable if we can work with it collectively.
+How is the etherpad a viable tool for being together and learning together? And how not?
+On accessibility:
+ * the colour code assigned to authorship may not be readable if one is colour blind; colour schemes can be adjusted to the need though won't solve the issue in the case of achromatopsia (seeing in grayscale);
+ * in case of dyslexia fast moving text while typing, not defining clear breaks or text hierarchy can also exlude people to participate;
+
+Learning
+
+Exploring modes of learning together online.
+
+Hospitallity — how to be a host?
+Moderation
+
+COllective Conditions on the Etherpad
+
+We gathered examples of collective usages of the etherpad, how different communities set the conditions, conduct codes, scores and more for collective learning experiences.
+
+***Etherpad instances***
+
+Hosting initiatives
+
+* (Framasoft, FR)
+* (listing by Framasoft)
+
+Artist-run pads
+
+* (Varia, NL)
+* (Varia, NL)
+* (Constant, BE)
+
+*
+
+
+
+
+***Etherpad welcome messages/padtiquettes***
+
+
+-- Varia:
+
+ v _____ v _____ _ _ v _____ v ____ ____ _ ____
+ \| ___"|/ |_ " _| |'| |'| \| ___"|/v | _"\ v v| _"\ vv /"\ v | _"\
+ | _|" V | | /| |_| |\ | _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | |
+ | |___ /| |\ v| A |v | |___ | _ < I | __/ / ___ \ v| |_| |\
+ |_____| v |_|v |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| A/_/ \_\ |____/ v
+ << >> _// \\_ // \\ << >> // \\_ ||>>_ \\ >> |||_
+ (_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__) (_P_)(_A_)_D_) (__) (__)
+
+ Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia!
+ You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
+
+ VISIBILITY:
+ - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
+
+ PRIVACY:
+ - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private.
+ - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
+
+ RETENTION:
+ - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely.
+ - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
+
+ ACCESSIBILITY:
+ - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.
+ - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+
+ CODE OF CONDUCT:
+ - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct
+
+ If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.
+
+
+-- Wikimedia Etherpad
+ Welcome to the WMF etherpad installation. Please keep in mind all current as well as past content in any pad is public. Removing content from a pad does not mean it is deleted. Keep in mind as well that there is no guarantee that a pad's contents will always be available. A pad may be corrupted, deleted or similar. Please keep a copy of important data somewhere else as well
+
+
+-- Puscii Etherpad
+ Welcome to the PUSCII Pad!
+
+ This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!
+
+ Please note this is a public pad, anyone who knows the name of the pad can join in... do NOT use this for confidential information!
+
+ Pads that have not been used for more then 3 months will be deleted.
+
+ PUSCII Pad is powered by Etherpad Lite: http://j.mp/ep-lite
+
+
+-- Riseup Etherpad
+ This is an etherpad service hosted by Riseup. Riseup provides secure online communication tools for people and groups working for liberatory social change.
+
+ Riseup depends on donations from users like you to keep going. Please visit https://riseup.net/donate to contribute.
+
+ WARNING: This "pad" is a collaborative document that can be edited by anyone who has the URL. If you use an obvious name for the pad, it could be guessed.
+
+ WARNING: This pad will be DELETED if 60 days go by with no edits. There is NO WAY to recover the pad after this happens, so be careful!
+
+ If you want a pad to be kept for up to one year (365 days) without edits, append the word "-keep" to the end of the pad name.
+
+ If you want a pad to be deleted after one day, append the word "-tmp" to the end of the pad name.
+
+ For example:
+ * https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-tmp => deleted after 1 day of inactivity
+ * https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234 => deleted after 60 days of inactivity
+ * https://pad.riseup.net/p/1234-keep => deleted after 365 days of inactivity
+
+ Abusive behavior is not allowed on this service. Please visit https://support.riseup.net to report any problems.
+
+-- Framasoft
+
+ (...)
+
+ ––––– Ce texte est à effacer (après lecture si c’est votre première visite) –––––
+
+ **ATTENTION**
+ CETTE INSTANCE PROPOSE DES PADS À EFFACEMENT AUTOMATIQUE !
+ VOS PADS SERONT AUTOMATIQUEMENT SUPPRIMÉS AU BOUT DE 24 HEURES SANS ÉDITION !
+
+ Si le contenu de votre pad quotidien a été effacé, c'est qu'il n'avait pas été modifié depuis plus de 24 heures consécutives.
+
+ (EN translation)
+
+ ----- This text is to be deleted (after reading it if it is your first visit) -----
+
+ **ATTENTION**
+ THIS INSTANCE OFFERS SELF-ERASING PADS!
+ YOUR PADS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED AFTER 24 HOURS WITHOUT EDITING!
+
+ If the content of your daily pad has been erased, it has not been modified for more than 24 consecutive hours.
+
+
+
+-- Data Vis Reading Group https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers
+
+ Hello! This is the #datavisclub. Welcome!
+ We're now reading...six data vis papers
+
+ Blog post that explains everything:
+ https://blog.datawrapper.de/datavis-papers/
+
+
+ --------------------------
+ Welcome! Today is the day 🎉
+ You might wonder: What will happen at 6pm UTC?
+ (This is the agenda, please don't write in this part, but below. If you have questions, ask them in the chat. Thanks!)
+
+ We'll start the session with some intros.
+
+ Then we'll take ten minutes for each paper.
+ We'll work through them in the following order:
+
+ (...)
+ (...)
+ (...)
+
+ That's how it works:
+
+ I (Lisa) will announce when we'll get to the next paper in the chat to the right.
+ Then we'll discuss it together.
+
+ The question(s) for each paper is always the same:
+ What were your impressions reading this paper? What did you like about it? Did you find something unexpecting in it? How will it prove useful for future visualizations you'll create? Would you recommend reading it, and if so, to who?
+
+ If you feel like it, you can write down your name behind your answer.
+ (Please don't paste answers to a paper before we get to it.)
+
+ If you want to react to an answer from someone, you can do so directly below their answer.
+ We'll figure it out as we go :)
+
+ Afterwards, if you still have time, you can leave your feedback & what book you'd like to read next.
+
+
+ --------------------------
+ Ground rules:
+ 1. Be supportive. Be curious. Be nice. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
+ 1. If you have a question, ask. There are many data vis beginners in this room, so you're not alone with not knowing stuff.
+ 1. Don't delete text from other people, just add.
+ 1. Don't even copy and paste text from other people (since that will seem like you've wrote it), just your own.
+
+
+ --------------------------
+ Who's here?
+ It would be great to know who made it here! Please write down your name & Twitter handle, where you live & what you're doing, and why you were interested to read data vis papers. (All of these information are voluntary. You're welcome to participate completely anonymously.)
+
+
+
+-- Read & Repair
+
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ A few things you should know about this space:
+ - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it. It is indexed on the Varia website here
+ - Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely.
+ - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+ - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct
+
+ Padtiquette:
+ » Be supportive. Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
+ » If you have a question, ask. This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.
+ » Don't delete text from other people, just add.
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+
+
+***Indexing - Bridging - Achoring — > Etherdump***
+
+ * http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/index.all.html
+ * https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/
+ * https://vvvvvvaria.org/etherpump (in progress)
+
+ * listing pads (Etherpump)
+ * indexing snippets of pads (Etherstack)
+ * or erasing (framasoft 24hour lifetime)
+
+***Embedding Etherpads***
+ * workshop Angeliki & Cristina around the "stream": http://82.199.133.204/files/trz/
+ * https://di.versions.space/ (embedded etherpad as guest book, click on Guided Tours)
+ * https://hub.xpub.nl/networksofcare/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Voice_of_Conduct
+
+***Etherpad Publishing Workflows***
+ * Ethertoff is structured as a wiki where each page constitutes an Etherpad.
+ * Constant's RSS function
+ * Relearn Log not created through an etherpad
+
+***Etherpad sisters***
+ * https://textb.org/
+ * https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd
+
+
+
+***Warm-up and Cool down Exercises***
+
+[Note to ourselves: maybe we split between "setting collective conditions" and "writing tools"?]
+
+ * How long is your pad?
+ * measuring screen width(s)
+
+ * Etherpad as a Drawing Space
+
+ * use only the space bars to draw something together
+
+ * drawing with ascii
+
+ ,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,-------,
+ | ~ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | [ | ] | <- |
+ |---'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-----|
+ | ->| | " | , | . | P | Y | F | G | C | R | L | / | = | \ |
+ |-----',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--',--'-----|
+ | Caps | A | O | E | U | I | D | H | T | N | S | - | Enter |
+ |------'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'-,-'--------|
+ | | ; | Q | J | K | X | B | M | W | V | Z | |
+ |------,-',--'--,'---'---'---'---'---'---'-,-'---',--,------|
+ | ctrl | | alt | | alt | | ctrl |
+ '------' '-----'--------------------------'------' '------'
+
+ * Introductions, who's speaking
+ * (°-°) (°.°) (°o°) (°_°)(°_°>)
+
+ * Entering and Leaving the pad:
+ * Greetings
+ * saying hi or goodbye in your own language;
+ * 🤝
+ * How to think through gestures instead?
+
+ * Annotations
+ * tagging systems using icons
+ * 🌱, 🧘🏻♂️, 🌍, 🖥️, 🚗, 📞, ☀️, 🤖
+
+ * tagging systems using keywords/magic words/spells:
+ * collectively decide for a list of words/ shared vocabulary to be used for annotating the text; for example:
+
+ Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/ They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.
+
+ __CHOIR__ We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)
+
+ __CANWEDISCUSS__ If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.
+
+ __POW__ We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.
+
+ questions for :
+ - do we call them still magic words? or spells?
+ - how to deal with the specific meaning of a magic word for one session, in relation to the magic words functioning across the whole etherpump ...
+
+ * Define a system for agreeing and disagreeing
+ * +1
+ * -1
+ * !!!!!
+ * ★ ☆
+
+ * Defining sections
+ * *・゜゚・*:.。..。.:*・*:.。. .。.:*・゜゚・*
+ * using white space
+
+ * Highliting sections
+ * using font symbols or ascii:
+ * * * * * * * *
+ * new section *
+ * * * * * * * *
+
+ * Creating Groups
+ * write down a list of topics and ask participants to add their name under it according to their interests;
+ * if the number is uneven across groups negotiate how to make it more even;
+ * tactics for randomizing group formations:
+ * write down the name of the participants and order their names alphabetically accoring to the second letter of their names;
+ * ask what is the favorite fruit of the participants; order the fruit alphabetically and cluster the corresponding participants into groups;
+
+ * Meditation (and making breaks)
+ * timing the exercises or activities in the etherpad helps participants guide their work process and make breaks accordingly; leave '⏲' notes that guide the timing:
+ ⏲ 5 - 10 min
+ ⏲ we will be back at 11h30 ⏲
+ * include stretching or breathing exercises in between tasks, this helps remind other of moving their bodies and taking breaks; it is also an oppportunity for sharing knowledge on aerobics, yoga poses, meditation techniques,..
+
+ * Hosting: how to welcome and invite everyone to participate?
+ * listening
+ * writing
+ * inviting to respond/ participate
+ * checking in
+ * use the chat to ask participants how are they feeling;
+ * if the tasks are clear;
+ * if adjustments need to be made;
+ * check in if any of the participants has disabilities or any conditions;
+ * check in if participants can follow the pad in terms of connectivity or underlying network conditions;
+
+ * Parallel conversations: the pad editor vs the chat;
+ * define along with the participants what threads to be noted down on the pad and which other to be done over the chat;
+
+ * Conviviality
+ * if there is a lunch break in between sessions you can ask participants to share their recipes, funny facts or curiosities around the food they are having. Like sharing a meal or sitting around the same table together.
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+ v _____ v _____ _ _ v _____ v ____ ____ _ ____ \| ___"|/ |_ " _| |'| |'| \| ___"|/v | _"\ v v| _"\ vv /"\ v | _"\ | _|" V | | /| |_| |\ | _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | | | |___ /| |\ v| A |v | |___ | _ < I | __/ / ___ \ v| |_| |\ |_____| v |_|v |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| A/_/ \_\ |____/ v << >> _// \\_ // \\ << >> // \\_ ||>>_ \\ >> |||_ (_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__) (_P_)(_A_)_D_) (__) (__)
+ Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia! You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
+ VISIBILITY: - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
+ PRIVACY: - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private. - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
+ RETENTION: - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely. - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
+ ACCESSIBILITY: - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups. - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+ If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/> add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.
+ __PUBLISH__
+
+
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+ v _____ v _____ _ _ v _____ v ____ ____ _ ____
+ \| ___"|/ |_ " _| |'| |'| \| ___"|/v | _"\ v v| _"\ vv /"\ v | _"\
+ | _|" V | | /| |_| |\ | _|" R \| |_) |/ \| |_) |/ \/ _ \/ /| | | |
+ | |___ /| |\ v| A |v | |___ | _ < I | __/ / ___ \ v| |_| |\
+ |_____| v |_|v |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| A/_/ \_\ |____/ v
+ << >> _// \\_ // \\ << >> // \\_ ||>>_ \\ >> |||_
+ (_V_) (_A_)(_R_) (_I_)(_A_) ("_)(__) (__) (__) (_P_)(_A_)_D_) (__) (__)
+
+ Welcome to the etherpad-lite instance hosted by Varia!
+ You are most welcome to use it but please take note of the following things:
+
+ VISIBILITY:
+ - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone that knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it.
+
+ PRIVACY:
+ - The contents of the pads are not encrypted, meaning that they are not private.
+ - Anyone with access to the server has the possibility to see the content of your pads.
+
+ RETENTION:
+ - We make our own backups, meaning the the contents of all pads sit on our harddrives potentially indefinitely.
+ - Because the identity of a pad author cannot be confirmed, we don't respond to pad retrieval requests.
+
+ ACCESSIBILITY:
+ - If you rely on the content of these pads, please remember to make your own backups.
+ - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies.
+
+ If you wish to publish a pad to the Varia etherdump add the magic word __ PUBLISH __ (remove the spaces between the word and __) to your pad.
+
+__PUBLISH__
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+ #sidediv { background: #ffffa9; }
+ .toolbar { background-color: #ffffa9; }
+ #chattext p { background: whitesmoke; color: black; }
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+ Title
+ Collective infrastructures
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+ Talk description
+ How can we build an infrastructure together? During this talk, we will focus on the acts of collective infrastructure making that have happened in Varia, namely our homebrewed server running our website, instant messaging service, etherpad, shared calendars, etc. We will contextualize these activities by shedding some light on Varia's collective statement and the shared goals of its members.
+ Presentation link: https://demo.codimd.org/Bd20QcfmQ6Kf2jURFG-5uw#
+
+ https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
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+ https://cryptpad.fr/slide/#/2/slide/edit/vatu4ev+KvjjAl-xpQf3dIPE/
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+ Images and diagrams
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+ https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
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+ https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/xmpp-connections-federation.png
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+ http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg
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+ http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/varia-home-red.png
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+ http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/7e920c7f_Screenshot%20from%202020-03-21%2019-07-20.png
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+ http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png
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+ https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/
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+ References
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+ http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html
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+ http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RaymondWilliams_CommMat.pdf
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+ https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf
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+ References on group conversations
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NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:
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Bibliotecha
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homebrewserver.club
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Relearn
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+ HOSTING TOGETHER
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Ananas (proposal to call the Varia server Ananas) with:
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Blog
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Website
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Instant Messaging Service
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Calendar
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Etherpad
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pad
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altpad
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writing emails together
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keeping meeting notes
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writing applications
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Welcome to the Federation
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Mastodon
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XMPP
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Bots
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+ WORKING TOGETHER
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Workgroups
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Feminist Hack Meetings
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Digital Solidarity Networks
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Read and Repair
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Community Networks
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Pub Club
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Electronica Depot
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+ FUTURE OF VARIA
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wiki
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Rosa server
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+ ==PRESENTATION EXPANDED==
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+ INTRO: Good afternoonevening, we are Lídia and Cristina, two of sixteen Varia members. Thank you so much for this opportunity be in this company and to present Varia and its collective infrastructure. When we say infrastructure, we mean the digital, physical and, most important, social systems we have developed as part of our shared practices.
+ QUOTE: Infrastructure: To build a home or something that can sustain you from somewhere (unlike those offered on the market). To create communities in many places. Spideralex, Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction
+
+ Although we are two people doing this presentation, we will be using texts and ideas written and developed in diverse occasions by the entirety of Varia members. Also, some of the pictures that we have been using for this presentation are taken from our group chat, they are the behind the scenes of what's going on in Varia.
+ We will start this talk by introducing the space, its activities and shared values. In doing this we will provide the background that explains our shared ways of working, supported (and at times hindered) by our homebrewed digital, yet very material, infrastructure.
+
+ WHAT IS VARIA (ccl)
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Varia is a Rotterdam-based initiative launched in 2017. We work with free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) to encourage participatory forms of art and design making. The themes we are interested in span media literacy, media archaeology, technological interdependence, feminism, DIY culture, self-organization and labour activism.
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The initiative emerged from a group of five people who had the realization that there was an affinity of values and attitude among their members. They felt the need to open up their practices to other practitioners, and in the meanwhile Varia grew to be having 16 members.
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We organise workshops, lectures, concerts, or reading rooms. Our activities are guided by the concept of **everyday technology**. Focusing on everyday technology means questioning the hierarchies in place within technical objects and therefore the valorisation of skills needed to design or use these objects.
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Everyday technology means that a sewing machine is no less important than a laptop, that a tailor's work is by no means less meaningful than that of a computer scientist. Everyday technology means reconsidering the hegemony of high tech: cheap, artisanal solutions are our method of choice.
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With our work, we try to show that low-tech solutions can be complex, inventive and joyful. Everyday technology means to believe that not only experts should have access and decisive power in regards to how things should work. This is why we design and contribute to convivial tools, namely, tools that guarantee a certain degree of autonomy to their users.
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Everyday technology means keeping in mind multiple and entangled perspectives, needs, and aspirations when it comes to the understanding of a technical object. We are rooted in the context of art and design, but we actively try to build bridges with other fields. To do so, we encourage participation of people from varied backgrounds and disciplines.
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We want to:
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- work towards the eventual **disentanglement from the radical monopoly of Big Tech corporations** (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, among others) by collectively building digital infrastructures that foreground care and conviviality.
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- To **demystify the complexities of technical objects** and find ways to adapt them to the needs of different communities by providing a space for long-term, sustainable, critical, artistic, hands-on, **dialogical learning** about everyday technology.
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- To move away from the ideological dichotomies that inform the adoption and use of technology, such as "old" versus "new" media, "low" versus "high" tech, "smart" versus "dumb" devices. We focus instead on notions like **appropriateness, accessibility, maintainance, and public interest**.
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- To **transform critical thinking into action** by explicitly engaging with technologies which do not rely on exploitative business models and which promote non-discriminatory standpoints.
*missing: how does the previous connect to the code of conduct, what is the relation to the infrastructure?* Pics:
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Why is the COC important in relation to the infrastructures? It is a reflection of the shared values and ethics that hold varia together, but also a way to emphasise that infrastructure maintenance not only includes technical relationships, but also social ones.
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In the past years, more and more collectives and free software projects started to work with a *Code of Conduct*. A good example of this is Python Foundation, which made the presence of such a document a requirement in order to grant interested projects a sponsorship. With that statement, they triggered other initiatives to create frameworks to engage with complaints and social misbehaviour. The code of conduct is a set of guidelines that help establish shared values and ensure that behaviour that may harm participants is avoided.
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Writing a *Code of Conduct* was for us an attempt to answer the very important question: How do we resolve/identify/engage with conflict in a way that feels safe to those involved? The growing interest in the *Code of Conduct* within the field of software development and community initiatives gave us many examples to start with the writing of our own. However, as none of us had experience in writing a *Code of Conduct*, we invited ginger coons, *insert small bio for ginger* , as an external advisor.
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As Varia had grown from 5 initial members to the current number of 16 members, it was clear that we needed a document that could engage with unavoidable frictions. At the same time we also become more and more aware of our responsibility towards the people that visit Varia for public events. During these occasions anyone can walk into the space and any sort of trouble or frictional situation might emerge.
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Working together in groups is always a vulnerable social process. Writing Varia's *Code of Conduct* has specifically been important to acknowledge this vulnerability, as the document creates space for urgent conversations about power hierarchies and exclusions across the lines of gender, sex, race, ability, etc. Acknowledging the importance of tackling these issues, the Code of Conduct is an important first step towards ensuring the creation of a safe and inclusive work situation.
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+ ORIGIN STORY (ccl)
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NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:
+ INTRO: To provide a contextualization of how the importance of needing a physical space and infrastructure emerged, we will briefly introduce a project that itself contains three other projects from a proto-Varia phase and which reflect on the benegits and some of the challenges of working together.
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+ Three Takes on Taking Care is the second issue of Networks of One’s Own, a publication series initiated by Brussels-based cultural association Constant. The series is taken care of by related but independent collectives. For each of the episodes, it proposes different experimental and collective practices for situated writing, technical learning and (digital) publishing. Each issue is thought of as the release of a software stack, documenting a set of tools, experiences and ways of working.
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+ Three Takes on Taking Care was an occasion to revisit three very different projects that have been important for the emergence of the physical space, and for its individual members: Bibliotecha, homebrewserver.club and Relearn.
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As we work with and around free/libre open source technology collaboratively, the authorship of the tools and research that we develop is shared, not just amongst us at Varia but also with a wider international network. Multiple agents are involved at different moments, with varying intensity and for a range of different reasons. This results in intricate interrelationships of ownership which complicate documentation and long-term maintenance.
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By collapsing maintenance work with publishing, we found a form that enabled this collective care work to happen and to spend the necessary concentrated time together.
Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution for digital texts. It allows specific communities to form and share their collections, through a single-board computer running free software to share books over a local WIFI hotspot.
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Bibliotecha’s history begins in the Piet Zwart Institute, where there was an active culture of reading and sharing study material made available via a common bookshelf. While digital formats and the internet should make it easier than ever to share books, digital rights management and repressive copyright systems make the physical book paradoxically easier to share than its digital counterpart. In response to this came up with what would eventually be Bibliotecha, a digital library that was available via its own off-line network.
The homebrewserver.club started in 2014 after attending a few editions of the Rotterdam Crypto Party. While Crypto Parties were focused on encryption and privacy — essentially offering cryptography as a solution to surveillance and corporate dominance — there was a parallel interest to look at the more systemic issues of corporate platforms. Out of this interest the homebrewserver.club was founded as a way to learn about hosting one’s own on-line services rather than relying on corporate ones. Its members host from their homes rather than from data centers, for and with their communities rather than just for themselves.
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The club has worked as place for collective learning and skill building, where technological choices get contextualized on the axes political-economy and DIY amateurism.
Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants, week-long gatherings that have been taking place since 2013. In 2017 a group of people now involved in Varia decided to organise an edition of Relearn in Rotterdam. It also happened again in 2019 and we are aiming to do it again in 2020.
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Conclusion: *how these connect to infrastructure making and Varia*
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All of these projects touch on topics that have become central to the making of our physical and digital infrastructure. From the development of bespoke tools for knowledge sharing exemplified by Bibliotecha, to the socio-political contextualization of self-hosting forwarded by homebrewserver.club and the pedagogical principles of Relearn, these practices continue to inform Varia's activities on a daily basis.
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In the following section of this presentation, we will see how these practically manifest:
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+ HOSTING TOGETHER (ccl)
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Server with:
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Pics: http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg , http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png, https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
+ We host some of our own services, while also relying on other people hosting theirs. In fact, we are more fond of the idea of interdependence than that of autonomy. This is a picture of our current server in the space. It looks very inconspicious there in the corner, but if the electricity or internet is down in the neighbourhood, our main infrastructure is also down, the website is unreachable, out group chats stop working and so on. Some of the things we host on this server are the following:
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Ecosystem
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Lurk.org is a volunteer group that hosts, facilitates and archives discussions around net- and computational culture and politics, proto- and post-free culture practices, experimental, sound, new media, software art.
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Website
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The website is using a static file generator called Pelican and we use the Gitea interface to add content to the website.
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Static file websites mean that the site is generated once when content is uploaded, and not on the fly on the user's side. In this way it consumes less resources.
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Instant Messaging
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For our Instant Messaging Infrastructure, we are using Prosody, an XMPP server. XMPP is a communications protocol designed as an open standard.
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To quote from the homebrewserver.club article "Have you Considered the Alternative": "Such an approach, rather than suggesting a singular and proprietary solution, allows for the existence of different free and open source software servers which can be combined with different free and open source software clients.(...) These clients can range from general instant messengers to custom
+ XMMP bots
+ ."
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For example within the Varia group chat, these are the servers hosting Prosody that interact with each other.
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Bots
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Hosting our own server also means that we can customise our services. Within some XMPP chats, we have hosted bots alongside the XMPP server. Some bots that add bibliography
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Etherpad
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Etherpad is an online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time. It has become central to how we organise ourselves. We take notes from meetings on the Etherpad, write emails together, write applications together. During the lockdown we also used Etherpad to hold collective reading events. This is an excerpt for example of a session held by one of Varia's friends.
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Hosting it ourselves means that we can experiment with making new interfaces for it. This is an alternative interface to the same text we were looking at before, but without authorship colours.
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We also use the Etherpump, a deviation of Etherdump, as an engine to generate html files. We are looking at the Digital Solidarity Networks pad translated to a html. Every hour the page regenerates itself based on the content of the pad.
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Calendar
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Our shared calendar is used to let each other know when we are using the space, when someone is planning an event, when deadlines are due, but also to share interesting events going on in the city. On the other hand, the calendar also points towards the vulnerabilities of hosting one's own services. Fo already a while, someone's client is acting up and deleting the events from time to time, so someone else uploads a back up copy to replace it again. Due to the lack of time to investigate this further, we haven't yet been able to figure out what causes the glitch.
Welcome to the Federation was a project initiated by Varia members Roel Roscam Abbing and Manetta Berends. In their own words: "Welcome to the Federation explores alternative federated ecosystems for online services such as social media and chat. (...) The WttF question is to explore how arts and design communities can play a supportive role in these processes by contributing skills, knowledge, time and exposure."
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In the context of this project, two events were organized:
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- The first, called "The Ecosystem is Moving", involved a lecture by and worksession with Daniel Gultsch, developer of XMPP-based messaging application Conversations, about federated instant messaging, open source software and the sustainability of open systems.
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- The second, called "Mastodon and The Fediverse", involved a worksession for translating and documentation of the Mastodon project and a public discussion providing a general introduction into Mastodon and the Fediverse, hosted together by an administrator of a large Mastodon community and an administrator of a small Mastodon community. It is important to mention here that this small Mastodon community is post.lurk.org, an instance for discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media art, net and computational culture, where Varia has an account.
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+ Hosting together
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This relates back to the general philosophy of hosting together that is pervasive to Varia: the focus is more on the social and community aspect of the infrastructure and less on the technological aspect. In this case, a community that is closely related to many of our members (with some overlaps!) was already hosting an instance, so it would have been a waste of resources to be hosting our own. To quote from the homebrewserver manifesto: "we try to host for and with our communities rather than just for ourselves".
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As the infrastructure is being built, it supports and allows us to work together in different ways, one of which are the workgroups. Workgroups happen both with members and non-members and as opposed to events, happen on a long term basis. We will briefly mention a few to give an idea of what kind of things are going on.
The Feminist Hack Meetings are a series of research meetings and workshops that explore the potentialities and imaginaries of feminist technological collectives. These gatherings aim to challenge who counts as a hacker, and what counts as hacking. The diverse activities of these gatherings will include sociopolitical discussions around technology and feminism, storytelling, prototyping and skill-sharing, as well as art experiments.
Digital Solidarity Networks started within the context of the global pandemic as a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality. It currently lives as one of the many pads on the Varia server and it contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.).
+ Read & Repair Sessions is a type of reading club happening on the final Sunday of each month. Read & Repair Sessions have a focus on community building and self-organised learning through collective reading tactics. For these sessions, a guest is invited to share a text that connects to their research, which they discuss together with the participants.
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Other workgroups existing in Varia at diverse stages of development are:
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Community Networks, which focuses on Varia's relationship with the neighboring community
+
Pub Club, which focuses on dialogical and generative publishing systems
+
Electronica Depot, a community resource where members can purchase common parts parts at a low cost
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+ CONCLUSION
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+
(ccl)
+
Although hosting our own services and being in a constant flux of making and remaking our infrastructure, it is of course not always a smooth process. Working on our own infrastructure also means that there are frictions sometimes: faulty syntaxes on our event announcements mean the website becomes unavailable every once in a while, quickly expanding log files have crashed our etherpad instance more than once, electricity failures and accidental pushes of the on/off button have temporarily sent our server to sleep. These occasions highlight not only the physicality on which our digital infrastructure is dependent, but also the amount of care and maintenance work necessary to keep things running. For this, we are dependent on the availability of our members, or their physical proximity to the server in cases of emergency.
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+
(lidia)
+
We don't consider, however, that this in any way detracts from the validity of our efforts: indeed, we are wary of smoothly running technology. Very often this obscures the intensive extractivism which allows it to run: appaling working conditions, depletion of natural resources, heavy environmental impact etc.
+
+
Small-scale, community-focused and low-tech are our methods of choice not because we believe in isolationist perspectives, but because we want to give our contribution to the development of alternative approaches to everyday technology for the benefit of more than just a small minority.Slowly, we want to make Varia a home not just to ourselves but other communities too.
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+Title
+Collective infrastructures
+
+Talk description
+How can we build an infrastructure together? During this talk, we will focus on the acts of collective infrastructure making that have happened in Varia, namely our homebrewed server running our website, instant messaging service, etherpad, shared calendars, etc. We will contextualize these activities by shedding some light on Varia's collective statement and the shared goals of its members.
+
+Presentation link: https://demo.codimd.org/Bd20QcfmQ6Kf2jURFG-5uw#
+https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
+https://cryptpad.fr/slide/#/2/slide/edit/vatu4ev+KvjjAl-xpQf3dIPE/
+
+Images and diagrams
+https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
+https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/xmpp-connections-federation.png
+http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg
+http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/varia-home-red.png
+http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/7e920c7f_Screenshot%20from%202020-03-21%2019-07-20.png
+http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png
+https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/
+
+
+References
+http://varia.zone/en/the-social-in-the-media.html
+http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/RaymondWilliams_CommMat.pdf
+https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf
+
+
+References on group conversations
+ * What's wrong with WhatsApp (2020) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/02/whatsapp-groups-conspiracy-theories-disinformation-democracy
+ * Organising Online - Thinking About Chat (2020) https://commonknowledge.coop/writing/organising-online--thinking-about-chat/
+ * Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again (2019) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/group-chats-are-making-the-internet-fun-again.html
+ * The Mechanics of Invisibility: On Habit and Routine as Elements of Infrastructure http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/Edwards%202017%20Mechanics%20of%20Invisibility.pdf
+
+
+Varia
+WHAT IS VARIA
+ * Collective Statement http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html
+ * Code of Conduct
+ORIGIN STORY
+ * NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:
+ * Bibliotecha
+ * homebrewserver.club
+ * Relearn
+HOSTING TOGETHER
+ * Ananas (proposal to call the Varia server Ananas) with:
+ * Blog
+ * Website
+ * Instant Messaging Service
+ * Calendar
+ * Etherpad
+ * pad
+ * altpad
+ * writing emails together
+ * keeping meeting notes
+ * writing applications
+ * Welcome to the Federation
+ * Mastodon
+ * XMPP
+ * Bots
+WORKING TOGETHER
+ * Workgroups
+ * Feminist Hack Meetings
+ * Digital Solidarity Networks
+ * Read and Repair
+ * Community Networks
+ * Pub Club
+ * Electronica Depot
+FUTURE OF VARIA
+ * wiki
+ * Rosa server
+
+
+
+
+==PRESENTATION EXPANDED==
+
+
+INTRO: Good afternoonevening, we are Lídia and Cristina, two of sixteen Varia members. Thank you so much for this opportunity be in this company and to present Varia and its collective infrastructure. When we say infrastructure, we mean the digital, physical and, most important, social systems we have developed as part of our shared practices.
+
+QUOTE: Infrastructure: To build a home or something that can sustain you from somewhere (unlike those offered on the market). To create communities in many places. Spideralex, Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction
+
+Although we are two people doing this presentation, we will be using texts and ideas written and developed in diverse occasions by the entirety of Varia members. Also, some of the pictures that we have been using for this presentation are taken from our group chat, they are the behind the scenes of what's going on in Varia.
+
+We will start this talk by introducing the space, its activities and shared values. In doing this we will provide the background that explains our shared ways of working, supported (and at times hindered) by our homebrewed digital, yet very material, infrastructure.
+
+WHAT IS VARIA (ccl)
+ Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463875.jpg
+ * Collective Statement http://varia.zone/en/pages/collective-statement.html ccl
+ Where is Varia's home?
+ Not here, but ... here.
+ Sometimes it looks like this.
+ And other times like this.
+
+ Varia is a Rotterdam-based initiative launched in 2017. We work with free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) to encourage participatory forms of art and design making. The themes we are interested in span media literacy, media archaeology, technological interdependence, feminism, DIY culture, self-organization and labour activism.
+
+ The initiative emerged from a group of five people who had the realization that there was an affinity of values and attitude among their members. They felt the need to open up their practices to other practitioners, and in the meanwhile Varia grew to be having 16 members.
+
+ We organise workshops, lectures, concerts, or reading rooms. Our activities are guided by the concept of **everyday technology**. Focusing on everyday technology means questioning the hierarchies in place within technical objects and therefore the valorisation of skills needed to design or use these objects.
+
+ Everyday technology means that a sewing machine is no less important than a laptop, that a tailor's work is by no means less meaningful than that of a computer scientist. Everyday technology means reconsidering the hegemony of high tech: cheap, artisanal solutions are our method of choice.
+
+ With our work, we try to show that low-tech solutions can be complex, inventive and joyful. Everyday technology means to believe that not only experts should have access and decisive power in regards to how things should work. This is why we design and contribute to convivial tools, namely, tools that guarantee a certain degree of autonomy to their users.
+
+ Everyday technology means keeping in mind multiple and entangled perspectives, needs, and aspirations when it comes to the understanding of a technical object. We are rooted in the context of art and design, but we actively try to build bridges with other fields. To do so, we encourage participation of people from varied backgrounds and disciplines.
+
+ We want to:
+ - work towards the eventual **disentanglement from the radical monopoly of Big Tech corporations** (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, among others) by collectively building digital infrastructures that foreground care and conviviality.
+
+ - To **demystify the complexities of technical objects** and find ways to adapt them to the needs of different communities by providing a space for long-term, sustainable, critical, artistic, hands-on, **dialogical learning** about everyday technology.
+
+ - To move away from the ideological dichotomies that inform the adoption and use of technology, such as "old" versus "new" media, "low" versus "high" tech, "smart" versus "dumb" devices. We focus instead on notions like **appropriateness, accessibility, maintainance, and public interest**.
+
+ - To **transform critical thinking into action** by explicitly engaging with technologies which do not rely on exploitative business models and which promote non-discriminatory standpoints.
+
+ * Code of Conduct https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html lídia
+*missing: how does the previous connect to the code of conduct, what is the relation to the infrastructure?*
+Pics:
+
+ Why is the COC important in relation to the infrastructures? It is a reflection of the shared values and ethics that hold varia together, but also a way to emphasise that infrastructure maintenance not only includes technical relationships, but also social ones.
+
+ In the past years, more and more collectives and free software projects started to work with a *Code of Conduct*. A good example of this is Python Foundation, which made the presence of such a document a requirement in order to grant interested projects a sponsorship. With that statement, they triggered other initiatives to create frameworks to engage with complaints and social misbehaviour. The code of conduct is a set of guidelines that help establish shared values and ensure that behaviour that may harm participants is avoided.
+
+ Writing a *Code of Conduct* was for us an attempt to answer the very important question: How do we resolve/identify/engage with conflict in a way that feels safe to those involved? The growing interest in the *Code of Conduct* within the field of software development and community initiatives gave us many examples to start with the writing of our own. However, as none of us had experience in writing a *Code of Conduct*, we invited ginger coons, *insert small bio for ginger* , as an external advisor.
+
+ As Varia had grown from 5 initial members to the current number of 16 members, it was clear that we needed a document that could engage with unavoidable frictions. At the same time we also become more and more aware of our responsibility towards the people that visit Varia for public events. During these occasions anyone can walk into the space and any sort of trouble or frictional situation might emerge.
+
+ Working together in groups is always a vulnerable social process. Writing Varia's *Code of Conduct* has specifically been important to acknowledge this vulnerability, as the document creates space for urgent conversations about power hierarchies and exclusions across the lines of gender, sex, race, ability, etc. Acknowledging the importance of tackling these issues, the Code of Conduct is an important first step towards ensuring the creation of a safe and inclusive work situation.
+
+ORIGIN STORY (ccl)
+ * NOOO2 Publication - Projects that set the stage for Varia:
+ Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463904.jpg , http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910627.JPG , http://varia.zone/archive/2019-09-28-nooo2/P1910668.JPG
+
+ INTRO: To provide a contextualization of how the importance of needing a physical space and infrastructure emerged, we will briefly introduce a project that itself contains three other projects from a proto-Varia phase and which reflect on the benegits and some of the challenges of working together.
+
+ Three Takes on Taking Care is the second issue of Networks of One’s Own, a publication series initiated by Brussels-based cultural association Constant. The series is taken care of by related but independent collectives. For each of the episodes, it proposes different experimental and collective practices for situated writing, technical learning and (digital) publishing. Each issue is thought of as the release of a software stack, documenting a set of tools, experiences and ways of working.
+
+ Three Takes on Taking Care was an occasion to revisit three very different projects that have been important for the emergence of the physical space, and for its individual members: Bibliotecha, homebrewserver.club and Relearn.
+
+ As we work with and around free/libre open source technology collaboratively, the authorship of the tools and research that we develop is shared, not just amongst us at Varia but also with a wider international network. Multiple agents are involved at different moments, with varying intensity and for a range of different reasons. This results in intricate interrelationships of ownership which complicate documentation and long-term maintenance.
+
+ By collapsing maintenance work with publishing, we found a form that enabled this collective care work to happen and to spend the necessary concentrated time together.
+
+ lídia:
+ * Bibliotecha
+ Pics: https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Bibliotecha/images/BibliotechaAtVaria-arrows.jpg
+ Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution for digital texts. It allows specific communities to form and share their collections, through a single-board computer running free software to share books over a local WIFI hotspot.
+ Bibliotecha’s history begins in the Piet Zwart Institute, where there was an active culture of reading and sharing study material made available via a common bookshelf. While digital formats and the internet should make it easier than ever to share books, digital rights management and repressive copyright systems make the physical book paradoxically easier to share than its digital counterpart. In response to this came up with what would eventually be Bibliotecha, a digital library that was available via its own off-line network.
+
+ * homebrewserver.club
+ Pics: https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/Homebrewserver.club/images/dontturnofthisisaserv2.png
+ The homebrewserver.club started in 2014 after attending a few editions of the Rotterdam Crypto Party. While Crypto Parties were focused on encryption and privacy — essentially offering cryptography as a solution to surveillance and corporate dominance — there was a parallel interest to look at the more systemic issues of corporate platforms. Out of this interest the homebrewserver.club was founded as a way to learn about hosting one’s own on-line services rather than relying on corporate ones. Its members host from their homes rather than from data centers, for and with their communities rather than just for themselves.
+ The club has worked as place for collective learning and skill building, where technological choices get contextualized on the axes political-economy and DIY amateurism.
+
+ * Relearn
+ Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463899.jpg
+ Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as it has participants, week-long gatherings that have been taking place since 2013. In 2017 a group of people now involved in Varia decided to organise an edition of Relearn in Rotterdam. It also happened again in 2019 and we are aiming to do it again in 2020.
+
+ Conclusion: *how these connect to infrastructure making and Varia*
+ All of these projects touch on topics that have become central to the making of our physical and digital infrastructure. From the development of bespoke tools for knowledge sharing exemplified by Bibliotecha, to the socio-political contextualization of self-hosting forwarded by homebrewserver.club and the pedagogical principles of Relearn, these practices continue to inform Varia's activities on a daily basis.
+ In the following section of this presentation, we will see how these practically manifest:
+
+HOSTING TOGETHER (ccl)
+ * Server with:
+ Pics: http://varia.zone/archive/varia-server/IMG_4379.jpg , http://varia.zone/images/variaecosystem.png, https://vvvvvvaria.org/~mb/images/varia-digital-collective-infrastructure.png
+ We host some of our own services, while also relying on other people hosting theirs. In fact, we are more fond of the idea of interdependence than that of autonomy.
+ This is a picture of our current server in the space. It looks very inconspicious there in the corner, but if the electricity or internet is down in the neighbourhood, our main infrastructure is also down, the website is unreachable, out group chats stop working and so on. Some of the things we host on this server are the following:
+ * Ecosystem
+ * Lurk.org is a volunteer group that hosts, facilitates and archives discussions around net- and computational culture and politics, proto- and post-free culture practices, experimental, sound, new media, software art.
+ * Website
+ * The website is using a static file generator called Pelican and we use the Gitea interface to add content to the website.
+ * Static file websites mean that the site is generated once when content is uploaded, and not on the fly on the user's side. In this way it consumes less resources.
+ * Instant Messaging
+ For our Instant Messaging Infrastructure, we are using Prosody, an XMPP server. XMPP is a communications protocol designed as an open standard.
+
+ To quote from the homebrewserver.club article "Have you Considered the Alternative": "Such an approach, rather than suggesting a singular and proprietary solution, allows for the existence of different free and open source software servers which can be combined with different free and open source software clients.(...) These clients can range from general instant messengers to custom XMMP bots."
+
+ For example within the Varia group chat, these are the servers hosting Prosody that interact with each other.
+ * Bots
+ * Hosting our own server also means that we can customise our services. Within some XMPP chats, we have hosted bots alongside the XMPP server. Some bots that add bibliography
+ * Etherpad
+ * Etherpad is an online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time. It has become central to how we organise ourselves. We take notes from meetings on the Etherpad, write emails together, write applications together. During the lockdown we also used Etherpad to hold collective reading events. This is an excerpt for example of a session held by one of Varia's friends.
+ * Hosting it ourselves means that we can experiment with making new interfaces for it. This is an alternative interface to the same text we were looking at before, but without authorship colours.
+ * We also use the Etherpump, a deviation of Etherdump, as an engine to generate html files. We are looking at the Digital Solidarity Networks pad translated to a html. Every hour the page regenerates itself based on the content of the pad.
+ * Calendar
+ * Our shared calendar is used to let each other know when we are using the space, when someone is planning an event, when deadlines are due, but also to share interesting events going on in the city. On the other hand, the calendar also points towards the vulnerabilities of hosting one's own services. Fo already a while, someone's client is acting up and deleting the events from time to time, so someone else uploads a back up copy to replace it again. Due to the lack of time to investigate this further, we haven't yet been able to figure out what causes the glitch.
+ * Welcome to the Federation lídia
+ Pics: http://varia.zone/archive/2018-12-WttF-Mastodon-and-the-Fediverse/photo5791687760443190857.jpg , https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.worksession-0.jpg , https://varia.zone/wttf/images/the-ecosystem-is-moving.conversation-2.jpg
+ Welcome to the Federation was a project initiated by Varia members Roel Roscam Abbing and Manetta Berends. In their own words: "Welcome to the Federation explores alternative federated ecosystems for online services such as social media and chat. (...) The WttF question is to explore how arts and design communities can play a supportive role in these processes by contributing skills, knowledge, time and exposure."
+ In the context of this project, two events were organized:
+ - The first, called "The Ecosystem is Moving", involved a lecture by and worksession with Daniel Gultsch, developer of XMPP-based messaging application Conversations, about federated instant messaging, open source software and the sustainability of open systems.
+ - The second, called "Mastodon and The Fediverse", involved a worksession for translating and documentation of the Mastodon project and a public discussion providing a general introduction into Mastodon and the Fediverse, hosted together by an administrator of a large Mastodon community and an administrator of a small Mastodon community. It is important to mention here that this small Mastodon community is post.lurk.org, an instance for discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media art, net and computational culture, where Varia has an account.
+
+ Hosting together
+ This relates back to the general philosophy of hosting together that is pervasive to Varia: the focus is more on the social and community aspect of the infrastructure and less on the technological aspect. In this case, a community that is closely related to many of our members (with some overlaps!) was already hosting an instance, so it would have been a waste of resources to be hosting our own. To quote from the homebrewserver manifesto: "we try to host for and with our communities rather than just for ourselves".
+
+
+WORKING TOGETHER ccl
+ * Workgroups ccl
+ * As the infrastructure is being built, it supports and allows us to work together in different ways, one of which are the workgroups. Workgroups happen both with members and non-members and as opposed to events, happen on a long term basis. We will briefly mention a few to give an idea of what kind of things are going on.
+ * Feminist Hack Meetings
+ Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463887.jpg
+ The Feminist Hack Meetings are a series of research meetings and workshops that explore the potentialities and imaginaries of feminist technological collectives. These gatherings aim to challenge who counts as a hacker, and what counts as hacking. The diverse activities of these gatherings will include sociopolitical discussions around technology and feminism, storytelling, prototyping and skill-sharing, as well as art experiments.
+ * Digital Solidarity Networks
+ Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463882.jpg
+ Digital Solidarity Networks started within the context of the global pandemic as a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality. It currently lives as one of the many pads on the Varia server and it contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.).
+ * Read and Repair (ccl)
+ Pics: https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/pictures-of-varia/photo6008344555306463886.jpg
+ Read & Repair Sessions is a type of reading club happening on the final Sunday of each month. Read & Repair Sessions have a focus on community building and self-organised learning through collective reading tactics. For these sessions, a guest is invited to share a text that connects to their research, which they discuss together with the participants.
+ * Other workgroups existing in Varia at diverse stages of development are:
+ * Community Networks, which focuses on Varia's relationship with the neighboring community
+ * Pub Club, which focuses on dialogical and generative publishing systems
+ * Electronica Depot, a community resource where members can purchase common parts parts at a low cost
+
+CONCLUSION
+
+ (ccl)
+ Although hosting our own services and being in a constant flux of making and remaking our infrastructure, it is of course not always a smooth process. Working on our own infrastructure also means that there are frictions sometimes: faulty syntaxes on our event announcements mean the website becomes unavailable every once in a while, quickly expanding log files have crashed our etherpad instance more than once, electricity failures and accidental pushes of the on/off button have temporarily sent our server to sleep. These occasions highlight not only the physicality on which our digital infrastructure is dependent, but also the amount of care and maintenance work necessary to keep things running. For this, we are dependent on the availability of our members, or their physical proximity to the server in cases of emergency.
+
+ (lidia)
+ We don't consider, however, that this in any way detracts from the validity of our efforts: indeed, we are wary of smoothly running technology. Very often this obscures the intensive extractivism which allows it to run: appaling working conditions, depletion of natural resources, heavy environmental impact etc.
+
+ Small-scale, community-focused and low-tech are our methods of choice not because we believe in isolationist perspectives, but because we want to give our contribution to the development of alternative approaches to everyday technology for the benefit of more than just a small minority. Slowly, we want to make Varia a home not just to ourselves but other communities too.
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+ Prototyping Practices
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+ (a pad on methodology) (specifically the methodology of prototype making) (theory * practice)
+ ---
+
+ proto-
+ first in time(protohistory) beginning : giving rise to (protoplanet) capitalized : relating to or constituting the recorded or assumed language that is ancestral to a language or to a group of related languages or dialects
+
+ -type
+ as noun: a particular kind, class, or group as verb: to produce (a character, a document, etc.) using a keyboard (as on a typewriter or computer)
+ [Merriam Webster] ---
+
+ # How a Prototype Argues (2010)
+ Alan Galey & Stan Ruecker
+ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220675438_How_a_Prototype_Argues
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+ In this article, we argue that, just as an edition of a book can be a means of reifying a theory about how books should be edited, so can the creation of an experimental digital prototype be understood as conveying an argument about designing interfaces. Building on this premise, we explore theoretical affinities shared by recent design and book history scholarship, and connect those theories to the emerging practice of peer-reviewing digital objects in scholarly contexts.
+
+
+ # Prospects and problems of prototype theory (2009)
+ Dirk Geerrearts
+ https://sci-hub.tw/10.1515/ling.1989.27.4.587
+ > on Prototype theory within Linguistics
+
+ The theory originated in the mid-1970s with Eleanor Rosch's research into the internal structure of categories.
+
+ From its psycholinguistic origins, prototype theory has moved mainly in two directions.
+
+ - On the one hand, Rosch's findings and proposals were taken up by formal psycholexicology (and more generally, information-processing psychology), which tries to devise formal models for human conceptual memory and its operation, and which thus, obviously, borders on AI.
+
+ - On the other hand, prototype theory has had a steadily growing success in linguistics since the early 1980s.
+
+
+ # Towards a Theory Of Prefigurative Practices (2017)
+ Valeria Graziano (is part of pirate.care)
+ https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:21418/datastreams/CONTENT/content (from page 176)
+
+ Ideas of prefiguration in political organizing
+
+ The notion of prefiguration first appeared to discuss the distinct way of doing politics invented by social justice movements in the 1960s and 1970s. It described the ways in which their everyday practices, including modes of organizing their sociality and reproduction, as well as the way they conceived direct actions, all appeared infused by an effort to embody the broader political goals that these movements wanted to achieve. This ethos of seeking congruence between the means and the ends of political action might be summarized clearly in famous expression “be the change you want to see”. Applied to collective scenarios then, prefiguration or prefigurative politics (the two term s have often been ased interchangeably by commentators) has appeared as a pragmatic principle of organizing social relations: either alongside or during political protests.
+ - page 181
+
+ # "Design studies"
+
+ (from an EU funding open call around infrastructure research)
+
+ https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf page 7
+ Design studies should tackle all the key questions concerning the technical and conceptual feasibility of new or upgraded fully fledged user facilities (proposals considering just a component for research infrastructures are not targeted by this topic). A design study proposal should demonstrate the relevance and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the proposed infrastructure. It should indicate the gaps in the research infrastructure landscape the new facility will cover as well as the research challenges it will make possible to address. All fields of research are considered.
+
+
+ The main output of a design study will be the 'conceptual design report' for a new or upgraded research infrastructure, showing the maturity of the concept and forming the basis for identifying and constructing the next generation of Europe's and the world's leading research infrastructures.
+
+
+ # Idiotic Computing
+ is how David Benque frames his project: https://almanac.computer/
+ (notes from a presentation at XPUB, 8th of October 2020) The project operates between the realm of astrology & machine learning, around forms of future predictions. Showing the idiotic potential of computation ... (Question during the Q&A: What could be the next step in the direction of idiotic computation?) David uses Jupyter notebooks to publish the code behind the different elements in the project. The notebooks as "grabbing point" ("grip", "handle") to hold yourself onto something in this huge slippery field of data science. The notebook also provides a space to manipulate materials (as artists are used to do). The "idiot" as a figure (ref. to Isabelle Stengers) to position the project with. Cross ref to the field of software art, where artists started to include the cultural concequences of crunching numbers.
+
+ ///
+
+ Questions
+
+ How does the prototype operate differently in different contexts of media art/design and digital humanities/academics? How does it "operate"? ("operationability", "performativity", ...)
+
+
+
+
+
+ &&&
+
+ # Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface (2013)
+ Johanna Drucker
+ http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000143/000143.html
+ & https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/performative-materiality
+
+
+ __PUBLISH__
+
+
diff --git a/publish/prototypes-as-arguments.raw.txt b/publish/prototypes-as-arguments.raw.txt
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+Prototypes as Arguments
+Prototyping Practices
+
+(a pad on methodology)
+(specifically the methodology of prototype making)
+(theory * practice)
+
+---
+
+proto-
+first in time (protohistory)
+beginning : giving rise to (protoplanet)
+capitalized : relating to or constituting the recorded or assumed language that is ancestral to a language or to a group of related languages or dialects
+
+-type
+as noun: a particular kind, class, or group
+as verb: to produce (a character, a document, etc.) using a keyboard (as on a typewriter or computer)
+
+[Merriam Webster]
+---
+
+# How a Prototype Argues (2010)
+Alan Galey & Stan Ruecker
+https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220675438_How_a_Prototype_Argues
+
+In this article, we argue that, just as an edition of a book can be a means of reifying a theory about how books should be edited, so can the creation of an experimental digital prototype be understood as conveying an argument about designing interfaces. Building on this premise, we explore theoretical affinities shared by recent design and book history scholarship, and connect those theories to the emerging practice of peer-reviewing digital objects in scholarly contexts.
+
+# Prospects and problems of prototype theory (2009)
+Dirk Geerrearts
+https://sci-hub.tw/10.1515/ling.1989.27.4.587
+> on Prototype theory within Linguistics
+
+The theory originated in the mid-1970s with Eleanor Rosch's research into the internal structure of categories.
+From its psycholinguistic origins, prototype theory has moved mainly in two directions.
+- On the one hand, Rosch's findings and proposals were taken up by formal psycholexicology (and more generally, information-processing psychology), which tries to devise formal models for human conceptual memory and its operation, and which thus, obviously, borders on AI.
+- On the other hand, prototype theory has had a steadily growing success in linguistics since the early 1980s.
+
+# Towards a Theory Of Prefigurative Practices (2017)
+Valeria Graziano (is part of pirate.care)
+https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:21418/datastreams/CONTENT/content (from page 176)
+
+Ideas of prefiguration in political organizing
+The notion of prefiguration first appeared to discuss the distinct way of doing politics invented by social justice movements in the 1960s and 1970s. It described the ways in which their everyday practices, including modes of organizing their sociality and reproduction, as well as the way they conceived direct actions, all appeared infused by an effort to embody the broader political goals that these movements wanted to achieve. This ethos of seeking congruence between the means and the ends of political action might be summarized clearly in famous expression “be the change you want to see”. Applied to collective scenarios then, prefiguration or prefigurative politics (the two term s have often been ased interchangeably by commentators) has appeared as a pragmatic principle of organizing social relations: either alongside or during political protests.
+- page 181
+
+# "Design studies"
+(from an EU funding open call around infrastructure research)
+https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-infrastructures_en.pdf page 7
+Design studies should tackle all the key questions concerning the technical and conceptual feasibility of new or upgraded fully fledged user facilities (proposals considering just a component for research infrastructures are not targeted by this topic). A design study proposal should demonstrate the relevance and the advancement with respect to the state-of-art of the proposed infrastructure. It should indicate the gaps in the research infrastructure landscape the new facility will cover as well as the research challenges it will make possible to address. All fields of research are considered.
+
+The main output of a design study will be the 'conceptual design report' for a new or upgraded research infrastructure, showing the maturity of the concept and forming the basis for identifying and constructing the next generation of Europe's and the world's leading research infrastructures.
+
+# Idiotic Computing
+is how David Benque frames his project: https://almanac.computer/
+(notes from a presentation at XPUB, 8th of October 2020)
+The project operates between the realm of astrology & machine learning, around forms of future predictions.
+Showing the idiotic potential of computation ... (Question during the Q&A: What could be the next step in the direction of idiotic computation?)
+David uses Jupyter notebooks to publish the code behind the different elements in the project.
+The notebooks as "grabbing point" ("grip", "handle") to hold yourself onto something in this huge slippery field of data science.
+The notebook also provides a space to manipulate materials (as artists are used to do).
+The "idiot" as a figure (ref. to Isabelle Stengers) to position the project with.
+Cross ref to the field of software art, where artists started to include the cultural concequences of crunching numbers.
+
+
+///
+
+Questions
+
+How does the prototype operate differently in different contexts of media art/design and digital humanities/academics?
+How does it "operate"? ("operationability", "performativity", ...)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+&&&
+
+# Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface (2013)
+Johanna Drucker
+http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000143/000143.html
+& https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/performative-materiality
+
+
+__PUBLISH__
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ radioreboot
+
+ __PUBLISH__ = Idea is to reboot the radio station. =
+ == Things to do: ==
+ * Download more tracks, add more tracks. * Proper https (cert in icecast?) * Cronjobs for automation of specials and other things. Making playlists etc. * Use ActivityPub for Special shows, so that you can follow an announcement bot.
+
+
+
+ == Rabbit Hole section == It's the middle of the night in Bacolod:
+ Current problems with using Kroeg. *Very limited knowledge of Rust + rust ecosystem *Very limited knowledge of Postgresql
+ Starting to do a tutorial in Rust, actually need better way of working in VIM *installing NEOVIM **It needs a bundler for plugins like Vundle? **Its there : https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim
+ ***no wait here: https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim
+
+ *wrote a vimrc file, combining bits from dein.vim and
+ http://nerditya.com/code/guide-to-neovim/
+
+ vim actually looks kinda neato now.
+ vim is great until you have a directory of multiple files. the amount of different(often not working) answers to how to paste from one file to another is kinda stupid.
+ Still true: And the reality is that vi is amazing when you have to type a lot, and generate tons of code. You know what sort of programmers generate tons of code?
+
+
+
+
-> Mediocre programmers.
+
+
+
Also true: While vim glorifies typing, because that’s the only thing that it can do, the rest of editors go beyond 1960 in computing and use a mouse. hmmm?
+
+
Vim is a piece of crap because the amount of things you have to learn to use it proficiently have no valid use outside it.
+
+ back to rust
+ https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/getting-started.html
+ Aha! Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager install vim plugin for .toml syntax too..
+ cargo new cargo_test --bin makes a: * new git repo * with inside a folder for src * and a toml file for dependencies * thats pretty cool
+ added a dependency to my first cargo.toml file,
+
+
rand v0.3.0
+
+
Cargo build, then updates your crate index, downloads the needed dependencies, compiles them, plus your own src. **Crates.io. Crates.io is where people in the Rust ecosystem post their open source Rust projects for others to use. ** half way here:https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/guessing-game.html
+ ** ok done with this tutorial
+ === Rabbit hole number 2 The Rocket section === Rocket has launched from http://localhost:8000
+
+ Epiphany moment: * Rewrite the radio website with Rocket, can help me get rid of the https problem by putting the enitre webpage in Rocket * Stream and all. * And get rid of Jquery too.
+ following this.
+ https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/overview/
+ Nice, its easy to make routes with this, but I don't need them
+ Templating is what I need, and rocket has Tera and handlebars
+
+ https://github.com/Keats/tera Templating, it seems pretty straightforward. it's basically Jinja2 but for Rust. Just need to load the old Radio website en replace the ANSI art inside the pre tag and load the track info in some other place, maybe this time also occasionally generate track download links?
+
+ https://handlebarsjs.com/
+ I don't like the marketing of this, but maybe this is a more straightforward solution, also because JS based might be good to use for reloading the track info without reloading the page.
+
+
+
+
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+__PUBLISH__
+= Idea is to reboot the radio station. =
+
+== Things to do: ==
+
+* Download more tracks, add more tracks.
+* Proper https (cert in icecast?)
+* Cronjobs for automation of specials and other things. Making playlists etc.
+* Use ActivityPub for Special shows, so that you can follow an announcement bot.
+ * https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/testing/
+ * or Kroeg, see below
+ * also download links?
+* Redesign front page with disclaimer, timetable and follow button
+*
+
+
+== working with rust and kroeg ==
+ * currently have rustc(rust compiler, rustup (installer) and cargo(package manager) installed.
+ * switched to the nightly version or rustc (for Kroeg)
+ * trying to install diesel_cli (maybe missing postgresql)
+ * Diesel is a Query Builder for Rust (users::table.load(&connection) in Rust code execute SELECT * FROM users; in for example mySQL)
+ * The problem here was missing libpq-dev, kind of badly documented by Diesel
+ * installation steps not very clear.
+ * diesel cli finally installed with:
+ * cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "postgres"
+
+
+
+== Rabbit Hole section ==
+It's the middle of the night in Bacolod:
+
+Current problems with using Kroeg.
+*Very limited knowledge of Rust + rust ecosystem
+*Very limited knowledge of Postgresql
+
+Starting to do a tutorial in Rust, actually need better way of working in VIM
+*installing NEOVIM
+**It needs a bundler for plugins like Vundle?
+**Its there : https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim
+***no wait here: https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim
+
+*wrote a vimrc file, combining bits from dein.vim and
+http://nerditya.com/code/guide-to-neovim/
+
+vim actually looks kinda neato now.
+
+vim is great until you have a directory of multiple files.
+the amount of different(often not working) answers to how to paste from one file to another is kinda stupid.
+
+Still true:
+ And the reality is that vi is amazing when you have to type a lot, and generate tons of code. You know what sort of programmers generate tons of code?
+ -> Mediocre programmers.
+ Also true:
+ While vim glorifies typing, because that’s the only thing that it can do, the rest of editors go beyond 1960 in computing and use a mouse.
+ hmmm?
+ Vim is a piece of crap because the amount of things you have to learn to use it proficiently have no valid use outside it.
+
+back to rust
+https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/getting-started.html
+Aha! Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager
+install vim plugin for .toml syntax too..
+
+cargo new cargo_test --bin
+makes a:
+ * new git repo
+ * with inside a folder for src
+ * and a toml file for dependencies
+ * thats pretty cool
+
+added a dependency to my first cargo.toml file,
+ rand v0.3.0
+
+Cargo build, then updates your crate index, downloads the needed dependencies, compiles them, plus your own src.
+**Crates.io. Crates.io is where people in the Rust ecosystem post their open source Rust projects for others to use.
+** half way here:https://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/book/guessing-game.html
+** ok done with this tutorial
+
+=== Rabbit hole number 2 The Rocket section ===
+Rocket has launched from http://localhost:8000
+
+Epiphany moment:
+* Rewrite the radio website with Rocket, can help me get rid of the https problem by putting the enitre webpage in Rocket
+* Stream and all.
+* And get rid of Jquery too.
+
+following this.
+https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/overview/
+Nice, its easy to make routes with this, but I don't need them
+
+Templating is what I need, and rocket has Tera and handlebars
+
+https://github.com/Keats/tera Templating, it seems pretty straightforward.
+it's basically Jinja2 but for Rust. Just need to load the old Radio website en replace the ANSI art inside the pre tag
+and load the track info in some other place, maybe this time also occasionally generate track download links?
+
+https://handlebarsjs.com/
+I don't like the marketing of this, but maybe this is a more straightforward solution, also because JS based
+might be good to use for reloading the track info without reloading the page.
+
+
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ relearn_bash_preexec
+
+ # __PUBLISH__ # bash-preexec.sh -- Bash support for ZSH-like 'preexec' and 'precmd' functions. # https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec
+ # # # 'preexec' functions are executed before each interactive command is # executed, with the interactive command as its argument. The 'precmd' # function is executed before each prompt is displayed. # # Author: Ryan Caloras (ryan@bashhub.com) # Forked from Original Author: Glyph Lefkowitz # # V0.3.7 #
+ # General Usage: # # 1. Source this file at the end of your bash profile so as not to interfere # with anything else that's using PROMPT_COMMAND. # # 2. Add any precmd or preexec functions by appending them to their arrays: # e.g. # precmd_functions+=(my_precmd_function) # precmd_functions+=(some_other_precmd_function) # # preexec_functions+=(my_preexec_function) # # 3. Consider changing anything using the DEBUG trap or PROMPT_COMMAND # to use preexec and precmd instead. Preexisting usages will be # preserved, but doing so manually may be less surprising. # # Note: This module requires two Bash features which you must not otherwise be # using: the "DEBUG" trap, and the "PROMPT_COMMAND" variable. If you override # either of these after bash-preexec has been installed it will most likely break.
+ # Avoid duplicate inclusion if [[ "${__bp_imported:-}" == "defined" ]]; then return 0 fi __bp_imported="defined"
+ # Should be available to each precmd and preexec # functions, should they want it. $? and $_ are available as $? and $_, but # $PIPESTATUS is available only in a copy, $BP_PIPESTATUS. # TODO: Figure out how to restore PIPESTATUS before each precmd or preexec # function. __bp_last_ret_value="$?" BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}") __bp_last_argument_prev_command="$_"
+ __bp_inside_precmd=0 __bp_inside_preexec=0
+ # Fails if any of the given variables are readonly # Reference https://stackoverflow.com/a/4441178
+ __bp_require_not_readonly() { for var; do if ! ( unset "$var" 2> /dev/null ); then echo "bash-preexec requires write access to ${var}" >&2 return 1 fi done }
+ # Remove ignorespace and or replace ignoreboth from HISTCONTROL # so we can accurately invoke preexec with a command from our # history even if it starts with a space. __bp_adjust_histcontrol() { local histcontrol histcontrol="${HISTCONTROL//ignorespace}" # Replace ignoreboth with ignoredups if [[ "$histcontrol" == *"ignoreboth"* ]]; then histcontrol="ignoredups:${histcontrol//ignoreboth}" fi; export HISTCONTROL="$histcontrol" }
+ # This variable describes whether we are currently in "interactive mode"; # i.e. whether this shell has just executed a prompt and is waiting for user # input. It documents whether the current command invoked by the trace hook is # run interactively by the user; it's set immediately after the prompt hook, # and unset as soon as the trace hook is run. __bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
+ __bp_trim_whitespace() { local var=$@ var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # remove leading whitespace characters var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}" # remove trailing whitespace characters echo -n "$var" }
+ # This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND; # It sets a variable to indicate that the prompt was just displayed, # to allow the DEBUG trap to know that the next command is likely interactive. __bp_interactive_mode() { __bp_preexec_interactive_mode="on"; }
+
+ # This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND. # It will invoke any functions defined in the precmd_functions array. __bp_precmd_invoke_cmd() { # Save the returned value from our last command, and from each process in # its pipeline. Note: this MUST be the first thing done in this function. __bp_last_ret_value="$?" BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
+ # Don't invoke precmds if we are inside an execution of an "original # prompt command" by another precmd execution loop. This avoids infinite # recursion. if (( __bp_inside_precmd > 0 )); then return fi local __bp_inside_precmd=1
+ # Invoke every function defined in our function array. local precmd_function for precmd_function in "${precmd_functions[@]}"; do
+ # Only execute this function if it actually exists. # Test existence of functions with: declare -[Ff] if type -t "$precmd_function" 1>/dev/null; then __bp_set_ret_value "$__bp_last_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command" # Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS "$precmd_function" fi done }
+ # Sets a return value in $?. We may want to get access to the $? variable in our # precmd functions. This is available for instance in zsh. We can simulate it in bash # by setting the value here. __bp_set_ret_value() { return ${1:-} }
+ __bp_in_prompt_command() {
+ local prompt_command_array IFS=';' read -ra prompt_command_array <<< "$PROMPT_COMMAND"
+ local trimmed_arg trimmed_arg=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "${1:-}")
+ local command for command in "${prompt_command_array[@]:-}"; do local trimmed_command trimmed_command=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "$command") # Only execute each function if it actually exists. if [[ "$trimmed_command" == "$trimmed_arg" ]]; then return 0 fi done
+ return 1 }
+ # This function is installed as the DEBUG trap. It is invoked before each # interactive prompt display. Its purpose is to inspect the current # environment to attempt to detect if the current command is being invoked # interactively, and invoke 'preexec' if so. __bp_preexec_invoke_exec() { # Save the contents of $_ so that it can be restored later on. # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40944532/bash-preserve-in-a-debug-trap#40944702
+ __bp_last_argument_prev_command="${1:-}" # Don't invoke preexecs if we are inside of another preexec. if (( __bp_inside_preexec > 0 )); then return fi local __bp_inside_preexec=1
+ # Checks if the file descriptor is not standard out (i.e. '1') # __bp_delay_install checks if we're in test. Needed for bats to run. # Prevents preexec from being invoked for functions in PS1 if [[ ! -t 1 && -z "${__bp_delay_install:-}" ]]; then return fi
+ if [[ -n "${COMP_LINE:-}" ]]; then # We're in the middle of a completer. This obviously can't be # an interactively issued command. return fi if [[ -z "${__bp_preexec_interactive_mode:-}" ]]; then # We're doing something related to displaying the prompt. Let the # prompt set the title instead of me. return else # If we're in a subshell, then the prompt won't be re-displayed to put # us back into interactive mode, so let's not set the variable back. # In other words, if you have a subshell like # (sleep 1; sleep 2) # You want to see the 'sleep 2' as a set_command_title as well. if [[ 0 -eq "${BASH_SUBSHELL:-}" ]]; then __bp_preexec_interactive_mode="" fi fi
+ if __bp_in_prompt_command "${BASH_COMMAND:-}"; then # If we're executing something inside our prompt_command then we don't # want to call preexec. Bash prior to 3.1 can't detect this at all :/ __bp_preexec_interactive_mode="" return fi
+ local this_command this_command=$( export LC_ALL=C HISTTIMEFORMAT= builtin history 1 | sed '1 s/^ *[0-9][0-9]*[* ] //' )
+ # Sanity check to make sure we have something to invoke our function with. if [[ -z "$this_command" ]]; then return fi
+ # If none of the previous checks have returned out of this function, then # the command is in fact interactive and we should invoke the user's # preexec functions.
+ # Invoke every function defined in our function array. local preexec_function local preexec_function_ret_value local preexec_ret_value=0 for preexec_function in "${preexec_functions[@]:-}"; do
+ # Only execute each function if it actually exists. # Test existence of function with: declare -[fF] if type -t "$preexec_function" 1>/dev/null; then __bp_set_ret_value ${__bp_last_ret_value:-} # Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS "$preexec_function" "$this_command" preexec_function_ret_value="$?" if [[ "$preexec_function_ret_value" != 0 ]]; then preexec_ret_value="$preexec_function_ret_value" fi fi done
+ # Restore the last argument of the last executed command, and set the return # value of the DEBUG trap to be the return code of the last preexec function # to return an error. # If `extdebug` is enabled a non-zero return value from any preexec function # will cause the user's command not to execute. # Run `shopt -s extdebug` to enable __bp_set_ret_value "$preexec_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command" }
+ __bp_install() { # Exit if we already have this installed. if [[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND:-}" == *"__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd"* ]]; then return 1; fi
+ trap '__bp_preexec_invoke_exec "$_"' DEBUG
+ # Preserve any prior DEBUG trap as a preexec function local prior_trap=$(sed "s/[^']*'\(.*\)'[^']*/\1/" <<<"${__bp_trap_string:-}") unset __bp_trap_string if [[ -n "$prior_trap" ]]; then eval '__bp_original_debug_trap() { '"$prior_trap"' }' preexec_functions+=(__bp_original_debug_trap) fi
+ # Adjust our HISTCONTROL Variable if needed. __bp_adjust_histcontrol
+
+ # Issue #25. Setting debug trap for subshells causes sessions to exit for # backgrounded subshell commands (e.g. (pwd)& ). Believe this is a bug in Bash. # # Disabling this by default. It can be enabled by setting this variable. if [[ -n "${__bp_enable_subshells:-}" ]]; then
+ # Set so debug trap will work be invoked in subshells. set -o functrace > /dev/null 2>&1 shopt -s extdebug > /dev/null 2>&1 fi;
+ # Install our hooks in PROMPT_COMMAND to allow our trap to know when we've # actually entered something. PROMPT_COMMAND="__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd; __bp_interactive_mode"
+ # Add two functions to our arrays for convenience # of definition. precmd_functions+=(precmd) preexec_functions+=(preexec)
+ # Since this function is invoked via PROMPT_COMMAND, re-execute PC now that it's properly set eval "$PROMPT_COMMAND" }
+ # Sets our trap and __bp_install as part of our PROMPT_COMMAND to install # after our session has started. This allows bash-preexec to be included # at any point in our bash profile. Ideally we could set our trap inside # __bp_install, but if a trap already exists it'll only set locally to # the function. __bp_install_after_session_init() {
+ # Make sure this is bash that's running this and return otherwise. if [[ -z "${BASH_VERSION:-}" ]]; then return 1; fi
+ # bash-preexec needs to modify these variables in order to work correctly # if it can't, just stop the installation __bp_require_not_readonly PROMPT_COMMAND HISTCONTROL HISTTIMEFORMAT || return
+ # If there's an existing PROMPT_COMMAND capture it and convert it into a function # So it is preserved and invoked during precmd. if [[ -n "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]]; then eval '__bp_original_prompt_command() { '"$PROMPT_COMMAND"' }' precmd_functions+=(__bp_original_prompt_command) fi
+ # Installation is finalized in PROMPT_COMMAND, which allows us to override the DEBUG # trap. __bp_install sets PROMPT_COMMAND to its final value, so these are only # invoked once. # It's necessary to clear any existing DEBUG trap in order to set it from the install function. # Using \n as it's the most universal delimiter of bash commands PROMPT_COMMAND=$'\n__bp_trap_string="$(trap -p DEBUG)"\ntrap DEBUG\n__bp_install\n' }
+ # Run our install so long as we're not delaying it. if [[ -z "$__bp_delay_install" ]]; then __bp_install_after_session_init fi;
+
+
diff --git a/publish/relearn_bash_preexec.raw.txt b/publish/relearn_bash_preexec.raw.txt
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+# __PUBLISH__
+# bash-preexec.sh -- Bash support for ZSH-like 'preexec' and 'precmd' functions.
+# https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec
+#
+#
+# 'preexec' functions are executed before each interactive command is
+# executed, with the interactive command as its argument. The 'precmd'
+# function is executed before each prompt is displayed.
+#
+# Author: Ryan Caloras (ryan@bashhub.com)
+# Forked from Original Author: Glyph Lefkowitz
+#
+# V0.3.7
+#
+
+# General Usage:
+#
+# 1. Source this file at the end of your bash profile so as not to interfere
+# with anything else that's using PROMPT_COMMAND.
+#
+# 2. Add any precmd or preexec functions by appending them to their arrays:
+# e.g.
+# precmd_functions+=(my_precmd_function)
+# precmd_functions+=(some_other_precmd_function)
+#
+# preexec_functions+=(my_preexec_function)
+#
+# 3. Consider changing anything using the DEBUG trap or PROMPT_COMMAND
+# to use preexec and precmd instead. Preexisting usages will be
+# preserved, but doing so manually may be less surprising.
+#
+# Note: This module requires two Bash features which you must not otherwise be
+# using: the "DEBUG" trap, and the "PROMPT_COMMAND" variable. If you override
+# either of these after bash-preexec has been installed it will most likely break.
+
+# Avoid duplicate inclusion
+if [[ "${__bp_imported:-}" == "defined" ]]; then
+ return 0
+fi
+__bp_imported="defined"
+
+# Should be available to each precmd and preexec
+# functions, should they want it. $? and $_ are available as $? and $_, but
+# $PIPESTATUS is available only in a copy, $BP_PIPESTATUS.
+# TODO: Figure out how to restore PIPESTATUS before each precmd or preexec
+# function.
+__bp_last_ret_value="$?"
+BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
+__bp_last_argument_prev_command="$_"
+
+__bp_inside_precmd=0
+__bp_inside_preexec=0
+
+# Fails if any of the given variables are readonly
+# Reference https://stackoverflow.com/a/4441178
+__bp_require_not_readonly() {
+ for var; do
+ if ! ( unset "$var" 2> /dev/null ); then
+ echo "bash-preexec requires write access to ${var}" >&2
+ return 1
+ fi
+ done
+}
+
+# Remove ignorespace and or replace ignoreboth from HISTCONTROL
+# so we can accurately invoke preexec with a command from our
+# history even if it starts with a space.
+__bp_adjust_histcontrol() {
+ local histcontrol
+ histcontrol="${HISTCONTROL//ignorespace}"
+ # Replace ignoreboth with ignoredups
+ if [[ "$histcontrol" == *"ignoreboth"* ]]; then
+ histcontrol="ignoredups:${histcontrol//ignoreboth}"
+ fi;
+ export HISTCONTROL="$histcontrol"
+}
+
+# This variable describes whether we are currently in "interactive mode";
+# i.e. whether this shell has just executed a prompt and is waiting for user
+# input. It documents whether the current command invoked by the trace hook is
+# run interactively by the user; it's set immediately after the prompt hook,
+# and unset as soon as the trace hook is run.
+__bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
+
+__bp_trim_whitespace() {
+ local var=$@
+ var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # remove leading whitespace characters
+ var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}" # remove trailing whitespace characters
+ echo -n "$var"
+}
+
+# This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND;
+# It sets a variable to indicate that the prompt was just displayed,
+# to allow the DEBUG trap to know that the next command is likely interactive.
+__bp_interactive_mode() {
+ __bp_preexec_interactive_mode="on";
+}
+
+
+# This function is installed as part of the PROMPT_COMMAND.
+# It will invoke any functions defined in the precmd_functions array.
+__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd() {
+ # Save the returned value from our last command, and from each process in
+ # its pipeline. Note: this MUST be the first thing done in this function.
+ __bp_last_ret_value="$?" BP_PIPESTATUS=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}")
+
+ # Don't invoke precmds if we are inside an execution of an "original
+ # prompt command" by another precmd execution loop. This avoids infinite
+ # recursion.
+ if (( __bp_inside_precmd > 0 )); then
+ return
+ fi
+ local __bp_inside_precmd=1
+
+ # Invoke every function defined in our function array.
+ local precmd_function
+ for precmd_function in "${precmd_functions[@]}"; do
+
+ # Only execute this function if it actually exists.
+ # Test existence of functions with: declare -[Ff]
+ if type -t "$precmd_function" 1>/dev/null; then
+ __bp_set_ret_value "$__bp_last_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command"
+ # Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS
+ "$precmd_function"
+ fi
+ done
+}
+
+# Sets a return value in $?. We may want to get access to the $? variable in our
+# precmd functions. This is available for instance in zsh. We can simulate it in bash
+# by setting the value here.
+__bp_set_ret_value() {
+ return ${1:-}
+}
+
+__bp_in_prompt_command() {
+
+ local prompt_command_array
+ IFS=';' read -ra prompt_command_array <<< "$PROMPT_COMMAND"
+
+ local trimmed_arg
+ trimmed_arg=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "${1:-}")
+
+ local command
+ for command in "${prompt_command_array[@]:-}"; do
+ local trimmed_command
+ trimmed_command=$(__bp_trim_whitespace "$command")
+ # Only execute each function if it actually exists.
+ if [[ "$trimmed_command" == "$trimmed_arg" ]]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ done
+
+ return 1
+}
+
+# This function is installed as the DEBUG trap. It is invoked before each
+# interactive prompt display. Its purpose is to inspect the current
+# environment to attempt to detect if the current command is being invoked
+# interactively, and invoke 'preexec' if so.
+__bp_preexec_invoke_exec() {
+ # Save the contents of $_ so that it can be restored later on.
+ # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40944532/bash-preserve-in-a-debug-trap#40944702
+ __bp_last_argument_prev_command="${1:-}"
+ # Don't invoke preexecs if we are inside of another preexec.
+ if (( __bp_inside_preexec > 0 )); then
+ return
+ fi
+ local __bp_inside_preexec=1
+
+ # Checks if the file descriptor is not standard out (i.e. '1')
+ # __bp_delay_install checks if we're in test. Needed for bats to run.
+ # Prevents preexec from being invoked for functions in PS1
+ if [[ ! -t 1 && -z "${__bp_delay_install:-}" ]]; then
+ return
+ fi
+
+ if [[ -n "${COMP_LINE:-}" ]]; then
+ # We're in the middle of a completer. This obviously can't be
+ # an interactively issued command.
+ return
+ fi
+ if [[ -z "${__bp_preexec_interactive_mode:-}" ]]; then
+ # We're doing something related to displaying the prompt. Let the
+ # prompt set the title instead of me.
+ return
+ else
+ # If we're in a subshell, then the prompt won't be re-displayed to put
+ # us back into interactive mode, so let's not set the variable back.
+ # In other words, if you have a subshell like
+ # (sleep 1; sleep 2)
+ # You want to see the 'sleep 2' as a set_command_title as well.
+ if [[ 0 -eq "${BASH_SUBSHELL:-}" ]]; then
+ __bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ if __bp_in_prompt_command "${BASH_COMMAND:-}"; then
+ # If we're executing something inside our prompt_command then we don't
+ # want to call preexec. Bash prior to 3.1 can't detect this at all :/
+ __bp_preexec_interactive_mode=""
+ return
+ fi
+
+ local this_command
+ this_command=$(
+ export LC_ALL=C
+ HISTTIMEFORMAT= builtin history 1 | sed '1 s/^ *[0-9][0-9]*[* ] //'
+ )
+
+ # Sanity check to make sure we have something to invoke our function with.
+ if [[ -z "$this_command" ]]; then
+ return
+ fi
+
+ # If none of the previous checks have returned out of this function, then
+ # the command is in fact interactive and we should invoke the user's
+ # preexec functions.
+
+ # Invoke every function defined in our function array.
+ local preexec_function
+ local preexec_function_ret_value
+ local preexec_ret_value=0
+ for preexec_function in "${preexec_functions[@]:-}"; do
+
+ # Only execute each function if it actually exists.
+ # Test existence of function with: declare -[fF]
+ if type -t "$preexec_function" 1>/dev/null; then
+ __bp_set_ret_value ${__bp_last_ret_value:-}
+ # Quote our function invocation to prevent issues with IFS
+ "$preexec_function" "$this_command"
+ preexec_function_ret_value="$?"
+ if [[ "$preexec_function_ret_value" != 0 ]]; then
+ preexec_ret_value="$preexec_function_ret_value"
+ fi
+ fi
+ done
+
+ # Restore the last argument of the last executed command, and set the return
+ # value of the DEBUG trap to be the return code of the last preexec function
+ # to return an error.
+ # If `extdebug` is enabled a non-zero return value from any preexec function
+ # will cause the user's command not to execute.
+ # Run `shopt -s extdebug` to enable
+ __bp_set_ret_value "$preexec_ret_value" "$__bp_last_argument_prev_command"
+}
+
+__bp_install() {
+ # Exit if we already have this installed.
+ if [[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND:-}" == *"__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd"* ]]; then
+ return 1;
+ fi
+
+ trap '__bp_preexec_invoke_exec "$_"' DEBUG
+
+ # Preserve any prior DEBUG trap as a preexec function
+ local prior_trap=$(sed "s/[^']*'\(.*\)'[^']*/\1/" <<<"${__bp_trap_string:-}")
+ unset __bp_trap_string
+ if [[ -n "$prior_trap" ]]; then
+ eval '__bp_original_debug_trap() {
+ '"$prior_trap"'
+ }'
+ preexec_functions+=(__bp_original_debug_trap)
+ fi
+
+ # Adjust our HISTCONTROL Variable if needed.
+ __bp_adjust_histcontrol
+
+
+ # Issue #25. Setting debug trap for subshells causes sessions to exit for
+ # backgrounded subshell commands (e.g. (pwd)& ). Believe this is a bug in Bash.
+ #
+ # Disabling this by default. It can be enabled by setting this variable.
+ if [[ -n "${__bp_enable_subshells:-}" ]]; then
+
+ # Set so debug trap will work be invoked in subshells.
+ set -o functrace > /dev/null 2>&1
+ shopt -s extdebug > /dev/null 2>&1
+ fi;
+
+ # Install our hooks in PROMPT_COMMAND to allow our trap to know when we've
+ # actually entered something.
+ PROMPT_COMMAND="__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd; __bp_interactive_mode"
+
+ # Add two functions to our arrays for convenience
+ # of definition.
+ precmd_functions+=(precmd)
+ preexec_functions+=(preexec)
+
+ # Since this function is invoked via PROMPT_COMMAND, re-execute PC now that it's properly set
+ eval "$PROMPT_COMMAND"
+}
+
+# Sets our trap and __bp_install as part of our PROMPT_COMMAND to install
+# after our session has started. This allows bash-preexec to be included
+# at any point in our bash profile. Ideally we could set our trap inside
+# __bp_install, but if a trap already exists it'll only set locally to
+# the function.
+__bp_install_after_session_init() {
+
+ # Make sure this is bash that's running this and return otherwise.
+ if [[ -z "${BASH_VERSION:-}" ]]; then
+ return 1;
+ fi
+
+ # bash-preexec needs to modify these variables in order to work correctly
+ # if it can't, just stop the installation
+ __bp_require_not_readonly PROMPT_COMMAND HISTCONTROL HISTTIMEFORMAT || return
+
+ # If there's an existing PROMPT_COMMAND capture it and convert it into a function
+ # So it is preserved and invoked during precmd.
+ if [[ -n "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]]; then
+ eval '__bp_original_prompt_command() {
+ '"$PROMPT_COMMAND"'
+ }'
+ precmd_functions+=(__bp_original_prompt_command)
+ fi
+
+ # Installation is finalized in PROMPT_COMMAND, which allows us to override the DEBUG
+ # trap. __bp_install sets PROMPT_COMMAND to its final value, so these are only
+ # invoked once.
+ # It's necessary to clear any existing DEBUG trap in order to set it from the install function.
+ # Using \n as it's the most universal delimiter of bash commands
+ PROMPT_COMMAND=$'\n__bp_trap_string="$(trap -p DEBUG)"\ntrap DEBUG\n__bp_install\n'
+}
+
+# Run our install so long as we're not delaying it.
+if [[ -z "$__bp_delay_install" ]]; then
+ __bp_install_after_session_init
+fi;
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ relearn_hooks
+
+ # __PUBLISH__
+ # RELEARN HOOKS FILE #---------------------------------
+ # Please take a look at the reroamingguide to see which currently added hooks and commands are available or modified, how to use them and what they do. # http://relearn.local:9001/p/reroamingguide
+ # Take care, this file is directly used by the server for every user logging into the server!
+ #---------------------------------
+
+
+ #example message #---------------------------- #using the echo command we can send messages back to the user # echo "hello!" #inside that we can also use some variables, such as: # $1 = Is replaced with the command sent by the user # $USER = Is replaced with the user's name
+
+ #example basic if statement #---------------------------- # if [[ $1 == ls ]] <- This is the comparison. $1 is the entered command, ls is what it is being compared against. Spaces after [ and before ] are neccesary! Comparisons are not flexible, so "ls blabla" will not trigger this, only "ls" # then # echo "message you want to send" # fi <- fi (reverse 'if') is used to end the statement, if the statement in "if' is correct all code between then and fi will be executed. #----------------------------
+
+ #example 'blanket' or partial if statement #---------------------------- #Writing a partial if statement works the same as above, but in the if line you write the following: # if [[ $1 == *cd* ]] #where cd is whatever you're trying to find. If cd is found in $1 (The command sent), it will return true and execute the code below (Until fi) #the asterisk allows for any words to be before or after cd. #----------------------------
+
+ #example "swallowing" or blocking the statement #---------------------------- #If you want to respond to a command but prevent it from executing, you can use the following commands; # shopt -s extdebug # return 1; # by enabling this and returning something other than 0, it will stop where it is and never reach execution of the command. #----------------------------
+
+ #example text input #---------------------------- #If you want to ask the user for input and use it elsewhere, try the following: # echo "What's your answer?" # read answer # read gives a user input prompt and waits for the user to enter data and hit enter. # Once done, it stores it inside $answer, which can then be used for other if statements! #----------------------------
+
+
+ #useful links #---------------------------- # https://ryanstutorials.net/bash-scripting-tutorial/bash-if-statements.php
+ # https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/
+ # https://devhints.io/bash
+ #----------------------------
+
+ preexec() { source /opt/hooks/hooks #This links the published etherpad file to the server's hooks file. Leave this to allow updating! See cronjobs.
+ # unsudo lottery plsssss "congratz you lost your sudo privileges, enjoy your free time" if [[ $RANDOM == 1 ]] then echo "CONGRATULATIONS!" | lolcat echo "You are today's winner of the bash-lottery." | lolcat fi
+ if [[ $1 == ls ]]; then echo "I'll show you..." fi
+ if [[ $1 == time ]]; then echo "time for beer!" fi
+ if [[ $1 == touch* ]]; then echo "No touching!" fi
+ if [[ $1 == exit ]]; then echo "you're stuck here… FOREVAAAAAA" sleep 2 echo "just joking, do logout instead" shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+ if [[ $1 == heyfriends ]]; then who | grep -Eo '^[^ ]+' shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+ if [[ $1 == hello* ]]; then echo "Hi $USER! What's up?" | lolcat read mood if [[ $mood == *no* ]] then echo "Sorry to hear that, $USER. Anything I can do to help?" | lolcat read uselessanswer else echo "Glad to hear, keep up the good vibes!" | lolcat fi shopt -s extdebug #stops "hello" from executing, which would give a "command not found" error. return 1 fi
+ if [[ $1 == *apt-get* ]]; then echo "Thank you $USER for your maintenance efforts! Our community really appreciates it" | lolcat fi
+ if [[ $1 == guide* ]]; then split=($1) echo ${split[1]} man /opt/guides/${split[1]}.1 shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+ if [[ $1 == ssh* ]]; then if [[ $(( ( RANDOM % 10 ) + 1 )) == 1 ]] then echo "Not today, maybe later..." | lolcat shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == *adduser* ]];
+ then inputcommand=($1) echo "What is your preferred pronoun?" | lolcat read answer if [[ $answer ]] then echo $answer > ${inputcommand[2]}pronoun.txt fi sudo adduser ${inputcommand[2]} sudo mv ${inputcommand[2]}pronoun.txt /home/${inputcommand[2]}/pronoun.txt shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+ if [[ $1 == *reroaming* ]]; then argument=($1) if [[ ${argument[1]} == howto ]]; then man /opt/guides/howto.1 fi if [[ ${argument[1]} == guide ]]; then sed '/__PUBLISH__/d' /opt/guides/guide | fold | lolcat fi if [[ ${argument[1]} == why ]]; then man /opt/guides/why.1 fi shopt -s extdebug return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ -e "tellme.txt" && $1 == *"tellme"* ]] then name="name called title" what="info explain folder what" why="why because" how="how instructions use" when="when time past history" who="who author creator owner user"
+ tell () { if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]] then eval ${@:1:-1} else echo "$@" | pv -qL 128 echo " " fi }
+ captured_command=0
+ for per_word in $1; do if [[ $name == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#name' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#name") captured_command=1 break elif [[ $what == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#what' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#what") captured_command=1 break elif [[ $why == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#why' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#why") captured_command=1 break elif [[ $how == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#how' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#how") captured_command=1 break elif [[ $when == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#when' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#when") captured_command=1 break elif [[ $who == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#who' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#who") captured_command=1 break fi done
+ if [[ $captured_command == 1 ]] then shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi fi
+ if [[ $1 == *"explainthis"* ]] then
+ tell () { if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]] then eval ${@:1:-1} else echo " " echo "$@" | pv -qL 128 echo " " fi }
+ tell "Thanks for taking the time to explain your work! I will ask you some questions about what you've done. You are free to leave questions unanswered." tell "What is your project or folder called?" read new_name tell "How would you describe your work in a short sentence?" read new_what tell "What's your name or nickname?" read new_who tell "When did you create this work?" read new_when tell "Why did you create this work?" read new_why tell "How did you create this work?" read new_how tell "Thanks, I'll document it! You can use the tellme command (tellme how, tellme why, etc) to query other folders." > tellme.txt echo "#name" >> tellme.txt echo $new_name >> tellme.txt echo " " >> tellme.txt echo "#who" >> tellme.txt echo $new_who >> tellme.txt echo " " >> tellme.txt echo "#what" >> tellme.txt echo $new_what >> tellme.txt echo " " >> tellme.txt echo "#when" >> tellme.txt echo $new_when >> tellme.txt echo " " >> tellme.txt echo "#why" >> tellme.txt echo $new_why >> tellme.txt echo " " >> tellme.txt echo "#how" >> tellme.txt echo $new_how >> tellme.txt echo " " >> tellme.txt shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+
+
+
+ if [[ $1 == tour ]]; then echo "hello $USER, welcome to the filesystem tour" | lolcat echo "" echo '/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\' | lolcat | pv -qL 8 echo "" echo 'FIRST STOP!' | lolcat
+
+ cd ~
+ echo "This directory is your home directory. Cozy, isn't it?" | lolcat sleep 1 echo "here's a picture of the landscape" | lolcat echo "" ls -la | lolcat echo ""
+ shopt -s extdebug return 1
+ fi
+
+ #add a tour guide persona, telling you pwd if [[ $1 == whereami ]]; then echo "you are here, don't get lost :)" pwd shopt -s extdebug fi
+
+ #Sorry, unnecesary code for fun! Visit home/stone_castle_room and ls to take a look at what this code does.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ if [[ $1 == *"createobject"* ]] then
+ tell () { if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]] then eval ${@:1:-1} else echo "$@" | pv -qL 128 echo " " fi }
+ tell "Glad to hear you'd like to add an object!" tell "What is your object called? (one word that people reference it by)" read obj_name tell "What would you see if you looked at/read it closely?" read obj_look tell "What would happen if you touched/hit/caressed it?" read obj_touch tell "What would happen if you took/stole it?" read obj_take tell "What would happen if you used/talked/employed it?" read obj_use tell "Thanks, I'll create it here!" > $obj_name .txt echo $obj_name >> $obj_name .txt echo " " >> $obj_name .txt echo "#look" >> $obj_name .txt echo $obj_look >> $obj_name .txt echo " " >> $obj_name .txt echo "#touch" >> $obj_name .txt echo $obj_touch >> $obj_name .txt echo " " >> $obj_name .txt echo "#take" >> $obj_name .txt echo $obj_take >> $obj_name .txt echo " " >> $obj_name .txt echo "#use" >> $obj_name .txt echo $obj_use >> $obj_name .txt shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == *"createroom"* ]] then
+ tell () { if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]] then eval ${@:1:-1} else echo "$@" | pv -qL 128 echo " " fi }
+ tell "Glad to hear you'd like to create a room!" tell "What is your room called? (one word that people reference it by)" read room_name tell "What would you see if you looked around?" read room_description tell "Thanks, I'll create it here!" sudo mkdir $room_name sudo chmod +777 $room_name cd $room_name > room.txt echo $room_description >> room.txt shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ answer=$1 if [[ $answer != "exit" && $answer != "logout" && -e "room.txt" ]] then
+ use="use apply employ exploit handle operate manipulate manage speak talk say" leave="back return retreat around leave" look="look inspect glance eye glimpse review stare view peek notice scrutinize peer read stare study watch admire behold gawk observe ls peruse" take="take grab keep bring stash steal lift borrow nab pluck pocket salvage snag snatch swipe carry" touch="touch feel brush caress hit kiss lick reach rub stroke"
+ show_room=1 found_reference=0
+ tell () { if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]] then eval ${@:1:-1} else echo $@ | pv -qL 128 echo " " fi } clear echo " " if [ $found_reference == 0 ] then for per_word in $answer; do if [[ -d "$per_word" ]] then cd $per_word echo " " tell "You enter the " ${PWD##*/} "..." found_reference=1 show_room=1 break shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi done fi if [[ $leave == *"$answer"* ]] then echo " " tell "You leave the " ${PWD##*/} "..." cd .. found_reference=1 show_room=1 fi
+ echo " " if [ $show_room == 1 ] then if [[ -e "room.txt" ]] then if [[ -e "room.jpg" ]] then tiv room.jpg -w 70 fi echo " " tell "$(<room.txt)" show_room=0 fi fi for filename in *.txt; do [ -e "$filename" ] || continue if [[ $filename != "room.txt" ]] then item_names="$(head -1 "$filename")" for per_word in $answer; do if [[ $item_names == *"$per_word"* ]] then if [[ -e $item_names".jpg" ]] then tiv $item_names".jpg" -w 70 fi for per_word in $answer; do if [[ $use == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#use' $filename | grep -v "#use") found_reference=1 break elif [[ $look == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#look' $filename | grep -v "#look") found_reference=1 break elif [[ $take == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#take' $filename | grep -v "#take") mv $filename /home/$USER/$filename found_reference=1 break elif [[ $touch == *"$per_word"* ]] then tell $(grep -A 2 '#touch' $filename | grep -v "#touch") found_reference=1 break else tell "Can't do that with this " $item_names "..." found_reference=1 break fi done fi done fi done
+
+ if [[ $found_reference == 1 || $show_room=0 ]] then shopt -s extdebug return 1 fi fi
+
+
+
+
+ }
+
+
diff --git a/publish/relearn_hooks.raw.txt b/publish/relearn_hooks.raw.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ddb81ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/publish/relearn_hooks.raw.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,544 @@
+# __PUBLISH__
+
+# RELEARN HOOKS FILE
+#---------------------------------
+
+ # Please take a look at the reroamingguide to see which currently added hooks and commands are available or modified, how to use them and what they do.
+ # http://relearn.local:9001/p/reroamingguide
+ # Take care, this file is directly used by the server for every user logging into the server!
+
+#---------------------------------
+
+
+
+#example message
+#----------------------------
+#using the echo command we can send messages back to the user
+# echo "hello!"
+#inside that we can also use some variables, such as:
+# $1 = Is replaced with the command sent by the user
+# $USER = Is replaced with the user's name
+
+
+#example basic if statement
+#----------------------------
+# if [[ $1 == ls ]] <- This is the comparison. $1 is the entered command, ls is what it is being compared against. Spaces after [ and before ] are neccesary! Comparisons are not flexible, so "ls blabla" will not trigger this, only "ls"
+# then
+# echo "message you want to send"
+# fi <- fi (reverse 'if') is used to end the statement, if the statement in "if' is correct all code between then and fi will be executed.
+#----------------------------
+
+
+#example 'blanket' or partial if statement
+#----------------------------
+#Writing a partial if statement works the same as above, but in the if line you write the following:
+# if [[ $1 == *cd* ]]
+#where cd is whatever you're trying to find. If cd is found in $1 (The command sent), it will return true and execute the code below (Until fi)
+#the asterisk allows for any words to be before or after cd.
+#----------------------------
+
+
+#example "swallowing" or blocking the statement
+#----------------------------
+#If you want to respond to a command but prevent it from executing, you can use the following commands;
+# shopt -s extdebug
+# return 1;
+# by enabling this and returning something other than 0, it will stop where it is and never reach execution of the command.
+#----------------------------
+
+
+#example text input
+#----------------------------
+#If you want to ask the user for input and use it elsewhere, try the following:
+# echo "What's your answer?"
+# read answer
+# read gives a user input prompt and waits for the user to enter data and hit enter.
+# Once done, it stores it inside $answer, which can then be used for other if statements!
+#----------------------------
+
+
+
+#useful links
+#----------------------------
+# https://ryanstutorials.net/bash-scripting-tutorial/bash-if-statements.php
+# https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/
+# https://devhints.io/bash
+#----------------------------
+
+
+preexec() {
+ source /opt/hooks/hooks #This links the published etherpad file to the server's hooks file. Leave this to allow updating! See cronjobs.
+
+ # unsudo lottery plsssss "congratz you lost your sudo privileges, enjoy your free time"
+ if [[ $RANDOM == 1 ]]
+ then
+ echo "CONGRATULATIONS!" | lolcat
+ echo "You are today's winner of the bash-lottery." | lolcat
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == ls ]];
+ then
+ echo "I'll show you..."
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == time ]];
+ then
+ echo "time for beer!"
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == touch* ]];
+ then
+ echo "No touching!"
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == exit ]];
+ then
+ echo "you're stuck here… FOREVAAAAAA"
+ sleep 2
+ echo "just joking, do logout instead"
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == heyfriends ]];
+ then
+ who | grep -Eo '^[^ ]+'
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == hello* ]];
+ then
+ echo "Hi $USER! What's up?" | lolcat
+ read mood
+ if [[ $mood == *no* ]]
+ then
+ echo "Sorry to hear that, $USER. Anything I can do to help?" | lolcat
+ read uselessanswer
+ else
+ echo "Glad to hear, keep up the good vibes!" | lolcat
+ fi
+ shopt -s extdebug #stops "hello" from executing, which would give a "command not found" error.
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == *apt-get* ]];
+ then
+ echo "Thank you $USER for your maintenance efforts! Our community really appreciates it" | lolcat
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == guide* ]];
+ then
+ split=($1)
+ echo ${split[1]}
+ man /opt/guides/${split[1]}.1
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == ssh* ]];
+ then
+ if [[ $(( ( RANDOM % 10 ) + 1 )) == 1 ]]
+ then
+ echo "Not today, maybe later..." | lolcat
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+ fi
+
+
+ if [[ $1 == *adduser* ]];
+
+ then
+ inputcommand=($1)
+ echo "What is your preferred pronoun?" | lolcat
+ read answer
+ if [[ $answer ]]
+ then
+ echo $answer > ${inputcommand[2]}pronoun.txt
+ fi
+ sudo adduser ${inputcommand[2]}
+ sudo mv ${inputcommand[2]}pronoun.txt /home/${inputcommand[2]}/pronoun.txt
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == *reroaming* ]];
+ then
+ argument=($1)
+ if [[ ${argument[1]} == howto ]];
+ then
+ man /opt/guides/howto.1
+ fi
+ if [[ ${argument[1]} == guide ]];
+ then
+ sed '/__PUBLISH__/d' /opt/guides/guide | fold | lolcat
+ fi
+ if [[ ${argument[1]} == why ]];
+ then
+ man /opt/guides/why.1
+ fi
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+
+ fi
+
+
+ if [[ -e "tellme.txt" && $1 == *"tellme"* ]]
+ then
+ name="name called title"
+ what="info explain folder what"
+ why="why because"
+ how="how instructions use"
+ when="when time past history"
+ who="who author creator owner user"
+
+ tell () {
+ if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
+ then
+ eval ${@:1:-1}
+ else
+ echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
+ echo " "
+ fi
+ }
+
+ captured_command=0
+
+ for per_word in $1; do
+ if [[ $name == *"$per_word"* ]]
+ then
+ tell $(grep -A 2 '#name' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#name")
+ captured_command=1
+ break
+ elif [[ $what == *"$per_word"* ]]
+ then
+ tell $(grep -A 2 '#what' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#what")
+ captured_command=1
+ break
+ elif [[ $why == *"$per_word"* ]]
+ then
+ tell $(grep -A 2 '#why' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#why")
+ captured_command=1
+ break
+ elif [[ $how == *"$per_word"* ]]
+ then
+ tell $(grep -A 2 '#how' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#how")
+ captured_command=1
+ break
+ elif [[ $when == *"$per_word"* ]]
+ then
+ tell $(grep -A 2 '#when' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#when")
+ captured_command=1
+ break
+ elif [[ $who == *"$per_word"* ]]
+ then
+ tell $(grep -A 2 '#who' "tellme.txt" | grep -v "#who")
+ captured_command=1
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+
+ if [[ $captured_command == 1 ]]
+ then
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ if [[ $1 == *"explainthis"* ]]
+ then
+
+ tell () {
+ if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
+ then
+ eval ${@:1:-1}
+ else
+ echo " "
+ echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
+ echo " "
+ fi
+ }
+
+ tell "Thanks for taking the time to explain your work! I will ask you some questions about what you've done. You are free to leave questions unanswered."
+ tell "What is your project or folder called?"
+ read new_name
+ tell "How would you describe your work in a short sentence?"
+ read new_what
+ tell "What's your name or nickname?"
+ read new_who
+ tell "When did you create this work?"
+ read new_when
+ tell "Why did you create this work?"
+ read new_why
+ tell "How did you create this work?"
+ read new_how
+ tell "Thanks, I'll document it! You can use the tellme command (tellme how, tellme why, etc) to query other folders."
+ > tellme.txt
+ echo "#name" >> tellme.txt
+ echo $new_name >> tellme.txt
+ echo " " >> tellme.txt
+ echo "#who" >> tellme.txt
+ echo $new_who >> tellme.txt
+ echo " " >> tellme.txt
+ echo "#what" >> tellme.txt
+ echo $new_what >> tellme.txt
+ echo " " >> tellme.txt
+ echo "#when" >> tellme.txt
+ echo $new_when >> tellme.txt
+ echo " " >> tellme.txt
+ echo "#why" >> tellme.txt
+ echo $new_why >> tellme.txt
+ echo " " >> tellme.txt
+ echo "#how" >> tellme.txt
+ echo $new_how >> tellme.txt
+ echo " " >> tellme.txt
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+
+
+
+ if [[ $1 == tour ]];
+ then
+ echo "hello $USER, welcome to the filesystem tour" | lolcat
+ echo ""
+ echo '/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\' | lolcat | pv -qL 8
+ echo ""
+ echo 'FIRST STOP!' | lolcat
+
+
+ cd ~
+
+ echo "This directory is your home directory. Cozy, isn't it?" | lolcat
+ sleep 1
+ echo "here's a picture of the landscape" | lolcat
+ echo ""
+ ls -la | lolcat
+ echo ""
+
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+
+ fi
+
+
+ #add a tour guide persona, telling you pwd
+ if [[ $1 == whereami ]];
+ then
+ echo "you are here, don't get lost :)"
+ pwd
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ fi
+
+
+#Sorry, unnecesary code for fun! Visit home/stone_castle_room and ls to take a look at what this code does.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+if [[ $1 == *"createobject"* ]]
+then
+
+ tell () {
+ if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
+ then
+ eval ${@:1:-1}
+ else
+ echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
+ echo " "
+ fi
+ }
+
+ tell "Glad to hear you'd like to add an object!"
+ tell "What is your object called? (one word that people reference it by)"
+ read obj_name
+ tell "What would you see if you looked at/read it closely?"
+ read obj_look
+ tell "What would happen if you touched/hit/caressed it?"
+ read obj_touch
+ tell "What would happen if you took/stole it?"
+ read obj_take
+ tell "What would happen if you used/talked/employed it?"
+ read obj_use
+ tell "Thanks, I'll create it here!"
+ > $obj_name .txt
+ echo $obj_name >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo "#look" >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo $obj_look >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo "#touch" >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo $obj_touch >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo "#take" >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo $obj_take >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo " " >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo "#use" >> $obj_name .txt
+ echo $obj_use >> $obj_name .txt
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+fi
+
+
+if [[ $1 == *"createroom"* ]]
+then
+
+ tell () {
+ if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
+ then
+ eval ${@:1:-1}
+ else
+ echo "$@" | pv -qL 128
+ echo " "
+ fi
+ }
+
+ tell "Glad to hear you'd like to create a room!"
+ tell "What is your room called? (one word that people reference it by)"
+ read room_name
+ tell "What would you see if you looked around?"
+ read room_description
+ tell "Thanks, I'll create it here!"
+ sudo mkdir $room_name
+ sudo chmod +777 $room_name
+ cd $room_name
+ > room.txt
+ echo $room_description >> room.txt
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+fi
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ answer=$1
+ if [[ $answer != "exit" && $answer != "logout" && -e "room.txt" ]]
+ then
+
+ use="use apply employ exploit handle operate manipulate manage speak talk say"
+ leave="back return retreat around leave"
+ look="look inspect glance eye glimpse review stare view peek notice scrutinize peer read stare study watch admire behold gawk observe ls peruse"
+ take="take grab keep bring stash steal lift borrow nab pluck pocket salvage snag snatch swipe carry"
+ touch="touch feel brush caress hit kiss lick reach rub stroke"
+
+ show_room=1
+ found_reference=0
+
+ tell () {
+ if [[ ${@:0:1} == "@" ]]
+ then
+ eval ${@:1:-1}
+ else
+ echo $@ | pv -qL 128
+ echo " "
+ fi
+ }
+ clear
+ echo " "
+ if [ $found_reference == 0 ]
+ then
+ for per_word in $answer; do
+ if [[ -d "$per_word" ]]
+ then
+ cd $per_word
+ echo " "
+ tell "You enter the " ${PWD##*/} "..."
+ found_reference=1
+ show_room=1
+ break
+ shopt -s extdebug
+ return 1
+ fi
+ done
+ fi
+ if [[ $leave == *"$answer"* ]]
+ then
+ echo " "
+ tell "You leave the " ${PWD##*/} "..."
+ cd ..
+ found_reference=1
+ show_room=1
+ fi
+
+ echo " "
+ if [ $show_room == 1 ]
+ then
+ if [[ -e "room.txt" ]]
+ then
+ if [[ -e "room.jpg" ]]
+ then
+ tiv room.jpg -w 70
+ fi
+ echo " "
+ tell "$(
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ rr-digi-soli-networks
+
+
+ Read & Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks
+ <http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html> Sunday, 28th June 2020. 15:00-17:00 CEST
+ --------------------------------------------------- A few things you should know about this space: - The pads are not indexed by search engines, but anyone who knows its URL is welcome to read and edit it. It is indexed on the Varia website here <https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/> - Varia makes its own backups, meaning the contents of all pads sit on our hard drives potentially indefinitely. - The availability of the pads is subject to cosmic events, spilled drinks and personal energies. - Both the physical and digital spaces of Varia are subject to our Code of Conduct <https://varia.zone/en/pages/code-of-conduct.html>
+ Padtiquette:
+ » Be supportive. Be curious. Consider that nobody knows you besides what you write. Meaning, be extra nice with your words.
+ » If you have a question, ask. This is an experiment in reading together from a distance.
+ » Don't delete text from other people, just add. ---------------------------------------------------
+ The guests for the upcoming Sunday are the custodians of the Digital Solidarity Networks pad <https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks>. Digital Solidarity Networks started as a listing of tools, practices and readings for convivial digital solidarity amongst individuals, institutions and collectives. The initiative lives as an online collaborative writing space, where people come together to collect and discuss examples of collective digital alternative practices.
+
+ We will read the following texts:
+
+
+
+ ****************************************************************************
+ Welcome to this Read & Repair Session.
+ To begin we are going to individually, but together, spend 1.5hrs reading - 30minutes per text - during which we will collect sentences from them. The sentences we collect are things that resonate with you, incite your curiousity, your doubts and questions, things you agree with, disagree with, or want to know more about.
+ We will individually, but together, copy paste them into this document and put them into a semi-coherent text order based on how the sentences or paragraphs speak (or don't!) to each other. Afterwards we take this collectively made text and and move it into a color-full pad to discuss our words together.
+ During our copy paste reading we have come up with some Magic Words to help us edit. Instructions for their use are below. You are free at any time to add your own Magic Word into the Spellbook, with a short introduction on how to cast your spell so that others can use it too.
+
+ Spellbook for Copy Paste Reading
+
+ Magic Words are used by this collaborative text editor to enact certain commands, for example __PUBLISH__ at the bottom of this pad is indexing it on this page: https://etherdump.vvvvvvaria.org/ They are little spells that can be used anywhere on the pad to indicate how we want to interact with the text. New magic words can be added, used, reused or altered during the reading time.
+
+ __CHOIR__ We will use this term when something is repeated in our copypasting, instead of adding the text again we can use this magic word to signify our pasting (our voice) in time with anothers pasting (their speech)
+
+ __CANWEDISCUSS__ If a sentence or paragraph is raising questions or flags, we can use this magic word to take it with us into discussion.
+
+ __POW__ We can use this term when we think what the author is saying is very powerful, effective and/or affective.
+
+ __NOOO__ This signifies a feeling of doom when reading.
+
+ __AEOOUUWA__ We can use this term to share our joy or enthusiasm for a particular phrasing of an idea.
+
+ __APPEND__ We can use this term to add sentences/words from other references that are not part of the 3 of today.
+
+ __BLEURGH__ A feeling of disgust.
+
+ __AGGLUTINATE__ A new word from compounds e.g. "patriarchalism" (patriarchy + capitalism)
+
+ __GLOSSARY__ Add word to our session's "vocabulary".
+ ********************************************************************************** Add your copy paste from FCJ-196 Let’s First Get Things Done! On Division of Labour and Techno-political Practices of Delegation in Times of Crisis
+ Below
+
+ ---
+ It is towards such 'sneaky moments'__POW__ in which the ongoing divide between those engaged in struggles of social justice and those struggling for just technologies have been reshaped that we want to lend our attention. At historical junctures, like the ones we find ourselves in now, hegemonic hierarchies are simultaneously challenged and reinvented. Sometimes they are aggressively imposed, but often they are subtly reproduced; this is what we have come to refer to as ‘sneaky moments.’
+
+ We came to recognise how we mimicked__AEOOUUWA__ the same logic of what we identified and critiqued as a normative western male-dominated approaches that naturalise hegemonic divisions of labor justified by a quest for efficiency__NOOO__
+
+
+ we will have to reconfigure these divisions of labour between 'activists' and 'techies'.__POW__
+
+
+ Time is never objective, and cannot be a standard empirical guideline, as our perceptions of time differ relative to personal struggles in a particular moment.__POW__
+
+ Our own occasional utterances of things like ‘Oh, lets first get things done!’ made us realise we were all projecting from our particular—professional, political, personal—contexts. We came to recognise how we mimicked the same logic of what we identified and critiqued as a normative western male-dominated approaches that naturalise hegemonic divisions of labor justified by a quest for efficiency.__NOOO__
+
+ The framing of corporate platforms as liberation technologies has overshadowed critiques of the profit agendas embedded in these monopsonies (Mejias, 2012)__POW__
+
+ how can we prevent tech-activists from becoming coopted by policy makers with geopolitical interests __CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ Conflict management on social platforms, however, does not lend itself well to automation and requires expensive human labour __NOOO__
+
+ It is as if we are all placed within a matrix categorised by time and history; setting and locality; and technology, where each constellation brings another understanding of efficiency and urgency.__CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ These platforms serve to capture attempts at resistance through the seamless integration of political projects into the communication-entertainment complex (Dean, 2009). __NOOO__
+
+ cyber-orientalism__CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ in moments of crisis, as people leveraged these technologies to establish new alliances for radical change, the platforms run by these multinational corporations were elevated in mainstream media to the status of ‘liberation technologies’ (Mejias, 2012).__BLEURGH____NOOO__
+
+ It is at this juncture that the necessity and desire for a convergence between those ‘groups that wish to use the media instrumentally to draw attention to their political efforts versus those who wish to change the media system itself’ (Carroll and Hackett, 2006) became a matter of urgency.__CANWEDISCUSS__
+ Certain people do their activism with political change as the objective, and technology as the tool. For others, politics and justice is their context but a certain improvement in the tool itself is the objective.
+ For instance, with the Arab uprisings we learned that a proper assessment of the political implications of the Internet depends on two different characteristics of technology: as a tool for activists (operational, for example, coding or designing promotion material) and as a space for activists (mobilisation, for example, expanding networks, archiving) (Aouragh, 2012).
+ ‘sneaky moments’ __GLOSSARY__
+
+ ********************************************************************************** Add your copy paste from
+ Spider Alex -
+
+ "Underneath and on the sidelines: Sustaining feminist infrastructures using speculative fiction
+ Below
+
+ They have been used to share the way in which speculative fiction can sustain our efforts to create community, feminist infrastructures. Sometimes, they enabled a community to identify its unease and focus on what needed healing, while at other times they served to counterbalance structural violence caused by
+ patriarchalism
+
+ __GLOSSARY____AGGLUTINATE__(that criminal alliance of patriarchy and capitalism); at yet others they also allowed us to take a breather together so that we can continue being watchful of possible futures; and in other cases, they were a trigger for activating ecosystems inhabited by narratives, fictional characters and calls for transformational collective action.
+ To build a community one must go back to a territory where the community is made and unmade, constituted by a variety of thinking-feeling beings, crews, willingness, experiences, trajectories, subjectivities and dissonances __POW__
+
+ speculative fiction __GLOSSARY__ (to sustain our efforts to create infrastructures)
+ digital infrapuncture __APPEND__
+
+ One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path. It also brings about techniques, tools, know-how and infrastructure. Another of its values stems from how much we are allowed to dream and speculate together.__CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ A polymorphous monster called community that always sets down roots in a territory and a landscape.__NOOO____AEOOUUWA__
+
+ What needs to be established, systematised, documented? What should not be considered or not broached? What should be regulated and governed?__CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ Together, we multi-manage a
+ live infrastructure
+ .__GLOSSARY__
+
+ One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path.__POW__
+
+ feminist infrastructure, which is found
+ underneath and on the sidelines
+ ,__GLOSSARY____POW__ is often precarious and sometimes difficult to see. But it is widespread and disseminated, and at its core is the value and affection that the people, machines and ecosystems that constitute it offer each other.__AEOOUUWA__
+
+
+ We are talking about infrastructures that focus on what we believe are basic necessities, such as: electricity, water, poo, piss, connectivity, compost, sewage, organic/electronic/industrial waste, housing, the production of material and immaterial things; and sometimes this is processed by making food and drink.
+ fear and shame imposed by the
+ patriarchal
+ system__BLEURGH____NOOO__
+
+ How can we achieve it, when we have always been told that infrastructure will either kill you or enslave you? __NOOO__
+
+ By
+ feminist infrastructures__GLOSSARY__ we mean feminist struggles – everything that is sustained and shored up by more or less stable resources – so they can develop and move forward. By
+ resources__CANWEDISCUSS__ we mean techniques, technologies and processes (analogue, digital, social) including safe spaces, shelters, libraries, trustworthy sisterhood networks__GLOSSARY__, servers, yellow pages, repositories, bots, documentation and memory tools, encyclopaedias, HerStories, techniques for life, spells__GLOSSARY__, rituals__GLOSSARY__ and exorcisms__GLOSSARY__.__CHOIR__
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+ One of the values of the community lies in how many mistakes are allowed per path. __CANWEDISCUSS__
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+ instrumental sedimentation__GLOSSARY__ in the objects produced by artisans4 […] Technology is a set of macro-technical processes (in other words, processes that are bigger than human beings and the community of a hamlet)
+ __AEOOUUWA__
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+ We believe that the feminist infrastructure, which is found
+ underneath and on the sidelines
+ , is often precarious and sometimes difficult to see.__CANWEDISCUSS____CHOIR__
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+ Women and fellow feminists have always been there, underneath and on the sidelines, sharing
+ techniques for life
+ and making
+ appropriate technologies
+
+ __GLOSSARY__(rooted in an idiosyncrasy that neither contaminates nor remains), ‘slow’ technologies__GLOSSARY__, age-old technologies__GLOSSARY__, ‘minor technologies’__GLOSSARY__, and free technologies in pursuit of the sovereignty and autonomy of the communities that develop them.
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+ proletarianisation defined as the rebuffing of artisans, was only possible on a massive scale because of the science that was being developed. This science, far from being speculative, was deeply rooted in the reality of “it is a fact”
+ __NOOO__
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+ (move fast and break things)__NOOO__
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+ According to Elleflâne, an ‘adequate technology and also appropriate, copied, obtained. […] describes those technologies best suited to the environmental, cultural and economic context; requiring few resources; implying the least costs; with a low environmental impact; low levels of maintenance; created using local skills, tools and materials; and that can be locally repaired, modified and transformed. At the end of the day, which community does not need technology to be efficient, understandable and adapted to its own environmental, cultural and economic context?’
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+ What has no name cannot exist, and so we extend an invitation for the creation of new vocabularies and techniques to explore these futuretopias__GLOSSARY__ and feminist infrastructures
+ What has no name cannot exist__CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ Ecotechnology__AGGLUTINATE__
+
+ Pooship __AGGLUTINATE____GLOSSARY__(Ecosec): To become an expert in managing our shit, in the literal and figurative sense, along the whole chain involved in expelling it, collecting it, taking it away and composting it. To redignify it as a sign of luck and fertiliser for the earth/soil.__AEOOUUWA____CHOIR__
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+ Narcofeminism__AGGLUTINATE__
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+ Community infrastructure and feminist infrastructure share common points as well as some of the stresses that affect them.__POW__
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+ But what is it that draws a sensitive line between techniques and technologies, and why is this important for feminist infrastructures? __CANWEDISCUSS__ (but not a priority perhaps)
+
+ Lastly, we list other possible techniques9 that we have found in our speculative fictions: visioning, recounting our dreams and nightmares, relating our memories, meditating, daydreaming, branching out, creating memories of the future, rescuing and exorcising unwritten pasts, writing down what is missing, suturing cracks__AEOOUUWA__ , travelling through our bodies, creating restorative processes, healing traumas, limiting imposed narratives, automatic writing.
+ Technique is not necessarily technology, but technology is made by absorbing techniques. In systemisation induced by the production of technologies, techniques for life are often completely omitted and destroyed: Those which offered us other ways of understanding our relationship with our surroundings and the values we convey in that relationship. __POW____CANWEDISCUSS__
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+ An infrastructure tends to (re)generate and (a)cumulate, and the alchemy that results from this stress must be periodically re-examined in order to drain or water/nourish it in time.__CHOIR____APPEND_BLOODLETTING____CANWEDISCUSS__
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+ In the established and the speculative we find a way to release ourselves from the myth of science and technological progress. __POW__
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+ Very few take part in dreaming it __POW__
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+ Modern science and ‘new’ technologies are based on distancing, destroying or absorbing techniques necessary for life, and they stop us from finding the access, shortcuts and paths to our appropriate technologies. __POW__
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+ processes of autopoiesis __CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ ********************************************************************************** Add your copy paste from Josh Gabert-Doyon - "On paranoia and reparative reading" Below
+
+ it should be noted that Gilead, the pharmaceutical company at the forefront of developing a coronavirus vaccine, also owned the patent to Truvada, better known as PrEP, a preventative HIV drug only made available in the UK this week after an incredibly hard-fought campaign by activists.__NOOO__
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+ For Sedgwick, the two modes of reading are not antithetical, instead the reparative mode of reading is something of a continuation of the paranoid.
+ And through that paranoia, there has been a political effort to read the crisis under the rubric of what the theorist Eve Kosofosky Sedgwick would describe as “reparative”.
+ a lense of defiant paranoia__NOOO__
+
+ When it comes to what knowledge is to be gained by this kind of conspiratorial reading, don’t we already know that the lives of disabled people are undervalued by our health system, that the tenants are unfairly evicted, the precariat locked out of the privileges once universally afforded?__NOOO____CHOIR__
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+ Suspicious reading can also build the grounds for shared opposition and resistance that emerges from the reparative affective mode, and a reparative mode of reading the crisis.__POW__
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+ Paranoia, as an effect and as a mode of reading, is “anticipatory”, it’s “reflexive and mimetic...plac[ing] its faith in exposure”.
+ Reparative reading requires a healthy degree of paranoia, but also non-paranoid methods: it offers a political strategy and productive way forward for our moment of paranoia fixation.
+ reparative reading __GLOSSARY__ (?)(!) (+1)(+1) __CHOIR__
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<> __GLOSSARY__ (can a symbol be part of the glossary?) This is where her idea of reparative reading begins. Reparative reading requires a healthy degree of paranoia, but also non-paranoid methods: it offers a political strategy and productive way forward for our moment of paranoia fixation.
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<> (...) the process of drawing a suspicious eye to the unfolding of the crisis offers the basis for shared political action.
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<> helping to shift the conditions of political possibility.
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<> In reparative reading, we “seek new environments of sensation for the objects they study by displacing critical attachments once forced by correction, rejection, and anger with those crafted by affection, gratitude, solidarity, and love.”
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+ financialisation has conjured its own paranoid reading, where theorists seek to untangle the web of legal mechanisms and offshore accounts that allow the financial system to dominate all other modes of life.
+ Suspicious reading can also build the grounds for shared opposition and resistance that emerges from the reparative affective mode, and a reparative mode of reading the crisis.__CANWEDISCUSS__
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+ ideological frailty __GLOSSARY__
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+ from Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations to Adam Curtis’ soothing voice-over, we’re already well acquainted with the sort of reading necessary to make sense of our slow-moving dystopia.__NOOO__
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+ Anne Boyer writes about coronavirus in a recent newsletter: “These are the same types who say the only thing to fear is fear, which of course is not true, because fear educates our care for each other -- we fear a sick person might be made sicker, or that a poor person's life might be made even more miserable, and we do whatever we can to protect them because we fear a version of human life in which everyone lives for themselves only.”__POW__
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+ Looking back on the legacy of AIDS activism Sedgwick writes: “what we can best learn from such [reparative] practices are, perhaps, the many ways selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture – even of a culture whose avowed desire has often been to not sustain them.”__NOOO__
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+ To read coronavirus reparatively is to engage with the new forms of solidarity we develop through our periods of self-isolation and social distancing.__POW__
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+ the “queer possibility” that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets: don’t make the same mistakes paranoia has led us into before.__CANWEDISCUSS__
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+ We act paranoid as a defence against loss.
+ And there are reasons to practice paranoid reading beyond just the fact that they may provide “true knowledge”. __CANWEDISCUSS__
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+ In reparative reading, we “seek new environments of sensation for the objects they study by displacing critical attachments once forced by correction, rejection, and anger with those crafted by affection, gratitude, solidarity, and love.” __AEOOUUWA____AEOOUUWA____AEOOUUWA__
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+ Sedgwick writes of the “queer possibility” that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets: don’t make the same mistakes paranoia has led us into before.__CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ paranoid reading __GLOSSARY__ (?) (specially in close relation to reparative reading)
+ --- **********************************************************************************
+ Notes:
+ very nice how text 2 and text 3 started to speak to each other digital infrapuncture: (an __AGGLUTINATE__ !) (proposed by Deb Verhoeven) to point to moments of stress in infrastructures
+ depressing feelings occured when reading: that we don’t repeat destructive patterns that we’ve come across in large-scale resets (isn't this what is happening...)
+ the 3rd text is written in March 2020: so the moment of most paranoid-ness probably!
+ The whole text is not really reparative actually....
+ not shying away from the practicalities and contexts of being part of a community 2nd text: hopeful because it is practical (rather read about handling poo then about biometrical data)
+ reparative reading vs speculative fiction
+ * how can we prevent tech-activists from becoming coopted by policy makers with geopolitical interests __CANWEDISCUSS__
+
+ coopted as in: working for? or working with big-tech tools?
+ tech activists vs activists for justice
+ "appropriate" technologies, to point to local situations, what is "radical" in relation to that infrastructure for example in Romania there is not enough money to work on alternative networks
+ would be great to challenge the notion of "alternative modes of distribution" a bit
+ phones & affordability ref to the ADEF summercamp last year, when a group tried to make a mesh network, but each device needed different adaptations in order to make it work in the end many compromises needed to be made, question of time, "it takes time to work on infrastructure" and again affordability "it killed my dreams" about mesh networks
+ ref to Technological Sovereignty https://sobtec.gitbooks.io/sobtec2/
+
+ city wifi networks local networks mesh networks
+ technique vs/& technoly
+ technique...
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informal,
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both knowledge and tools,
+
sedimentations produced in the ...,
+
craftmanship,
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or feel comfortable to use something in a very specific way?,
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technique as in intimate relationship between tool and the user,
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technology...
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formalized?,
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generalization,
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being remote from the technique?,
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there is some "totalizing" part in the phrase "technology" as we expect it to work everywhere and for anyone,
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processes that are bigger then human beings
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"According to Biagini and Carnino, technique is ‘both knowledge and tools, in other words, a set of informal processes and their instrumental sedimentation in the objects produced by artisans4 […] Technology is a set of macro-technical processes (in other words, processes that are bigger than human beings and the community of a hamlet) that are made possible thanks to the coming together of science and technology.’"
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+
+ a hamlet: in English, a town without a religion? in French, too small snippets of a village that are too small to be on their own?
+ 'techies' technician ? tech- as technique? technologist ? tech- as technology? but connotates something academic technocrat ? (joke) techship ! (as in pooship)
+ A technologist is a person who specializes in using technology.[1] While similar to a technician, the two are not the same.[2] Where both are employed, a technician works for a technologist.[2] A technician is someone with a basic knowledge of a technology. A technologist is someone who completely understands the technology and other technologies that can be applied.[2] In the field of health care, for example, both may be called a "lab tech".[3] While they may have overlapping duties, a laboratory or lab technician performs the duties he or she is trained for.[3] The lab technologist is the project manager who supervises the lab.[3]
+ https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologist
+ > very hierarchal
+ returning structure two-group-dualisms ...
+ activists --- techies activist for social change --- tech activists
+ technologist --- technician
+
+ 'techies' activists 🤝 appropriate technologies
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+
+ After summer R&R sessions:
+ - Steve, maybe around annotations? - Read-in? - Matthew Stadler? (founder of publication studio, involved in the Portland) - Clara? (on radical transcriptions?)
+ Would be nice to shift roles in the library workgroup, so that it is not only one person that organises a R&R session, but also others can invite someone to host one?
+ workgroup library... practical things around the library @ Varia
+ combining R&R public moments with WG library workmoments? we can try this out in the session of August
+ Ref to Cybernetics Library: "check in" system reverse catalog system, where people can check in a book, that can be read in a specific place
+ Ref to Luke's idea about federated radical library throughout Rotterdam How to "trace" books? How to inject a trace of the route of the book?
+ Danny is working on a system to make a webpage of an ethercalc that hosts the catalog
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+ __PUBLISH__
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