diff --git a/content/mirror/ubu.md b/content/mirror/ubu.md index 07c0efd..9775d75 100644 --- a/content/mirror/ubu.md +++ b/content/mirror/ubu.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ +++ title = "Stage: Everything Is Temporary" glassblowers = ["alessandroludovico.md", "cristobalsciutto.md", "custodiansonline.md", "dusanbarok.md", "felixstalder.md", "marcellmars.md", "nickthurston.md", "olgagoriunova.md", "sanjabojanic.md", "sasasavanovic.md", "sreckohorvat.md", "tomislavmedak.md"] -has_reflections = ["endtimes.md", "relational.md", "cristobal.md"] +has_reflections = ["endtimes.md", "relational.md", "cristobal.md", "material.md"] +++ diff --git a/content/reflection/material.md b/content/reflection/material.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acbab70 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reflection/material.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ ++++ +title = "A Material Basis for Digital Archives" +has_shards = [] ++++ + +1. Why preserve the archive? (exuberance, potentialities, political imaginary, etc) + 1. Not just the ecological problem, but the cultural problem. + 2. Not less, more of the right thing. (Keito Saito) + 3. A grey world of rented space and rented rooms, interpellated by capital. + 4. Alienation as the inability to write information. + 5. Preservation of difference, diversity, ambiguity, etc. + 6. Bataille, The Accursed Share +2. The digital medium of archiving (difference, context, information) + 1. Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication + 2. Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind +3. The problem of maintaining the medium + 1. Vernacular infrastructure + 2. Requirements of audiovisual media as a constraint worth keeping + 3. Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman + 4. Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich +4. Problems with existing digital infrastructure + 1. Complexity which leads to bureaucracy due to the exception outside of the system + 2. Lock-in: dependency on existing systems + 3. Two watershed moments + 4. Enshittification: locked into the attention economy. + 5. Search of mixed-media +5. New directions in digital infrastructure + 1. Infinite use of finite means + 2. Programming system as material (convivial forms), instead of tool with a function. + 3. Autoprogettazione, Enzo Mari + 4. The aesthetic of compression, simple tools which produce complex artifacts. + 5. Permacomputing, sustainability through simplicity + 1. http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html + 6. Damaged Earth Catalog + 1. https://damaged.bleu255.com + 7. AI: embeddings, in counterpoint to generated data.