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The title of this experimental hyperlinked publication, "Mirror Stage: Everything is Temporary", takes its inspiration from Kenneth Goldsmith's ![Duchamps is My Lawyer](bib:fb3043f9-791a-4069-9c07-4e5f05162983):
> Everything Is Temporary
> Over the past two decades, UbuWeb has weathered a constant series of crises—technological, legal, mental, and physical. We have been hacked, had our servers pulled out from under us, served with a parade of cease-and-desist orders, to name only a few threats to our existence. There have been countless reasons not to continue to run the site.
![](static/images/everythingistemporary.jpg)
And in 2024, Kenneth finally threw in the towel and decided to no longer continue adding to UbuWeb's collection and make it an archive. With this book we wanted to envision what would it take to ensure that Ubu and other autonomous digital archives can endure and thrive over the next quarter of a century – as they have over the last quarter of a century. The publication is an excercise in collective writing and integrates contributed texts and functions as an interface to a disk-based mirror of the UbuWeb archive. By creating mirrors, we build resilience for such archives.
This publication was collectively written by twelve "glassblowers": Felix Stalder, Sanja Bojanić, Srećko Horvat, Aleksndra Savanović, Nick Thurston, Alessandro Ludovico, Dušan Barok, Olga Goriunova, Cristóbal Sciutto, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
# The structure of the publication
# The Structure of the Publication
Glassblowers they are called as this publication plays with the metaphor of a mirror. Metaphorically, a mirror generates reflections, reflections are composed of fragmentary apparitions we have called shards. Consequently, the hierarchy of this hyperlinked publication is that it is a mirror containing a number of reflections. Reflections are your best entry points into our writing endavour. Sometimes they resemble traditional essays, sometimes they are conceptual texts, each written by a glassblower.