diff --git a/content/mirror/ubu.md b/content/mirror/ubu.md index 21eb2ef..7acacd7 100644 --- a/content/mirror/ubu.md +++ b/content/mirror/ubu.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ +++ title = "Ubu" -has_reflections = ["shardslist.md", "cristobal.md"] +has_reflections = ["shardslist.md", "cristobal.md", "endtimes.md", "relational.md"] +++ ## The ambient diff --git a/content/reflection/endtimes.md b/content/reflection/endtimes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4af732e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reflection/endtimes.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ ++++ +title = "The Art of Living at the End" +has_shards = ["existentialism.md", "crisis.md", "latentimage.md", "longextinction.md", "theimaginary.md", "senseofimagination.md", "library.md", "processnotplace.md", "toolsinrelationalpractices.md", "custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md"] +glassblowers = ["olgagoriunova.md"] ++++ + +How not to become ![existentially](shard:existentialism.md) paralysed when faced with catastrophic ![crises](shard:crisis.md) of such a scale as climate catastrophe and mass extinction intertwined as they are with a system of such flexibility and domination as capitalism? Thinking about such future 25 years down the line, we are stuck in the ![gap](shard:latentimage.md). + +How to live and act in the ![long extinction](shard:longextinction.md) is to be able to carve the space for doing work in and on the ![imaginary](shard:theimaginary.md). The imaginary of the world that is not linear, deterministic and unavoidable. The role of ![imagination](shard:senseofimagination.md) here /to add/. Multiple threads of possibility, some realised in the past - some ongoing, some private - some public, some local and atomistic - some large-scale. + +How to do such work? Where are the sites of such work? This is supported by the project of the ![library](shard:library.md), which is ![a process, not a place](shard:processnotplace.md), supported with the + +![](shard:toolsinrelationalpractices.md) in ![custodianship](shard:custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md). diff --git a/content/reflection/relational.md b/content/reflection/relational.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..045ca3b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reflection/relational.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ ++++ +title = "The role of relational practices in custodianship" +has_shards = ["library.md", "neoliberallibrary.md", "protocols.md"] ++++ + +Relational practices should be the conceptual building infrastructure of custodianship. These practices are caring processes, which can be mutual, instigating further care and relationships[^1]. This mutuality potentially creates relationships, which might help to constitute interdependent networks of people and content, formulating different communication protocols which can be understood as "abstractions on social processes"![](shard:protocols.md). + +These interdependent networks can be used to extend the library. It is a process involves an activity of branching (or even ‘forking’, technically speaking) the library models which have a centralised nature, and a hierarchical structure, which includes who decides about the library content, its paths to expansion, the interface with the public, and the public itself. + +In this sense, the library, as a model, an infrastructure, and more than anything a paradigm, is a collection of culture that represents a conscious or unconscious curatorial perspective on one side. On the other side, it is also a collection that is activated by the public, and depending from what they host they activate a different public imaginary. So it “supports the functions of the imaginary” ![](shard:library.md) through the ideas circulating through its publications, which can be “both repressive and emancipatory”![](shard:library.md) because of both its content in itself, and how the curational process has been taken. + +In this sense, some of the foundations of the publishing preserving (the library) systems are questioned in this different systemic embodiment. It is inevitable then to mention Barthes’ consequential relationship between the “birth of the reader” and “the death of the author”[^2]. They deeply question “ownership, copyright and the subjects supposed to know” ![](shard:neoliberallibrary.md), which can be connected with what we might call now a neoliberal vision of the library. + +What these libraries (possibly both online and offline) outside of the official library system build over time, is to provide the missed content, the specialised care and the shared responsibility conceptually adding them independently to the public services. As Horvat affirms "it’s a process and a relation" ![](shard:processnotplace.md). + +[^1]:Bourriaud Nicolas Mathieu Copeland Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods. 2010. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les presses du réel. + +[^2] Barthes Roland. 1990. Image Music Text : Essays 6. Reprint ed. London: Fontana. + diff --git a/content/reflection/shardslist.md b/content/reflection/shardslist.md index d067178..7613e7f 100644 --- a/content/reflection/shardslist.md +++ b/content/reflection/shardslist.md @@ -1,24 +1,26 @@ +++ title = "List of shards" has_shards = [ +"backpull.md", +"crisis.md", "custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", "effectivealtruism.md", -"latentimage.md", -"longextinction.md", -"library.md", -"theimaginary.md", "existentialism.md", +"interpretivelabor.md", +"latentimage.md", +"library.md", +"longextinction.md", "maintenance.md", +"migrationregime.md", "neoliberallibrary.md", +"ordermaintenance.md", "processnotplace.md", "protocols.md", +"pure.md", "senseofimagination.md", -"toolsinrelationalpractices.md", -"ordermaintenance.md", -"migrationregime.md", -"crisis.md", -"interpretivelabor.md", -"pure.md" +"theimaginary.md", +"technologicaldeterminism.md", +"toolsinrelationalpractices.md" ] +++ diff --git a/content/shard/processnotplace.md b/content/shard/processnotplace.md index c317302..d23b842 100644 --- a/content/shard/processnotplace.md +++ b/content/shard/processnotplace.md @@ -3,4 +3,12 @@ title = "A process, not a place" glassblowers = ["sreckohorvat.md"] +++ -What is a shadow library? It's not a place - it's a process and a relation. +What is a library? It's not a place - it's a process and a relation. + +While we all know that the famous library of Alexandria was demolished, it was in fact a gradual process, first through the explusion of scholars from Alexandria, then through the burning by Julius Caesar in 48BC... And even after the destruction of hundreds of thousands of scrolls, "daughter libraries" were established and the transmission of knowledge continued. + +In other words, even after the catastrophe(s) and loss of precious knowledge, the library - in different forms and under different names - renewed itself. The library of Alexandria is certainly one of the mythological and imaginary places of human history, but what it shows at the same time is that all libraries - even if destroyed - represent a process and, at the same time, a relation to all other libraries. Unlike the Great Library of Alexandria that required a vast storage space, today we are able to create and recreate numerous "daughter libraries" or "shadow libraries" on the internet. + +It requires space, but it can be moved quickly, replicated and renewed easier than physical books. The Library is also a process which entails a relation between the books, the librarians and the readers, it always already also includes a relation between books themselves, intertwined references, the neverending process of writing and rewriting, reading and rereading, so in a sense, the library is everything but a place. Yet, once you are in the library, or reading a book, you are creating a space, perhaps a different space (Foucault's heterotopia) which is always related to temporality. + +The fact that some ancient text survived has, paradoxically, nothing to do with the material libraries ("places") but with the process of copying and recopying, with creating and recreating imaginary places that are in relation to each other through the diligent work and care of custodians. diff --git a/content/shard/technologicaldeterminism.md b/content/shard/technologicaldeterminism.md index e9069bc..fcd89c9 100644 --- a/content/shard/technologicaldeterminism.md +++ b/content/shard/technologicaldeterminism.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ +++ title = "Technological determinism" +glassblowers = ["sasasavanovic.md"] ++++ technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes technical developments are the key driver of history and social change.