From d4d1d20a454765d0136cee9597ca1cd70e291eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcell Mars Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:35:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] !publish! --- content/mirror/ubu.md | 2 +- content/reflection/shardslist.md | 2 +- content/shard/processnotplace.md | 10 +++++++++- content/shard/technologicaldeterminism.md | 1 + 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/mirror/ubu.md b/content/mirror/ubu.md index 21eb2ef..edd4ea2 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"] +++ ## The ambient diff --git a/content/reflection/shardslist.md b/content/reflection/shardslist.md index 1a0dd22..d65e889 100644 --- a/content/reflection/shardslist.md +++ b/content/reflection/shardslist.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ has_shards = ["custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", "effectivealtruism.md", "latentimage.md", "longextinction.md", "library.md", "theimaginary.md", "existentialism.md", "maintenance.md", "neoliberallibrary.md", "processnotplace.md", "protocols.md", "senseofimagination.md", "toolsinrelationalpractices.md", -"ordermaintenance.md", "migrationregime.md", "crisis.md"] +"ordermaintenance.md", "technologicaldeterminism.md", "migrationregime.md", "crisis.md"] +++ List of shards. Will be deleted... 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. From 906e48e0d6acffd960c842689abca75635983a0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alessandro Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 02:42:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Add 'content/reflection/relational.md' --- content/reflection/relational.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reflection/relational.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. + From d0deb3d4defd43fe1e05875f72f44f33087a94f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alessandro Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 02:42:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] !publish! --- content/mirror/ubu.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/mirror/ubu.md b/content/mirror/ubu.md index edd4ea2..7acacd7 100644 --- a/content/mirror/ubu.md +++ b/content/mirror/ubu.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ +++ title = "Ubu" -has_reflections = ["shardslist.md", "cristobal.md", "endtimes.md"] +has_reflections = ["shardslist.md", "cristobal.md", "endtimes.md", "relational.md"] +++ ## The ambient From 0a889ed33c738ff3f650814456e1c205e7a1ec66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcell Mars Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:45:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] !publish! --- content/reflection/endtimes.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/reflection/endtimes.md b/content/reflection/endtimes.md index 10f09a8..4af732e 100644 --- a/content/reflection/endtimes.md +++ b/content/reflection/endtimes.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ +++ -title = "The Art of Living in the End Times" +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"] +++