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• Bacevic - Unthinking Knowledge Production: From Post-Covid to Post-Carbon Futures  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 25 January 2024.

  Bacevic, J. (2021) ‘Unthinking Knowledge Production: From Post-Covid to Post-Carbon Futures’. Globalizations 18 (7), 1206–1218

• Stengers, I. (2017) Another Science Is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science.  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 23 November 2023.

  Stengers, I. (2017) Another Science Is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science. 1st edition. trans. by Muecke, S. Cambridge ; Medford, MA: Polity. Chapter 5: ‘‘Another Science is Possible!’ A Plea for Slow Science’.

• Baillot, A. (2023) From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis. Open Book Publishers. Chapter 3: What the Climate Crisis Does to Text  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 16 October 2023.

  This chapter proposes a reassessment of the quality criteria for digital text developed in the previous chapter in the light of the climate crisis. It considers the environmental cost of the quantity, quality, circulation and complexity of information that has now been reached in north-western countries. Elaborating on criteria for measuring the environmental impact of text production, dissemination and preservation, this chapter envisions tomorrow's strategies for textual content in a context of greater respect for the limited natural resources that are at our disposal, arguing that the limited environmental weight of raw digital text calls for a reassessment of its role in preservation strategies. This chapter closes with a self-reflexive case study dedicated to the carbon footprint of the book From Handwriting to Footprinting itself.

• Dissapropriation chapter Rivera Garza  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 17 April 2023.

  Garza, Cristina Rivera (2020). The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation.
  Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020.

  From the chapter on Disappropriation – Writing with and for the Dead, we will read and discuss from page 52 (Disappropriation:A poetics of community) until page 56 (first paragraph, ending with "how the community will produce and reproduce itself". (pp 43-78)

• Introduction Rivera Garza  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 17 April 2023.

  Garza, Cristina Rivera (2020). The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation.
  Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020.

  From the Introduction, we will read and discuss from last paragraph on page 3 ("Writing against the status quo") until page 7 (first paragraph ending:"of what occurs.") (pp 0-20)

• Ken Chen, ‘Authenticity Obsession, or Conceptualism as Minstrel Show’, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 11 June 2015  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 24 March 2023.

  Starting from Kenneth Goldsmiths' appropriation of the autopsy of police-murdered Michael Brown as a piece of conceptual poetry, Ken Chen asks challenging questions about the way this incident was not an accident.

  From reading this text, we understood that an anti-colonial, feminist practice of Open Content would need to formulate “a politics of appropriation”. Without it, it risks repeating the colonial/white (?) gesture of treating the world as resource (primary, “raw” material, dry text, pure content, pure evidence, anthropology), “to render it dumbly into things”, mere material to own; a site of violation; or simply something to instrumentalize (PDF, p.2)

  " What is the line separating one writer as a poet of witness and another as a poet of expropriation—and what prevents either from being a producer of the kitsch of atrocity?

  Conceptual Poetry has no politics of appropriation. One could say that the movement’s major theoretical texts spend significantly more time discussing, say, John Cage, Sol Le Witt, and Walter Benjamin than they do the power relations of cultural exchange (PDF page 11)"

  We would ask you to read the text beforehand, and then when we meet, we will read some parts together more closely.

• Extinction Internet - Geert Lovink  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 13 January 2023.

  Extinction Internet is Geert Lovink’s inaugural lecture, held on November 18, 2022 as Professor of Art and Network Cultures, within Modern and Contemporary Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam.

• Constant, CC4r  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 22 November 2022.

  Constant, ‘CC4r * Collective Conditions for Re-Use’, 6 October 2020.

• Jara Rocha and Seda Gürses, ‘A Catalog of Formats for Digital Discomfort’  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 22 November 2022.

  Jara Rocha and Seda Gürses, ‘A Catalog of Formats for Digital Discomfort’ (The Institute for Technology in The Public Interest/Digital Life Initiative, 2021). Constant, ‘CC4r * Collective Conditions for Re-Use’, 6 October 2020, https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html.

• Rita Raley, Tactical Media (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 17 October 2022.

  Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections between the world’s corporate and political elite created by Josh On and Futurefarmers, to Black Shoals, a financial market visualization that is intended to be both aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embrace a broad range of oppositional practices. In Tactical Media, Rita Raley provides a critical exploration of the new media art activism that has emerged out of, and in direct response to, postindustrialism and neoliberal globalization. Through close readings of projects by the DoEAT group, the Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Civil Disobedience, and other tactical media groups, she articulates their divergent methods and goals and locates a virtuosity that is also boldly political. Contemporary models of resistance and dissent, she finds, mimic the decentralized and virtual operations of global capital and the post-9/11 security state to exploit and undermine the system from within. Emphasizing the profound shift from strategy to tactics that informs new media art-activism, Raley assesses the efficacy of its symbolic performances, gamings, visualizations, and hacks. With its cogent analyses of new media art and its social impact, Tactical Media makes a timely and much needed contribution to wider debates about political activism, contemporary art, and digital technology.

• Jeff Pooley, ‘Surveillance Publishing’.  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 5 May 2022.

  Pooley, J. (2022) ‘Surveillance Publishing’. The Journal of Electronic Publishing [online] 25 (1). available from

• 'Misleading metrics' and the ecology of scholarly publishing.  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 9 March 2022.

  Kirsten Bell. 2018. 'Misleading metrics' and the ecology of scholarly publishing. In Predatory Publishing. Post Office Press, Rope Press and punctum books, pp. 26-33. https://doi.org/10.17613/M6N58CK3D

• An Instrument for Adoration: A Mini-Manifesto Against Metrics for the Humanities  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 9 March 2022.

  Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, “‘An Instrument for Adoration’: A Mini-Manifesto Against Metrics for the Humanities (To Be Elaborated Upon at a Further Date),” in Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir (Coventry: Post Office Press, 2018), pp 26-33. https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:19823/.

• Number crunching: transforming higher education into ‘performance data’  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 10 February 2022.

  Number crunching: transforming higher education into ‘performance data’

• Trying to Say ‘No’ to Rankings and Metrics Case Studies from Francophone West Africa, South Africa, Latin America and the Netherlands  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 10 February 2022.

  Trying to Say ‘No’ to Rankings and Metrics
  Case Studies from Francophone West Africa, South Africa, Latin America and the Netherlands

• Marres and De Rijcke, ‘From Indicators to Indicating Interdisciplinarity'  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 14 January 2022.

  Marres, Noortje, and Sarah de Rijcke. ‘From Indicators to Indicating Interdisciplinarity: A Participatory Mapping Methodology for Research Communities in-the-Making’. Quantitative Science Studies, 29 June 2020, 1041–55.

• Extract from Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press.  
  Uploaded by Janneke Adema on 12 November 2021.
• Love (2010) Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading  
  Uploaded by Tobias Steiner on 25 August 2021.
• Sedgwick, E. 1997. ‘Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You’.  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Tobias Steiner on 25 August 2021.
• Zaveri (2020) Gender and Equity in Openness: Forgotten Spaces  
  In category: Readings.
  Uploaded by Tobias Steiner on 12 May 2021.