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

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…[Read more]

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 w…[Read more]

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)

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 a…[Read more]