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]

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.