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]

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

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.

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…[Read more]

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

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

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’

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

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.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2012) ‘Nothing Comes Without Its World: Thinking with Care’ The Sociological Review
What is the significance of caring for thinking and knowing? Thinking and knowing are essentially relational processes. Grounded on a relational conception of ontology the essay argues that ‘thinking with care’ is a vital requisi…[Read more]