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    <title>Systems Aesthetics | Course Catalog | The New School</title>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Commons initiatives in the food and energy system, such as community-supported agriculture schemes and energy communities, are often praised for their contribution to decommodifying and democratising the provision of essential needs. However, such initiatives often remain limited in scope and accessibility due to their small size and inability to benefit from economies of scale. Many are thus building larger networks to diffuse their practices and achieve political change. In doing so, they pursue alternative pathways for scaling the commons outside conventional market growth. This article investigates the role of such ‘commons networks’ in organising and scaling a commons-based economy. It draws on theorisations of polycentric governance and politico-economic regimes to understand how such networks are governed, what roles different participants play, what scaling strategies they develop, and what achievements and challenges they encounter. Data is drawn from qualitative case studies of networks among community-supported agriculture and energy communities in the UK, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Belgium, using interviews, observation, and document analyses. The article reveals a trend towards centralisation in network governance, different scaling approaches between the food and energy sectors, as well as challenges of commodification and institutionalisation, which inform the strategies and impact of commons networks.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Other Radio — part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025 — is an internet radio platform, an artistic and curatorial project, dedicated to exploring the conceptual and physical spaces of the margins and the conceptual networks and stories that build and permeate these marginal spaces. The content leitmotif of the radio, its topos and the resulting ethos are based on the understanding of the space of the margin as a space of radical openness and creative productivity, which enables a minoritarian-becoming directed in several directions, a becoming that is so characteristic of the margins as “zones of unpredictability at the edges of discursive stability, where contradictory discourses overlap, or where discrepant kinds of meaning-making converge.” (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, From the Margins, 1994)

Robida Collective, the main initiator and implementer of The Other Radio project, is a collective that works at the intersection of the written and spoken word — with Robida magazine and Radio Robida — and spatial practices developed in relation to the village of Topolò/Topolove, where the collective lives and works. During its many years of activity — its beginnings date back to 2015 — the collective has settled precisely in the space of the margin, even better, in the space of the margin of the already marginalized community of Slovenes in Italy. In its research, while investigating marginal practices and discourses, the collective encountered the productive aspect of occupying intermediate spaces, which were for one reason or another throughout history occupied by those who could be placed at different points in time under the philosophical umbrella term of the other: on the one hand, marginalized social or ethnic communities, on the other animals and plants and in general all non-human entities, which have often been more or less intentionally overlooked in the humanistic tradition. This productive aspect was best presented by bell hooks when she described the experiences of marginalized black Americans and their specific worldview made possible by occupying the space of the margin: “To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body. [...] Living as we did-on the edge-we developed a particular way of seeing reality. We looked both from the outside in and and from the inside out. We focused our attention on the center as well as on the margin. We understood both. This mode of seeing reminded us of the existence of a whole universe, a main body made up of both margin and center.” (bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 1984) And it is precisely this double view and this privileged position that we, those of us who live on the margins, occupy, that we want to expand, present and further explore through The Other Radio, as part of the ECC GO! 25 project.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These fungi also hold soil together; their bodies are woven into the aggregate and produce sticky chemicals that are hard to break down. Take away that scaffolding and soils would erode and disappear.

People think they know what soil and dirt is. With high-resolution imaging, we’re starting to make it visible and show that it’s alive. These are ecosystems, with as much complexity as what’s happening aboveground. I think 2026 is really going to be the year where people start talking about fungal restoration. It’s not enough to just add native plants to restore ecosystems; it has to be native plants together with native fungi....

I was there as the perception was starting to change. Studies were starting to show that plants actually get huge benefits from fungi.

Later, I realized that they’re powerful actors in their own right. My Ph.D. thesis explored whether noncognitive organisms can discriminate between good and bad partners. For instance, from experiments, we know that plants will digest one of those arbuscules if they’re not getting enough phosphorus from the fungus; they can abort the interaction.

But the fungi make choices as well. We found that a fungus can avoid trading with plants in the shade, which have less carbon to trade. They trade differently depending on how many other fungal competitors are present. They can hoard resources in their network and artificially inflate the price.

Trade wars! So a fungus is a bit like a stockbroker or merchant.

Exactly. We’ve been studying fungal trade as an underground market and developing techniques to track, in real time, when and where important exchange deals take place, how fungi navigate space, how they decide when and how much carbon to send down each pathway, how they build their road systems and how they optimize that supply-chain design.

Are fungi capitalists? No. They’ve developed a system that is much more sophisticated than the economic system humans use. But it has allowed us to use economics as a mathematical framework to analyze these trade strategies, to make predictions and to see if the fungi follow them. The frontier is linking what we’re seeing on the micron scale to the global data to understand the role of fungi in the carbon cycle.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-12-07T07:24:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Mid-Hudson Library System is a cooperative public library system, chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in 1959. Our organization serves Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam, and Ulster counties and has 66 member libraries.]]></description>
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    <title>ACTIVE Literary Recovery Network Concept Note - Cita Press to share - Google Docs</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-18T20:50:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We propose a three-year project that will: 1) support the work of feminist open access publisher Cita Press and 2) enable Cita Press and partners to pilot a new model for knowledge preservation and recovery efforts. This project takes on the systemic issues facing those working to discover, preserve, and amplify cultural history by forming a network model. The model will foster an ecosystem of interdependence, sustainability, and wider engagement with diverse audiences.
The pilot network for the Cultural Recovery System will bring together presses, organizations, and institutions who work on feminist literary recovery projects. Partners will work toward a common agenda while sharing resources, expertise, audiences, and more. Together, they will develop new processes to aid the federated expansion of the network. All project outputs, including process and evaluation documentation, will be published under an OA license throughout the project. Partners will engage audiences in person and online, with a focus on public libraries and community colleges for events and workshops. Partners will engage students and independent or early career scholars through fellowships and connect with community college and public library constituencies. 
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    <title>This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-26T02:12:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Standing in stark opposition to these trends is New Session, an online literary zine accessed via the ancient-but-still-functional internet protocol Telnet.

Like any other zine, New Session features user-submitted poems, essays, and other text-based art. But the philosophy behind each of its digital pages is anything but orthodox.

“In the face of right-wing politics, climate change, a forever pandemic, and the ever-present hunger of imperialist capitalism, we have all been forced to adapt,” reads the intro to New Session’s third issue, titled Adaptations, which was released earlier this month. “Both you and this issue will change with each viewing. Select a story by pressing the key associated with it in the index. Read it again. Come back to it tomorrow. Is it the same? Are you?”

The digital zine is accessible on the web via a browser-based Telnet client, or if you’re a purist like me, via the command line. As the intro promises, each text piece changes—adapts—depending on various conditions, like what time of day you access it or how many times you’ve viewed it. Some pieces change every few minutes, while others update every time a user looks at it, like gazing at fish inside a digital aquarium....

If you’re of a certain age, you might remember Telnet as a server-based successor to BBS message boards, the latter of which operated by connecting computers directly. It hearkens back to a slower internet age, where you’d log in maybe once or twice a day to read what’s new. Technically, Telnet predates the internet itself, originally developed as a networked teletype system in the late ‘60s for the internet’s military precursor, the ARPAnet. Years later, it was officially adopted as one of the earliest internet protocols, and today it remains the oldest application protocol still in use—though mainly by enthusiasts like Hurtle.

New Session intentionally embraces this slower pace, making it more like light-interactive fiction than a computer game. For Hurtle, the project isn’t just retro novelty—it’s a radical rejection of the addictive social media and algorithmic attention-mining that have defined the modern day internet....

“You have to avoid the temptation to nostalgize, because that’s really dangerous and it just turns you into a conservative boomer,” laughs Hurtle. “But we can imagine what aspects of this we can take and claim for our own. We can use it as a window to understand what’s broken about the current state of the internet. You just can’t retreat to it.”...

Projects like New Session make a lot of sense in a time when more people are looking backward to earlier iterations of the internet—not to see where it all went wrong, but to excavate old ideas that could have shaped it in a radically different way, and perhaps still can. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>poetry zines media_archaeology protocol networks</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_books/johanna-druckers-affluvia-the-toxic-off-gassing-of-affluent-culture/">
    <title>Johanna Drucker’s Affluvia: The toxic off-gassing of affluent culture - The Brooklyn Rail</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-18T18:05:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_books/johanna-druckers-affluvia-the-toxic-off-gassing-of-affluent-culture/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Highlighting how no/thing (or act) is a thing-in-itself, but carries with it a plethora of histories, traditions collisions; a complex of il/legalities, l’égalités, vortices, indices, travesties; an [in]habitable palimpsest of roughed-up recombinant / itinerant rigged torqued contorts, Drucker discloses how, for example, each coffee bean carries the weight of the hands that grew it, planted it, labored over it, the molecular configuration of the water that contributed to it, the cup that holds it, the grinder that grinds it, the packaging that houses it, the contours of electrical circuits, cups, labels, spoons, cords—each object embedded in an intra-dependent complex of histories, technologies, where each micro moment, a vast network of sociopolitical economic re-sources, of pollution, dissolution, re-solutions, emissions, submissions, whispers, slaughters, sod-squalor cinders, abscesses of ominous dissonance, immanence, and (im)permanence as she demystifies interlocking patterns towards a sustainable future.

And through roughly 60,000 words and 328 pages of deliciously technical idioms, iron mining, sand mining, strip mining, data mining, graphs, percentages, socio-ethnographic and bio-chemical research, the text also feels very Steinian....

Through a full-bodied brew, a robust blend of media/messages, Drucker’s illustrated study explodes galaxies; detailing cultivation, harvests, marketing packaging, aluminum foil, flexible plastics packing, shipping transportation, transmissions, emissions, tracking their flow through interlocking patterns across time, space, cycles and systems; a contextatic flex of effects reflective of all that refigures, prefigures through figures and grounds, questioning where the ground is when what is or has been is rewound in a future which is sutured in a fracturous sprachage packaged through invisible yet ever-present technologies.]]></description>
<dc:subject>supply_chains implosion_method materiality things networks</dc:subject>
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    <title>How the USPS Delivers Mail to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-08T01:04:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/mule-mail-delivery-supai-arizona/682619/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ust after 8 o’clock one spring morning, 2,000 feet below the rim of the Grand Canyon, Nate Chamberlain, wearing chaps and cowboy boots, emerged from the post office in Supai, Arizona, with the last of the morning mail. He tucked a Priority Mail envelope into a plastic U.S. Postal Service crate lashed to one of the six mules waiting outside. Then he climbed into the saddle on the lead mule, gave a kick of his spurs, and set off down the dirt road leading out of the village...

It was the beginning of what may be the country’s most unusual USPS route—the very last to deliver mail by mule. The mule train would travel eight miles along a creek lined with cottonwoods, through a narrow gorge, and up a switchbacking trail carved into the cliffside to reach a hitching post at the top of the canyon, where a sign reads US MAIL DELIVERY ZONE. There, Chamberlain would drop off the outgoing mail with a driver—who would take it another 68 miles to the next post office, in the town of Peach Springs—and pick up the incoming mail to deliver back to the village....

Supai, the only village on the reservation of the Havasupai Tribe, is one of the most remote communities in the country. It is accessible only by foot, and by helicopter when the weather allows. The mule train, which makes the 16-mile, six-hour loop up and down the canyon five days a week, is perhaps the most extreme manifestation of the USPS mandate to “render postal services to all communities.” Mail delivery in Supai involves a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves. It is slow and drudging work—starting at 3 a.m., when Chamberlain rises to feed the pack string, and continuing to sundown as fences are fixed and horseshoes are replaced—that belies an era of instant delivery, optimized everything, and “government efficiency.” It also offers a glimpse into what the Postal Service can mean for rural America,]]></description>
<dc:subject>mail networks postal_service logistics animals animal_media</dc:subject>
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    <title>Digital Media Off-the-Grid – Rory Solomon &amp; Evan Malmgren, Spring 2022</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-29T01:37:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://classes.codeatlang.com/digital-media-off-the-grid/2022-spring/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>grids networks infrastructures other_networks</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://flaminghydra.com/issue-208/#democracy-against-democracy">
    <title>Majority tyranny / Ancient grease</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-01T15:32:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://flaminghydra.com/issue-208/#democracy-against-democracy</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What are the things we want even if we can’t have democracy? Bread and circuses might do. Would it be enough to have some basic rights, somehow guaranteed by fiat, robot, or treaty? Perhaps, as in parts of China, we can forego power over the distant national government but still have a voice in shaping the local places that affect our lives most. Would it be sufficient to have a decent user experience, like a Google Suite for civilization, plus a modicum of customer service? Perhaps the vote no longer matters, given enough convenience and a low enough price....

Experiments with citizen assemblies try to approximate a similar kind of utopia with randomly selected juries designing policy—potentially, in place of politicians. The more enlightened blockchain people design for the promise of “coordination,” whereby communities and economies could proceed through signals and feedback, without the need for coercive collective decision-making. Meanwhile, the “campaign financialization” of the latest election cycle, with its flurry of prediction markets and candidate-branded securities, is the glimpse of a world in which betting supplants ballots, sublimating the common good into the machinations of speculation. Maybe it would be simpler to just accept that humans just keep coming back to kings...

When I wander through the foothills where I live, among the mosses, barks, bugs, and streams, the unleashed dogs and anxious deer, the microbes and the ancient rocks, I feel embarrassed to think about democracy. None of the creatures there vote, none of them have constitutions, none of them purport to idealize a theoretical justice that does not exist in practice. I want to learn from them, while also knowing we are part of that world, as are the most exalted aspirations we have for ourselves. But our old idols will not save us now.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy collaboration organization networks</dc:subject>
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    <title>XOXO - Erin Kissane's small internet website</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-19T21:51:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://erinkissane.com/xoxo</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The networks are worse now than they were four years ago. So much that I don’t think we could do CTP now if we needed to. And there’s a pretty strong belief in many quarters that because of corporate predation and human nature, no many-to-many social system can ultimately be anything but corrosive.

“The Dark Forest” is the title of the second novel in Liu Cixin’s Three Body trilogy. I love Maggie’s illustration and summary of the dark forest/cozy web view of the social internet, which pulls in ideas from Yancey Strickler and Venkatesh Rao.

The Dark Forest model, which gained popularity because of Three Body Problem and was adapted for the web I think most elegantly by Maggie Appleton, sort of formalizes this. It posits that the public internet is now so hostile to authentic human sociability that real interaction has to go underground, into private Slacks and Discords and group chats. And this is happening both because the platforms themselves are extractive surveillance monsters and because they’ve incentivized so many predatory, PvP behaviors.

In this light, going underground seems wise and protective.

My fundamental discomfort with that conclusion is that when those of us who have found our people and managed to get even semi-stable retreat into private spaces, we are slamming the doors on all the people who haven’t got there yet. In Dark Forest terms, we’re leaving them up there to get eaten.

And yes, we do need few-to-few connections. We need spaces of trust in which we can acknowledge meaningful disagreements and still pursue our common goals collectively, which is essentially impossible to do in public.

But we still have to find each other.

And again, projects like COVID Tracking—or projects that bulk-bought masks and biked them around New York City, or abortion funds, or the initiatives helping people get their trans kids to safer places or their families out of Gaza—keep demonstrating that we need a big-world social internet to mount a collective responses to crisis.

So I think the answer can’t be to cede everything above ground to billionaires and demagogues and the predatory forces they’ve incentivized.

And we can’t keep accepting the increasing poisonous status quo the social internet…

[(capitalism)]

…has backed us into.

Which leaves us with only one option, which is we fix the fucking networks.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks social_networks solar_networks</dc:subject>
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    <title>ABC Questionnaire</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-28T16:39:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://abcglossary.xyz/questionnaire</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Map your local area network (LAN). We are all part of a local area network (A local area network (LAN) is a collection of devices (e.g. your cell phone, laptop, desktop, printer) connected together in one physical location (e.g. in a building, office, or your home). A LAN is made up of cables, access points, switches, routers, and other components that enable devices to connect to internal servers, web servers, and other LANs via wide area networks.). Who are you connected with and how? Are you wireless by way of wifi or hardwired by way of an ethernet cord?

Locate your server. We’re all archiving our data on a server. Where are you storing your memory? Look up the server for your personal website or for your photos on your phone.

Go for an internet walk. Where can you see the internet in your neighborhood or local area (e.g. cables, symbols)? what kind of infrastructure do you want to hold your community? if your community was an internet garden, what do you imagine it would look like?

Study your network. Our world is made up of (data) clouds, (software) bugs, (internet) gardens, and (server) farms. how are you tending to them online? how are you tending to them offline? What is the status of your connection?

Create a short manifesto. Develop a vision, guiding principles, and values for an anti-colonial Black feminist critical media ecology, a liberatory vision for our current and future of technology and cyber experience. How do you want to web together? How is your vision inclusive of our bodies and the land that resources our connections and lives with our data?
Imagine new “terms & conditions”. With each device, website, and application you agree to a set of terms & conditions predetermined by someone else for how you connect. Collect words or phrases that you use to think or talk about the internet, the web, and technology. Are there new terms and conditions for these terms you can dream of? What are the ways you want to be connected to technology, your community, and/or the natural world around you? What are the conditions that will help us create this world together? ]]></description>
<dc:subject>terms_conditions terms_of_service contracts networks other_networks infrastructure infrastructural_literacy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Ravon Ruffin Feliz - Head of Community Initiatives - New_ Public | LinkedIn</title>
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    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ravon Ruffin Feliz (she/they) is a new york-based artist, cyber anthropologist, writer, educator, and founder of Citation Studio, a Black feminist experimental thinking studio mapping the possibilities of computing, archives, and nature with/on/for/at the internet. she is interested in how the internet maps onto, under, and between our geographies, and is exploring the relationship between computing, language, and colonialism. she is currently building an open access glossary for an anti-colonial Black feminist critical media ecology, or abc glossary for short, toward liberation from harmful tech infrastructure.

As the current Head of Community Initiatives at New_ Public, Ravon designs programs that center communities to shape the future of digital public spaces. Her past work is as a community designer, facilitator, and strategic visionary with 10+ years of experience curating public engagements with art, archives, and the internet — URL and AFK.

She previously led the curriculum design for the New Museum's cultural incubator NEW INC, in addition to holding positions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture across education, public programs, and digital strategy design. Ravon has a M.A. in American Studies from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., with a concentration in Museums & Material Culture, and a degree in Anthropology from VCU in Richmond, VA, two cultural landscapes that have deeply shaped her practice.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.are.na/editorial/introducing-ecologies-of-entanglement">
    <title>Introducing Ecologies of Entanglement | Are.na Editorial</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-28T15:53:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.are.na/editorial/introducing-ecologies-of-entanglement</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The entanglement between your computer, the natural environment, and you is actually quite profound—especially as we look to the future. With this idea in mind, Are.na Editorial and Dark Properties are collaborating on a new series exploring natural ecologies, networked technologies, and those of us caught in the web of both. 

Right now, the convergence between realms is becoming more obvious, as new technologies like decentralized protocols, artificial intelligence, and biomimicry take direct inspiration from living systems. Similarly, natural ecologies can benefit from new approaches to technologies like satellite imagery, using DAOs to organize ecosystem restoration, or navigational tools that attune us to our natural surroundings, rather than pull our attention away from them.

In our series of forthcoming interviews, we’ll talk to Claire L. Evans, Austin Wade Smith, Agnes Cameron, Casey Tang, and Cortney Cassidy about the various ways they locate their work (and themselves) between natural and technological realms. Each piece will spotlight a developing area of overlap—including biocomputing, regenerative decentralized frameworks, Indigenous cybernetics, and remote sensing, to name a few—and will be published every other week on Are.na Editorial, plus sent out in email form through the Dark Properties newsletter (subscribe here!).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lush-reciprocal-entanglements/">
    <title>Lush, Reciprocal Entanglements | Los Angeles Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-28T15:52:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lush-reciprocal-entanglements/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Most garden stories stem from Eden or its equivalent. British author Olivia Laing’s latest book, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (2024), interweaves garden memoir with cultural criticism to explore both the ugly history and the revolutionary potential of trying to create paradise on earth. If, as Laing observes, the evergreen human obsession with gardens is an effort to reclaim the keys to Eden, access remains difficult. From wartime kitchen gardens to sweeping English manor grounds to potted tomatoes on fire escapes, gardens typically present themselves as places of beauty and refuge. But, Laing writes, “[t]he story of the garden has from its Edenic beginning always also been a story about what or who is excluded or cast out, from types of plants to types of people.” Laing’s declared mission is “to count the cost of building paradise, but also to peer into the past and see if [she] could find versions of Eden that weren’t founded on exclusion and exploitation, that might harbor ideas that could be vital in the difficult years ahead.”

The Garden Against Time is the result of those efforts. It’s a book about the idea of a garden. It’s also a book about the making of one....

In a sense, the kinds of conversations and community-making Laing experienced that day are already bearing fruit. The Garden Against Time joins a recent wave of books by nonbinary people and women writing about their personal relationships with the natural world amid the larger context of the climate crisis: Camille Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (2023), Emily Raboteau’s Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” (2024), Sabrina Imbler’s How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (2022), Marchelle Farrell’s Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside—Finding Home in an English Country Garden (2023), and my own garden memoir–cum–natural history published earlier this year, to name just a few. I think we’re all of us interested in the different ways in which, despite humanity’s best/worst efforts, the more-than-human-world still carries and exerts power in people’s lives: how our bodies are also natural bodies. The mycelial networks are doing their job.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.are.na/julieta-colantonio/1967220">
    <title>postpunk interwebs | Are.na</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-07T14:53:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.are.na/julieta-colantonio/1967220</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://commtechny.org/2023/12/07/ctny-trains-bvlbancha-groups-on-community-tech-pnk/">
    <title>CTNY Trains Bvlbancha groups on Community Tech &amp; PNK</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-29T03:47:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://commtechny.org/2023/12/07/ctny-trains-bvlbancha-groups-on-community-tech-pnk/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Founder Kamra Hakim and participants from Forest Fringe Farm (and also Activation Residency) configured and built their own PNK for use on the farm in Bethel, New York.  The region upstate is an example of rural areas that lack broadband infrastructure, leaving many without sufficient internet access. With their new functional and teaching PNKs, these artists, organizers and farmers intend to share their connectivity and new technical knowledge with others who attend their programs and visit their farm, expanding on their practices of community-building and sustainability....

The collective of organizers from Bvlbancha Liberation Radio and Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange -- Monique, Nathan, and Jen -- returned for the second time to El Puente’s Community Tech Lab, along with their collaborator Govinda from Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) on the West Coast.  While the group from Bulbancha (Chatah for New Orleans) has already enhanced their SwampNet with the Portable Network Kit, they arrived to Brooklyn to reconfigure the networking gear to their more specific needs in the community. They also have expanded their knowledge and gear to include a Point-to-Point antenna setup that will increase their connectivity range by ten kilometers....

This November and December, CTNY hosted members of the Bvlbancha Liberation Radio and Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange for a four-day training intensive at the Community Tech Lab at El Puente. CTNY Co-Director Raul Enriquez and educators Danny Peralta and Erica Kermani facilitated the modular curriculum on community technology, digital justice, and the Portable Network Kit.  The cohort of four mutual aid and media justice organizers from Bulbancha, the Chatah name for the land we know as New Orleans, plan to further equip rural and indigenous communities at the end of the bayous in Southern Louisiana with autonomous wireless and emergency preparedness technologies and strategies.  

Their SwampNet wireless network will expand resource distribution and communication across an existing network of mutual aid groups to prioritize the safety and wellness of their communities during major disasters and crises.  With intensified hurricanes and the immediate impacts of climate change, the participants — Monique, Nathan, Kaliq, and Jen — are familiar with infrastructural failures and damage and weeks without power and internet as they did during Hurricane Ida in 2021....

CTNY shared with the group additional resources like the DiscoTech and PNK zines as well as the Teaching Community Technology handbook. The participants shared their own zines and book, adding them to the collection at the Community Tech Lab:]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bvlbancharadio.net/">
    <title>Bvlbancha Radio</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-29T03:42:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bvlbancharadio.net/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bvlbancha Liberation Radio is an Indigenous led, micro-grid communication
and collective power building station based in Bvlbancha (New Orleans), providing Indigenous news, views, music and a community channel

for environmental concerns in the greater Gulf South. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/">
    <title>We Need To Rewild The Internet</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-17T02:37:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.

We all know this. We see it each time we reach for our phones. But what most people have missed is how this concentration reaches deep into the internet’s infrastructure — the pipes and protocols, cables and networks, search engines and browsers. These structures determine how we build and use the internet, now and in the future....

The Road To Rewilding

The list of infrastructures to be diversified is long; as well as pipes and protocols, there are operating systems, browsers, search engines, DNS, social media, advertising, cloud providers, app stores, AI companies and more. Not only are the technologies involved complex, but they’re also intertwined. But freedoms are additive. Showing what can be done in one area creates opportunities in others. First, let’s start with regulation.
The New Drive For Antitrust & Competition

You don’t always need a big new idea like rewilding to frame and motivate major structural change. Sometimes reviving an old idea will do. President Biden’s 2021 “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” revived the original, pro-worker, trust-busting scope and urgency of the early 20th-century legal activist and Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, along with rules and framings that date back to before the 1930s New Deal....

Instead, we need more public-funded tech research with publicly released findings aimed at serving the collective good. Such research should investigate power concentration in the internet ecosystem and practical alternatives to it. We need to recognize that much of the internet’s infrastructure is a de facto utility, that any monopolies are critical public resources that we must regain control of.

We must ensure regulatory and financial incentives and support for alternatives including common-pool resource management, community networks, and the myriad other collaborative mechanisms people have always used to provide essential public goods like clean water, roads and defense....

We need internet standards to be global, open and generative. They’re the wire models that give the internet its planetary form, the gossamer-thin but steely-strong threads holding together its interoperability against fragmentation and permanent dominance. We need them to work. As internet engineer Jari Arkko put it in 2020, for the health of the network and all our security, SDOs must “ensure that key aspects of the evolving internet stay open, e.g. through open, standardized interfaces and that open source continues to be an important building block.” If fundamental internet protocols don’t maximize the values of interoperability, generality and openness, then they’re simply not the internet...

Ecologists have re-oriented their field as a “crisis discipline,” a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a shared story of where we want to go. It’s a shared vision with many strategies. The instruments we need to shift away from extractive technological monocultures are at hand or ready to be built. 

Just as a diverse “pocket forest” is the surest way to regenerate urban vegetation, a global network with multiple different ways “to internet” is the best insurance policy for future innovation and resilience. We need to rewild the internet for the future, for our freedom to build tools and spaces, and to share knowledge, ideas and stories that haven’t been anticipated by the internet’s current overlords and cannot be contained.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://mediafieldsjournal.org/webs-of-care/#5">
    <title>Media Fields Journal - Webs of Care</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-15T00:37:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mediafieldsjournal.org/webs-of-care/#5</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This essay considers the ideal of the networked forest as a model for digital networks, and specifically as a model for networks that might facilitate mutualistic relationships, reciprocity, and collective well-being. Not so long ago, social theorists tended to talk about trees—at least in their capacity as imaginative resources for thinking through design, technology, politics, and collective life—as too hierarchical or too ordered.[6] This moment seems long gone. Developments in biology and ecology, wider acknowledgement of indigenous knowledge about specific plant communities, and the cascading failures of industrial forestry have transformed mainstream understanding of forests.[7] In recent popular writing, trees are discussed not as isolated entities, but as nodal, networked agencies in communicative multispecies assemblages. Simard’s research on biological mutualism among Douglas firs, paper birch, and mycorrhizal fungi has hit a cultural nerve, and technologists, like the general public, have been enthralled with her vision of resource sharing, resilience, and cooperation. This new image of the networked forest has, in turn, been ventured as a hopeful vision for technologies and media systems.]]></description>
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    <title>Togethernet: Programming Culture, Building Consent, with Xin Xin &amp; Charlotte Yaqing - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-02T05:19:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1624DqhP40</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/wet-networks-2/">
    <title>Queens Museum | Wet Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-10T03:39:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/wet-networks-2/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wet Networks is installed alongside the Queens Museum’s long-term exhibition of The Relief Map of New York City’s Water Supply System, and is presented in partnership with Rhizome and CycleX. Wet Networks features artifacts and commissioned projects from Geek Camp 2021: Neversink Never Ever. Taking place in July 2021, this was the first of artist Shu Lea Cheang’s annual “Geek Camp” convenings, at CycleX, an experimental farm and cultural center located in what is today known as the town of Andes, New York.

Invited curator, Celine Wong Katzman, chose artists whose practices resonated with the context of the watershed to take part in the camp at the site located just a few miles uphill from where the East Branch of the Delaware River feeds the Pepacton reservoir. Tecumseh Ceaser, Nabil Hassein, Melanie Hoff, Christopher Lin, Jan Mun, and TJ Shin considered Cheang’s prompts to walk the trails, consider the ebbs and flows of the reservoir, and engage waves as carriers to recall buried, bittersweet sentiments of displacement and relocation.

They were joined by Erwin A. Karl, mycologist and Evan T. Pritchard, Founder of the Center for Algonquin Culture. Together their reflections and offerings illuminate the relationships between new technologies and traditional ways of knowing, the challenges of collective care, and how land and water shape and are shaped by one another and us.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks infrastructure solar_networks other_networks</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-papers/the-rise-of-the-intranet-era/">
    <title>The Rise of the Intranet Era</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-27T22:49:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-papers/the-rise-of-the-intranet-era/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Intranet systems supplant old notions of networking geographic places by allowing people to be both networked and an integral part of the infrastructure-the creation of "device-as-infrastructure networks." These peer-to-peer communications systems provide unprecedented opportunities, as well as serious concerns, for the future of community organizing, political activism, media production, and communication research. Even as evidence accumulates demonstrating how these technologies encourage civic engagement, their social trajectory is far from determined, and the possibility for a more dystopian outcome cannot be dismissed. While drawing from real-world case studies, including community and municipal wireless networks, Indymedia, the iPhone, geo-locational applications and services, and next-generation wireless devices, this chapter documents the emergence of Intranet technologies, discusses their implications for research, and explores policy implications at this critical juncture in telecommunications development and policy making.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/notes-from-wired30?publication_id=387131&amp;post_id=139515626&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=s9ot">
    <title>Notes from #WIRED30 - by Dave Karpf</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-07T23:28:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/notes-from-wired30?publication_id=387131&amp;post_id=139515626&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=s9ot</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[how power online has shifted in the past couple decades. The Internet of the 1970s-90s was pretty significantly shaped by collaboration among computer scientists. They believed in “rough consensus and running code.” Groups like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force made critical decisions that were resolved at long technical meetings. (Laura Denardis has written several excellent books about these groups. It’s fascinating stuff.)

Those were voluntary associations, and they were the center of gravity throughout the late 20th century. They were where the real, substantive decisions were made. If you think the current system had a major problem, then you could build something better and convince your peers to adopt that same standard. Tim Berners-Lee is no radical outsider or has-been in those circles. He has earned the respect of his peers. His words carried weight.

Those institutions still exist today, but they are no longer the center of gravity. I’m not precisely sure when the shift happened, but I think it was around 2008-09.

2008-09 was roughly when Web 2.0 peaked. The VC class had gotten over the post-dotcom crash doldrums, and was starting to make serious money again. And also, importantly, the 2008 economic crash led a bunch of finance-types to conclude that the way to make big money was to head to Silicon Valley instead of Wall Street. (This was the second great migration of finance-types into tech. The first was post-1995 Netscape IPO.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>other_networks networks Internet infrastructure open_source</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/">
    <title>How to fix the internet | MIT Technology Review</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-19T03:12:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One positive sign is the growing understanding that sometimes … you have to pay for stuff. And indeed, people are paying individual creators and publishers on platforms such as Substack, Patreon, and Twitch. Meanwhile, the freemium model that YouTube Premium, Spotify, and Hulu explored proves (some) people are willing to shell out for ad-free experiences. A world where only the people who can afford to pay $9.99 a month to ransom back their time and attention from crappy ads isn’t ideal, but at least it demonstrates that a different model will work....

Another thing to be optimistic about (although time will tell if it actually catches on) is federation—a more decentralized version of social networking. Federated networks like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Meta’s Threads are all just Twitter clones on their surface—a feed of short text posts—but they’re also all designed to offer various forms of interoperability. ...The big idea is that in a future where social media is more decentralized, users will be able to easily switch networks without losing their content and followings....

Federation and more competition among new apps and platforms provide a chance for different communities to create the kinds of privacy and moderation they want, rather than following top-down content moderation policies created at headquarters in San Francisco that are often explicitly mandated not to mess with engagement. Yoel Roth’s dream scenario would be that in a world of smaller social networks, trust and safety could be handled by third-party companies that specialize in it, so social networks wouldn’t have to create their own policies and moderation tactics from scratch each time....

The new form of the internet needs to find a way to make money without pandering for attention.... We, the internet users, also need to learn to recalibrate our expectations and our behavior online. We need to learn to appreciate areas of the internet that are small, like a new Mastodon server or Discord or blog....

Anil Dash has been repeating the same thing over and over for years now: that people should buy their own domains, start their own blogs, own their own stuff. And sure, these fixes require a technical and financial ability that many people do not possess. But with the move to federation (which at least provides control, if not ownership) and smaller spaces, it seems possible that we’re actually going to see some of those shifts away from big-platform-mediated communication start to happen. ]]></description>
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    <title>(PDF) Delivering Media: The Convenience Store as Media Mix Hub | Marc Steinberg - Academia.edu</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-17T16:12:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.academia.edu/41629195/Delivering_Media_The_Convenience_Store_as_Media_Mix_Hub</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>networks media_space convenience_stores shopping local_media</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:885066141b68/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.prosocialdesign.org/">
    <title>Prosocial Design Network</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-15T15:05:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.prosocialdesign.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Restoring the Web’s original promise for meaningful connection

The Prosocial Design Network curates and researches evidence-based design solutions to bring out the best in human nature online.]]></description>
<dc:subject>online_communities other_networks networks protocols consent</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:b503d0b89ff6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://newpublic.org/directory">
    <title>Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-15T15:03:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newpublic.org/directory</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Directory is a list of spaces that have taken at least some notable steps to build a public-spirited user experience, embody at least one of New_Public’s Civic Signals, and/or implement creative new design patterns.

 

The inclusion of a product here does not imply an endorsement from New_ Public, All Tech is Human, or any of our partners. If there’s a product that you think we should add to this Directory, let us know here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>directory index online_communities other_networks networks media_space infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:136a2dc4bbf5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://directory.civictech.guide/">
    <title>Civic Tech Field Guide - Directory</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-15T15:01:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://directory.civictech.guide/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>civic_tech networks online_communities field_guide directory index</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:91f15c07f8ab/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://joinreboot.org/p/whats-in-an-ecosystem?publication_id=37465&amp;post_id=137944361&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=s9ot">
    <title>What’s in an Ecosystem? - by Ashwin Ramaswami - Reboot</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-14T16:07:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://joinreboot.org/p/whats-in-an-ecosystem?publication_id=37465&amp;post_id=137944361&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=s9ot</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What does a more intentional approach to the ecosystem metaphor look like? An ecosystem is more than just an indicator of complexity. The digital world can learn much more from the legacy of ecologists, conservationists, and traditional and indigenous cultures in interacting with natural ecosystems. At the same time, embracing the artificiality of the digital world—the very fact that sets it apart from nature—provides opportunities to more ambitiously and effectively govern it.]]></description>
<dc:subject>other_networks plants ecosystem metaphors infrastructure networks conservation trees ecology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:70e09c4c0906/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/maps-of-scenius">
    <title>Maps of scenius - Austin Kleon</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-13T00:36:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/maps-of-scenius</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I like to collect maps of scenius that appear here and there in my reading. It always strikes me how much they look like maps I’ve seen of neurons in the brain:

    Innovations, large or small, do not require heroic geniuses any more than your thoughts hinge on a particular neuron. Rather, just as thoughts are an emergent property of neurons firing in our neural networks, innovations arise as an emergent consequence of our species’ psychology applied within our societies and social networks.

That’s how researchers Michael Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich put it in a paper about how our social networks act as collective brains. According to them, the sources of innovation — serendipity, recombination, and incremental improvement — seem to arise in environments of interconnectedness.

Having a lot of brains connected to other brains boosts our collective creativity, but what about our individual creativity?...

The latest newsletter is about “scenius,” which I described in Show Your Work!:

    There’s a healthier way of thinking about creativity that the musician Brian Eno refers to as “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.” If you look back closely at history, many of the people who we think of as lone geniuses were actually part of “a whole scene of people who were supporting each other, looking at each other’s work, copying from each other, stealing ideas, and contributing ideas.” Scenius doesn’t take away from the achievements of those great individuals: it just acknowledges that good work isn’t created in a vacuum, and that creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.]]></description>
<dc:subject>scenes scenius networks social_networks place distributed_mind</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1">
    <title>Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture · Ninth Computing within Limits 2023</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-01T13:55:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ermacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomputing aims to provide a countervoice to digital practices that promote maximisation, hyper-consumption and waste. It seeks to encourage practices as an applied critique of contemporary computer technology that privileges maximalist aesthetics where more pixels, more frame rate, more computation and more power equals more potential at any cost and without any consequences. We believe that such a critical practice can be relevant to artists, designers and cultural practitioners working with computer and network technology who are interested in engaging with environmental issues. This is particularly relevant given the tendency in art, design and cultural production to rely on tools and techniques designed to maximise productivity and mass consumption. In this paper, we argue for the potential of permacomputing as a rich framework for exploring creative design constraints building on a long history of applying constraints in art, design and cultural practices. Because of the need to reconfigure the modes of production and organisation within computational practices, this calls for a different understanding of aesthetics, one that goes beyond the formal evaluation of how things look, but addresses how aesthetics can also be systems of relations, sensing and making sense that are already present in the process of making. We will also discuss the challenges faced by permacomputing practitioners, such as the complicated link with retro-computing, post-digital culture and nostalgia, as well as the problem of constraints in relation to the aesthetisation of poverty, and more generally what it means to work with self-imposed limits in a more privileged socioeconomic context.]]></description>
<dc:subject>repair maintenance sustainability permacomputing networks other_networks solar_networks</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://permacomputing.net/Principles/">
    <title>Permacomputing Principles</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-01T13:51:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://permacomputing.net/Principles/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These design principles have been modeled after those of permaculture.

These are primarily design/practice principles and not philosophical ones, so feel free to disagree with them, refactor them, and (re-)interpret them freely. Permacomputing is not prescriptive, but favours instead situatedness and awareness of the diversity of context. Said differently, its design principles can be as much helpful as a way to guide practice in a specific situation, as it can be used as a device to help surface systemic issues in the relationship between computer technology and ecology.
Care for life
Care for the chips
Keep it small
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Keep it flexible
Build on solid ground
Amplify awareness
Expose everything
Respond to changes
Everyhing has a place
]]></description>
<dc:subject>repair maintenance other_networks networks solar_networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:3d308e860a7a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.swamp.nu/projects/spore">
    <title>Spore 1.1 — SWAMP</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-29T21:28:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.swamp.nu/projects/spore</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spore 1.1 is a self-sustaining ecosystem for a rubber tree  plant that was purchased at The Home Depot. In this work, The Home Depot  is responsible for the plant in two ways: First, the store’s one-year  unconditional guarantee to replace any plant that they sell; and second,  an implied cybernetic contract that is enforced when the plant is  placed within the Spore 1.1 ecosystem.

The latter  responsibility ties the economic health of The Home Depot to the  physical health of the rubber tree through a mechanism programmed to  control the amount of water that the plant receives. Spore 1.1 uses  an on-board computer with a Wi-Fi connection to monitor The Home  Depot’s stock price at the end of each week, keeping a database of  week-to-week stock fluctuations. As The Home Depot’s stock value grows,  so too does the plant. If the company suffers losses, the plant does not  get watered. If the plant should perish due to poor stock performance,  it is returned to The Home Depot and replaced with another at no  additional cost—a burden that represents a real, if marginal, recourse  against poor corporate management.]]></description>
<dc:subject>plants fungi computing networks solar_networks tools</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:f219c0f7660c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://thisismold.com/uncategorized/apple-powered-computer">
    <title>Apple Powered Computer - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-29T15:00:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thisismold.com/uncategorized/apple-powered-computer</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This gleaned Macintosh Plus computer (circa 1987) is powered by a huge apple battery made from crab apples (similar to the “potato clock” experiment conducted in elementary school science classes ). The crab apples and computer are housed in a cabinet made of repurposed hog-feed crates. This project is part of a larger body of work I made that explores a fictionalized near-present where the ethos of gleaning is brought into web/PC culture. It was exhibited at Interacess in IA Currents 2022 in Toronto, Ontario.....



Over the past few years, I have grown twin flame interests in computation and ecology, leading to a convergence of these interests in the field of Permacomputing. A term coined by Ville-Matias “Viznut” Heikkilä, Permacomputing uses the ideas of permaculture to look at how we build and use our computational tools and their connection to larger, local, and global systems. I have had a special liking for potato clocks and batteries because I think there is something so simply magical about them. They bridge the weird gap between science, food and technology. So by chance when I found a Macintosh Plus computer left unused, I decided to adopt it into this project.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>solar_computing computing elements plants permaculture permacomputing networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:2c1eb9ae66bb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/07/aclu-says-nycs-half-baked-wifi-kiosks-still-a-privacy-mess/">
    <title>ACLU Says NYC’s Half-Baked WiFi Kiosks Still A Privacy Mess | Techdirt</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-09T18:21:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/07/aclu-says-nycs-half-baked-wifi-kiosks-still-a-privacy-mess/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By 2020 CityBridge still owed the city $75 million. In 2021, an audit by New York State’s Comptroller found LinkNYC failed completely to meet its deployment goals, failed to adequately maintain existing kiosks, failed to turn on many already deployed kiosks, and had fallen well short of projected ad revenues.

It’s now 2023, and the ACLU of New York says that the lion’s share of the dodgy, privacy-violating tracking undertaken by the kiosk system still hasn’t been meaningfully addressed....

If you recall, NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismantled the city’s already underway plan to build a city-wide open access fiber network. That network would have boosted city broadband competition and driven down broadband access costs for all city residents, but it was unceremoniously dismantled, much to the surprise of folks that had been working on it for years.

The Adams administration insisted that the privacy-invasive undercooked kiosk system was good enough, likely because a city-owned municipal network would understandably upset regional mono/duopolies Verizon and regional cable giant Charter Communications (Spectrum).

As a substitute, the Adams administration also embraced a program dubbed Big Apple Connect. Under Big Apple Connect, the city decided to pay Charter $30 million a year for three years to give free broadband to around 400,000 folks living in public housing around the city.

Here’s the thing: this program will cost the city $90 million to temporarily fix a problem caused by the company it’s partnering with. That money will be thrown at a local monopoly directly responsible for high prices through its attacks on competition to temporarily lower costs. And the program only runs three years, after which those limited participants are out of luck and prices revert to their normal high.

In contrast, New York City’s original master plan called for spending $156 million to build an open access fiber network that all local ISPs could compete for business over. The resulting competition would have lowered broadband access costs for everyone in range. That $90 million being thrown at Charter could have gone a long way toward getting that network off the ground and inspiring other cities.

There’s a reason cities everywhere are building their own broadband networks, whether they’re municipal, cooperatives, or via the city-owned utility. It’s because data routinely show that treating broadband as an essential utility not only results in better, faster, and cheaper broadband, but also locally-owned networks are more easily to hold accountable for privacy and other competitive shenanigans. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks community_networks internet wireless infrastructure local_media</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://rhizome.org/editorial/2023/aug/02/announcing-2023-microgrant-awardees/">
    <title>Rhizome &gt; blog &gt; Announcing the 2023 Microgrant Awardees!</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-04T18:13:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://rhizome.org/editorial/2023/aug/02/announcing-2023-microgrant-awardees/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“When We Love is a series of interconnected experiences about love extending beyond one screen. Made of variable duration vignettes, solo/shared encounters–questioning offline/online boundaries of love (or lack thereof). Inspired by my growing in a repressive Catholic country & placemaking online—it's uncontained, dwelling within extant languages/rituals for radical joy/care on the web & reclaiming transgressive publics. A main dating sim is hub to other pieces (from sites to Chrome extensions, bots); you stargaze, tend gardens, shelve libraries, collect, gather together; to themes of queerness, liberation, surveillance, spirituality, ritual, & worlding.The grant helps fund extensive server costs & stipend for this long chaptered project.”...

“I'm interested in creating a play on website layout generators (such as https://layout.bradwoods.io, pictured above) - these tools allow people to create organised and formal website structures. The Chaos Layout Generator will focus on creating deliberately anarchic websites without straight lines, consistent colours or fixed fonts. My generator will encourage people to explore intentionally broken and unstructured design; while still delivering HTML code that is usable and inviting for less experienced web developers and homepage creators. My goal is to contextualise the browser as an artistic medium and express the belief that the web is an extension of humanity and must represent its messy, colourful and inexplicable need for chaos and reinvention.”...

“The archive is a web-based, interactive repository that maps the architecture of incomplete and abandoned heritage sites in Africa, dating from the independence period to the present. The archive collects and displays buildings and structures across Africa in an effort to bring to light under-represented typologies in African architectural discourse. However, we are at a critical stage to which we need to find the right web-based platform / portal for the 3D artifacts of the archive to live in one setting and we believe the support of Rhizome will help us in our efforts in doing so!”...

“Digital Domestic Work Sampler proposes a browser-based, archival, and visual research study of kaoanis as a digital medium. Our research historicizes early pixel art within the tradition of needlework samplers. Funding will aid in the creation of an interactive website centered around a physical piece in progress: Digital Domestic Work Sampler. The site will attempt to translate a large cross-stitch needlework sampler into digital space, using GIFs from the early 2000s to allude to historic cross-stitch spot samplers created by domestic workers at the height of their popularity....

“Inspired by the ever present wind both as a natural phenomena and a cultural analogy, Local Wind introduces the unstableness and flux of the physicality of moving air into a browser. The project engages with wind in two ways: cursor and live stream....

“Presentation software has become an emblem of white-collar industry, where it has transcended its synoptic function and is now a standalone commodity. My work will analyze presentation software as an apparatus for a neoliberal managerial ideology that trains workers to parrot the needs, desires, and beliefs of corporations. I will reference existing critiques of slide software and Artbase works that remix the medium’s intended purposes, such as “ppt.xxx”, “ikebananana2”, and RTMark’s powerpoint. ]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:c893825919f2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://html.energy/">
    <title>html energy</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-24T19:42:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://html.energy/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[HTML energy is all around us and in this very website.

Building websites has become complex,
but the energy of HTML persists.

What makes HTML special is its simplicity.

HTML isn’t a vast language, yet you can do a lot with it.

Anyone who wants to publish on the web can write HTML.

This accessibility and ease of use is where its energy resides.

Who’s writing HTML today? ]]></description>
<dc:subject>minimal_computing resilience networks infrastructure climate_change</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:48529dbdf46a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14626268.2019.1707231?journalCode=ndcr20">
    <title>Living media interfaces: a multi-perspective analysis of biological materials for interaction: Digital Creativity: Vol 31, No 1</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-13T02:14:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14626268.2019.1707231?journalCode=ndcr20</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Living media interfaces (LMIs) have emerged as a new way to interact with digital systems by incorporating actual living organisms in user interfaces. There is increasing interest in utilizing living media in the context of interaction design influenced by recent advancements in biological sciences that make new forms of responsive living media possible. We establish a definition of LMIs appropriate for HCI’s interdisciplinary domain. We provide an overview of the current design space and identify open research questions from four different perspectives: Biological, Ethical, Artistic, and HCI. For each perspective, we use a series of LMI exemplars to illustrate and ground themes and arguments. We conclude with a series of implications for design, including a discussion of LMIs’ ability to engage human users through being alive, their potential to symbolize and embody dynamic information, and the practical and ethical questions that designers need to consider when working with them.]]></description>
<dc:subject>interfaces living_media_interfaces plants networks microorganisms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:78298c5a3edb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://containermagazine.co.uk/can-a-website-be-a-garden/">
    <title>Can A Website Be A Garden? • Container Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-10T03:52:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://containermagazine.co.uk/can-a-website-be-a-garden/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many collectives and individuals are carrying on the work of cyberfeminists and 1990s digital hippies, working to queer, subvert or destabilise the endless march of progress. The Low Tech movement, digital homesteaders, self-hosters, careful networks and poetic websites are just a few examples.

The defederated or decentralised web is having something of a moment as Twitter implodes under the whims of a billionaire. Many of us are being forced to think about where we want to spend our time online, our reactions to the algorithms of social media, and who has control over how we interact and what we engage with....

As part of my residency with Container Mag, I ran a workshop for Control Shift’s programme of events and art, titled ‘Can a Website be a Garden?’ For this we looked at the basic building blocks of the web – how HTML and CSS is served and built – and spent a happy couple of hours crafting our own ‘allotments’ which are now living on my DIY server. Slowly hand-rolling the code and assets together, it felt more like a knitting circle than a programming session.]]></description>
<dc:subject>low_tech web_design community_networks making networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:2abf2ebccb09/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/smyl8cvx/release/1">
    <title>Embracing Open Relationships with Our Network Tech · Series 3.1: Tech, Tools, &amp; Media</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-30T04:52:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/smyl8cvx/release/1</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Sarah Friedland argue in “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” what we need is not necessarily more security. Instead, we need a right to vulnerability. A right to loiter, to take up public space without judgement for being desiring and desirable beings. A right to be on the internet without being cornered as a new behavioral data source. And we need trustworthy architecture to support that right to loiter in poly-nodal networks.  

Our trust cannot reasonably be built upon the contractual fidelity offered as terms and conditions of use. Trust in poly relationships is not based on fealty or fidelity. Instead, as Easton aruges“[b]eing an ‘ethical slut’ means that we respect other people’s rights and feelings, that we behave with honesty and integrity, that we are not selfish, but work for the whole community, that we don’t exploit people, and that we don’t treat people like objects.”8 These are basic principles of poly-romance as outlined by Easton and Hardy. Applying a ethically slutty lens to the internet would be mean designing platforms that do not exploit people or treat people like objects....

An ethically slutty internet is technically feasible with some modulations to our current paradigm. Though, like much of poly-realities, the answers to this problem aren’t that sexy: it starts with publicly owned infrastructures, user owned platforms, and personally managed content feeds. This shifts in how the average user interacts with the internet would help us better understand that we’re already in poly-nodal relationships. 

If we want to be equal players in our poly partnerships, we need to seize the means of connection. We need community-owned and managed cooperatives. ... To harmonize platform power disparities, we also need user owned social networks. Nascent versions of these networks already exist. One of the largest decentralized social media networks currently operating is Diaspora. The macro-blogging platform has three basic principles: decentralization, freedom, and privacy.... Lastly, we need to redesign operating systems to flaunt rather than conceal the traffics through our networks. We need to visualize our literal connections to others. Users can currently track their packets using a traceroute command, but this function is really intended for trouble-shooting rather than a general practice of understanding information flows. Another option is switching our wireless network interface controllers to promiscuous mode, so we can view all packets traveling through our networks whether our nodes are their specific endpoint or not.  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks open_source consent anti_monopoly</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.matteringpress.org/books/concealing-for-freedom">
    <title>Concealing for Freedom – Mattering Press</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-17T22:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.matteringpress.org/books/concealing-for-freedom</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties sets out to explore one of the core battlegrounds of Internet governance: the encryption of online communications. Current debates around encryption have fundamental implications for our individual liberties and collective presence on the Internet. Encryption of communications at scale and in increasingly usable ways has become a matter of public concern, especially since Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations. A new cryptographic imaginary is taking hold, which sees encryption as a necessary precondition for the formation of networked publics. At the same time, there have been major evolutions and accelerations in the field of secure communications, prompted in part by the cryptography community’s renewed efforts to create next-generation secure messaging protocols and applications.

It is vital that we unveil the very recent, and sometimes less recent history of these protocols and their key applications. The book takes on this task, in order to show how the opportunities and constraints they provide to Internet users came about, and how both developer communities and institutions are working towards making them available for the largest possible audience. It explores how efforts towards this goal are built upon interwoven stories about technical development and architectural choices, about community-building – and about Internet governance and politics. In doing so, the book focuses on the experience of encryption in a wide variety of contemporary secure messaging protocols and tools, and looks at the implications of these endeavors for the “making of” digital liberties on the Internet.

Concealing for Freedom provides two key empirical and theoretical contributions. Firstly, it enriches a social sciences-informed understanding of encryption. It does so by examining how different solutions of cryptography for secure communications are created, developed, enacted and governed, and what this diverse experience of encryption, operating across many different sites, means for online civil liberties. Secondly, it contributes to understanding the social and political implications of particular design choices when it comes to the technical architecture of digital networks, in particular their degree of (de-)centralization. The book explores developers’ actions and their interactions with other stakeholders, for instance users, security trainers, standardising bodies, and funding organizations. It also examines their interactions with the technical artifacts they develop, in which a core common objective is to create tools that “conceal for freedom” even as how this objective is met differs according to technical architectures, the user publics being targeted and the tools’ underlying values and business models.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>encryption privacy security digital protocols fedeation networks</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:3ce953d98399/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://flugschriften.com/2020/03/24/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-by-bogna-konior/">
    <title>The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior – A new series of nimble pataphysical pamphlets</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-10T20:15:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://flugschriften.com/2020/03/24/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-by-bogna-konior/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The dark forest theory generalizes on a cosmic level the entropic nature of communication. Its trees grow roots everywhere. We patrol the forest, listening for each other’s steps, all of us hunter and prey… In this forest, one better stay silent or prepare for conflict.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>forest trees communication networks infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:4e108ee909a5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://solarprotocol.net/index.html">
    <title>Solar Protocol</title>
    <dc:date>2023-04-12T06:26:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://solarprotocol.net/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Solar Protocol is a web platform hosted across a network of solar-powered servers set up in different locations around the world. A solar-powered server is a computer that is powered by a solar panel and a small battery. Each server can only offer intermittent connectivity that is dependent on available sunshine, the length of day and local weather conditions. When connected as a network, the servers coordinate to serve a website from whichever of them is enjoying the most sunshine at the time.

With servers located in different time zones, seasons and weather systems, the network directs internet traffic to wherever the sun is shining. When your browser makes a request to see this website, it is sent to whichever server in the network is generating the most energy. For example, right now you are seeing the version of this website that is hosted on Uturne server located in Mparntwe where it is 03:39 PM and the weather is n/a.

The Solar Protocol network explores the sun’s interaction with Earth as a form of logic that shapes the daily behaviors, seasonal activities and the decision making of almost all life forms. Solar Protocol honors this natural logic, exploring it as a form of intelligence that is used to automate decisions in a digital network.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks infrastructure sustainability energy solar_network protocols</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:99b3ab49a8fc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-23/solidarity-infra">
    <title>School for Poetic Computation</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-24T22:00:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-23/solidarity-infra</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How do we cultivate infrastructures of solidarity with each other, especially under conditions of crisis, protest, and systemic inequity? Beyond corporate data clouds and monopolistic service providers, this class offer critical space to reframe technology from a grassroots perspective in relation to other components of day-to-day societal infrastructure.

We will explore concepts like the slow web, organic Internet, right-to-repair, data sovereignty, minimal computing and anti-computing, in context of the intersectional Just Transition movement. Get to know how community tech and cultural organizing go hand-in-hand through real-world case studies. Learn about the creative applications and underlying ideologies of various open source tools and network topologies. Tune into signals of radical communication beyond colonialist legibility. Along the way, we aim to challenge the technocapitalist worldview, breaking the dichotomy of "high" and "low" tech in favor of a needs-based approach that centers collectivist values and the Earth.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks community_networks local_media infrastructure solidarity consent community_tech</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:88c3591c4b85/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/IZ5WY6IIRE83ZBMVDFVU/full">
    <title>Radical infrastructure: Building beyond the failures of past imaginaries for networked communication - Britt S Paris, Corinne Cath, Sarah Myers West, 2023</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-19T05:50:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/IZ5WY6IIRE83ZBMVDFVU/full</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ongoing political, environmental, and economic crises require infrastructures that can respond to crises in ways that do not replicate and reinforce inequality. To this end, we use a case study method of analysis that compares the authors’ previous work on Internet infrastructure at the levels of development, governance, and use to explore how these imaginaries promote or impede people-centered change in the development and maintenance of Internet infrastructure. This theoretical work puts the three existing cases in conversation to better understand how Internet infrastructure alternatives presented as radical, new, or non-hierarchical present shortcomings and opportunities, so that it might be more possible to imagine better, more truly radical, people-centered alternatives. From this comparison, we close our discussion with three heuristics for radical infrastructure: the need for pushing for alternative ensembles of support, busting the myth of technosolutionism, re-politicizing Internet infrastructure, and encouraging technical communities to build around cooperativity, not connectivity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet networks topology governance public_interest_tech civic_tech imaginaries local_media infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:2b7eaf85db8f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mctd.ac.uk/how-can-we-build-a-radical-internet/">
    <title>How can we build a radical internet?</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-19T05:49:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.mctd.ac.uk/how-can-we-build-a-radical-internet/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Corinne Cath explores recent research that paves the way for more radical alternatives to the current internet, centered in the public interest.

As crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, geopolitical strife, and economic inequality create increasingly unliveable conditions, we must critically question the assumption that the internet’s current design, including corporate ownership of communication and information infrastructure, is what enables its continuous development and functioning. 

Pushing back on these developments, however, requires infrastructures that do not replicate the status quo of the current political economy driving networking, and its heavy reliance on market-driven technology development, deregulation, and governance by industry consensus. 

To outline paths towards developing alternatives to the current internet that are centred in the public interest, we—Corinne Cath, Britt Paris, and Sarah Myers-West—put our dissertation research, on the politics and materiality of internet infrastructure, in conversation with each other. 
Case studies of internet infrastructure

We provide a set of concrete cases that illustrate the failures and opportunities of design and governance of Internet infrastructure from various different vantages analysed through existing work in science and technology studies around sociotechnical imaginaries, policymaking, agent-driven reconfiguration, and the ethics of care. 

The three cases, covering the Future Internet Architecture Projects (FIA), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the cryptographic community, are all distinct sites of Internet infrastructure development, each with its own promises to achieve radical, people-centered outcomes. 

FIA’s is US based effort, with the goal of building new protocols to replace Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) that currently transfer and route information, while engaging in ethics and values in design directives. The IETF is a global industry-led standardisation body, that develops standards and protocols for diverse internet networks to connect. The cryptographic community, in this study, refers to the subset of individuals that seek to contest the conditions of surveillance capitalism through the production of encrypted software, as well as through community dialogues designed to make this software more widely usable to affected communities.  
How to build internet infrastructure differently

We found three distinct starting points for the creation of radical infrastructure that is based in pushing back on technosolutionist thinking, developing new forms cooperation for infrastructure development and governance, and non-market based solutions that preface care and community over atomisation and growing connectivity. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet networks public_interest_tech governance</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:1c9a712e68a5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ifa.de/en/exhibit/mapping-the-air-elisabetta-di-maggio/">
    <title>Mapping the Air</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-01T17:08:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ifa.de/en/exhibit/mapping-the-air-elisabetta-di-maggio/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This project revolves around a theme central to Elisabetta Di Maggio's art: the communication networks that serve to transmit information. Her works reveal the close ties that exist among webs, circuits, grids, structures, and meshes that belong to very different worlds, but are all part of the sphere in which we lead our everyday lives.

When we think of circuits or webs, examples that spring to mind include the complex venations of leaves, the tracery of lines on human skin, the routes of subway trains, or the intricate shape of a nerve cell upon close examination, these seemingly disparate things echo each other in many ways.

Drawings of the synapses in our brains, for instance, resemble the roots and branches of trees, as meticulously detailed as illustrations in an old botanical treatise. The delicate filigrees of the plant world and the channels of the body suggest connections, reminding us of the intricate networks of human communication.]]></description>
<dc:subject>mapping networks infrastructure air</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:5a7868c6e954/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/ca/7523862.0003.017/--evolution-and-revolutions-of-the-networked-art-aesthetic?rgn=main;view=fulltext">
    <title>The Evolution and Revolutions of the Networked Art Aesthetic</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-02T05:24:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/ca/7523862.0003.017/--evolution-and-revolutions-of-the-networked-art-aesthetic?rgn=main;view=fulltext</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mail art, artist books, artistamps, assemblings, experimental and visual poetry, Email art, video, and performance art have all, at various times, been considered members of the loosely configured classification known as "Networked art". Yet the common thread associating these diverse media is not the manner of their production, but rather the dynamic way in which they are distributed throughout artist networks. Emphasizing communication and generosity, Networked artists attempt to subvert conventional systems of exchange while also maintaining an intimacy of expression. I will discuss these qualities and how they often evolve from subtle attempts to undermine an allegedly flawed culture into concerted efforts combating social injustice that affect specific political changes. Although Networked art continues to undergo numerous transformations, its principal aesthetic elements remain unchanged and are flourishing in a new era of amplified possibilities.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks network_aesthetics mail_art textual_form</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:1964dc4d71de/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.emmamcnallydrawing.co.uk/">
    <title>Emma McNally Artist Drawing London</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-28T06:28:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.emmamcnallydrawing.co.uk/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>illustration clouds networks sound mapping</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:4449e546eacf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:networks"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://2047.ournetworks.ca/Main_Page">
    <title>Our Networks 2047</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-15T17:27:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://2047.ournetworks.ca/Main_Page</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We’ve all been living through these weeks where decades happen. Looking back on our past we find neither dystopia nor utopia. Instead, our history winds in-between, with setbacks and sudden leaps toward the internet and web we want. In order to even try and get there we’ve had to fight to transform the entire world. While there have been great strides in remaking where we live, work, and play as we tackle the interleaved crises of climate, capitalism, and co-option. There are still looming challenges and lingering concerns.

For an event that has been held alongside these struggles, Our Networks has been a place to share victories and defeats together. Out of a sense of large-scale ruin, we have kept inventing hope, the kind that isn’t optimism, but rather a discipline we practice every single day. In 2047 it feels like we are at another critical juncture, just like we were in 2022 and 2035.

So once again, what will we make of our futures? How do we learn from our pasts? How do we extend the forms of redistribution and accountability in the spaces, movements, collectives, and institutions that have been our inspirations and homes for the last few decades? ]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks infrastructure speculation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:32582c137439/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://togethernet.org/">
    <title>Welcome – TogetherNet</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-20T22:07:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://togethernet.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>terms_of_service user_agreement contracts bureaucracy alternative_networks networks hospitality community</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:1dc06d0fb3fa/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:contracts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:bureaucracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:alternative_networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:hospitality"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://feral.earth/">
    <title>Feral Earth</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-26T04:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://feral.earth/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Imagine a node online like a field of switches blown by grass, lifted by tides, respiring like an organism.
Gusts
Wind Flow
Orchids
Tides
Is Austin Home?
Access to feral.earth is determined by climate and ecological data at server site in realtime.

Rinse
Sunset
Rain
Radiance
Diurnal Cycle
Turns out the world always already was an internet, and websites are just kites. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate ecology internet net_art eco_design networks weather other_networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:997bc5d9bb9b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:net_art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:eco_design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:networks"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:other_networks"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://socks-studio.com/2012/03/15/emma-mcnallys-fields-charts-soundings-cartographies/">
    <title>Emma McNally’s Fields, Charts, Soundings Cartographies – SOCKS</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-21T04:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://socks-studio.com/2012/03/15/emma-mcnallys-fields-charts-soundings-cartographies/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Emma McNally‘s work is an artistic cartography of imaginary nodes, network topologies, noise patterns, musical notations. Traces and scatters shape an imaginary, poetic confluence of scientific advances in genetics, neuroscience, physics, molecular biology, computer systems, and sociology

From a descriptive text on her Flickr profile:

“In Emma McNally’s work dense layers of carbon on paper create fields which offer themselves up to meaning: planes, vectors, topoi are overlaid, or coexist with swarms, shoals, marks laid out in rhythmic sequence.]]></description>
<dc:subject>topology networks sound art graphics presentation_images</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:e1b3a2890bae/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://libraryofbabel.info/">
    <title>Library of Babel</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-08T01:35:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://libraryofbabel.info/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.

Since I imagine the question will present itself in some visitors’ minds (a certain amount of distrust of the virtual is inevitable) I’ll head off any doubts: any text you find in any location of the library will be in the same place in perpetuity. We do not simply generate and store books as they are requested - in fact, the storage demands would make that impossible. Every possible permutation of letters is accessible at this very moment in one of the library's books, only awaiting its discovery. We encourage those who find strange concatenations among the variations of letters to write about their discoveries in the forum, so future generations may benefit from their research.]]></description>
<dc:subject>libraries library_art research networks classification</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:1c4f5fb89c45/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/futura-tropica/">
    <title>An Intertropical Web of Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-03T12:27:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/futura-tropica/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Juan Pablo García Sossa: Futura Trōpica is an intertropical and decentralized network composed of local structures that connects communities and territories in the tropical belt of the Earth, in order to exchange knowledge, technologies and endemic designs. On one hand, it is a research project aimed at strengthening and channeling conversations between communities in the tropical belt and to redefine our understanding of the tropics. On the other hand, it is an intersection of networks: local networks, networks of affection, and networks in a technical and infrastructural sense: internet, intranet, Wi-Fi, etc. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks colonialism tropics infrastructures</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:499a1d741af5/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://reallifemag.com/reconnected/">
    <title>Reconnected — Real Life</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-01T20:35:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://reallifemag.com/reconnected/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom about networks suggests that their politics can be reduced to how centralized they are: A centralized network is designed for control, while a decentralized or distributed network is democratic. Early champions of the internet assumed both that its structure made it decentralized and that its decentralization would protect it from monopolization. In 1999, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, wrote that the internet “is so huge that there’s no way any one company can dominate it.”...

In 1994, Carmen Hermosillo published an influential essay on the nature of community online, arguing that “many cyber-communities are businesses that rely upon the commodification of human interaction.” Hermosillo explained that even though “some people write about cyberspace as though it were a ’60s utopia,” early networked services — America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, and even the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (the WELL) — were businesses that turned the actions of their users into products, shaped users’ interactions to serve corporate ends through censorship and editorial discretion, and maintained a permanent record that made cyberspace “an increasingly efficient tool of surveillance.” Counter to the boosterism of Wired, the electronic community, Hermosillo argued, benefited from a “trend towards dehumanization in our society: It wants to commodify human interaction, enjoy the spectacle regardless of the human cost.”....

The vulnerability of the digital advertising model offers an opportunity to imagine a different kind of network, rooted in an alternative political agenda; one that elevates social benefit over corporate profit. But that won’t happen automatically. Without coordinated action for a better internet, the move away from digital advertising may simply lead to a further monetization of our networked interactions. The so-called creator economy is helping normalize a renewed emphasis on micropayments and subscription models, and the dominant social media platforms have followed suit with new monetization features,... The creator economy is even more unequal for artists and performers because of how platforms drive a superstar economy that hollows out the “middle class” of professions....

But in some circles, there is hope that Web3 will renew the lost promise of decentralization of the early internet. Crypto enthusiasts and some activists in the digital rights space assert that cryptocurrencies, blockchains, smart contracts, and related technologies will evade the regulatory power of the state and allow people to avoid predatory intermediaries like major banks. Yet they downplay how centralized these technologies have already become and fail to explain how renewed libertarian appeals to decentralization will avoid succumbing to a similar corporate capture as the internet.... 

Web3 is a technological solution that does not contend with how power is distributed in the real world. It does not aim to produce a more equitable means of networking society; rather, it seeks to forestall the political struggles that pursuing that aim would actually require. Like other “decentralized” concepts, it is readily available for co-optation....

Appeals to decentralization too often fail to contend with the power structures that can take hold of supposedly liberatory projects. In an essay in Your Computer Is on Fire, Benjamin Peters argues that “networks do not resemble their designs so much as they take after the organizational collaborations and vices that tried to build them.” In other words, focusing solely on network design misses the political ideals and institutional practices that gave birth to them and that have been baked into them....

Decentralization is not a politics in and of itself. Without a politics that explicitly seeks to serve the public while challenging corporate power, decentralization isn’t an actual strategy to decommodify our online interactions and reorient our networks toward alternative purposes....

The libertarian boosters of the early web held up the individual hacker as key to challenging state power and bringing about the liberatory potential of the internet, even as corporate giants took it over. Today, we hear about the individual creator, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the consolidated internet, even as such narratives serve to keep us all creating content for platform companies to monetize for themselves. But individual actions will never generate emancipatory online spaces. That will require state action to fund and build the alternatives, pushed by an organized public demanding technology for the people.

....Soviet cybernetics pioneer Anatoly Kitov proposed the Economic Automated Management System to help coordinate the planned economy. The network would have had a hierarchical design, but Kitov also built in the ability for workers to provide feedback and criticism, thus giving them greater influence over the planning process....

These earlier network projects — especially Project Cybersyn and Minitel — were explicit efforts to block technological imperialism. The globalization of the internet in the years since has hampered such aspirations....

Our social, environmental, and technological salvation, he argues, is not to be found in the Global North, whose cultures are “so intertwined with the rationalities that bred capitalism itself.” The Global South, however, has the imagination to create different systems, as it has “seen its own cultures shattered by colonialism, only to see the pieces of it repurposed into a new narrative, favorable to its new rulers.” That is not to place the responsibility for solving the problems created by the Global North on those it’s oppressed, but they will likely have a unique approach to ending the dominance of U.S. technology...

There are many forms this experimentation could take, but one example could be found in Dan Hind’s proposal for a British Digital Cooperative, consisting of a communication platform free from advertising pressures and designed to promote socially beneficial forms of interaction, and community technology centers that educate locals and develop technologies to address their needs.... Clearly, this is not just about decentralization; it’s about thinking through the outcomes we want to see and building institutions — and only later technologies — in service of those political goals.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Internet infrastructure topology networks digital_equity influencers social_media</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:6dc5aedd928a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.visualroute.com/">
    <title>VisualRoute - Traceroute and Reverse trace - Traceroute and Network diagnostic tools</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-06T04:47:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.visualroute.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>networks traceroute</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:712387143cc5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359289">
    <title>If it Rains, Ask Grandma to Disconnect the Nano: Maintenance &amp; Care in Havana's StreetNet: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: Vol 3, No CSCW</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-16T13:55:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359289</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Cuba, where internet access is severely constrained, technology enthusiasts have built StreetNet (SNET), a community network (CN) that has grown organically, reaching tens of thousands of households across Havana. Through fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017, we investigate participants' strategies as they engage with a network where the material elements---cables, switches, nanos, and servers---are regularly breaking down. Drawing on maintenance and care (M&C) scholarship, we present an in-depth investigation of the management and anticipation of breakdowns in SNET, foregrounding the deeply relational nature of repair work, collective efforts required for SNET's M&C, and the values and motivations underpinning these practices. Our paper contributes a unique perspective on how CNs are run locally and organically, outlining considerations for how interventions along these lines might be more suitably designed. We also complicate perspectives of innovation through a discussion of cultural ideologies and tensions underpinning M&C practices.]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet networks maintenance community_networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/b:923dd9078548/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:shannon_mattern/t:community_networks"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13591835211002230">
    <title>The terrain of thingworlds: Central objects and asymmetry in material culture systems - Gavin Lucas, John Robb, 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-13T04:33:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13591835211002230</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Material culture forms a relational system of distributed reality – a thingworld. But how do we get beyond simply saying that all material culture is meaningful and entangled to understanding the internal structure of such systems? Is it a flat terrain among co-equal things? Or are some objects more important than others, as we might intuitively suppose? And if so, why? This article presents an initial discussion of the problem. Using vignettes from two thingworlds – one from early modern Iceland, one from Neolithic Europe– the authors discuss what were the central material things in each, and for what reasons. This suggests that objects may be systemically central in different ways, for instance things which connect and mediate relationships of different kinds, things which are non-substitutable, and things which span multiple roles and contexts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>things networks material_culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>Our Networks 2020 — Growing Our Networks in Uncertain Times↔Places - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-13T18:11:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx7_J32Ys60eSNBStqqEeVN1cbA-dKf9q</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>networks other_networks infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://restofworld.org/2020/saving-the-world-through-tequiology/">
    <title>A modest proposal to save the world – Rest of World</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-28T15:58:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://restofworld.org/2020/saving-the-world-through-tequiology/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[the history of this diverse group of peoples is inextricable from the ravages of colonialism. Yet that history has also been defined by those peoples’ ingenious use of new technologies — not as consumable goods, but as means of resisting colonial imposition in the midst of an unprecedented climate crisis....

Here on the periphery, technology, when repurposed for resistance, can bolster the autonomy of peoples and communities. In Abya Yala, digital technologies have created virtual spaces to be shared — woven webs of sustainable collaboration among the continent’s subaltern voices....

we see digitally underrepresented peoples appropriating technology as a tool of linguistic resistance. 

Abya Yala’s technological struggle also extends to the vindication of material sovereignty. In Mexico, Community Cellular Technology, through which cell phone systems are locally owned, administered, and operated...

There is a serendipitous affinity between the logic of collective effort and free cooperation that defines open-source software like Linux and the philosophy of many indigenous communities who built structures to survive the harshness of colonial rule. Both rely on mutual support and small-scale, community-level labor linked into a circuit of larger tasks. Such tequio is an essential “social technology” common across Abya Yala.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks technology resistance indigenous collaboration social_infrastructure</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.publicbooks.org/to-heal-the-body-heal-the-body-politic/">
    <title>To Heal the Body, Heal the Body Politic | Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-21T01:18:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.publicbooks.org/to-heal-the-body-heal-the-body-politic/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I call the phenomenon from which the pandemic, the wildfire, the flood, and the comorbidities stem “self-devouring growth,”4 or the collateral damage wrought when we organize our politics, our economies, and our cultural dispositions around endless, industrially configured, consumption-driven growth. This collateral damage includes the growing gap between rich and poor and the corrosive effects on democratic decision-making, as well as the deadly ecological and bodily fallout manifest in rising cancer rates and ocean temperatures, species loss, and air and water pollution. The idea that singular technological solutions—like the effective coronavirus vaccine I hope for—will solve these complex political and economic challenges is itself part of the problem. Keep your inhaler close; it is a vital tool. But know that it is no cure for tainted air. Know that the mountains of discarded inhalers are hazardous waste...

We don’t pass diabetes along like a virus, but we humans have grown it like a market—passing it among ourselves via our political, economic, infrastructural, agricultural, and pharmaceutical practices. Nabisco makes the Oreos that foster hyperglycemia, and it sells the Honey Maid Cinnamon Roll Thin Crisps that have earned the Diabetic Living magazine seal of approval.6 Meanwhile, its parent company, Mondelez, cuts deeper into the Indonesian and West African rain forests, shrinking remaining wild habitats and raising carbon levels through deforestation. Bayer makes glucose meters and (as the owner of Monsanto) also the pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified seeds necessary for the industrial production of cheap sugar. We grow diabetes through our landscapes of sedentarization and neglect, our cars and our couches. We grow it through maldistributed and racist maternal health care. Type 2 diabetes is its own pandemic....

Soon we will be able to sketch a similar matrix of relationships for COVID-19. That sketch will encompass the mountains of discarded plastic gear necessary to protect ourselves from one another, the bleach and the wipes and the heaps of discarded takeout containers.8 It will encompass the bacon you maybe ate to comfort yourself while in lockdown, produced by workers rendered essential, from pigs farmed in systems that threaten to yield the next pandemic.9 It will encompass the relationships that make up diabetes, cancer, and all the other comorbidities. Because COVID-19 acts as an accelerant on these diseases...

Healing the body requires healing the body politic—the collection of people who together form a larger whole. That will mean tending to the relationships that constitute that body politic in their greatest and most intimate iterations. What might that look like? I don’t quite know, but surely it should start with acknowledging rather than obscuring the welter of relationships that constitute that good life we prize.]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-devouring_growth growth networks ecology supply_chain</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/proyecto-data">
    <title>Proyecto DATA - Triple Canopy</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-31T02:30:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/proyecto-data</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What might be gained and lost in a differently-networked world? A research report on El Paquete Semanal, Cuba’s offline media distribution system....

A recurring question is whether the arrival of the internet will affect the Cuban digital ecology, and to what degree it will alter systems of offline media consumption. The reality is that a significant shift away from offline models is only possible if a variety of socioeconomic and political changes take place in addition to the increase in internet access. Currently, the U.S. embargo prevents many American content providers—such as broadcast networks, film distributors, and subscription platforms—from reaching Cuban consumers. Subscriptions to streaming services like Netflix cost about half the average monthly salary for Cuban government workers. International credit cards are prohibited by the Cuban banking system, which makes internet purchases nearly impossible.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networks paquete cuba other_networks infrastructure</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/event/digital-public-infrastructural-possibilities/">
    <title>[Virtual Series] Digital Public Infrastructural Possibilities - Stanford PACS</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-24T02:58:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/event/digital-public-infrastructural-possibilities/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Imagine living in a society in which most of the land and buildings available for meeting and working were owned by a few for-profit corporations. Churches, governments, groups of friends, schools, nonprofits, and grassroots social movements would each have to reserve space on — or have a key to — a privately-owned facility, often on a large corporate campus, in order to meet and work together. It would be a society with no domed capitol buildings, city halls, temples, open campuses, public parks, community centers, or nonprofit spaces. 

Fortunately, this is not the society we live in, but it does describe the online spaces where our digital information is stored and where much of contemporary life – including civil society action – now takes place. This scenario is inherently threatening to democracies, in which free expression and public participation presuppose people have both the ability and space to assemble outside of corporate or government monitoring.

Please join us in Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest. This is a 3-part series to build awareness, intention, and engagement in an ecosystem of ideas and practices that could bring into being digital infrastructure that aligns with community aspirations, protects personal and group safety, and prioritizes people, communities, and a public good.]]></description>
<dc:subject>infrastructure broadband networks public_interest</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://louisedrulhe.fr/internet-atlas/">
    <title>Critical Atlas of Internet</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-04T12:58:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://louisedrulhe.fr/internet-atlas/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CRITICAL ATLAS OF INTERNET
Spatial analysis as a tool for socio-political purposes

Through a series of 15 hypotheses, this Critical Atlas of Internet aims to develop 15 conceptual spatialization exercises. The purpose of the atlas is to use spatial analysis as a key to understanding social, political and economic issues on Internet. The atlas seek to discern the shape of the Internet in order to understand the concrete issues and stakes involved.

A theoretical and visual research led and developed by Louise Drulhe.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>mapping data_visualization networks network_map Internet infrastructure</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cscce.org/">
    <title>Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement - CSCCE</title>
    <dc:date>2020-09-24T19:33:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cscce.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) is a research and training center to support and study the emerging field of scientific community engagement. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>collaboration networks</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-18/the-silicon-valley-tech-exodus-could-be-a-plus?cmpid=BBD081920_CITYLAB">
    <title>The Silicon Valley 'Tech Exodus' Could Be a Plus - Bloomberg</title>
    <dc:date>2020-08-20T02:07:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-18/the-silicon-valley-tech-exodus-could-be-a-plus?cmpid=BBD081920_CITYLAB</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How much will coronavirus tamper with the Valley’s secret sauce for innovation? That’s now an open question as a substantial (if still undefinable) number of tech workers are leaving their motherships. Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter and other bigwigs announced plans for significant portions of their workforces to remain remote even after offices reopen. Thanks in part to this much-discussed tech exodus, rents in San Francisco and San Jose have dropped more than 7% since the start of March but have steadily risen in Sacramento, Reno, Boise and other so-called “satellite communities.”

Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has studied the importance of industry clustering. She believes that the shift to remote work will largely be a good thing for tech companies, in that it can create more capacity for them to hire and grow. In recent years, the Bay Area’s absurdly high housing costs (pre-pandemic, the median one-bedroom rental in San Francisco surpassed $3,700 a month) created a barrier for new talent and even retaining workers. This was particularly true at newer startups but also at Apple and Facebook, which along with Alphabet and Microsoft recently pledged billions to address the region’s acute housing shortage....

“It was nearly impossible to get young talented people to join the workforce at wages that could cover those prices,” Wachter said. But the pandemic’s new paradigm “will make it possible to expand and increase Silicon Valley’s size, not in a geographic cluster sense, but in a network sense.” She envisions the formation of what she calls “neighborhood nodes,” where divisions of employees constellate in communities up and down the West Coast. Silicon Valley will still be the hub, she said, but its geographic dominance may lessen as new nodes rise. 

Connective infrastructure might be the key to where these satellite nodes form, at least in the “next normal.” Communities within easy reach by car, plane or train will be most attractive to new migrants. ...

But what gets lost when companies no longer convene hundreds or thousands of highly educated and innovative employees in a single site, allowing bright minds to bump up against each other in the cafeteria and in the moments after a meeting lets out? While remote work is getting good results for some companies, performance is slumping at others. Breaking up the motherships could similarly carry some long-term costs for the tech industry.]]></description>
<dc:subject>workplace media_architecture media_city silicon_valley labor networks</dc:subject>
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    <title>hacking hustling - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-22T15:57:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQLXTmpX2uCPWagNL6IqVQ</link>
    <dc:creator>shannon_mattern</dc:creator><dc:subject>digital_literacy computers networks infrastructure</dc:subject>
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