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*VIS.ION-AIR reader
Compiled PDF: https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/DqHaLPofYe678Cs

*Vision, diffraction
Donna Haraway (1989), The Promises of Monsters. p299-303 https://www.paas.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/haraway_Promises_of_Monsters.pdf
Karen Barad (2016), Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements That Matter. In: Meeting the universe halfway p107-108

*Authorship, tools, medium

Ivan Illich (1973), Convivial reconstruction. In: Tools for Conviviality p23-26
Karen Barad (2016), From imaging devices to materializing practices. In: Getting Real, Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality. Meeting the universe halfway p199-204
Giorgio Agamben (2009), What is an Apparatus, in: What is an Apparatus p1-10
Sherry Turkle (2009), Design and science at the millenium. In: Simulation and its discontents. p43-45
Jussi Parrika (2013), Copy. In: Software Studies: A Lexicon. p70-74
Abigail de Kosnik (2016), Archontic production and new media literacies. In: Rogue archives. p291-298
Nicolas Malevé (2019), The delegation of vision. In: An Introduction to Image Datasets https://unthinking.photography/articles/an-introduction-to-image-datasets
Hito Steyerl (2009), "In Defense of the Poor Image" https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
Lev Manovich (2011), Filter > Stylize > Wind. In: Inside Photoshop http://reader.lgru.net/texts/inside-photoshop/
Olga Gurianova (2016), Bigtable and Youtube. In: The ragged manifold of the subject, media studies after Kittler. p167-170
Matthew Fuller (2006), What is the experience of software? In: Softness: Interrogability; General Intellect; Art Methodologies in Software, p29-35
Andreas Treske (2013), Screen Modes: Online Video. In: The inner life of video spheres -- Theory for the YouTube Generation

*Network, interdependency, relationality

Felix Stalder, Structural transformations. In: Digital Solidarity, p16-27
Yuk Hui, Harry Halpin (2013), Collective Individuation: The Future Of The Social Web. p103-110
Octavia Butler (1980), Wild Seed. The Pattern Series
Edouard Glissant translated by Betsy Wing (1990), Relinked, (Relayed), Related. In: Poetics of relation. p169-179
Anna Watkins Fisher (2016), Codes of Conduct. User be Used: Leveraging the Play in the System. In: Traversing Technologies http://sfonline.barnard.edu/traversing-technologies/anna-watkins-fisher-user-be-used-leveraging-the-play-in-the-system/0/?print=true
Constant Collaboration Guidelines https://constantvzw.org/wefts/orientationspourcollaboration.en.html
Tiziana Terranova (2004), Free Labour. In: Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age. p73-80
Anna Tsing (2012), Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species. p143-145
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (2019) Co-relation not Correlation. In: Pattern Discrimination p35-90
Aymeric Mansoux, Roel Roscam Abbing (2019), Meet the fediverse. In: Seven Theses on the fediverse and the becoming of F/LOSS, The Eternal Network

*Protocol, platform, infrastructure

Susan Leigh Star (1999), The Ethnography of Infrastructure.

- "Many aspects of infrastructure are singularily unexciting. They appear as lists of numbers and technical specifications, or as hidden mechanisms subtending those processes more familiar to social scientists. It takes some digging to inherent the dramas inherent in system design creating, to restore narrative to what appears to be dead lists"

Lisa Parks, Satellite Panoramas. In: Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. p139-143
Jonathan Sterne (2012), The politics of standards. In: MP3, the meaning of a format. p103-109
Wolfgang Ernst (2016), Time-Critical Media Processes. In: Chronopoetics - The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media. p3-8
Ulises Ali Mejias (2019), The Capitalization of Life without Limit. In: The Cloud Empire. In: The costs of connection. p5-18

- "The discovery of new forms of raw material is what makes the current moment distinctively colonial. If historical colonialism expanded by appropriating for exploitation geographical territory and the resources that territorial conquest could bring, data colonialism expands by appropriating for exploitation ever more layers of human life itself."

Tung-Hui Hu (2015), Conclusion. In: A Prehistory of the cloud. p145-148

- "To think of the cloud as a limitless, all-encompassing medium that is simply there, inevitable, or — worse — actively out to get us is to discount our own involvement in any sort of shared debate or project."

Adrian Mckenzie (2018), Enacting infrastructures in data centres. In: From API to AI: platforms and their opacities
Lauren Berlant (2016), The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times. p395-399

- "The commons is an action concept that acknowledges a broken world and the survival ethics of a transformational infrastructure. This involves using the spaces of alterity within ambivalence.

Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker (2007), "Appendix: Notes for a Liberated Computer Language". In: The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. p159-166

- "If the languages are finite, then so, unfortunately, are the life possibilities."

Olga Gurionova, Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

- "Although art platforms operate at a certain level of autonomy, establishing and performing according to their own laws, they do comply with, challenge, and change larger machinic groupings. In fact, in a certain way they are part of the operative processes of such larger machines, and their potential for rearranging relations between different flows while making up a perceptive, a human, a societal, a political component rests in such native acquaintance."

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~~Christopher M. Kelty (2008). Coordinating Collaborations, In: Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Sofware~~
Katherine Hayles, My mother was a computer
~~McKenzie Wark, Vector. In: A Hacker Manifesto~~
Johanna Drucker
Lucy Suchman (2007), Human–Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd Edition
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Eric Schrijver, Who makes standards http://reader.lgru.net/texts/who-makes-standards/
Computationalism
Decolonial computing
Latour?
Portanova?
Kittler?
intersectionality + tools
Interference reader
~~Susan Leigh Star, The Ethnography of interface~~
Stengers, Ecology of practice
~~Keller Easterling (2019), Medium Design~~ ~~https://www.e-flux.com/journal/106/312238/medium-design/~~
~~Malcolm McCullough, Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand~~
http://reader.lgru.net/pages/
Adrian Mackenzie, Cutting Code: Software and sociality
YouTube Reader INC
Lilly Irani (2019), Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence
http://archive.sarai.net/files/original/b0aeb1a6523f531efa9cdc67f5d08461.pdf
Graffiti Markup Language http://reader.lgru.net/texts/graffiti-markup-language/