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"The Institute for\nTechnology in the\nInterest of Worms"
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Constellations: Tracing possible
and probable relations and patterns
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Throwing worms at Paul Baran,
On Distributed Networks (1964)
(CCRURU)
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Active helical waves produced by
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Paranodal is a term that conceptualizes
that which is other to — or an
alternative to — a network
configuration. (...) the paranode is
the space that networks leave out,
the negative space of networks, the
noise between nodes and edges.
(Zach Blas, Contra-Internet ←→
Ulises Ali Mejias, Off the Network)
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Polynesian stick chart for
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imbrication
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Mycellium, circular cascading
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“(It) is not about a relationship
between the tangible and the
intangible, it is about the fixed
duration of a relationship of
trust, and a way of structuring
the future in terms of liability
and responsibility” (The durability
of software, Erickson & Kelty)
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Cell for Digital Discomfort, diagram of “Conditions
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abstract plain-text diagram.
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Diagram of the crystallographic
structure of a zinc metallo-beta-
lactamase from bacillus cereus.
Folding is part of the dynamics
of proteins. Proteins are not
strictly static objects, but
rather populate ensembles of
conformations.
Transitions between these states
occur on a variety of time scales.
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“This is a rhythm of endurance, of surging
forward and withdrawing. It is not a
rhythm of endless becoming nor of staying
put; it is making the most of the “hinge,”
of knowing how to move and think through
various angles while being fully aware of
the constraints, the durability of those
things that are “bad for us”.”
(Improvised Lives, AbdouMaliq Simone)
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Lygia Clark, Caminhando
[Walking] (1964)
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Virtualization is a process that
allows a computer to share its
hardware resources with multiple
digitally separated environments.
Each virtualized environment runs
within its allocated resources,
such as memory, processing power,
and storage. (AWS)
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“The 3300 is a time sharing
mini-computer system for only
1/4 the cost of subscription
services or other in-house
time sharing systems.
That, in itself, is very
therapeutic”
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“In the wormhole the worm creates an
infrastructure to hold itself in the
world: the hole fits the worm, but only
as it moves.” (On the inconvenience of
other people, Lauren Berlant)
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“We might imagine re-turning as a
multiplicity of processes, such
as the kinds earthworms revel in
while helping to make compost or
otherwise being busy at work and
at play: turning the soil over and
over – ingesting and excreting it,
tunnelling through it, burrowing,
all means of aerating the soil,
allowing oxygen in, opening it up
and breathing new life into it”
(Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting
Together-Apart, Karen Barad)
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Klein Bottle topology:
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Queer ligatures: inclusive, non-binary,
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and make their use compatible.
(Bye Bye Binary)
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#queer_is_stateless
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Abolishing the ally industrial
complex, an indigenous perspective
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Teletype Plot, abstraction
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wormly togetherness at XPUB
(Aglaia, Boby, Suzan,
Ada, Stephen, Cara)
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"horizontal integration" -> "vertical integration"
"digital\nnonsovereignty" -> imgBurrow, "so-and-sovereignty"
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"self-determination" -> "food sovereignty"
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"A colleague reports: Recently, the EU decided
to use the term 'strategic autonomy' instead of
'sovereignty' because the latter term would
suggest that the EU is not in support of a
free market.", class="quote"]
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"strategic autonomy" -> "relational\nsovereignty"
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"control" -> "flow management" -> imgGraph
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"smooth-flow" -> "free market"
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Effective control of the border
crossings should strive for
smooth flows of persons and goods.
(Specific Objective 2.1: Smooth,
Lawful, Safe and Secure Border
Crossings, FRONTEX )
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- agile -> "faux-agile", "dark scrum"
- "loose coupling" -> "tight coupling"
- "Smart endpoints and dumb pipes" -> burrow
- "failure-tolerance" -> inconvenience
- Microservices -> "tight coupling"
horizontality -> "horizontal integration"
"horizontal integration" -> "vertical integration"
unbundling -> solidarity -> imgAccomplice
"strategic autonomy" -> "autonomy"
"strategic autonomy" -> "relational\nsovereignty"
imgMycelium -> imgDecentralize
seamfulness -> "smooth-flow"
parallelism -> "queer angles"
intersectionality -> parallelism
imgIslands -> "boundaries\ndo not\nsit still" -> "no borders" -> borders
"technological\nnonsovereignty" -> "technological\nsovereignty"
state -> "the anti-state state"
undercommons -> "The Commons"
autonomy -> "the cyst model"
ambiguity -> "digital separation"
"bounded beings" -> "bundled beings"
"food sovereignty" -> "food security"
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"queer angles" -> imgWalking, imgUniverse, imgLigature, imgHinge
"technological\nsovereignty" -> "food sovereignty"
"technological\nsovereignty" -> autonomy, "Do It Yourself" -> "technological\nsovereignty"
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imgImbricate -> "entrenchment" -> imgBurrow
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"entrenchment" -> "burrowing" -> "The Institute for\nTechnology in the\nInterest of Worms"
"The Institute for\nTechnology in the\nInterest of Worms" -> extitution -> institution
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extitution -> "queering operations"
imgGraph -> territory, "boundaries\ndo not\nsit still" -> "The Cloud"
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centralization -> imgWormhole
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affect -> state -> "The Commons"
autonomy -> "self-determination"
Freedom -> sovereignty [label="
One need not be a nationalist,
nor imagine self-determination
to be fixed in modern definitions
of states and sovereignty, to
conclude that, at the end of
the day, freedom is a place.
(Abolition Geography: Essays
Towards Liberation, Ruth Wilson
Gilmore)",class="quote"]
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We say <B>no</B>; <B>no </B>to this disposal of <B>no</B>.<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
We raise our voices in saying <B>no </B> to <BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
this violence and injustice. <B>No </B> can <BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
become a form of critical refusal, as<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
Angela Davis might suggest; <B>no </B> that <BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
involves commitment, <B>no </B> that requires <BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
time and work as we grapple to <BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
understand the system from which an<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
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of a project of counter-knowledge, to<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
counter with knowledge; <B>no </B> as a struggle<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
not to reproduce injustices that exist.<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>
(<B>No</B>, Sara Ahmed)<BR ALIGN="LEFT"/>>,class="quote"]
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"institutional\nmanoeuvres" -> entrenchment
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extitution -> "the cyst model"
entrenchment -> "the cyst model"
nonsovereignty -> "the cyst model"
undercommons -> "the cyst model"
"the cyst model" -> endosymbiosys
"the cyst model" -> "vertical integration"
"the cyst model" -> dissolution
"so-called\nausterity" -> "institutional\nexhaustion"
"institutional\ningratitude" -> "institutional\nexhaustion"
"institutional\ndetachment" -> "institutional\nexhaustion"
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institution -> "institutional\ndetachment"
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Inconvenience is another way of pointing to
the experience of nonsovereign relationality.
It does not always produce a sense of injury
but does always signify the pressure of what
to do with coexistence. (On the inconvenience
of other people, Lauren Berlant)",class="quote"]
"software\ncompanionship" -> solidarity
imgTimeshare -> parallelism -> "time sharing"-> "productive\nconnectivity"
imgTeletype -> parallelism, imgTimeshare
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"institutional\nmanoeuvres" -> extitution [label="ongoing conversations\nwith Tere Badia, Jara Rocha",class="quote"]
"institutional\ndetachment" -> outsourcing -> "The Cloud"
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But even stand-ins, in times of austerity,
might unionize, might move from being
objects of organized abandonment (...)
to subjects who refuse — who refuse to bear
the weight of late capitalism’s stark utopia,
the abstraction of abandonment, the violence
of abstraction. (Abolition Geography: Essays
Towards Liberation, Ruth Wilson Gilmore)", class="quote"]
"organized\nabandonment" -> "so-called\nausterity"
"The Cloud" -> abstraction
"The Cloud" -> "data disposession"
sovereignty -> dispossession
dispossession -> "data dispossession"
dispossession -> "bounded beings"
"bounded beings" -> solidarity
"bounded beings" -> "radical\nrelationality"
"bounded beings" -> "mutual\nconstitution"
vulnerability -> nonsovereignty [label="
vulnerability is [not]\nreducible to its injurability.
(Judith Butler ←→ Jennifer C. Nash)",class="quote"]
"The Commons" -> nonsovereignty [label="
If The Commons claim sounds like an
incontestably positive aim, I think of
it more as a tool, and often a weapon,
for unlearning the world, which is key
to not reproducing it (On the inconvenience
of other people, Lauren Berlant)", class="quote"]
opacity -> ambiguity -> ambivalence
ambiguity -> "so-and-sovereignty"
trembling -> nonsovereignty
trembling -> imgUltrafast [label="
A trembling thought is not a frightened
thinking, nor a fearful or hesitant one,
it is the thought that refuses systems
that are rigidly self-contained, and
that believes that the world trembles,
physiologically, in its becoming, in
its suffering, in its oppositions, in
its massacres, in its genocides, in its
pleasures. (Poetics of relation, Édouard
Glissant)", class="quote"]
opacity -> "nonsovereignty" [label="
Agree not merely to the right to difference, but,
carrying this further, agree also to the right
to opacity that is not enclosure within an
impenetrable autarchy but subsistence within an
irreducible singularity. Opacities can coexist
and converge, weaving fabrics. To understand
these truly one must focus on the texture of the
weave and not on the nature of its components.
(For Opacity, Édouard Glissant)", class="quote"]
opacity -> "counterlog(ist)ics"
opacity -> invisibility
undercommons -> invisibility
undercommons -> fugitive
invisibility[label=""]
fugitive [label=""]
invisibility -> invisibility
invisibility -> fugitive
seamfulness -> friction
friction -> imgUltrafast
"topological\nself-transformation" -> imgUltrafast
imgEnzyme -> imgUltrafast, imgWorms
imgQueernation -> "boundaries\ndo not\nsit still"
"seemingly\nsimultaneous" -> "time sharing" [class="quote",label="
(I)n the ideal case, a time-sharing system
gave multiple users the illusion of having
exclusive access to a machine all their
own (The Apple II Age: How the Computer
Became Personal, Laine Nooney)"]
"seemingly\nsimultaneous" -> "The Cloud"
"bundled beings" -> "The Cloud" [class="quote",label="
The student card, the username and password,
the name.surname@institution.edu email,
the LDAP credentials, the eduroam account,
the Adobe license, the Zoom login, the card
to pay at the canteen, the library card, the
badge to enter the premises — or the
recorded fingerprint directly,
so you can’t leave it at home
"]
unbundling -> "digital separation"
unbundling -> outsourcing
unbundling -> solidarity
"bundled beings" -> unbundling
"bundled beings" -> "🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢"
"so-and-sovereignty" -> "queer angles" [label="Maybe it is not about replacing one term by another, but to find was to cut diagonally through them"]
"Indeterminate\nprecarity" -> trembling [label="
Indeterminacy, the unplanned nature of
time, is frightening, but thinking
through precarity makes it evident
that indeterminacy also makes life
possible. (The Mushroom at the End of
the World: On the Possibility of Life
in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt
Tsing", class="quote"]
"insurgent\nintersectionality" -> "trans-sectionality"
"Indeterminate\nprecarity" -> nonsovereignty
"Ambivalent precarity" -> ambivalence, "Indeterminate\nprecarity" [label="
Precarity is ambivalent, because we
are always dependent on other people
from the beginning but other people
can also harm us, so we need an
understanding of ethics to cope with
this ambivalence (Judith Butler)", class="quote"]
- "de-institutionalization" -> "digital depletion"
- microservices -> "tight coupling", API
- microservices -> decoupling, unbundling [label="
- By using an architectural style that discourages
- tight coupling, developers are able to establish
- cohesive boundaries among components, keeping
- the cost of coordinating software components to
- a minimum. Tight coupling also makes it easier
- to distribute computing resources and allocate
- responsibilities to different components of the
- system."]
- "continuous delivery" -> "The Cloud"
- "continuous delivery" -> availability [label="99,999%"]
- "failure-tolerance" -> inconvenience
- "failure-tolerance" -> resilience -> vulnerability
- "pay-as-you-go" -> debt -> dispossession
- "smart endpoints and dumb pipes" -> burrow, API
- "services as components" -> containerization
- agile -> flexibility, "loose coupling"
- "loose coupling" -> "tight coupling"
- agile -> "faux-agile", "dark scrum"
- "The Cloud" -> "LaaS (Life as a Service)", "XaaS (Everything as a Service)"
- "multi-tenancy" -> "time sharing"
- "leaky abstractions" -> vulnerability
%Hybrid cloud (Red Hat)
%fog computing = edge computing
"so-and-sovereignty" -> date
date [label="So-and-sovereignty diagram, v0.4. June, 2023",fontsize="10pt",fillcolor="black"]
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