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TBD Unbound Library: THE SECRETARIAL SPINE https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_TBD
TBD Studio Annex/SALON: https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cla-7e9-czf
TBD Content
FROM
Studio: https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/mar-ztm-epn
Repository: https://www.hotglue.constantvzw.org/?unboundlibraries
Program: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_program
Index: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_index
Reader: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_reader
Preliminary Conversations (ALL): https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_conversations
Preliminary Conversations (TBD): https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_TBD
Questions: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_questions
Exercises: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unbinding_exercises
THIS
Spinal Catastrophism: Reading recommendation from Sami: https://aaaaarg.fail/upload/thomas-moynihan-spinal-catastrophism-a-secret-history-1.pdf
Money as a Humour: Reading recommmendation from Ming: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oqtqhzzzv2e7105/04%20money%20as%20humour%20shigehisa%20kuriyama.pdf?dl=0
Leftove.rs Archive Political Zines: Discovered through a course at PZI XPUB (Special Issue 11) https://archive.leftove.rs/documents/AFJO
Grey Literature Network (Open Grey Repository): Clara's random discovery when looking for literature on grey literature
http://www.greynet.org/opengreyrepository.html
Martino's Audio Archive Recos: Sent over email after a meeting at the REBINDERY
ah!
forgot to answer this, ok, it will be done before materials change status.
found back the italian audio archive project! it's quite a nice project, hosted on autistici.org
http://www.arkiwi.org/
to have an account you can send them an email at account@arkiwi.org
with
project name
short description
username
foldername (usually same as the project name)
reference email for the project
THERE
The Index gathers tools, and lists of pads https://etherdump.constantvzw.org/unboundlibraries/
The Studio is a video call room using Big Blue Button where we can meet with up to 50 people and record sessions, create screencasts. https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/mar-ztm-epn
The Rebindery is an audio call room using jit.si where you can find either Elodie, Martino or An. At different times of the day you can come here to share doubts, ask questions, discuss, look for recommendations...
https://conf.domainepublic.net/rebindery
The Café is an audio call room using jit.si that can take up to 10 people for live discussions and sharing. information in a chat.
https://conf.domainepublic.net/unbound_cafe
The Kitchen is an IRC channel (#unboundlibraries) for hangouts, small talk, oxygen breaks.
https://vvvvvvaria.org/kiwi/irc.freenode.net/?nick=scribus?&channel=#unboundlibraries
(or use IRC client: server= irc.freenode.net channel=#unboundlibraries port=6697)
The Scriptoria are th pads for collective note taking, they also have a chat option.
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_index
The Unbound Libraries Broadcast is a streaming system, to play video and sound.
Constant Collaboration Guidelines/CODE OF CONDUCT
http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/123/
Decolonial Media License (Does this go here?)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200929193023/https://freeculture.org/About/license/
Thursday 4 June 2020
16h Publishing as Bloodletting
Canned Screening and Conversational Choreography
In collaboration with Sandberg Instituut (PUB)
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/alonetogether
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/publishingasbloodletting
Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfU-bPq7jA4S7a_sVLp0LQaoDcOOmXvz9viI_jNGstp4jC4aw/viewform
Wednesday 3 June 2020
REBINDERY
Archive.org for storing audio files, movies, no limit
Political milieu in italy, maybe also hosted on archive.org
12h CATERING SERVICE
RECIPIENTS Alice and Angeliki
LOCATION Varia
MENU Onigiri
- Filling: Smoked mackerel, umesu paste, and Kewpie mayo
- Rice dressing: Mirin, Furikake
- Covering: Nori
- Ful Medames
- Ingredients: Fava beans (canned), lemon, tahini, garlic, roasted cumin seeds, goodness
- Dolma
- Ingredients: Grape leaves, rice, onion, dill, mint, salt, pepper, lemon, soybean oil
- ---->>>(from a can, but it's yum)
- Maybe Bao and Szechuan Chilli Sauce from Seecum, who lives down the road
13h Distance Transcription with Writer/Neighbor/Publisher
TEXT ONLY https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary.neighborlytranscripts
SALON https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cla-7e9-czf
RECORDING https://bbb.constantvzw.org/podcast/36808afd1f81b2c71d474aecc55d970a5be4e13f-1591185675085/audio.ogg
15h Studio Conversation HWGL: Collective Authorship
16h Fragmented Interview HWGL Pt 2
4pm Rotterdam Clara Balaguer
10am New York Kristian Henson
7am Portland Dante Carlos
10pm Manila Czar Kristoff
Location:
TEXT ONLY https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/HWGLInterview
SALON https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cla-7e9-czf
17h Kneeling down for 8'46"
In the public park in front of Varia, with Seecum and Michelle. We felt sort of anxious about attending the large public protest in solidarity with BLM. We weren't sure about the politics of a massive gathering the pandemic. Am also just feeling anxious about being around people. But we wanted to join the protest somehow and pay our respects to George Floyd.
Tuesday 2 June 2020
16h Fragmented Interview HWGL Pt 1
4pm Rotterdam Clara Balaguer
10am New York Kristian Henson
7am Portland Dante Carlos
10pm Manila Czar Kristoff
Location:
TEXT ONLY https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/HWGLInterview
SALON https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/cla-7e9-czf
Link of the day: https://www.google.com/search?q=sentence+diagram&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=84pYrFlFKK7bzM%253A%252CS4c7XX8x0f7fFM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSjWyXA_3s0rD48796vFXxyKfgLpQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy1_qyiuPpAhVC-qQKHaQPCbsQ9QEwB3oECAMQPg#imgrc=84pYrFlFKK7bzM
Thoughts of the day, carrying over from yesterday's audio notes: SPINELESS PUBLICATIONS.
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In order to free the archive or library or publication (conceived often, in this place, as an archival labor) from its restrictive bodily limitations, one must understand the limbs, organs, system, or senses that make up its entirety. And understand what happens when one limb or organ or system or sense disappears. The other(s) work(s) harder. When the book has no spine, there is increased mobility in the innards, the guts work harder. When the system has no mandatory command flow, no closed menu options except for an initial suggestion of navigation, a map of cardinal points that may be ignored... how do the other systems work harder/better? Because they must, and they do. What other senses/systems/limbs are discovered when a supposedly fundamental body part is lost?
The parts of the body public I am considering: The face (la cara, cover). Circulation. Guts. Spine. Foot(notes, -ers).
There are others, but for now these are the parts I have been considering. It's maybe been a year or two. Perhaps longer if you count the time I was thinking just about circulation, in humourous and architectural and urbane terms. And I'm not entirely sure if it's "correct" to fleshify this question. Flesh is, nonetheless, my response to this haptic crisis.
To be unbound, spineless. The index or the table of contents is merely an initial formation, a suggested navigation. It is not a prescriptive order with a punitive end. "You must, or else." The order is left in the hands of the reader or visitor or owner. Mess, restructuring, disrespect to the initial intention. How can the author, collator, orderer let go of the need to insist upon an order, despite offering it for those who need initial points for triangulation? The writer must conceive of a textual object without a spine.
To be the spine is to fulfill secretarial functions. To connect and hold. To be small articles, pronouns and connectors in a sentence clause (the a but I you and etc), often endlessly. The nouns and the verbs, they are the large bones that get credit for work (or enjoy leisure of play) that without vertebrae would be impossible. To file, to send messages to all those involved, to collate information in a single place. To do the diligence that is so often framed as menial. How to be of spinal value and come to terms (or not) with invisibility, with dwelling in the substrate, beneath the membrane. How to make peace with the responsibility of the spinal function, that of holding limbs and organs, that of being supple, that of holding the head that droops. If the head initiates, the spine doesn't just hold, it coordinates and organizes. The spine is an administrative function. The spine is the secretary, sending information throughout the body. If the secretary is severed, unassisted mobility is impossible, the mind is trapped within a body that doesn't listen. Liberated as well, but only if an extra-spinal system of mobility is afforded.
Mission for the day night tomorrow if possible: Reprint 5 copies of the reader and redistribute them to 5 neighbors. Recirculate.
Notes
Con-
Com-
Co-
Prefixes for "together"
Allomorphs.... different symbols for what is written the same but is pronounced differently
arboroscent structure
knots in trees, when illustrated = psychological trauma
Monday 1 June 2020
All documentation here:
1000h Meeting: General Assembly
1500h Meeting: BAL: Jessica, Loraine, Mia
1620h Crashing: Peter, Rosemary, Gijs, Femke
XXYYh Solo: Audio Notes and Footnotes
Sunday 31 May 2020
Study Threshold Conversations with Sami Hammana
Recording of Part 3: Park
Index
Part 3: Park
Part 2: Dinner Table
Part 1: Balcony
PREP MEETING FOR WORKSESSION
THE BEGINNING IS THE END
Tuesday 19 May 2020
15h30-17h00: To Be Determined (Clara Balaguer) (FS would like to join/listen in: Hey Clara + unbound librarians, I'll listen to the recording; I thought the conversation would start at 16h! Sorry to miss you -- speak soon FS) It changed Femke :)
Recording at: https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/mar-tqj-9gy
Notes: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary.TBDprepconversation