# Promiscuous Publishing

"_A promiscuous publication is NOT like parallel, hybrid, or cross-media publishing. It is a multi-headed and polycentric form of making public. It enjoys its various forms, and embraces their idiosyncracies. As a multi-headed publication it is NOT obsessed with providing uniform outcomes across diverse media. Having many centers, it can produce new focal points and obfuscate its origins. It explores playfully a spectral diversity with sibling out-comes and bastard children that operate out of sync or tune._" (Christoph Haag, _make make do_ in: The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation, 2016)

This weft documents some of Constant's multi-headed experiments that move between web, print and other media. All publications were developed with Free Software and released under Open Content licenses. See also: [Books With An Attitude](https://constantvzw.org/site/-Books-with-an-Attitude,209-.html).

## Web-To-Print

Multiple approaches for publishing on the web as well as printed objects; inspiring and inspired by OSP's research on [html2print](http://osp.kitchen/research/#h2p).

### DiVersions v1 + v2

**Mediawiki-to-print**

Year: 2021
Tools: MediaWiki, HTML, CSS, paged.js, Firefox, Gimp, Ghostscript, MuPDF, PDFtk
Design/development: OSP (Sarah Magnan & Gijs de Heij)
On-line: <https://diversions.constantvzw.org/>
Download/order: <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/diversions> + <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/diversions-v2>
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/DiVersions-v2-workshop-guided-tour-publication.html>

### Iterations

**Etherpad-to-print**

Year: 2020
Tools: Reportlab, Etherpad, Libre Writer
Design/development: Manetta Berends, Jara Rocha
On-line: <https://iterations.space>
Download/order: <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/iterations>
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Iterations-publication.html>

### Mondotheque

**Mediawiki-to-print**

Year: 2016
Tools: Semantic Mediawiki, etherpad, Weasyprint, html5lib, mwclient, phantomjs, gnu make
Design/development: Alexia de Visscher, André Castro
Download/order: <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/mondotheque>
On-line: <https://www.mondotheque.be>
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Mondotheque-a-radiated-booklaunch.html> + <https://constantvzw.org/site/Paul-Otlet-An-Omissum.html>

### Are You Being Served

**Ethertoff-to-print**

Year: 2014
Tools: HTML, (less)CSS, Javascript + [Ethertoff](http://osp.kitchen/tools/ethertoff/)
Design/development: OSP (Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Eric Schrijver)
On-line: <http://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org>
Download/order: <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/are_you_being_served>
Booksprint: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Booksprint-Are-you-being-served.html>

### Guide to Technogalactic Software Observation

**Etherpad-to-print**

Year: 2016
Tools: Various bashscripts, etherpad, etherdump
Design/development: Cristoph Haag
Download/order: <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/tgso>
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/The-Techno-Galactic-Guide-to-Software-Observation-A-streaming-book-launch.html>

### Conversations

**Etherpad-to-print**

Year: 2015
Tools: basename, bash, bibtex, cat, Chromium, cp, curl, dpkg, egrep, Etherpad, exit, ftp, gedit, GIMP, ghostscript, Git, GNU coreutils, grep, ImageMagick, Inkscape, Kate, man, makeindex, meld, ne, pandoc, pdflatex, pdftk, Processing, python, read, rev, Scribus, sed, vim, wget. Chapter opener: Built with petter by Benjamin Stephan.
Design/development: Cristoph Haag
On-line: <https://freeze.sh/_/2015/conversations>
Launch: https://constantvzw.org/site/Conversations.html
Download/order: <https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/conversations>

## Digital publications

Various experiments with digital publishing.

### Bureacra(ck)tic Bedtime Stories

**Many media publication**

Year: 2021
Design/development: Manufactura Independente
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Bureaucracktic-Bedtime-Stories,3474.html>

### Alchorisma

**Online platform**

<https://alchorisma.constantvzw.org>
Year: 2021
Design/development: OSP (Dorian and Gijs)
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Publication-launch.html>

### DiVersions

**On-line exhibition**

<https://di.versions.space>
Year: 2020
Design/development: Cristina Cochior, Mia Melvaer
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/DiVersions-v2-workshop-guided-tour-publication.html>

### Networks of one's own

**Para-nodal periodic publication collectively written in a network**

<https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org>
Year: 2018
Design/development: Michael Murtaugh, Roel Roscam Abbing
Launch: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Networks-of-Ones-Own-episode-1-Etherbox.html>

### Warps and Wefts

**Etherpad-to-html**

<https://constantvzw.org/wefts/sponge.en.html>
Year: 2018 and ongoing
Tools: make and many others
Design/development: Michael Murtaugh, Martino Morandi

### Post Promiscuous Pipelines Publication

**make-to-***

<https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/promiscuouspipelines/pppp>
Year: 2016
Tools: make and many others
Design/development: Michael Murtaugh, Cristoph Haag



## Web Archives

An overview of archived versions of past Constant projects. Each project is available in downloadable, self-contained "portable HTML" form. Archiving dynamic websites as 'static html' is a way to reduce server-resources, and increases the longevity of webprojects that are no longer actively updated.

### Transcommunautaire Karaoke Transcommunautaire

**Installation at Passaporta during BRXLBRAVO with texts of Paul Van Ostaijen and Suzanne Lilar.**

Year: 2007
Archive: <https://constantvzw.org/archives/brxlbravo>
Description: <https://constantvzw.org/site/Transcommunautaire-Karaoke-Transcommunautaire,415.html>

### Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois/Spreekt U Sint-Gillis?

**An audio database composed of particular words hear in the neighbourhood Bosnie in Saint-Gilles, Brussels.**

Year: 2013-2016
Archive: <https://www.parlezvous1060.be> + <https://spreektu1060.be>
Description: <https://constantvzw.org/site/-Parlez-vous-Saint-Gillois,187-.html>

### Schaarbeeksetaal / La Langue Schaerbeekoise

**Words collected by different groups around the Place Verboekhoven, aka La Cage aux Ours.**

Year: 2010-2013
Archive: <https://lalangueschaerbeekoise.be> + <https://deschaarbeeksetaal.be>
Description: <https://constantvzw.org/site/-Langue-Schaerbeekoise-Schaarbeekse-Taal-.html>