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Kim: /* KI 3 = communities of text */

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KI 3 = communities of text

Kim: /* 1. What do you WANT to write? */

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1. What do you WANT to write?

Kim: /* step 2 */

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	~~''this is too vague, needs more context, concrete example of examination''~~

	=== Intro (what is this text about?) ===		=== Intro (what is this text about?) ===
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	=== ~~Key issue~~ 1 = ~~chapter 1 (~~self hosting, low tech) ===		=== KI 1 = self hosting, low tech ===
	This chapter will lay out the practice of self hosting as a political act, highlight the importance of repurposed hardware and low-tech approaches, adjacent to ''permacomputing'', ''right to repair'', ''unrepair'' and then move to the socio-technical qualities of the e-reader		This chapter will lay out the practice of self hosting as a political act, highlight the importance of repurposed hardware and low-tech approaches, adjacent to ''permacomputing'', ''right to repair'', ''unrepair'' and then move to the socio-technical qualities of the e-reader

	=== ~~Key issue~~ 2 = ~~chapter 2 (~~technologies of text) ===		=== KI 2 = technologies of text ===
	Under this ambiguous title I imagine to examine how a) how reading and writing are itself technologies and b) how and what technologies we use to read and write and produce textual artifacts (text editors, telex machine proximity to terminal ...) and how these technologies(?) ~~foster~~ authority ~~of a text~~		Under this ambiguous title I imagine to examine how a) how reading and writing are itself technologies and b) how and what technologies we use to read and write and produce textual artifacts (text editors, telex machine proximity to terminal ...) and how these technologies(?) cultivate authority and feed into power dynamics.

	~~could also say something about~~ different (hypothetical) reading (and book keeping) devices such as e-reader (present), ancient multi-scroll, library of babel (?) <ref>is a hypothetical library, emerged from the short story with the same name by George Luis Borges. A library that contains all texts possibly ever written by containing volumes of all possible combinations of characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel# (library, encryption, preservation)</ref>		I would like to do this along the example of different (hypothetical) reading (and book keeping) devices such as e-reader (present), ancient multi-scroll, library of babel (?) <ref>is a hypothetical library, emerged from the short story with the same name by George Luis Borges. A library that contains all texts possibly ever written by containing volumes of all possible combinations of characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel# (library, encryption, preservation)</ref>.

	emphasize on writing is reading is writing: (what does this say about us / our tech?)		An important emphasize on writing is reading is writing: (what does this say about us / our tech?)

	* writing / reading computers: Wiki Quote about Software with an attitude that favors writing over reading <ref>[[A wiki wiki wiki session]]</ref>. "For a computer to read is to write elsewhere"		* writing / reading computers: Wiki Quote about Software with an attitude that favors writing over reading <ref>[[A wiki wiki wiki session]]</ref>. "For a computer to read is to write elsewhere"
	* writing / reading: "the true site of writing is reading" <ref name=":0">Roland Barthes "Death of the Author"</ref>, "If every reading produces a text anew then the production of a text is the fundamental work of reading" <ref>Johanna Drucker in "Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approches to Interface"</ref>		* writing / reading: "the true site of writing is reading" <ref name=":0">Roland Barthes "Death of the Author"</ref>, "If every reading produces a text anew then the production of a text is the fundamental work of reading" <ref>Johanna Drucker in "Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approches to Interface"</ref>

	=== ~~Key issue~~ 3 = ~~chapter 3 (~~communities of text) ===		=== KI 3 = communities of text ===
	open source, sharing texts but also the interrelatedness of texts through referencing of other texts and ideas, but also making of community around and through text/ ideas (manuals), feminist citation (intertextual intimacy -- academics --)

	piracy, commons, shadow libraries / infrastructures (Harney and Moten: our relationship to the institution must be a criminal one <ref>Fred Moten & Stefano Harney: The Undercommons https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf</ref>), I want to write about sabotage somewhere

	~~importance of resilience while pirate res are ephemeral and urgent - can I draw a connection here to formats like e-pub that are self contained and offline, but work with the technologies of the web?~~

	from pirate care <ref>"Pirate Care: Acts against the criminalization of solidarity"		from pirate care <ref>"Pirate Care: Acts against the criminalization of solidarity"

	Valeria Garziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, 2025, Pluto Press</ref> I am thinking of these two principles points:		Valeria Garziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, 2025, Pluto Press</ref> I am thinking of these two principles, which I would liek to use as starting points for this chapter:

	# Critical usership (technology)		# Critical usership (technology)
	# Collective learning (knowledge production and circulation)		# Collective learning (knowledge production and circulation)
			interrelatedness of texts through referencing of other texts and ideas, but also making of community around and through text/ ideas (manuals), feminist citation (intertextual intimacy -- academics --)

			piracy, commons, shadow libraries-, and infrastructures (Harney and Moten: our relationship to the institution must be a criminal one <ref>Fred Moten & Stefano Harney: The Undercommons https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf</ref>). Sabotage, as a strike against infrastructure

			Highlighting the importance of resilience (of systems, documents), while pirate resources are ephemeral and urgent, I would like to draw a connection here to formats like e-pub because they are self contained and offline, but work with the technologies of the web.

	===Conclusion===		===Conclusion===

Kim: /* Key issue 3 = chapter 3 (communities of text) */

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