User:Kiara/Research

Research Contents
General page
— Notes ——— Prototypes ——— Try Out Nights
— Project Proposal ——— Drafts ——— Final
— Thesis Outline ——— Drafts ——— Final
— (more or less) Rapid Prototypes ——— WebSpell Prototypes ——— Workshops

Drafts & WIP

~/Projects and prototypes

~/WebSpell - a magic sorority webring

~/WebSpell/Prototypes

~/notes.md/Prototypes

~/DualBoot - journey log, is a prototype in itself

~/workshops.log - log of the workshops conducted during the year

~/Writing

~/draft_project_proposal

~/project_proposal

~/draft_thesis_outline

~/thesis_outline_final

~/Assessments

~User:Kiara/First_Assessment (XPUB1 archive)

~User:Kiara/Second_Assessment

Notes

Visit ~/notes.md

Resources

Methods Interview with Claudio
Glossary

Graduate_proposal_guidelines
Second Readers Guidelines
A Guide to Essay Writing (including guide to Harvard method)
Thesis Guidelines
Criteria for evaluation (Thesis)

Texts & Books

Programming & Web & Internet

[ ] A cyborg manifesto, Donna Haraway, 1985
[ ] Digital Folklore: to computer users, with love and respect, Olia Lialina & Dragan Epenschied, 2009
[ ] Piracy is the future of culture: Speculating about media preservation after collapse, Abigail de Kosnik, 2020
[ ] When computers were women, Jennifer S. Light, 1999
[ ] Death of the follower & the future of creativity on the web, Jack Conte @ SXSW, 2024
[ ] Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation, Cory Doctorow @ DEFCON 32, 2024
[ ] The mazy web she whirls: Starting open web advocacy, Stuart Langridge, 2024

Accessibility & Web ethics

[ ] Folk Interfaces, Maggie Appleton
[x] Code is Law – On Liberty in the Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig, 2000
[ ] Lociel libre et anarchisme
[ ] Ethical Web Principles

(re)Building the web

[ ] Fighting for our web, Molly White, 2024
[ ] The revolution will be decentralized
[ ] Community networks and feminist infrastructures, Débora Prado, 2019
[ ] My Website is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What could yours be?, Laurel Schwust, 2018
[ ] No web without women, 2025
[ ] A Vernacular Web, Olia Lialina, 2005

Women's perspectives

[ ] Archive of women artists – (from this Mastodon post)
[ ] I'm like a PDF but a girl. Girlblogging as a nomadic pedagogy, Ester Freider, 2022
[ ] Let's talk about unspeakable things, Angeliki Diakrousi, 2019
[ ] TechnoFeminism, Judy Wajcman, 2006
[ ] To destroy domination in all forms, Julia Tanenbaum, 2016

Witchcraft, rituals, etc.

[x] Mastodon post by Miriam Suzanne about CSS rituals
[ ] Mastodon post about a book by Lizzie Crowdagger, La sorcellerie est un sport de combat
[x] talismans pour celles qui ne savent pas de quoi ils parlent, Lucile Haute, 2023

witchcraft | talismans | craft | code | magic

Summary: a small non-linear glossary on talismans

It takes place in a larger context developed in Lucile's work around cyberwitches, cyber-sorcery and the links between witchcraft and tech

Importance: it gathers several takes on talismans, their power and how to craft them, states various additional references I can check out and opens the thinking between astronomy, magic and digital infrastructures.

Notes: interesting altogether in its physical shape, content and narration (mode of address, writing tone, etc.)

[ ] Satanic Feminism, Per Faxneld, 2017
[x] Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians Exposed Revised: An Essay on Magic, Ramsey Dukes, 2000

[x] The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman, 1970-72 (09/10/2024)
[x] The Tyranny of Tyranny, Cathy Levine, 1979 (16/10/2024)

Codes of conduct, conditions, rules

[ ] Rita Graça's grad project 'Networks of Care', with particular attention to common sections
[ ] Constant's Collective Conditions
[ ] Post Meritocracy Manifesto
[ ] Contributor Covenant
[ ] Hacking with Care
[ ] Pirate Care Syllabus
[ ] Wages Against Housework

Working collectively?

[ ] Coopérative d'emploi – (from this Mastodon post)
[ ] Camarades gauchistes occidentaux, vous avez perdu vos camarades du Levant
[x] Mastodon post by Doriane about community
[x] Mastodon post by Sebastian Laube about how the web used to be a collaborative place
[x] Mastodon post by Larvitz about the old web

Archiving

[ ] DIY Web Archiving (maybe archiving can be a tool for communities?) – (from this Mastodon post)

Videos, Talks, Podcast

[x] For-Profit (creative) Software, EndVertex, 16-03-2025 (watched: 28-03-2025)

Creative Software | Business | Big Tech | Tools Summary: EndVertex is a 3D artist making videos on YouTube (I didn't know them before this video). In this +1 hour video, they describe and detail their journey and struggles around 3D-creation software. The video is about monopolies, the switch to subscription-based plans and the importance to find the right tool and support it however you can/want to. The video is quite pessimistic but a good overview of the state of the design tool marketplace... Importance: Subscriptions are annoying, Free/Libre Open Source Software are a good alternative, we should donate them the money we don't put in subscriptions to keep them alive Notes: How different websites looked in the 90s, "the problem with uniqueness is it can confuse people" so now we have design "rules", like templates and everything looks the same – design patterns (23:03)

[x] What it Means to be Open, Lu Wilson, 10-10-2024 (listened: 03-2025)

Source | Workflow | Community Summary: Lu Wilson works at tl;draw and gave a talk at Clojure in 2024 about their journey into programming and open licensing. In this 40mn talk, they explain how they got into programming and their adventure with the forums and open source community. They emphasize the need to cut the self-censoring because yes, there will always be someone out there to code-shame you (as in "your code is shit you should be ashamed") but it shouldn't prevent you from finding a job and creating a community of your own. Importance: The way Lu built a whole community by publishing their work daily, then weekly on social media is very inspiring. Being open is above all being open minded and self-caring. This community building was not even intended, the first intention was to push themselves to create, experiment and keep a habit to work and go further in learning and skills. In the end it drew people towards their work and people starting interacting and adding to it. Everything they create is open source. Notes: 404 NOT FOUND

[x] Un web moins nul est-il possible ?, Internet Exploreuses, 25-12-2024 (listened: 02-06-2025)

Programming | Open Source | Workflow | Community Summary: Internet Exploreuses is a monthly show broadcast on Twitch and uploaded to Youtube and as a podcast. It is created and led by Lucie Ronfaut and Héloïse Linossier. With this show, they question various sides and topics tied to Internet and its culture. In this episode, they focus on one question: "Is a less lame web possible?" and invited Pauline Ferrari as a guest to discuss the topic. Importance: Notes: