User:Kim/writing/Thesis outline draft (2)
This outline draft refers to the e-reader-server project proposal
How to draft an outline?
step 1
- 1. What do you WANT to write? [What will the text be about? (thesis). What do you want to explore? Be clear about HOW you want to tell your story.]
I aim to map a field of writing technologies an how they create power imbalances and authority of text and draw a connection to practices of community and solidarity in writing through the practice of self hosting a server on a device that is naturally a reader. This text will be written in close proximity with the server by interweaving writing and scripting.
- 2. Outline three key issues you want to explore. (Please think of only 3 key issues)
- low tech server, self hosting, repurposing hardware
- technologies of text
- community of texts
step 2
- Intro (what is this text about?)
- Key issue 1 = chapter 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
- Key issue 2 = chapter 2 (technologies of text)
Under this ambigous title I imagine to examine how a) text works as a technology itself (programming - language) and b) textual communication / production technology (text editors, telex machine proximity to terminal ...)
- Key issue 3 = chapter 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 text/ ideas, feminist citation
- Conclusion