User:Kim/writing/Thesis outline draft (2)

This outline draft refers to the e-reader-server project proposal

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.

1. low tech server, self hosting, repurposing hardware
2. technologies of text (authority, sabotage?)
3. community of texts

step 2

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

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 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

could also say something about different (hypothetical) reading (and book keeping) devices such as e-reader (present), ancient multi-scroll, library of babel (?)

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 . "For a computer to read is to write elsewhere"
• writing / reading: "the true site of writing is reading" , "If every reading produces a text anew then the production of a text is the fundamental work of reading"

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 and through text/ ideas (manuals), feminist citation (intertextual intimacy -- academics --)

piracy, commons, shadow libraries / infrastructures (do I have a take on this that is not yet everywhere?)