The Argentinean social landscape inwhich the men and women of Situaciones forged their ideas was a desertswept by neoliberal winds

a few other Italian autonomist thinkers (Paolo Virno,Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Maurizio Lazzarato

Since the late ’70s, Situationist ideas, slogans and forms of analysishave become so thoroughly inscribed in the sensibilities of punk rock thatit’s almost impossible to listen for very long to certain strains of counter-cultural music without hearing some catchy phrase taken directly from theworks of Raoul Vaneigem.

The critical thing isthat universities were never meant to be places for intellectual creativity. If ithappens, it’s not because it is especially conducive to them, but only becauseif you pay enough people to sit around thinking, some new ideas are boundto get through.

Instead, for the last fifteen or twenty years, the Americanacademy—or the part that fancies itself to be the radical, critical, subversivebranch of it—have for some reason preferred to endlessly recycle the samebody of French theory: roughly, reading and rereading a set of texts writtenbetween 1968 and 1983

often noting that Holloway seemed to echo anar-chist ideas without ever mentioning them

When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the begin-ning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of humanlives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream ofanger, a scream of refusal: NO

We may only aspire to a different order of things by startingfrom the existing materiality, not from idealistic speculations

For some, theconcept is about introducing epistemic or methodological changes to ordinary ac-ademic practice. In this sense, the range of dualities involved in the academia-activism distinction (thinking versus acting, passive versus active) contributes tothe illusion of apparent incompatibility or mutual isolation. Thus, while directaction would be possible only through activism, intellectual work appears as theexclusive task of the academy, without intervention in practical problems. Assum-ing the polarity of such spheres leads to a series of arguments that must be con-tested, as the absence of intellectual work within social organizations and move-ments, or the invalidity or nullity of work carried out by university researchers andprofessors in order to achieve radical social change

That is why we consider this love to be a condition of militant research

Because “open” may face a similar fate as befell “design” and “innovation,” terms that are alternatively inspiring and incomprehensible, both motivation and muddled jargon.

Because “open” may face a similar fate as befell “design” and “innovation,” terms that are alternatively inspiring and incomprehensible, both motivation and muddled jargon.

In this sense, online learning,working from home, and bread-baking should not be seen as ‘minor disruptions’ to business-as-usual: instead, we they should force us to acknowledge the material and immaterial affordances ofour own knowledge production.

A study in 2015 estimated cloud computing is responsible for 2% of global emissions, onpar with emissions from global aviation (Greenpeace, 2015); a more recent report puts it at 3.7%,predicted to grow by 8% annually (The Shift Project, 2019) – and this was all prior to the big ‘onlinetransition’ stimulated by the pandemic

Networks of circulationand exchange of data (pre-print-servers such as ArXiv as well as social media) were quickly matchedby private sector investments or takeovers, compounding the tendency for seemingly ‘free’ knowledgeto become enrolled in the logic of capitalism (Bacevic & Muellerleile, 2018; Kelty, 2014).

For global centres of knowledge production – primar-ily Europe and North America, closely followed by Australia and New Zealand – substantial portionof investment came from tuition fees charged to international (non-domiciled) students. In mostcases, this effectively means cross-border transfer of private funds, where students rely on personalor family income, or take out private loans in countries of origin.

I must admit that Ihave spent much more time telling you about fast sciencethan about what slow science would be.

Each profession makes progress, but it is progress in its owngroove. . . . The groove prevents straying across country,and the abstraction abstracts from something to which nofurther attention is given. . . . Of course, no one is merely amathematician, or merely a lawyer. People have lives out-side their professions or their business. But the point is therestraint of serious thought within a groove. The remainderof life is treated superficially, with the imperfect categoriesof thought derived from one profession.5

Training public servants to repair the devices they areusing in everyday life, or at least to identify what is to be repaired andproviding workshops to do so, would, on the one hand, reduce materialconsumption and spare natural resources and, on the other hand, modifythe way we think about our material environment.

I definitely take for granted that green Open Access, with no barriers and little editorialadded value, is more environmentally friendly than gold Open Access, which canonly be accessed through a paywall with data tracking, relying on tailored hostingsolutions and in-house formats. Depending on their technical setup, diamond OpenAccess options might be closer to green or to gold in terms of their environmentalimpact.

Both the primary source provider and the infras-tructure will have at the very least rooms in a building, personnel, andan energy consumption that will be dedicated in part to communicatingwith and providing services to the editorial team.

In terms of environmental cost, each of these elements (personnel,building, transportation, IT infrastructure) has an impact

Upon closer inspection, this perspective restricts accessto cultural heritage in many ways, even when the heritage concernedis simple text and not a complex reconstructed 3D artefact.

Many, if not all, oral or residually oral cultures strike literates as extraordinarily agonistic in their verbal performance and indeed in their lifestyle. ... Proverbs and riddles are not used simply to store knowledge but to engage others in verbal and intellectual combat. ... Bragging about one’s own prowess and/or verbal tongue-lashings of an opponent figure regularly in encounters between characters in narrative. (p. 43)

Crafted by subcultures that embrace the evanescence of digital orality, conspiracy narratives are perfectly attuned to the attention flows of social media. Stories, such as Pizzagate or Qanon, thrive not despite but because of the qualities that make them unpalatable to literate commentators. Considered as positive rather than negative, their features are the same that assure the survival of ideas in preliterate societies.

Despite their huge popularity, these cultural expressions are still written off as youthful stupidities or extreme deviances, similarly to the way in which subcultures ‘are alter-nately dismissed, denounced and canonized; treated at different times as threats to public order and as harmless buffoons’ (Hebdige, 1979: 2)

the world of software

Language is not a raw material or an instrument, muchless a natural resource, but a fraught relationship involving bodies in tense,volatile contact with other bodies as they partake of the creation and recreation of our material worlds.

Disappropriation has involved, and still involves, exposingthe mechanisms that permit an unequal exchange of labor: the labor thatuses the language of collective experience for the author's individual gain.Tue comprehensive goal of disappropriation was, and is, to return all writing to its plural origin. In this way, it seeks to construct future horizons inwhich writing joins the assembly so it can participate and contribute tothe common good.

Disappropriation has involved, and still involves, exposingthe mechanisms that permit an unequal exchange of labor: the labor thatuses the language of collective experience for the author's individual gain.Tue comprehensive goal of disappropriation was, and is, to return all writing to its plural origin. In this way, it seeks to construct future horizons inwhich writing joins the assembly so it can participate and contribute tothe common good.

Goldsmith’s template for identity is theatomized consumer, whose self is constantly collaged with the joyful play of web pages,advertisements and mass media.

how can universities be freed from theirGoogle and Microsoft dependency

when open source and free software are morallybankrupt due to their corporate sell-outs and thus nolonger appeal to the next generations?

It’s time for a strike, a strike on optimization.Stop making improvements. No more enhancedefficiencies or increased productivity. It’s time to teachproblem design. Time to dream up provocatypes.

DigitalHumanities movement but rather distinguishes itselffrom that field’s tendency to focus on the digitalizationof archives coupled with data-driven analysis sedu-ced by numbers, graphs and scale.

how the politics and aesthetics of noise anddistraction impact our mental state, particularly inthe case of the younger generations.

convinced

due to its conditional character, this document might actually notqualify as a license

Obfuscation invokes an intuitive form of protection

It’s all fine, just try not to let ithappen unnoticed

GAFAM & co

operating system

the Onion Router (TOR), which allows for online anonymity through the combined tactics of encrypting communication and relaying it via several nodes on the Internet to obscure the source and destination

The World Bank (2014, 20) finishes its own macroeconomic report on the value of open data by stating, “While sources differ in their precise estimates of the economic potential of Open Data, all are agreed that it is potentially very large.”

The uses to which collected data will be put and the meanings it will be given are dependent on future algorithms and political concerns.

“It could even be argued that . . . the entire internet is fundamentally a sharing technology” (179), he writes, citing the importance of open source software and programming languages, and sharing economies of production, in the development of websites based on user-generated content.

Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat

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How do you measure the chance encounter at a conference that only five years later congeals into a thesis?

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problems misperceived as technical rather than epistemological

Emerging

They don’t want to buy to own

technologies always bear theimprint of their producers and are designed to habituate users to their demands andrequirements

collection and analysis of student data

HE workflow systems, management dashboards, data-linking,business intelligence, and educational analytics platforms

primarily, the aIDS crisis of the 1980s

I won'tdenythata personcouldgetnostalgicfora timewhenparanoidgun-lobbyrhetoricsoundedjustplainnutty-a"simpleandrelativelynon-controversial"exampleof"distortedjudgment"-ratherthanrepre-senting theuncontestedplatformofa dominantpoliticalparty.

Myownguesswouldbethatsuchpopularcynicism,whileundoubtedlywidespread,isonlyoneamongtheheterogeneous,competingtheoriesthatconstitutethementalecologyofmostpeople.

Theyrepresentaway,amongotherways,ofseeking,finding,andorganizingknowledge.

hermeneuticofsuspicion

Andinfactit seemsquiteplausibletomethatsomeversionofthisaxiom(perhaps"Evena paranoidcanhaveenemies,"utteredbyHenryKissin-ger!)8issoindeliblyinscribedinthebrainsofusbaby-boomersthatitoffersusthecontinuingillusionofpossessinga specialinsightintotheepistemologiesofenmity.Myimpression,again,isthatweareliabletoproducethisconstativeformulationasfiercelyasifit hada self-evidentimperativeforce:thenotationthatevenparanoidpeoplehaveenemiesiswieldedasifitsabsolutelynecessarycorollaryweretheinjunction,"-soyoucanneverbeparanoidenough."