User:Nadiners/ unpublishing

Project Proposal very very Drafty

What do you want to make?

I want to open an Unpublishing House, an entreprise that limits the public's access. Make a sort of graveyard, dead content, or dead virtual beings.

I would like to begin researching this topic through visual traces of unpublished material, meaning things that have been published but then removed from the public sphere. An example would be traces of a torn down poster, or a website leaving a text saying “this post has been removed”. In parallel to making a collection of visual ‘proof’ I will research unpublishing in history, examples that only have written traces, or remain in the collective memory.

How do you plan to make it?

Begin with a Hackpact, so one small production a day. This will clarify my intentions and ideas. I will need to plan the structure of the business, from mission statement/manifesto to graphic identity, content and audience. business plan. money..

Publish the 'hackpact' with tor.. finding out how to publish anonymously

What is your timetable?

Why do you want to make it?

I would like to investigate the impact upon the act of unpublishing a certain content, having so many different perspectives on the matter will bring up lots of conclusions. I am interested to see the different reactions one disappearance could bring to life!

Who can help you and how?

I would like to talk to people or interview them, to get a better idea of what the "service" could provide, what would they like to unpublish? Richard with his stalky story Use Karin from Printroom

Relation to previous practice

This thematic comes from a reversal of my previous topics of interest, where I dealt with the revealing or highlighting unpublished or leaked documents. In one project I collected three different documents relating to drone attack, one being the instruction manual, the second a transcript from leaked audio files of pilots talking during an attack in Afghanistan, and the third was a list of the resulting number of deaths from each attack that was recorded. In another project I created a food wiki where I would collect processed factory packed foods and divide the information found on the packing (on the surface) to information about the corporation (under the surface) in order to make it easier for consumers to know what is in and where their products come from, at the same time revealing the industries secrets.

Relation to a larger context

An individual unpublishing his own material is considered to be his right, an organisation or a nation unpublishing someone else’s material can be seen as censoring. A group burning another’s material can lead to murder. (Heinrich Heine "Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.”)

references

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-trouble-with-unpublishing-the-news/390282/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/the-fight-over-free-speech-online?mbid=social_facebook

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/20/facebook-rohingya-muslims-myanmar

-Destruction of the Library of Alexandria (only written traces)

-Isis destroy ancient monuments Palmyra ? unpublishing an entire culture

-Nazi book burning (photographic traces)

-The right to be forgotten

-suicide machine (art)

- static glow Audrey