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Introduction (Wednesday 22 April)

Collective reading

The plot of her undoing – Saidiya Hartman
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/File:Plotofherundoing_SaidiyaHartman.pdf

Annotation session:

Episode 5: Apple & Google Partner to Promote Coronavirus Contact Tracing. Should You be Worried? Featuring Seda Gurses https://www.radicalai.org/e5-seda-gurses

annotations: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Seda_Gurses
transcription: https://sonix.ai/r/dWtGr8HcTEddxQR2AYXbYbhm/transcript.pdf

SWARMING MONDAY: 18.05.2020

SUN RA QUOTES:

"Everybody respected him because he had something different and everybody could hear it and see it, but they couldn't do it" > authenticity (costumes, experience, myth, imaginary)

"In my music I speak about unknown things, impossible things, ancient things, potential things"

"What you say has many meanings. it means only what you understand that it means, but that doesnt limit what it actually means"

"A catalyst changes everything, but remains unchanged"

"you are all instruments, everybody is supposed to be playing his part in this vast artistry of the cosmos"

Experienced next to inexperienced

You can’t have music that doesn’t have ugly in it

For Ra, myth is what poet Jay Wright calls a “mode of knowledge”; it is a “medium to understanding” that is quite closely linked to the grand events of the day.

ON IMAGINATION

Propagating: plant a seed and continue to take it to the next level
Aware of the notion of impossibility: and how it shapes idea's (imagination)
soundscape of quotes and word with different layers of meaning
anatomy of mythos
creating an imaginary vision that is collective
'renaming'

Fiction

isolation vs imagination (space travel)
power of sci-fi
notion of 'ghosts'
epistemological systems in the west as dominant - impossible in a certain mindset and frame
some cultures have other mindsets (instead of the Age of Enlightenment and humanism as central)

> Extracting things from the earth: (colonialism, violence, capitalism)

Session with Aymeric on DUB music (and remix culture)

free culture:

capitalize this free media (platforms) mediaplatform serving content: - ideologisch projecten - lost of faith (?)

"Others will make money from it"

free culture: for and by the community (Does that really exist?)

dub paradox:

materialisatiion of cultural differentiation

origins

internet:

how do you find ways to reprogram yourself:
peeling the layers what is given (whats is stake for you and your community?)

prepper mindset: 'critical practice;

motivated not to be in the last
create alternatives network of care

challenge: autonomy infrastructure & reflection

we can try to figure out what to do with these skills and knowledge:

how to turn it into something else that circulates in a gallery or media festival?

we can come up with our own platforms?

more precarity and

RADICAL!??:

building alternatives you can own and maintain

Freedom outside commercial tech giants

Do you want to end up in the 'hall of fame' or want to be mentioned as someone who was at the good side and did super interesting thing?

QUEERING DAMAGE WORKSHOP

https://queeringdamage.hangar.org/index.php/Main_Page

How do we approach something? (rethinking how we can do this otherwise)
different types of otherwises: critically thinking about damages

In environmental damage: how do people live with this, instead of trying to fix

f.e. organisms that flourish from damage
survival and energy that is enforced after damage is done

QUEERING (verb)

destabilizing > embracing and not fix it!
anti normative approach
queering: what it's supposed to do (not what normative)
rejecting to normativity
other logic of causality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queering
entanglement

Queer politics: surviving with damage
Taking an object and look at what it does in a work, and imagine an alternative (transfeminist thinking)

Damages: damaging for who?

damage to some, but some may flourish
cohabitation?

Reparation versus repair!

closely related terms but diffirent acts and goals:
reparation: fixing what is broken
repair: bring back in old state

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QUEERING DAMAGE 
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what is going on here?

    -which are the agents implied? alive or not, human or not, powerful or powerless

    -wheres? spatiality / situatedness / displacements / distribution

    -whens? temporality / durability / existing / extinct / repeated

    -semiotic-materialities: what signs and matters are at work in this ensemble?

    -your entanglement with the scene

    -can a pattern be identified here? to what extent is this damage structural, or singular?

Tutorial with Femke Snelting (19.05.2020)

SYNCHRONIZATION
https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency

clock of the long now:

rethinking: what we can achief next rather than, improve what we have when we look back
ticks every once in a thousand year (ignores materiality of time)
ignores the fact that technology are inherently social
power of imagination as: todays lack of mythos
too far ahead: abstraction > don't act!?

These temporal feats alert us that the time of modernity is not the only kind of time, and that our metronomic synchrony is not the only time that matters.

RHYTHM:
'trembling with the earth' : understanding the current situation (situated knowledges and entanglements)

to connect of not
michael's text: moving with (not being in sync with your surroundings)
controle mechanism
TEXT: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-hypothesis

rethinking practical tool implentations:

specifiek: stream timeslider?
altijd aan? / uitzending?
niet kunnen doorspoelen?
alt volume bars (to normalize or not?)
jigles: ritme

Cybernetics: > zeevaart/navigatie mogelijk door de klok > ritme klok / ritme als energie > drang naar consistentie

Refuse image of lineair relation: - interconnected systems - imaginary: advocating for anti violent practice - No memory - forced diaspora

NOTES ON WORLDING

“Post-truth” gives up on materialism. It gives up on what I’ve called semiotic materialism: the idea that materialism is always situated meaning-making and never simply representation. These are not questions of perspective. They are questions of worlding and all of the thickness of that. Discourse is not just ideas and language. Discourse is bodily. It’s not embodied, as if it were stuck in a body. It’s bodily and it’s bodying, it’s worlding. This is the opposite of post-truth. This is about getting a grip on how strong knowledge claims are not just possible but necessary — worth living and dying for.

Worlding: het maken van de wereld (werelds zijn) > Harraway probeert te denken dat realiteiten en werelden niet per definitie bestaan (Situated knowlegdes)

Los van spreken denken, schrijven : hierme 'maken' we de wereld > realiteiten zijn gesitueerd! Niets abstracts zonder materialeit

Worlding examples:

Kritische omgang met computers:

alsof er geen materiele consequenties zijn.
alsof er geen relatie is tussen materiaal en werking / gebruik / functie
materiaal komt ergens vandaan en gaat ergens naar toe
computer werkt met met electronen: warmte speelt een rol etc

Materialiteit weg organiseren:

gaat in tegen het idee dat we door binairiteit kun je efficient computers maken
efficient computing?
How commercial software works and shaped our thinking?

Belofte: op een andere manier wereld kan maken

geen leger nodig maar soms science finction (gedicht, sci-fi)

READ MORE

DONNA HARRAWAY 'a-giant-bumptious-litter' https://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/

Swarming Monday #2: RADICAL SOFTWARE

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/RadicalSoftwarePad

READING LIST

Read

Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures
Saidiya Hartman, The Plot of Her Undoing
Donna Haraway (2019), A Giant Bumptious Litter: Donna Haraway on Truth, Technology, and Resisting Extinction https://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/?fbclid=IwAR13RpmuwM17aSvo6V-G5EDWF8MpxKunBf-1KuTfExrDsfCK1BHFvCWNv3
Michael Murtaugh, Eventual consistency https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency
Zach Blas & Micha Carde (2015), Imaginary computational systems: queer technologies and transreal aesthetics
Elodie Mugrefya (2019), Mise en Valeur et Omission https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Afrique_aux_noirs

To Read

Syed Mustafa Ali (2016), A brief introduction to decolonial computing
Ramon Amaro (2019), Artificial intelligence: Warped, colorful forms and their unclear geometries https://research.gold.ac.uk/27052/1/SoU_AI%2C%20warped%2C%20colorful%20forms....pdf
Sylvia Wynter (2015), On Being Human as Praxis -- interview with Katherine Mckittrick
Denise Fereira Da Silva (2016), 'On difference without separability'
Katherine Mckittrick, Mathematics Black Life
Noah Tsika (2016), CompuQueer: Protocological Constraints, Algorithmic Streamlining, and the Search for Queer Methods Online
Anaïs Nony (2017), Technology of Neo-Colonial Epistemes
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (2009), Race and/as Technology; or, How to Do Things to Race
Sara Ahmed and Anne-Marie Fortier, "Re-imagining communities", in International Journal of Cultural Studies 2003, Volume 6(3): 251–259.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace, Black Feminist Calculus Meets Nothing to Prove: A Mobile Homecoming Project Ritual toward the Postdigital

Watched / Listened

Apple & Google Partner to Promote Coronavirus Contact Tracing. Should You be Worried? with Seda Gurses (April 2020) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-radical-ai-podcast/id1505229145
Ursula Leguin (1985), She Unnames Them http://ursulakleguinarchive.com/MP3s/BuffaloGals.html
Edouard Glissant (Manthia Diawara, 2010) One World in Relation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNVe_BAELY
(Great>>>>>>) Natalie Jeremijenko + Kate Rich Track 12: The mutual synchronisation of coupled oscillators (This was one track from a CD released as an "insert" to Mute Magazine Vol 1, No. 21, September 2001). The other tracks are available as well. In the recording, Jeremijenko speaks; the audio production/remix was done by Rich. They worked together as the Bureau of Inverse Technology.

To watch / To Listen

Denise Fereira Da Silva, Arjuna Neuman (2019) Four waters: deep implicancy https://now-instant.la/screen
Four Rooms – Elizabeth A. Povinelli (2020), on Virus and Interdependence of Lives https://video.constantvzw.org/Four_rooms/Four%20Rooms%20%e2%80%93%20Elizabeth%20A.%20Povinelli,%20on%20Virus%20and%20Interdependence%20of%20Lives,%20m...-151814866175052.mp4
Four Rooms – Denise Ferreira Da Silva (2020), on the Logics of Exclusion and Obliteration https://video.constantvzw.org/Four_rooms/Four%20Rooms,%20Denise%20Ferreira%20Da%20Silva,%20on%20the%20Logics%20of%20Exclusion%20and%20Oblitera...-152937289377315.mp4

ADDED

Our band could be your live, Michael Azzarad (Chapter: Black Flag)
Sound synchronized with "Pendulum Waves" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Q7JYBkOHU
Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNrKS-sCE0
Donna Haraway - Story Telling for Earthly Survival (docu)

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