Peripheral Centers and Feminist Servers/TL;DR

This page documents the tl;dr project part of Peripheral_Centers_and_Feminist_Servers

tl;dr researches ways to make sense of the hidden labour that goes on in a feminist server through log files and unlogged effort / activity. 

In a seamless world, awareness of techno-social infrastructure surfaces only when it's not working. But when you upload a photo, install an application, move a file, a technology serves, works, labours to execute what you've asked of it.

Inaccessible files track this work as data. These files are inaccessible in two ways: they're hard to retrieve and hard to decipher. While these hidden files contain the not so hidden infrastructures of a server, they only manage to show a portion of it. After all, log files have a bias towards the technological ecology, prioritizing the labour of machines.

The actual infrastructure consists of much more: the people maintaining (rebooting, organizing, meeting) for the tech to work. A feminist data center acknowledges and fosters the infrastructure surrounding this technology; the physical labour, the decisions about shared spaces, the different knowledges that depend on each other for the network to exist.

Project description

[describe project matter of factly] [photos of project in varia during launch]

Motivation and evolution

[describe problem]

[initial idea]

[comments by Joseph and Manetta]

[updated idea]

Design process

[sketches go here]

[describe how sketches led to the following designs]

First digital mockup, version a

First digital mockup, version b

[describe 2024-03-13 meeting between Senka and Thijs that led to the following updated design]

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As the TL;DR can be previewed on an e-reader at varia, we'd like to test what we can do in terms of HTML/CSS/Javascript with the e-reader. A test page was created, that includes some scrollbars, some font stylings, some javascript scroll tracking, some animations, etc.