User:Simon/bootleg library at Meeting Grounds online

bootleg library at meeting grounds online 04.06.20

description

Notes on Texts is a session that annotates a library. It understands reading and writing to be fundamental library practices, and asks how new readers/writers may participate in producing texts that both describe the collection and represent themselves.

This session will take place with (and within) the bootleg library, a shared digital and physical collection of republished texts.

Bootlegs; unauthorised copies of source publications that represent ourselves, our multiplicity and our shared interests.

A library; a collection of texts and also the readers collected around them.

Previous bootleg library sessions have been moments to meet in various spaces with the people who frequent them, discuss things we read, add to the collection, and offer each other contingencies through the texts we share.

For this session we'll meet online in a web conference, in the digital bootleg library, and in a real time collaborative text-editing environment. We'll explore how the mediums and techniques we use will shape the texts we share. You are invited to experiment with styles of annotation to imagine ways that we can guide each other towards the things we read. How can we enrich texts through our annotations, and what kind of new texts can we produce through our notes?