XPUB2 projects Trim5 2020

XPUB2 project summaries for tutorials Marina Otero Verzier & Annet Dekker, April 2020

Simon Browne

Project description

The bootleg library is a particular, situated social infrastructure. It operates from the understanding that the library is a collection; a collection of the texts contained within it, and the readers collected around them. There is a reciprocal, self-reflexive relationship between the texts and the readers. A bootleg is a homage, an unauthorised copy of a source publication; and bootlegging a strategy by which texts acquire diversity, resisting singularity and representing readers.

Links to relevant pages

* Overview of project
* the physical bootleg library
* bootleg library sessions
the digital bootleg library (please email info(at)simonbrowne.biz for the HTTP login)