Methods xpub
Welcome to the Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies page! Here you can find information about the XPUB1 methods class: schedule, topic, readings and homework. In this series of bi-weekly workshops we concentrate on methods of annotation and text analysis which help us research this trimester's Special Issue. Each session has a specific outcome.
Trim 1: SI31 - Radio WORM: TMTOWTDI
During Special Issue 31 the bi-weekly methods classes will focus on reading, note taking & documentation practice:
- Reading texts relevant to the current Special Issue (reading groups);
- Group discussion to establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from;
- Establishing an annotation, note taking and documentation practice;
- Conducting a literature survey (personal reader): collect texts for personal reader related to SI and personal interests.
- Editorial work (publication): use rough drafts to develop your ideas further (through copy-editing, rewriting and peer review).
Week 0: (annotation) writing machines
11:00 - 11:15 🔄 group checkin & goals for the day
11:15 - 12:00 ✳️ Intro round: how, what and why we annotate?
12:00 - 12:30 👁️🗨️ Intro to Methods: the year && Trim 1
12:30 - 13:00 ✏️ Intro to first annotation exercise in 3 groups
13:00 - 14:00 ⏳ LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:30 🖐️ Annotation exercise
Uncreative Writing, Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011), - Introduction (p.1-14), Kenneth Goldsmith Postprint (2021) – Introducing Postprint, N. Katherine Hayles
15:30 - 16:15 🖐️ Reconvene and discuss exercise
What is your key take away from this text? Which method(s) of annotation did you use? Why these? How did they help you understand the text? Which aspects of the exercise did you struggle with the most?
16:15 - 17:00 ✳️ Discuss how to approach annotating and reading together, (groups (size? ppl?) and methods (when to read, when and how to annotate). Closing the day
Homework: Please read the texts chosen by your reading group!
Personal reader examples from previous year (wiki):
- https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Senka/Notes_Thoughts_and_Annotations
- https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Thijshijsijsjss/Gossamery
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Trim 2: SI32 - to be announced!
During Special Issue 32 the methods classes will focus on glossary writing (and thinking through questions of language, shared vocabulary, "academese", the (im)possibility of static definitions and more). Activities will include:
- Reading core theoretical texts relevant to the course and the topics discussed in the current Special Issues;
- Group discussion to establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from (glossary writing);
- Essayistic methodologies: close reading, annotation, description;
- Research methods: conducting a literature survey, interviews, observation, auto-ethnography, polls and surveys.
- Iterative drafting of texts (learning/thinking through writing): use rough drafts to develop your ideas further (through copy-editing, rewriting and peer review).
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Trim 3: SI33 - to be announced!
During Special Issue 33 the methods classes will focus on (re)writing Projects that May or May not be Made (PMOMMs) and the personal reader;
- Reading core theoretical texts relevant to you;
- Conducting literature survey (personal reader): filter what is relevant to your research and create comparative pieces of analysis;
- Iterative drafting of texts (learning/thinking through writing) through "Projects that May Or May not be Made" (PMOMMs) and personal reader:
- developing a method of drafting texts,
- use rough drafts to develop your ideas further (through copy-editing, rewriting and peer review)
- structure your use of notes and references;
- Writing descriptions, analysis and contextualisation of your own (collective) practice (for personal reader and PMOMMs).
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Methods resources
- Finding books, papers, journals: the library, the bootleg library: https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/ other shadow libraries and online resources: Links_to_resources
- Documenting your work: this wiki!
- Collective writing: https://pad.xpub.nl
- Finding lost etherpad pages: Ethereal_Etherpad_Directory
- Notes from SI28 Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback: Writing_Machines_Notebook
- Glossary from SI29 Gossiping at the Intersection of Crafts and Resistances: Grapevine
Methods archive
You can find the archive here: Methods Archive