User:Eleanorg/1.2/Thematic/Halfway Presentation

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Fragility of Archives

Archives need at once a guardian and a localization
Derrida, Archive Fever

• Fragility is inherent in the archive as form
• Digital storage does not transcend the need for physical space & safekeeping

last trimester: geographic/virtual distance

Real Politic of server location

FB censorship - example images

• just as 'cyberspace' fantasy denies the body, so FB deems 'bodily' content out of place there

Distributed network as solution to censorship?

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Views from grassroots hosting providers

we ask everyone who requests a blog to agree to the terms upon request. ...If we find that someone doesn't then we reserve the right to disable their blog. I didn't used to hold that view for Indymedia, I was of the opinion that whatever goes, that being selective was censorship. But over the years having seen the trouble caused by being laissez-faire about policy... I'm more judgmental about it these days.

An example: although I'm opposed to fox hunting, I believe that it is the right of people to... express their desire to do it. Therefore if the government outlawed the expression of the right to hunt foxes, then I would support a blog of people wishing to express that right.

• Even in decentralised networks, the server's guardian & localization determine inclusion/exclusion

Physical storage

The question of land refuses to go away.
Hakim Bey, Post Anarchism Anarchy

Eben Moglen: "in my pocket; break down my door"

• the question of hardware refuses to go away
• users must have physical guardianship of their servers

Distributed storage

Diaspora etc

Bodybook