2026-01-05
Morning: Intro
Doriane
Our Class
Afternoon: Gossip
HowSpot workshops
situated knowledge: knowing from own experience, not from “the books”
peer2peer: intimacy of sharing your files (/ your place)
(perceived) popularisation of Big Tech criticism (e.g. because of Big Tech extracting Congo for conflict minerals (Congo filed criminal complaints against Apple), Meta suppressing contentabout genocide in Palestine, Meta allowing transphobia, rise of AI and reliance on it, etc. …)
gossip, roddelen, pettegolezzo, lästern, 八卦
2026-01-19
Morning: Updates with Doriane and an intro from Kaa
Orally handing down information is production (and spread) of knowledge > labeling it as gossip to disparage mostly women
Final assignment: give a workshop
* outside of school or XPUB spacea. (squat, art centre, home, garden…)
* audience should be diverse (not only XPUB students)
* some form of documentation (webpage, zine, book, game…)
Kaa (Karen Czock)
https://czkaa.github.io/
Feminist servers:
* A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS)
* A Feminist Server Manifesto 0.01 - https://actinomy.org/
* https://www.anarchaserver.org/
* originated between Brussels and Brazil in the early 2000s
* discussing the practice: Arte Tracks
Workshop in Antwerp: Server Charm (2025-01-25)
https://www.ooooo.be/t_cyberhol/
Internet Surfing Clubs
* https://tilde.town/
* https://tilde.club/
* https://sites.rhizome.org/surfclubs/
What is TMUX?
* “terminal multiplexer”
* tmux session lives on the server
* multiple people can connect
* zine: Sharing Shells
Lori Emerson: Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook https://othernetworks.net/
* barbed wire networks (connecting phones to wire to have (long)distance calls in the countryside) - handwriting through telephone (telepen)
* teletype printer (TTY), radio teletype printer (RTTY)
First terminal: working without a screen, but writing with a typewriter on paper
Afternoon: TMUX with Kaa
figlet: writes input in ASCII charachters
grep: search and replace
traceroute: shows path traffic needed to reach a website
documentation of the session
