'I don’t think we’re ever going to get to utopia again by going forward,
but only roundabout or sideways; because we’re in a rational dilemma, 
an either/or situation as perceived by the binary computer mentality, 
and neither the either nor the or is a place where people can live.'

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

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⌗ Mindy Seu - Cyberfeminist Index [~1990s-present]

⌗ Addie Wagenknecht - Alone Together

//: Max Schrems v Facebook

//: Denmark to name a ‘digital ambassador’

~ Books with an Attitude : constantvzw

~ Library Stack

~ Critical Engineering

~ Mindy Seu - PDF Library // are.na

~ Mindy Seu - Queer OS // are.na

~ hyperreadings

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⯐ Deep Lab Lecture Series: Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Runa Sandvik, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Maral Pourkazemi, Denise Caruso, Lindsay Howard, Maddy Varner, Jen Lowe, Lorrie Faith Cranor

⯐ Cybernetics Conference: Wendy Chun, Paul Pangaro, Shannon Mattern, Adrian Chen, McKenzie Wark, Paul Soulellis, Frank Pasquale, Mimi Onuoha, Zabet Patterson, Allison Parrish, Michael Yap, Lars TCF Holdhus

⯐ Recontextualizing Type in Motion: Mindy Seu at the San Francisco Public Library

⯐ Michael Madsen - Into Eternity

⯐ Med Hondo - Soleil O

⯐ Kodwo Eshun - After Year Zero [Geographies of Collaboration since 1945]

⯐ James Baldwin - "The Price of the Ticket"

⯐ Mika Taanila - The Future Is Not What It Used to Be [ :: Erkki Kurenniemi]

My reading list for SIXII

__Fred Moten - Black and Blur

Held in the very idea of white people — in the illusion of their strength, in the fantasy of their allyship, in the poverty of their rescue, in the silliness of their melancholy, in the power of their networks, in the besotted rejection of their impossible purity, in the repeated critique of their pitiful cartoon — is that thing about waiting for vacancy to shake your hand while the drone’s drone gives air a boundary

__Andrea Sick, Claudia Reiche - Technics of Cyber ‹ › Feminism. ‹mode=message›

__Juliana Huxtable - Mucus in My Pineal Gland

They had developed the most advanced systems for mapping desire known to man [literally]. They all seemed satisfied to live in a world of tops/bottoms, mascs/fems divided into various size, shape, hair level, affiliations. It was less a result of sexual exploration than a marketplace that mimicked the artificial volition offered by a shopping mall. The complexities of sensual want were denied prima facie in lieu of the easy, greasy, sleazy, and cheap alternative. Fucking or getting fucked for one night only... possibly more if you could tolerate his breath...

__Helen Hester - Xenofeminism

__Shulamith Firestone - Dialectic of Sex

__Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

__Derek Jarman - At Your Own Risk

__Frantz Fanon - A Dying Colonialism

The highly trained French services, rich with experience acquired in modern wars, past masters in the practice of "sound-wave warfare," were quick to detect the wave lengths of the broadcasting stations. The programs were then systematically jammed, and the Voice of Fighting Algeria soon became inaudible. A new form of struggle had come into being. Tracts were distributed telling the Algerians to keep tuned in for a period of two or three hours. In the course of a single broadcast a second station, broadcasting over a different wave-length, would relay the first jammed station.
[...]
Every evening, from nine o'clock to midnight, the Algerian would listen. At the end of the evening, not hearing the Voice, the listener would sometimes leave the needle on a jammed wave-length or one that simply produced static, and would announce that the voice of the combatants was here. For an hour the room would be filled with the piercing, excruciating din of the jamming. Behind each modulation, each active crackling, the Algerian would imagine not only words, but concrete battles.

__Gerda Lerner - The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

__Siegfried Zielinski - [...After the Media]

__Alessandro Ludovico - Post-Digital Print

__Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich - State Machines

__Taeyoon Choi - Poetic Computation [Reader]

__Frank Pasquale - From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon

__Loes Bogers and Letizia Chiappini - The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)Learning Technology

__Paul Virilio - The Aesthetics of Disappearance

__Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism

__Shannon Mattern - Extract and Preserve [Underground Repositories for a Posthuman Future?]

__Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton - Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

__Eldridge Cleaver - Soul on Ice

__Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek - Inventing the Future

__Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine

__Fredric Jameson - The Political Unconscious

__Eric Schrijver - Copy This Book: An Artist's Guide to Copyright

__Josephine Bosma, Geert Lovink et al. - Readme! Filtered by Nettime: ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge

__Deep Lab

__Engine Failure: Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts on the Problems of Platform Capitalism

__L. M. Sacasas - One Does Not Simply Add Ethics To Technology

'Different ideas of social and political life entail different technologies for their realization. One can create systems of production, energy, transportation, information handling, and so forth that are compatible with the growth of autonomous, self-determining individuals in a democratic polity. Or one can build, perhaps unwittingly, technical forms that are incompatible with this end and then wonder how things went strangely wrong. The possibilities for matching political ideas with technological configurations appropriate to them are, it would seem, almost endless. If, for example, some perverse spirit set out deliberately to design a collection of systems to increase the general feeling of powerlessness, enhance the prospects for the dominance of technical elites, create the belief that politics is nothing more than a remote spectacle to be experienced vicariously, and thereby diminish the chance that anyone would take democratic citizenship seriously, what better plan to suggest than that we simply keep the systems we already have?' -- Langdon Winner [1977]

__Feminist Data Manifest-No [A declaration of refusal and commitment. It refuses harmful data regimes and commits to new data futures]

Suggested readings and references

``Saidiya Hartman - The plot of her undoing [Read collectively during the session]

``Seda Gurses - Apple & Google Partner to Promote Coronavirus Contact Tracing. Should You be Worried? [> link to mp3]

``One World in Relation Edouard Glissant [Manthia Diawara, 2010]

``A Giant Bumptious Litter: Donna Haraway on Truth, Technology, and Resisting Extinction [2019]

``Natalie Jeremijenko + Kate Rich Track 12: The mutual synchronisation of coupled oscillators [This was one track from a CD released as an "insert" to Mute Magazine: Vol. 1 No. 21 . September 2001]. The other tracks are available as well. In the recording, Jeremijenko speaks; the audio production/remix was done by Rich. They worked together as the Bureau of Inverse Technology.

``Ramon Amaro - Artificial intelligence: Warped, colorful forms and their unclear geometries [2019]

``Sylvia Wynter - On Being Human as Praxis [interview with Katherine Mckittrick . 2015]

``Elodie Mugrefya - Mise en Valeur et Omission [2019]

``Denise Fereira Da Silva - On difference without separability [2016]

``Katherine Mckittrick - Mathematics Black Life

``Zach Blas & Micha Carde - Imaginary computational systems: queer technologies and transreal aesthetics [2015]

``Noah Tsika - CompuQueer: Protocological Constraints, Algorithmic Streamlining, and the Search for Queer Methods Online [2016]

``Wendy Hui Kyong Chun - Race and/as Technology; or, How to Do Things to Race [2009]

``Syed Mustafa Ali - A brief introduction to decolonial computing [2016]

``Sara Ahmed and Anne-Marie Fortier - Re-imagining communities [International Journal of Cultural Studies . 2003, Volume 6[3]: 251–259]

``Michael Murtaugh - Eventual consistency

``Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace - Black Feminist Calculus Meets Nothing to Prove: A Mobile Homecoming Project Ritual toward the Postdigital [P. 305]