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''Project description''<br>
''Project description''<br>
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, which produces sociability. 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.<br>
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, which produces sociability. A bootleg is a homage, an unauthorised copy of a source publication; bootlegging is a strategy by which texts acquire diversity, resisting singularity and representing readers.<br>


''Links to relevant pages''<br>
''Links to relevant pages''<br>

Revision as of 15:42, 2 April 2020

XPUB2 project summaries and links, for tutorials 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, which produces sociability. A bootleg is a homage, an unauthorised copy of a source publication; bootlegging is 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
* hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary (please email info(at)simonbrowne.biz for the HTTP login)