my report of the #synchronicityofparasites symposium at Zinedepo, Motel Spatie, Arnhem, with Marc van Elburg, Anders M. Gullestad, Anna Poletti & Wilfried Hou Je Bek (that was parasitically made part of the #urgentpublishing conference co-organized by our research program):

http://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2019/06/07/synchronicityofparasites-zinedepo-motel-spatie-17-5-2019/

#zine #zines #zineculture #parasite #parasites

I wrote a report of the interesting @rra + @fcr conversation on federated #networks and #mastodon that took place during the #urgentpublishing conference (Arnhem).

http://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2019/05/20/federated-publishing/

#urgentpublishing Marc van Elburg talking about contemporary "zombie zines" : zines that don't have any trace of the community around them or the author, where the content comes from the internet

#urgentpublishing re: zines, old punk is the new cute, new punk is the old authoritarianism

#urgentpublishing generally we say that "tech is not neutral", when it comes to memes we say that "templates are not neutral"

#urgentpublishing I wanted to problematize the link between social media and privilege, discussed during the first panel. The question is generally: "do I precarious cultural worker have the privilege to quit social media?" As basically everyone can nowadays claim a stake in precarity, the question should also be: "what kind of cultural status, little as it can be, is maintained and performed by staying on social media?"