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On Gathering
“Gathering, for Le Guin, is not a masculine, techno-utopian process of disruption or of moving fast and breaking things, but the methodical, deep labor that comes from "looking around, rather than looking ahead,"
mindy seu in cyberfeminism index
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Gather Is a Local-First App for Archiving, Cultivating, and Curating Multimedia Data Collections.
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What the catalogers provide is different than traditional press coverage or financial investment. They are dealers of agency. Through a combination of tools, information, and imagination they help draw a map around new communities.
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
David Lang • The Catalogers
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Cataloging and organizing the world is a deeply human endeavor. Before we can unify ideas together, or provide some sort of large conceptual framework, we need to at least have gathered and organized the facts and data. Creating a catalog or a list involves frameworks and organization, but it is also at peace with the grab-bag and the miscellaneous. It is a means for creating order while still being wary of too much order—or at least comfortable sitting with a bit of a mess.
a place where the grand compulsion of archiving, from wherever it might arrive, can and will be attuned to — and, crucially, shared.
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... See moreA myth is a patch of soil where we can plant the best practices of a community: how to relate to each other and to our shared ecosystem. The type of mythmaking we are called to do now is probably somewhere closer to composting. We live in a culture that is remarkably good at abstracting itself from waste and off-loading it onto the marginalized com
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Sophie Strand
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online siblings could be... See more
Folkert Gorter • Clippings by Folkert Gorter
