We not only need to defend the United States Postal Service from privatization, we need to deepen its role in our economy. jacobinmag.com/2020/04/united…

aaron didn't need a global pandemic to declare the crisis and act upon one. jstor's gesture comes as too little too late. too little too late killed our heroes in the past and keeps killing us day after day.

read, share, disobey and remember aaron swartz

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Huge thanks to Andrea Francke Eva Weinmayr @kg_ubu Lawrence Liang @[email protected] SlowRotation for their contributions to the exhibition, to @[email protected] & nanna thylstrup (nannathylstrup.bsky.social) for their exceptional talks today & all of the participants who fed into an incredibly rich discussion...tbc, we hope!

'How to account for these politics without exposing the communities that claim their right to opacity?' - nanna thylstrup (nannathylstrup.bsky.social) talking about activism and technology in a minor key at the Public Library and the Property Form seminar Post Office Research Group Postdigital Cultures Raven Row tomislav medak marcell mars

'We made a fundamental error: we didn't think about the extraction of value in the global access #commons ' - Balász Bodó, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law, addresses current contradictions within #knowledgecommons movements

In which language are social utopias written in? - Balász Bodó speaking at the seminar, 'Public Library and the Property Form' Raven Row postoffice.media/posts/paper-st…

Introduction to Public Library and the Property Form by tomislav medak and marcell mars Raven Row #seminar #copyright #openness #authorship #postoffice

In absolute shock. A fellow reader was just REFUSED ENTRY to the British Library for wearing a small sticker in support of the UCU strikes. The security followed him into the locker room and told him to remove the sticker or leave. What sort of outrageous policy is this?

An homage to #aaronswartz by @kg_ubu ...And an open invitation to come by and print out some of the articles that JStor kept behind bars

Sometimes it's hard to see the amount of text and labour that goes into creating online repositories like @[email protected] ...the two long scrolls try to capture the scale of dedication and edurance of #shadowlibrarians

An archive of the incredible contribution to free knowledge from SlowRotation, one of the most generous Memory of the World librarians...four boxes could not contain it all

Lol. The judge was a graduate of the university too and had been using the same photocopy shop that was on trial...'I would not have been a judge if it wasn't for that copyshop'

'Illegal forms of reproducing texts have long existed before digital files' - inaugurating Paper Struggles right with a guided tour by tomislav medak marcell mars

A homage to Delhi Uni students, who fought big publishers from the Global North to defend their right to A2K. Part of 'Paper Struggles' exhibition, done by @Marcell and me with Kaja Marczewska / same on bluesky and Post Office Research Group. At Raven Row, from Mon 18.30 until Wed 21.00.

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EXHIBITION, 'PAPER STRUGGLES', Opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00
Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00

Including: Monoskop, Andrea Francke and Eva Wienmayr, Kenneth Goldsmith, ‘Memory of the World, Catalogue by Slowrotation… ift.tt/2OGSuec

'If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.' Ludwig Wittgenstein
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'Zones where logistics become life rather than supporting it' - Peter Conlin.
addresses the problem of representing logistical spaces from the #impressionists to the #situationists . #opacity #transparency #nonplaces #nowindows

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