gratitude to the contributions of Olivia Ross, Oren Robinson, and Mark Hernandez
WEEK 1: What Are Solidarity Infrastructures?
Prepare to briefly introduce yourself!
WEEK 2: Reclaiming Our Technological Imagination
#ASSIGNMENT
Always Already Infrastructuring (Inspired by Melanie Hoff’s Always Already Programming)
Prepare a bit of writing or drawing or story or set of images to share about an existing infrastructural tool, approach, or network that interests you. Append it to this document, and we will do a show-and-tell in class!
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Ursula K. Le Guin. A Rant about Technology, 2005 https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
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American Artist, Black Gooey Universe, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59238d36d2b8575d127794a4/t/5a60bdecf9619a7f881b02a0/1516289526013/UNBAG_2_AmericanArtist.pdf
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Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones), Technology & Ethos, in Raise Rage Rays Raze (NYC: Random House, 1965)http://www.soulsista.com/titanic/baraka.html
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Ahmed Ansari, Decolonizing Design Through the Perspectives of Cosmological Others. The ACM Magazine for Students Volume 26 Issue 2 Winter 2019 https://www.are.na/block/19677929f
WEEK 3: How Does The Internet Work?
#ASSIGNMENT
SSH into the class server and contribute to our collective infrastructure / commune
Set up your blog! https://o.commoninternet.net/collection/class-project-blogs-5cV7XTeVFT
#READ
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Mallory Knodel and Niels ten Oever. How The Internet Really Works: An Illustrated Guide to Protocols, Privacy, Censorship, and Governance
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Julian Oliver. 2014. Stealth Infrastructure https://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/may/20/stealth-infrastructure/
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Ingrid Burrington. Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure https://c-i-r-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n.org/media/pdf/Networks-of-New-York.pdf
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Panayotis Antoniadis. The Organic Internet: Building Communications Networks from the Grassroots https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-66592-4_13#Sec3
WATCH/LISTEN
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Tabita Rezaire. Deep Down Tidal (2017). 18min long video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9EIywuH-LM
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Meghna Mahadevan, yétúndé olagbaju, Neha Shingane, Long-Range Solutions for Traditional Communities with Instituto Nupef, 36 min audio podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB27dkHHdz8&
EXPLORE
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Teleogeography. Submarine Cable Map https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
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Quartz. Map of the Internet https://classic.qz.com/map-of-the-internet/
PREVIOUS YEAR’S GUEST LECTURE
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Lai Yi Ohlsen, Measurement Lab. Spring 2023. https://v.commoninternet.net/w/4eL73HAjReXH917yrpjeYR
WEEK 4: Community Tech
ASSIGNMENT
-Draft your podmap (Mia Mingus, about: https://www.soiltjp.org/our-work/resources/pods, step by step: https://www.soiltjp.org/our-work/resources/pods/podmapworksheets)
READ
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Spideralex. Underneath and On the Sidelines: Sustaining Feminist Infrastructures Using Speculative Fiction.https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf
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Diana Nucera. Teaching Community Technology Handbook. Chapter 1: What is community tech?http://www.mothercyborg.com/community-technology
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Janastu Servelots. COWMesh https://open.janastu.org/projects/cowmesh
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Community Tech NY. Journey Map https://www.communitytechny.org/
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Portals Sem Porteiras. Nodes That Bond https://www.apc.org/en/blog/seeding-change-nodes-bond-women-overcome-access-gaps-portal-sem-porteiras-community-network
GUEST LECTURES
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Sanketh Kumar, Janastu. Spring 2023. https://v.commoninternet.net/w/poAeGFjTYjbFZr2Xk5K7h6
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Rodrigo Troian, NUPEF. Winter 2024. https://v.commoninternet.net/w/mym35Z8DQ3PinDbeMyvktD
WEEK 5: How do network topologies shape our social fabric?
#ASSIGNMENT
Install Yunohost on your hardware, Tutorial: Getting Started With Yunohost
#READ
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Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox. Toward a Minor Tech https://darc.au.dk/fileadmin/DARC/newspapers/toward-a-minor-tech-online-sm.pdf
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Aimi Hamraie, Kelly Fritsch. Crip Technoscience Manifesto. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29607/24772
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The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. Bugreporting as a method. https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Bugreporting_how-to
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Alice Yuan Zhang. Sea Change: A Critique of Forkonomy(). https://outland.art/forkonomy/
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Élodie Mugrefya and Femke Snelting. Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-use.https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/
WEEK 6. Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-With-Others
#ASSIGNMENT
Explain what you’re learning, thinking about, and doing in this class to someone in at least two of your different pods
#READ
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Shannon Mattern. "Maintenance and Care," Places Journal (2018)https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/
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Nancy Mauro-Flude & Yoko Akama. “A feminist server stack: co-designing feminist web servers to reimagine Internet futures” CoDesign Journal (2022) https://www.are.na/block/20949157
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Spideralex. Underneath and On the Sidelines: Sustaining Feminist Infrastructures Using Speculative Fiction.https://donestech.net/files/iterations-spideralex-underneath-and-on-the-sidelines.pdf (ICYMI, Week 4)
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Hêlîn Asî, Finding Revolutionary Love in a World of Profound Alienation Zine, https://archive.org/details/rev-love/mode/2up, 4 page zine on love & revolution
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May First Cooperative, https://mayfirst.coop/en/
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Adafruit, https://www.adafruit.com, Online shop with blog/projects for specific hardware and electronics
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Varia, Digital Solidarity Networks Zine, https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/DSN/Digital%20Solidarity%20Networks.pdf, tools, practices, readings for digital solidarity, conviviality, and togetherness
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Crip Lit: Toward An Intersectional Crip Syllabus https://www.autostraddle.com/crip-lit-an-intersectional-queer-crip-syllabus-333400/ syllabus to develop our understanding of crip movements, “the authors in this syllabus imagine queercrip figures that push up against limited notions of embodiment, resist medical pathology and demand more expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality”
GUEST LECTURE
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Varia. Spring 2023. https://v.commoninternet.net/w/pU9uwg69SVsWgkh8UN4pqi
WEEK 7. Radical signals, rogue frequencies, speculative possibilities for liberatory communication
ASSIGNMENT
Publish with the rest of the class on an alternative social media
READ
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Miliaku Nwabueze, How to Build the End of the World, https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/black-radical-tradition-cop-city/
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Kate Donovan. Nightcall Radio: Radio-Anthropocene Entanglements. https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/19283044/6945f936e3a87b3e81a1155ff1874a34.pdf?1670240463
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Helga Tawil-Souri. Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access https://www.are.na/block/19282985
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Critical Art Ensemble. Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance. from The Electronic Disturbance, Ch. 2 (1994)http://critical-art.net/books/ted/ted2.pdf
PREVIOUS GUEST LECTURE
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Sarah Aoun, security & privacy researcher. Winter 2024. https://v.commoninternet.net/w/3Dz1aFCJkzKCdztiwnkBJq
WEEK 8: Memory, Data, & Archives
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The Power of the Archive and its Limits, Achille Mbembe, https://www.are.na/block/7810557
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No Archive Will Restore You, Julietta Singh, https://the-personalized-web.digitale-grafik.com/fernanda/
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Unbound: The Politics of Scanning, Orit Gat, https://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/oct/9/unbound-politics-scanning/
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Screenshot Protocol, Isabella Haid https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v2bmxU400mlOexXZsR4D810L8mPRLMam/view
Class Project blog (2024), https://infra.commoninternet.net/en/blog/isabella-haid/
#EXPLORE
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Cyberfeminist Index, Mindy Seu https://cyberfeminismindex.com
WEEK 9. Materiality of Computing & Permacomputing
#ASSIGNMENT
Social Investigation: Find a repair cafe near you and try to get something fixed there. If you can't find one on the website, try the local library or makerspace.
READ
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Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella. Solar Protocol: Exploring Energy-Centered Design.https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/19281259/6a36c211be5af9ee67746cc00cf612ab.pdf?1670225882
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Kathryn Yusoff. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/3450192/2.2.-Yusoff,-Kathryn,-The-Inhumanities.pdf
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Marloes de Valk. Damaged Earth Catalog. https://damaged.bleu255.com/
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100 Rabbits. https://100r.co/site/home.html