A Material Basis for Digital Archives
reflection⁄A Material Basis for Digital Archives
- Why preserve the archive? (exuberance, potentialities, political imaginary, etc)
- Not just the ecological problem, but the cultural problem.
- Not less, more of the right thing. (Keito Saito)
- A grey world of rented space and rented rooms, interpellated by capital.
- Alienation as the inability to write information.
- Preservation of difference, diversity, ambiguity, etc.
- Bataille, The Accursed Share
- The digital medium of archiving (difference, context, information)
- Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication
- Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind
- The problem of maintaining the medium
- Vernacular infrastructure
- Requirements of audiovisual media as a constraint worth keeping
- Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman
- Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich
- Problems with existing digital infrastructure
- Complexity which leads to bureaucracy due to the exception outside of the system
- Lock-in: dependency on existing systems
- Two watershed moments
- Enshittification: locked into the attention economy.
- Search of mixed-media
- New directions in digital infrastructure
- Infinite use of finite means
- Programming system as material (convivial forms), instead of tool with a function.
- Autoprogettazione, Enzo Mari
- The aesthetic of compression, simple tools which produce complex artifacts.
- Permacomputing, sustainability through simplicity
- www⁄http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html
- Damaged Earth Catalog
- www⁄https://damaged.bleu255.com
- AI: embeddings, in counterpoint to generated data.
