“Free software as a community, has been and still sometimes is critiqued as being an exclusionary space of white male sociality (Nafus 2012; Massanari 2016; Ford and Wajcman 2017; Reagle 2013). I think this critique is true, but it is less a problem of identity than it is a pathology of a certain form of liberalism: a form that demands that merit consists only in the content of the things we say (whether in a political argument, a scientific paper, or a piece of code), and not in the ways we say them, or who is encouraged to say them and who is encouraged to remain silent (Dunbar-Hester 2014).

One might, as a result, choose to throw out liberalism altogether as a broken philosophy of governance and liberation. But it might also be an opportunity to focus much more specifically on a particular problem of liberalism, one that the discourse of OA also relies on to a large extent. Perhaps it is not the case that merit derives solely from the content of utterances freely and openly circulated, but also from the ways in which they are uttered, and the dignity of the people who utter them. An OA (or a free software) that embraced that principle would demand that we pay attention to different problems: how are our platforms, infrastructures, tools organized and built to support not just the circulation of putatively true statements, but the ability to say them in situated and particular ways, with respect for the dignity of who is saying them, and with the freedom to explore the limits of that kind of liberalism, should we be so lucky to achieve it.”

Chelty, Christopher, “Recursive Publics and Open Access” en Guerrilla Radical Open Access, Coventry: Post Office Press, Rope Press and Memory of the World, 2018, págs. 16-24. Descargable aquí (última consulta: 14/08/2019).

“If publishers are happy to let go of access control and copyright, it means that they’ve found something that is even more profitable than selling back to us academics the content that we have produced. And this more profitable something is of course data. Did you notice where all the investment in academic publishing went in the last decade? Did you notice SSRN, Mendeley, Academia.edu, ScienceDirect, research platforms, citation software, manuscript repositories, library systems being bought up by the academic publishing industry? All these platforms and technologies operate on and support open access content, while they generate data on the creation, distribution, and use of knowledge; on individuals, researchers, students, and faculty; on institutions, departments, and programs. They produce data on the performance, on the success and the failure of the whole domain of research and education. This is the data that is being privatized, enclosed, packaged, and sold back to us. (…) Taylorism reached academia. In the name of efficiency, austerity, and transparency,our daily activities are measured, profiled, packaged, and sold to the highest bidder. (…) I strongly believe that information on the self is the foundation of self-determination. We need to have data on how we operate, on what we do in order to know who we are. This is what is being privatized away from the academic community, this is being taken away from us. Radical open access. Not of content, but of the data about ourselves. This is the next challenge.”

Balázs Bodó, “Own Nothing” en Guerrilla Open Access, Coventry: Post Office Press, Rope Press and Memory of the World, 2018, págs. 16-24. Descargable aquí: https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:19826/datastreams/CONTENT/content

…y unos cuantos años antes de la extinción del ser humano.

Si alguna vez has estado al revés,

sabrás ya bien a qué huelen tus pies.

Si al sacudirte cayó el almidón,

con que te pegaron o te hicieron campeón.

Campeón de programa y de rigidez,

Óscar de premio a la insensatez,

jefes y maestros prevén la honradez,

de la tía esclerosis con su valium 10(mg).

Si en un descuido se encuentra entumido,

y el cerebro se siente menos extriñido,

mas… la jefa gran costumbre no pierde ocasión,

para organizarte y volverte campeón.

Campeón de milagros y días estorbosos,

dos medallas de oro en dengués y en osos,

corazón de acero ojos de cartón,

todo barnizado como un buen campeón.

Si alguna vez has estado al revés,

sabrás ya bien a que huelen tus pies.

Si alguna vez has estado al revés,

sabrás ya bien a que huelen tus pies.

Si alguna vez has estado al revés,

sabrás ya bien a que huelen tus pies.

Si alguna vez has estado al revés,

sabrás ya bien a que huelen tus pies.

Sí sí sí sí,

Si alguna vez,

Si alguna vez…

mira bien…

“Tom Cohen describe cualquier convicción antropomórfica como una recaída, una regresión hacia una posición de duelo. Una posición para la cual alguna vez todo fue de otro modo. Recordemos que la palabra ecología viene de la raíz oikos, que se refiere a la casa. La regresión a una posición de duelo consiste en pensar que, alguna vez esa casa que intenta pensar la ecología no estuvo atravesada de exterioridades y de escalas irrepresentables, así como de pulsiones extractivas y auto-destructivas.”

Gabriela Méndez, “De memés y verdades: la psique entre la tecnociencia y la ficción” (a publicarse en septiembre en el sitio de “17, instituto de estudios críticos”)

“Al menos cinco organizaciones ambientalistas, el Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático (INECC), y el Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM advirtieron que la obra, ubicada a un costado de la Reserva de la Biósfera Xcacel-Xcacelito, se hacía en entorno vulnerable, sin embargo la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat) consideró que el proyecto no violaba ninguna norma y no afectaba a la especie.

El pasado 7 de julio, casi un año después, ya se reportaron casos de tortugas lesionadas por las obras.” Aquí la nota completa: https://www.animalpolitico.com/2019/07/expertos-semarnat-proyecto-hotelero-tortugas/

“From Proto-Germanic and Old English, guman later became human, but both come soiled with the earth and its critters, rich in humus, humaine, earthly beings as opposed to the gods. In Hebrew, Adam is from adamah or ‘ground’. The historical linguistic gender tone of guman, like human and man, is masculine/universal; but in SF worlding adam, guman, adamah become more a microbiome of fermenting critters of many genders and kinds, i.e. companion species, at table together, eating and being eaten, messmates, compost.” (Haraway, 2016, p.16)