From eb8c9bd171cce3d724d5f3b60d6f8e94d8257481 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tomi Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 03:34:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add 'content/session/downloadupload.md' --- content/session/downloadupload.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/session/downloadupload.md diff --git a/content/session/downloadupload.md b/content/session/downloadupload.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57e4fcf --- /dev/null +++ b/content/session/downloadupload.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: Download/Upload +--- + +The next block of sessions focuses on large repositories of digital text, so called *shadow libraries*, that are technologically organised around actions of upload and download to and from server infrastructures. The sessions introduce learners to: + +- a) workflows used in text sharing, collection-building and collection-maitaining; +- b) three shadow libraries: [Library Genesis](https://gen.lib.rus.ec), [Aaaaarg](https://aaaaarg.fail) and [Memory of the World](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org), and the legal pressures they face; +- c) politicising interventions that articulate practices of text sharing as massive, collective and commoning. + +Learners will get acquainted with three shadow libraries that are created by communities of contributors and benefit a larger public. The fact that they maintain centralised repositories and they do not obfuscate their own existence entails a need for articulation of politics of collective disobedience and practice of collective custodianship. \ No newline at end of file