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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:

• workflows used in text sharing, collection-building and collection-maitaining;
• three shadow libraries: Library Genesis, Aaaaarg and Memory of the World, and the legal pressures they face;
• 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.