Post Office Research Group

Post Office is an exercise in imagining counter-institutions in response to the crisis of those very institutions

[Jacobin @jacobin]

We not only need to defend the United States Postal Service from privatization, we need to deepen its role in our economy. https://t.co/CrevTggxFd

[Memory of the World @memoryofworld]

aaron didn't need a global pandemic to declare the crisis and act upon one. jstor's gesture comes as too little too late. too little too late killed our heroes in the past and keeps killing us day after day.

read, share, disobey and remember aaron swartz

https://t.co/q8QVl8VTE4

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

Huge thanks to @AndreaFrancke @EvaWeinmayr @kg_ubu Lawrence Liang @monoskop SlowRotation for their contributions to the exhibition, to @bodobalazs & @NThylstrup for their exceptional talks today & all of the participants who fed into an incredibly rich discussion...tbc, we hope!

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

"How to account for these politics without exposing the communities that claim their right to opacity?" - @NThylstrup talking about activism and technology in a minor key at the Public Library and the Property Form seminar @P_O_R_G @CovUni_CPC @Raven__Row @tmedak @marcell

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

@NThylstrup "The notion of #infrapolitics helps us understand the frequency of #contestation and #care" #paperstruggles #feministinfrastructures #invisibleprotest

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

@bodobalazs "You need money to participate and access in the #knowledgecommons. So, #openaccess #commons is not per se a solution" - speaking at the seminar, '#PublicLibrary and the Property Form', part of the exhibition, 'Paper Struggles' until 11/12 @Raven__Row @CovUni_CPC

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

"We made a fundamental error: we didn't think about the extraction of value in the global access #commons" - Balász Bodó, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law, addresses current contradictions within #knowledgecommons movements

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

In which language are social utopias written in? - Balász Bodó speaking at the seminar, 'Public Library and the Property Form' @Raven__Row https://t.co/k8NsHXVOOW

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

Introduction to Public Library and the Property Form by @tmedak and @marcell @Raven__Row #seminar #copyright #openness #authorship #postoffice

[Research Truffle Hound @Katie_Docwra]

In absolute shock. A fellow reader was just REFUSED ENTRY to the @britishlibrary for wearing a small sticker in support of the @ucu strikes. The security followed him into the locker room and told him to remove the sticker or leave. What sort of outrageous policy is this?

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

An homage to #aaronswartz by @kg_ubu ...And an open invitation to come by and print out some of the articles that JStor kept behind bars

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

Sometimes it's hard to see the amount of text and labour that goes into creating online repositories like @monoskop ...the two long scrolls try to capture the scale of dedication and edurance of #shadowlibrarians

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

An archive of the incredible contribution to free knowledge from SlowRotation, one of the most generous @memoryofworld librarians...four boxes could not contain it all

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

@AndreaFrancke and @EvaWeinmayr introduce The Piracy Project - tracing pirated books which are modified versions of the originals and shared in pirate books market in Peru

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

Lol. The judge was a graduate of the university too and had been using the same photocopy shop that was on trial..."I would not have been a judge if it wasn't for that copyshop"

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

"Illegal forms of reproducing texts have long existed before digital files" - inaugurating Paper Struggles right with a guided tour by @tmedak @marcell

[tomislav medak @tmedak]

A homage to Delhi Uni students, who fought big publishers from the Global North to defend their right to A2K. Part of "Paper Struggles" exhibition, done by @Marcell and me with @kajamarczewska and @P_O_R_G. At @Raven__Row, from Mon 18.30 until Wed 21.00.

https://t.co/QvyYvPJopU

[Raven Row @Raven__Row]

EXHIBITION, 'PAPER STRUGGLES', Opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00
Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00

Including: Monoskop, Andrea Francke and Eva Wienmayr, Kenneth Goldsmith, ‘Memory of the World, Catalogue by Slowrotation… https://t.co/QmCiiSZrR2

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

@Enroweb @Raven__Row @kg_ubu @monoskop @whatzisnehm @EvaWeinmayr @NThylstrup Monday December 9th 18:30-21:00; Tuesday and Wednesday 11:00-21:00

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

On Dec 9 at 18.30 we are opening the exhibition "Paper Struggles" & on Dec 10 at 10.30 the seminar "Public Library and the Property Form", both at @Raven__Row in London, with @kg_ubu, @monoskop, @whatzisnehm, @EvaWeinmayr, @NThylstrup... More on: https://t.co/P9q1s46Ybg.

[Post Office Research Group @P_O_R_G]

For the seminar "Public Library and the Property Form" with guest speakers Balász Bodó and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup on December 10th (10.30-13.30), please register here: https://t.co/sGf5u5YPqh