My job has kinda destroyed my 🧠 this year, so I haven't published much — but I do think I've partly extemporized a bunch of talks that speak to the moment. First, this DH keynote on bldg sociotechnical networks for tumultuous times + resisting AI inevitability [1/6] wordsinspace.net/2024/08/09/s... - ThreadSky

shannonmattern.bsky.social • 163 days ago

My job has kinda destroyed my 🧠 this year, so I haven't published much — but I do think I've partly extemporized a bunch of talks that speak to the moment. First, this DH keynote on bldg sociotechnical networks for tumultuous times + resisting AI inevitability [1/6] https://wordsinspace.net/2024/08/09/socio-technical-assemblages-for-tumultuous-times/

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lawsonvee.bsky.social•140 days ago

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padmini.bsky.social•142 days ago

Thanks as ever @shannonmattern.bsky.social for giving me the faith not to be gaslit by the world at large when I say things like the only feminist way to think about AI is to insist that it is not inevitable. I hope the season allows you rest and respite for 2025.

shannonmattern.bsky.social•142 days ago

You're absolutely right, Padmini! Wishing you a kinder 2025, too ❤️

shannonmattern.bsky.social•163 days ago

Then this talk — rescheduled twice bc of my own hospitalization + campus protests — about my 25-yr teaching career and commitment to prioritizing convivial tools, purposefully non-compliant leaning, the the de-naturalization of rules [2/6] https://wordsinspace.net/2024/09/24/the-conviviality-covenant-on-teaching/

teachacari.bsky.social•163 days ago

Oh I wish I could attend this!

shannonmattern.bsky.social•163 days ago

It happened a couple months ago! As you'll see at the link, I posted my slides. And I hope to get access to, and share, the video :)

shannonmattern.bsky.social•163 days ago

Then this — which I shared with a couple hundred first-year students at UC Boulder, who probably haven't thought much about libraries — to encourage them to think about principled disobedience + creative rule-breaking 😈 [3/6] https://wordsinspace.net/2024/10/08/disobedient-libraries/

shannonmattern.bsky.social•163 days ago

Then this, which I shared at e-flux a couple weeks ago, about building solidarities between public institutions + scaffolding the stuff worth saving through the infrastructures of civil society [4/6] https://wordsinspace.net/2024/11/12/civic-adjacencies/

shannonmattern.bsky.social•163 days ago

Then this, which I shared with a bunch of Belgian librarians, publishers, and artists last week, about how the library is and isn't a commons — and how we can maybe break some things and make some principled choices to make it more commons-like [5/6] https://wordsinspace.net/2024/11/26/library-as-commons/

shannonmattern.bsky.social•163 days ago

And finally (there are others, but this is the last I'll share), abt Libraries of Seed and Soil — thinking capaciously, creatively, and critically about what we collect and share, plus the politics of the infrastructures we build to facilitate that sharing [6/6] https://wordsinspace.net/2024/05/10/libraries-of-seed-and-soil/