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title: resonant tentacular publishing
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resonant tentacular publishing
This script is a transformation of a previous resonant publishing workshop, hosted during Zinecamp in November 2021 by Simon Browne, Artemis Grylakki, Alice Strete and Manetta Berends. It also has roots in the Read & Repair session organised by amy pickles and Cristina Cochior in Varia throughout 2021.

See https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/chapters/varia/resonant-tentacular-publishing/Alvin-Lucier_I-am-sitting-in-a-room.mp3 for an audio version of the piece.

Variation of Alvin Lucier, "I am sitting in a room". http://www.nicolascollins.com/texts/SittingInARoom.pdf

During this session we will experiment with models of resonant publishing: publishing that is not left at the end of a process of thought, but is embedded in a social, technical and collective process where thought develops and unfolds. 

While being with many bodies and voices in a shared space we will operate in a tentacular mode, a variation of tentacular thinking, which is a term that Donna Haraway used to refer to thinking with eight legged species:


<small>"Tentacular Thinking" in Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, 2016. https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/chapters/varia/resonant-tentacular-publishing/Tentacular-Thinking_Donna-Haraway.pdf</small>

Combining tools like etherpad and web-to-print techniques introduce a range of possibilities for publishing practices. This script focuses specifically on collective PDF making, using a tool called octomode. Starting in the middle of the different userspaces that these tools create, the proposal is to experiment with user-subjectivities, pad-listening, di-versioning and other methods that will allow us to re-turn to notions of resonance through vibration, citation and recording.

This script introduces methods for collective PDF making, using octomode's pad-publishing environment in which actions of writing, processing and lay-out making continuously cross each other. The proposal is to make a zine together around resonance and produce it in a tentacular mode.

References and related materials for this session are collected here: https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/chapters/varia/resonant-tentacular-publishing/

A possible rhythm to follow
15 minutes: Install yourselves (as much as you wish)
15 minutes: Echoes (exercises to warm up - see below)
30 minutes: Resonant listening & speaking

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30 minutes: Continue resonant listening & speaking
25 minutes: Printing/collating/binding
5 minutes: Share and wrap up

Echoes
Echo 1
→ What is your screen's width? Fill one entire line with your colour. You can press space or use any other key.
                                hello                               world                                                                                                 
                                                                bliep                                                                                                 
      when do we eat?                                                                                                                             
    tentacular                                                                                                                           
sas  elo(die) she/her                                                                                                                                    
   nor                                                                                     
                                                       familiarity                                                           
                                                                                           not   connected                                   
                             bla                                                                                                     

                                                              sun                                                                                                                        
                                                              jxxx                                                              

→ Write one or more words in the line without breaking it. You might need to delete some spaces.

Echo 2
→ Fill in one line of the pad with your preferred (nick)name, your pronouns, and anything else you would like to share with the group about yourself.
Carolina, she/her, don't have any other nickname, I'm happy to be here (:
So, I'm going to go with being CCroc, but I'm Alina, there's a reason, but I won't explain it. I don't have pronouns preferences, I'm not hungry, but I'd eat.
Setareh (Set), she/they, <-- not to be published
Manetta, she/her, ready to have lunch :)
Anna, she/her, nickname: applebacon
Nina she/her/don’t care … :)
htttps://www.ooooo.be - >/  we - :) :p :
Sergiu, any, such a beautiful day
Artemis, she/her, I'm go glad the sun is shining outside :)
jxxx, they/elle, :-******

Echo 3
→ Change your pad colour using the colour wheel on the top right.
→ Open as many browsers as you can and access this pad url from different locations. You can also use Incognito Mode for this in the same browser.
→ Finish the following sentence from your different user-subjectivities:

We are sitting in a room, 
there is no we unless we say we,


Resonant listening & speaking
→ Time for experimenting with "pad listening" and "pad speaking".
→ In groups of 2, explore your surroundings, which can be indoors or outside. Listen together to voices, sounds, discussions, noises.
→ Can you record what you hear? In pairs, take turns beginning a sentence, and ending it.



NOTES OF THE SESSION

for other instances -  API - (access / non-access - refrering to an article of MI. Murtaugh ?)
- how to know your API ?
- how to exchange a key  ?
- when lists of multiple pad instances are shared >>>>>>  are porous relations 

- how to deal with security to collaborative writing >>> shift discussion towards trust based exchange 

Can we think of transversality in relation to pads?
How can we work with transversality across etherpad instances?
Can we share API keys with each other?
Etherstekje?
Does this allow for seed bombing?
Can etherpads also be branched outside of a network?

Definition Varia of resonant publishing: publishing that is not left at the end of a process of thought, [...]
log as modes of publishing
focusing on the octomode, online pdf environment from the etherpads - not splitting between writing and designing
writing, designing, viewing - print publications, collective publishing

what it means to be open to resonating, to develop thought

octomode, title, language as metadata
API key - to go into octomode from the varia rosa server - a system of access and non-access, keys with permissions, asking the server for their key
Overview mode, seeing ALL the pads
A social conversation started, can you have access? What does it mean to share? Trust
Writing another Code of Conduct? Process of barter...?
Ways that instances in the pad can cross

Porosity, octomode as transversality
Like a handshake
Ways pads can cross

Octomode code in github
Potential in the etherdump, the 'listening', to start crossing
Ether'stekjes' - etherbranches
low threshold way, inviting people to use it, address of 'constant' or HNI etherpad - relationship of signaling that activity will happen

Control over deleting? procedures over deletion?

Are you a keyholder?

Etherpad as conflict-resolving

Changes, made 'real' in a plenary - distributing power
Hidden or not fully hidden states...
What containers? stylesheet? spaces? width?

Crossing the boundaries, from online doc, to.....

Echoes, multiple voices, opening the pad from different browsers
Resonance as a physical 'sense'

Constant - BBB 

BBB using infrastructure
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/bbb.agenda

ENTER 
https://video.enter.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/


Pad listening and pad speaking. A short in-situ thoughtdump.
How to listen with one ear? Listening with different senses, sensing someone is there with you (in the pad)
Specters connecting. What does it mean to be open to resonance? To the presence of others? 
To multiple presences presenting themselves in the same pad, finishing each other's sentences
presences present in multiple presents
There was a slight delay in the appearance of the specter. Some have difficulty connecting.
How to provide temporal space, server space, and pad space for others?

An etherdump, an overview of pads (?), as collective archive. 
What does it mean to cycle through different platforms, different timelines and speeds of publishing?
Building a collective intelligence.
extending an octopus intelligence.



How to understand the capacity of the server?

example of the queue, using web queues

anarchaserver is considering to install monitoring software 
monitoring from the anarchaserver itself?
or monitoring from another server?
anarchaserver uses netdata and promotheus (CLI tool)
There is also graphana, which monitors docker containers
and then there is a poetical translation at anarchaserver, where the processor is sonified

using the browser through the browser
terminador
using websockets to provide access to the terminal


My public key:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC6AuNxYET2iyZjCI41QccCM1mZCYyqXrC+Kuv683ZdzeX/ZRlWuBPw/PbmOgZtH/27GEplH4o/jJ3nsqcFgE6FbBWKOB3Hal+V9RuLUYIr4yFFb2M8+EE71LZUyZBx6S3IWyEziVHLuNS0WcKcS420YCal8gypMxy+hQg/OtUFVPxUznkk4Pl76kWTLtjH0iqsxu+vZSpWPxenT/RS/GG9hle00nt6kkwaPU9fFslaArxGJKdOpFnK2aWJ4k4yaUOHtADHgGGX1FBOT10XIy5oxTZY6VjaWEOvUjC1dmLMUhdHO8CtOq81ODMt6GRYkZW5YoMaSu9KZh63GZXdxRGV

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDdYqsU7m/dO6fs67NYS6zz6Dln7icF7q4P9k7qXtF0SQM6vyMbykHHAxHh99Jk2hB1K9yV9lDENaaO8r4b++T
Hl5aDcLyQvzdyu/hwuxgmP5P2DxXmBS1ZlBCdtUEYljAQFyOhMaJ4sklV8zl8+Nk9NzOdOgxE7hW55g4p4lZCjoJwlLIKWMZ66cNM2mDPvk6pfUnWoCObpzWpJq
DuJGQ2lp/fUekHIYjA1CVtsgER/AQ+MvWzU7H7vPBF+NzV7zQz+kW+5Y0l9svbCCc8x7cqVeclHi+FIBBLeul7EP3Pi/HjlXS3UU0OI4osFxlVSdKMpNPi+d8iA
DvNvrISAhPT ooooo@ooooo

notes of a conversation: chinouk en manetta

What are ways to generate PDFs in a traversal etherpad 
content-driven PDFs instead of context-driven PDFs
instead of individual pads as capsules/confined somethings, can we think about traversal pad
can we generate one pad of each chapter, instead of the full book?
it can create a crossing ...

this would be a way to publish the overlap between chapters
we looked at the cross readers
https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/cross-readers
as a possible starting point into ways of crossing, or traversing

what does "traversal" mean actually? what is the dictionary definition?
> noun. the act or process of passing across, over, or through: "A problem with the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it began its traversal of the rings of Saturn was eventually linked to high-speed collisions with micrometeoroids".

Beurs traverse
een overgang en een ondergang
is it crossing without touching?

traversing is different from cutting a material
cutting is an action of dividing
and traversing is an action of dividing while traveling

Is this a design question?
Approaching the publication traversally effects the outcome,

hyperlinks- non-linear 
while crossing and transversing, you also generate something
maybe it's not about reading across material,
but while crossing you also generate something else, your leaving something behind
can the context of each chapter provide a specific way of crossing?