Yes to all of that! The “herd mentality/vaccination” analogy is exactly what I meant. I’m thinking back to when I went to a PGP workshop, and we talked about using it all the time, and not just for at-risk […]

Having been involved in some FLOSS communities–myself a little, a project I was involved in a little more, and adjacent to by marriage, I feel fairly knowledgeable about open source ethos. But as someone who was […]

I love that you’re questioning everything, Filipa, down to the objectives, structures, and measurements we may take for granted. I agree with Abreu and the FemTechNet crew that we need to find ways of working with […]

Here’s the May Day/Free University link: http://freeuniversitynyc.org. I see it hasn’t happened in a few years, but maybe it’s resurrectable.

I found three zines in my college library that reference turning thirty. I think there may be more if you ever want to come up and read them.

I’m a second generation librarian. I never thought that would happen, either!

Unrelated comment because I don’t have your email address, Angelique, and I don’t think it’s necessary to make a whole blog post:

Here’s a friend’s tweet about CUNY Wikipedia editing: […]

What a great provocation, Jonathan. I appreciate the wordplay and strikethroughs. Where do I sign up for vegan soft serve on tap?

I think a lot about the tension you raise about authorship/authority and free […]

LOL I thought the same thing about McGann being cocky about his own work.

Thanks for your reading and questions, Filipa! As a librarian, I was completely hung up on the lack of discussion of metadata in the readings for this week, especially McGann because he seemed to be the resident […]

Gah! Thanks for the reminder! I missed or forgot that.

Kyueun I love that you brought up the “guild mentality.” I was thinking of Savio charging that to Kerr faculty were more or less factory workers, who each have a job (and maybe per Marx are isolated). When I think […]

I don’t know what the answer to that problem is because faculty should be accountable to students, but otoh this quote cracked me up:

Jefferson tried a system of student self-gov’t in the 1920s but quickly […]

Jing I noted some of the same passages you did! I’m afraid much of my reading was influenced by the criticisms of Kerr during the Free Speech Movement, happening at the same time as the publication of this book, […]

I’m reading a friend’s book, Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century that would add well to Marx’s discussion of machines and (often feminized) labor and continue it into the 20th century.