Log2
File:Deborder Bollore 2025.epub
- Déborder Bolloré
- Faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre
"Une publication multiformat coéditée par plus d’une centaine d’éditeurices indépendant·es, disponible à la vente en librairie et en libre diffusion sur deborderbollore.fr aux formats web, EPUB et PDF.
Dans le contexte de la campagne Désarmons Bolloré, et en emboîtant le pas au boycott appelé par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, éditeurices indépendant·es, coéditons collectivement cette publication multiformat pour prendre part depuis notre secteur à la réflexion générale sur le démantèlement de l’empire Bolloré.
Les contributions mettent en avant la pensée de chercheureuses, d’imprimeureuses, d’éditeurices et de libraires qui analysent et/ou subissent les dynamiques de concentration et d’extrême droitisation du marché. Chacun·e tente de formuler, depuis sa position respective, des réponses à cette question urgente : comment faire face au libéralisme autoritaire dans le monde du livre ?
En tant qu’éditeurices indépendant·es, nous sommes indirectement visé·es par le projet totalisant de Bolloré car nos structures sont des espaces qui permettent la fabrique de contre-récits et la circulation de voix minoritaires. Face à de grands groupes monopolistiques qui filtrent les récits, il nous faut lutter pour préserver ces espaces essentiels de résistance et qui — n’en déplaise aux prophètes·ses du « grand remplacement » et aux croyant·es du « lobby LGBTQ+ » — se font rares.
La forme de cette publication multiformat part du constat suivant : si, à lui seul, Vincent Bolloré se montre capable de mobiliser des moyens logistiques et médiatiques colossaux pour mener sa « guerre civilisationnelle », alors nous devons, de notre côté, mobiliser l’entièreté de notre réseau d’éditeurices, de diffuseurs, de libraires et de relais médiatiques pour y résister. Face à la concentration par les grands groupes, faisons jouer la multiplicité et la singularité caractéristique du monde du livre indépendant.
Bolloré, par l’intermédiaire d’Hachette, est un acteur majeur de la concentration capitalistique du milieu éditorial, mais il n’est pas le seul instigateur de cette dynamique. C’est la structure même du monde du livre qui permet à de grands groupes de s’accaparer 90 % du marché de l’édition. Ainsi avons-nous décidé de « déborder Bolloré », c’est-à-dire de dépasser la figure, certes exubérante du personnage, pour comprendre, dans un premier temps, les mécanismes avec lesquels il opère et comment, dans un second temps, les déjouer depuis nos positions d’acteurices de l’édition indépendante."
Collectif éditorial Déborder Bolloré, 2025 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License ISBN 978-3-0361-0138-5 EPUB, Web, PDFs, Markdown
2025-7-23
File:Figure it Out The Art of Living Through System Failures 2024.pdf
- Figure it Out
- The Art of Living Through System Failures
edited by Mara Ferreri, Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak and Davor Mišković
Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do, and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discriminated, and vulnerable people. Gendered, racialized, bordered, disabled, and exploited, these constituencies are often forced to develop tools and strategies that are considered unacceptable to the institutions of the system. Sometimes these tools and strategies are forged out of necessity, of survival, sometimes to exercise rights or to secure access to basic services available to those deemed more “deserving”. Other times, these coping mechanisms reclaim rest, beauty, or pleasure as part of a dignified life. What FIO practices and phenomena have in common is that they are not about scamming peers or those more vulnerable than them. Instead, they are practices that take issue with formalized, normative forms of oppression (state, welfare institutions, corporations, workplace, credit, housing, utilities etc.) that have sets of rules and conditions of access that specific populations or individuals cannot meet. They are actions directed at the conditions that produce and reproduce systemic violence and which reformist approaches aim to fix in the long run. FIO practices instead inhabit different temporalities from the perspective of those who cannot and will not wait. In their urgency, they open up spaces where different ethical practices can emerge, where knowledges are passed on in ways that complicate claims to a universal and transparent public sphere.
Publisher Drugo more, Rijeka, November 2024 ISBN 9789539976482 108 pages PDF (1.4 mb) Zine
2025-7-19
File:Hofman Socialism Now Singing Activism after Yugoslavia 2025.pdf
- Socialism Now
- Singing Activism after Yugoslavia
by Ana Hofman
Socialism Now traces the activities of the self-organized choirs that have emerged in the region in the twenty-first century. These collectives have been recuperating Yugoslav and international revolutionary, partisan, and workers’ songs and performing them alongside a contemporary socially engaged repertoire. Their singing activism demasks the privatization, dispossession, and political and social fragmentation that, instead of a promised capitalist dreamland, have shaped lives in the region after the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, the book offers a nuanced account of collective singing as a way of organizing against the adverse effects of neoliberal capitalism in its potentialities and limits. Taking a perspective on the politics of music and sound outside the usual understanding of social justice or social change, Socialism Now revalorizes the “lost” historical knowledge and lived experiences from the former Second World. The book’s central concept, strategic amateurism, proposes the key role of nonprofessional, communal leisure musical activities in building the structures for anti-capitalist organizing.
Publisher Oxford University Press, May 2025 ISBN 9780197576304 Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 License xiii+193 pages PDF (15 mb), HTML, PDFs
2025-7-18
File:Medosch The Rise of the Network Commons A History of Community Infrastructure 2025.pdf
- The Rise of the Network Commons
- A History of Community Infrastructure
"This book is a message in a bottle that washed ashore ten years after it was sent. Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze published in the German language in 2004. He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons in draft chapters published on his website, The Next Layer, from 2013 until 2015, before his death in 2017.
The Rise of the Network Commons is a cultural history of ‘the exciting world of wireless community network projects’ that spread from its origins in London, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen to Spain, Greece, North- and South America, and Africa. While deploying cutting-edge technology, the movement is made up of technical, social, and artistic hackers with a range of backgrounds and skills.
This is the twofold thesis that Armin develops in this book: Involving ordinary people in building a network commons has a profound emancipatory effects on them. At the same time, doing so contributes to the democratization of technology: As a community we can begin to shape future technologies to serve our local needs rather than benefit commercial interests.
As a history of community infrastructure, The Rise of the Network Commons is a highly topical narrative for strengthening the resilience of our local last mile digital infrastructures and re-enforcing regional digital self-sovereignty through direct community participation and knowledge sharing. We build the wireless commons by becoming sovereign neighbors of practice and expertise."
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2025 Edited by Volker Ralf Grassmuck and Adam Burns ISBN 978-90-83520-92-6 Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 Unported License 107 pages PDF (5 mb) EPUB (9 mb)
Book website. Toot. Publisher.
2025-5-29
File:The Scores Project Essays on Experimental Notation in Music Art Poetry and Dance 1950-1975 2025.pdf
- The Scores Project
- Essays on Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975
Edited by Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, John Hicks
"A collection of essays examining experimental scores and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry.
Individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and dance in the mid–twentieth century began to use experimental scores in ways that revolutionized artistic practice and opened up new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their experimental methods—associated with the neo-avant-garde, neo-Dadaism, intermedia, Fluxus, and postmodernism—exploded in notoriety during the 1960s in locales from New York to Europe, East Asia, and Latin America, becoming foundational to global trends in contemporary art and performance.
The Scores Project provides an in-depth view of this historical moment. Through expert commentaries from an interdisciplinary team of scholars with accompanying illustrations, this publication examines a series of experimental scores by John Cage, George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Benjamin Patterson, Yvonne Rainer, Mieko Shiomi, David Tudor, and La Monte Young. Ambitious, provocative, and playful, The Scores Project is an illuminating resource to scholars and students who seek to understand this innovative and historically complex moment in the history of art."
With contributions by Emily Ruth Capper, George E. Lewis, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Benjamin Piekut, and Nancy Perloff.
Publisher Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2025 ISBN 9781606069356 Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International License 248 pages Website, with additional materials PDF (2 mb) EPUB (46 mb)
2025-5-21
