Join us for the third session of more-than-a-book club at ETHOS Lab the 4th of December at 18-20, where we will be discussing “digital commons” (digital resources that are collectively produced, maintained and shared). This concept has become more relevant than ever as we search for alternatives to the “digital enclosures” ( digital spaces controlled by big tech) that we find ourselves trapped within. Instead of the monocultures of capitalism, how can we instead create permacultures?

This is a cooperative space- feel free to add resources and suggest edits! Read a little or a lot, or watch a video or just show up curious to the session!

Contents: Materials, Tunes, Questions, ASCII, Videos, Communities, Related Events, (new!) Notes.

Materials of the day

A definition from a still from one of the videos below (at 41:56)
History of enclosure (brief) in Europe from Britanicca (2 min. read)
“Digital objects and radical imagination” by Felix Stalder, From Commons to NFTs (10-15 min.)
“Lo-Tech is the New Hi-tech” by Zoe Romano”, Commons in Design p. 255-266 (10-15 min.)
About maintaing the LURK community server, Artists Running Data Centers p. 62-67 (5 min.)
An long introduction to permacomputing
**Want to add more materials?…**Send us a mail or add below

Supplementary Readings

Marloes de Valk, Damaged Earth Catalogue (added by Freja) https://damaged.bleu255.com/
Goriunova, O. (2021). Uploading Our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons. In Niederberger S., Sollfrank C., Stalder F. (eds), Aesthetics of the Commons. The Institute for Contemporary Art Research Series, 24. Zurich: Zurich University of the Arts.
de la Bellacasa, M. P. (2010). Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things. Social Studies of Science, 41(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312710380301 (Original work published 2011)
de la Bellacasa, M. P. (2017). Matters of Care, Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds, University of Minnesota Press
Mansoux, Aymeric, Brendan Howell, Dušan Barok and Ville-Matias Heikkilä.“Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture.” Ninth Computing within Limits, 2023. https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi (May 13, 2024).

Questions for discussion

→Which FLOSS tools do you use? (link) (link)

→ Do you wish to support “digital commons”? If yes, how so?

Program

18:00-18:15 Welcome: tea, coffee and informal chats

18:15-18:30 Theme introduction

18:30-19:30 Split into small groups

19:30-20:00 Gather again and discuss

Tunes

This song is an example of what comes from sharing-as-caring culture. The artist-duo released an album, Big City Life, and then another, Big City Life Edits, which is covers/remixes/edits of all the songs from the original. I own the full album, so you can “borrow” it from me here!

All the same goes for this one except just one artist remixed the whole original album.

https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/reading-room-annabel-jane-25-nov-2025

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no YouTube no problem ¯\(ツ)/¯

Check out nebula.tv or PeerTube for yt alternatives (13 min)

https://techlore.tv/w/7f8RTRgyu4o7kwig8EjwYk

(6 min)

(2 min)

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryofAaronSwartzHD

https://vimeo.com/935340194

add one!

ok maybe oneeee or two yt videos.

Begins in English at 6:00

Communities

IRL
- #OSMapperCPH
- lowkey coding club
- more here
URL

Notes from the meeting

Slides here.

Meeting flyer/map:

mtabc-pamphlet_autosave_04_12_2025_21_03.pdf

We spoke about:

Wikipedia
- The difficulty of contributing
- The gender issues
- Wikipedia under attack for being “too woke”
- Wiki hackathons
We spoke about outages due to centralized systems and how mesh networks are a way of “commoning”
- decentralized networks made up of radio nodes. Used to provide free internet or where there is little to none. Or direct connection to ensure privacy.
- ex. the Meshtastic network in Berlin and Freifunk
- A Danish mesh network community is active on discord!
Supporting the commons monetarily and getting used to paying for products instead of being the product