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bell hooks, choosing the margin as a space of radical openness:
https://sachafrey.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/choosing-the-margin-as-a-space-of-radical-openness-ss-3301.pdf

DEAD WOOD: MEETING 1
Zoom

- Model of blended learning exemplifies that institutions don’t know how to respond.
- “saving time” : makes distinction between work and leisure time.
- No more than two people can protest under new gov. guidelines.
- How has sociality changed now? Trans people – spaces for them are taken back,
- Grayson perry statement “dead wood”, could be starting point for this publication, rolling back of trans rights, abortion laws?, idea of rolling back and misdescription by government
- James Purnell
- Support structures : creating new support structures, not relying on governmental and institutional support structures.
- “institutional stress points” ? what are these? Identify them. Racism at Ual? Texts references, marginal spaces?
- What spaces could hold these conversations about institutional stress points? Digital inclusion? Perhaps looking back at how these spaces were created? For what? The purpose of the internet? Methods for outreach?
- On Friday: introduction and outline of publication/, CAIWU : some cleaners at ual part of this. Have recently set up a communications department through Facebook. Also part of Essential workers cooperative, take food parcels around to people out of work. Celebration of worker’s victories: Volkswagen metal workers in Brazil, in sept fought volks to concede that they had worked with the dictatorship in Brazil and caused the torture of many workers, trying to set up something that confronts organisations with this information.
- Who is the publication for?
- Idea: a space committee?? Going on socially distanced walks to find unoccupied spaces.
- Could have different factions of group, some people with more shared agendas?
- Discord as a platform?
- Focus on tech? on Space? On Content?
- Website? Divided into themes? Research different platforms, brainstorm ideas for Fridays.
- Cargo?? Hot Glue?? Can get account and password. Website. That could add podcasts, music, video.. which a pdf can’t do.
- Username: deadwood // password: 3D3d3D // hot glue website.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/02/grayson-perry-coronavirus-covid-19