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Heather Ford on Why Critical Wikipedia Research Is More Important Than Ever

From CPOV to the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research I was a Master’s student at UC Berkeley’s iSchool when I traveled to Bangalore for INC’s first Critical Point of View conference in January 2010. Two more CPOV conferences followed, in Amsterdam and Leipzig. Bangalore was a pivotal moment for me. I had been an activist in […]

Senescence Cosplaying as Vigor: Klein Bottles and the Optics of Fear

July 7, 2025 Dear Geert— These missives trying to explain what’s happening in the New World to friends in the Old World become more and more like describing the contours of a Klein bottle, the higher dimensional version of the better known Möbius strip. Like the Möbius strip, the Klein bottle, which can only exist […]

OUT NOW! Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons

Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons’ is a collection of  interventions seek to explore and activate practices of commoning in post-communism in a range of genres and media forms, with a specific interest in developing experimental aesthetic practices. ​This volume seeks to re-orient discussions about the commons away from prevailing frames of analyses, which […]