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Research and practice by @davidbenque@mastodon.ie
Keywords & research areas:
Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods
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Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
🎟️ Registrations are now open for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland-tickets-1985523941558
An Institute delegation will present 'Luddite Academy; towards a politicised digital creative practice' a paper about current and future work around #luddism and its application to artistic practice and research.
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
🎧 🇫🇷 La proriété c'est vol ‽ Et après … - Liminal podcast by @XavCC@todon.eu @hack2o@tldr.nettime.org
- Regard sur la propriété avec textes de Malabou, Cerutti, et Léna Dormeau
- Une discussion avec Aymeric Mansoux @320x200@post.lurk.org atour de “Nothing in Commons: the end of digital collective ownership?"
- Procès Nestlé Waters, Appel à Mobilisation à Bordeaux contre Imérys, remerciements
🔗 @liminal@podcast.micro-ondes.org
Filed: 2026-03-21
Under: 🔭 FLOSS politics
https://are.na/block/44610787
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Our Kinships with the Constellations: Land Relations in the Atmosphere and the Consequences of Lithium-Mediated Internet Access | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
🔗 https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/45084
Filed: 2026-03-14
Under: ✏️ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires 🚀🔮
https://are.na/block/44422980
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
The Institute is extremely concerned to see #ImageMagick, a major component of the graphics stack, on the slippery slope towards becoming slopware, more by @ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog 👇🏻
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Lee's knitting frame - Stocking frame
W. Felkin: A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufacturers (published in 1867)
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocking_frame#/media/File:Lee's_knitting_frame.jpg
Filed: 2026-03-03
Under: 🔭 Luddism
https://are.na/block/44114976
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
📜 To celebrate the 8th of March the Institute did a shitload of childcare #8m
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Thoughts to the #8m network 📡✊🏻 Counter Cloud Action Day was a beautiful 2024 energy
https://diagram.institute/8m/
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
🚫 🚀 📨 Invitations for the next Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires will be sent out in the next week or so. The theme of this edition is: Datacenters in Space. As usual we will be looking for exactly seven participants on a first-replied-to-the-email basis. To be included in the mailing list for this and future séances please fill up this form:
https://docs.luddite.tools/form/#/2/form/view/Ud4KDMJGi4tFnOwbm2DRPdKBGShf8luVrnAAZwIsTOg/
More about the project: https://sigil-seance.diagram.institute/
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Stop doing borders
🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/ike.blue/post/3mf4fykazks2y
Filed: 2026-02-18
Under: 🕸️ Countergram
https://are.na/block/43705103
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
📰 bindloareswhfytupkmcg
The Institute and @luh2203@piaille.fr are featured in issue #148 of @versorgerin@social.servus.at with an interview about Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires by Tanja Brandmayr
EN: https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2025/bindloareswhfytupkmcg-en
AT: https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2025/bindloareswhfytupkmcg
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
📄 New Institute publication:
Margins on Fire!
European Alternatives Journal, Issue 11, Transeuropa 25
https://euroalter.com/about-the-journal/print-editions/
PDF: https://euroalter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EAJ11_EN_Digital.pdf
featuring: Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ @luh2203@piaille.fr
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
🗃️ The Institute is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fediverse Stickers by @raphael@post.lurk.org for inclusion in the permanent collection
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
⊞ This is a political compass
🔗 [source expired] https://twitter.com/SteffanBlayney/status/1316437761298239488
Filed: 2020-10-15
Under: 🔭 Critical Spreadsheet Studies
https://are.na/block/9120795
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
Research and practice by @ davidbenque Keywords & research areas: Media Archaeology, Publishing, Vectoralism, Luddism, Mapping, Software Studies, Information Activism, Federated Social Media, Diagrams as code, Critical Algorithm/Data Studies, Open Source Software, Media Studies, Operational Images, Digital Humanities, Digital Methods 🔻 ⏚ 🍉 # noAI # noCrawl # noBots
🌐🕸️ Esoteric Ecotechnics; Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking
@luh2203@piaille.fr and an Institute delegation will present Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires in the exhibition space
✹ Saturday 4 October, 15:30 @ Minorite church, Vojašniški trg 2 Maribor Slovenia
curated by Lara Mejač & Davide Bevilacqua @dvd@social.servus.at