@QuentinJuhel might i bring some interesting perspective on what networking actually is about hihi?

before network became synonim of capitalising (extracting value) from social relationship, it was a term used by black men worker in america to make solidarity and mutual support network in the work place (that made white people in power afraid). this history can be put in parallele to the ethymology of gossiping, which before it was used in a misoginistic way to mean bad negative women talks, it used to be about sharing oral form of knowledge in a situated and intimate way (folk medecine for abortion, who to trust in the village, etc), the misoginistic interpretation of gossip was a campain lead during the witch hunting in pre-modern england, because again people in power were afraid of those uncontralable network of radical information, in contrast with the "institutionnalised knowledge" made by the academics, the sciences, etc who were easier to control and gatekeep because of their centralised nature.

if you read either networking or gossiping as making your own intimate and situated network to share radical knowledge, it's actually very badass and fundamental to any practice that isn't self-centered, and want to reach for social change or mutual empowerment.

voila !!!!