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This will make an excellent talk one day 🌻

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you know where to find me :)

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It was very much a public note to self. Really hope I can make the conference recurring 🙏🏻

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You can come over & use my printer any time.

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HOW DID YOU FIND ALL THOSE DOCS i love them all, esp the texts people want to send to their exes

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You’ll find quite a few collections if you search for them on Are.na 🕊

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I really loved this! It reminded me of Hito Steyerl’s In Defense of the Poor Image, and some writing on experimental publishing by Paul Soulellis & lots more.

Just FYI, I’m also a big fan of Genderfail—Be Oakley is the writer/publisher and Genderfail is the press/project.

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big fan of those references, esp paul so that’s very flattering. and thank you for the note, corrected!

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You might then enjoy my recent letter to Paul on publishing as a form of public action!

https://open.substack.com/pub/uses/p/dear-paul-part-1?utm_source=direct&r=8oef&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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i love this, thanks for sharing! especially want to mull more on the ideas of public as relation among strangers and public as constituted through attention. feels like maybe the internet is eroding both in some sense [even while it believes it's bolstering them]

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Yes would be interesting to feel this out in relation to social media’s current upheavals.

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Apologies if that seemed self-promotional—was just feeling we might already be in some kind of conversation.

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oh not at all! just had a busy day, looking forward to reading it tomorrow

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