Kevin Sanders

I work with the "left", I do. (For my sins.) And also find it closer to a faith than radical politics. I can forgive, y'see. (But not so much forget the various treacherous actions against the anarchists that mobilise.)

(I don't hear much FALC bullshit these days, but this was *always* far better. See also: I cannot help but laugh at the rate and scale that the Novara lot became soooo milquetoast reformist and ~pragmatic~ in their media discourse... *remembers sharing many giggles when I had a social life*)

Political anarchisms are, to my mind, a part of pluriversal approaches to the coming politics; they are not teleological. They require their construction as (we) collectively form their actualities through doing/theorising.

On the plus side, Nick O'Teen is boarding through my bloodstream. Small mercies etc.

After a month of my knee ligaments playing up for no obvious reasons (apart from wrecking them when I was young,) I have resorted to stinking the boat out with Deep Heat.

Being aged is but decline. My advice is to simply not.

@sluginkpress.bsky.social is the chief of the bin-based art/life, but this is certainly top-tier library desk branding.

I mean, my life's a bin, so...

Plus the fridge is by the views.

Boats really simplify this problem. The fridge is but steps away from wherever I am. (The real problem is keeping the fridge supplied.)

And modest.

This. Is. Very. Achievable.

Black, B. (1985). The abolition of work: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-...

All those AI companies destroying our scholarly infrastructures will definitely be queuing up to support arXiv now it's becoming an independent organisation and seeking financial sustainability, yeah?

I’m back on my bullshit and I need your help.

I need to book £15k of work for me and my team at @aat-transcribes.bsky.social this month across transcription, captioning, & access consulting.

I’m looking for 5 research projects with 12+ hours of interviews needing transcription. Is that you?

"the nation has tended to become synonymous with [...] unnatural institutions" (Woodcock, 1945).

'One analysis found that between 2014 and 2019, UK institutions spent nearly as much on their estates as the entire cost of hosting the 2012 Olympic Games. The debt that funded that spree, along with rising interest rates, is now a weight that many struggle to carry.' 2/2

"As the only political form that is always to be invented, to be shaped before it exists, precisely because it depends on no beginning or command, anarchism is never what it is. That’s where its being lies. This plasticity is the meaning of its being, the meaning of its question.” (Malabou, 2023).

(Back to sleep time now.)

All of which is to say that our ruined institutions are... fucked.

I just had a bad dream, but on the plus side, it has also dawned on me that descriptions of the university as "ruined" ties into patriarchal, moralised views of the Madonna/whore, with the notion of the "whore" being ruined women rather than chaste Madonna.

Tea over: bed calls. See yis Sunday.

Following my contemporary pattern of tearing up *my* epistemic (mis)understandings, why wouldn't one use a saucepan to lazily "cook" things that are self-evidently not to be done in a saucepan?

Let's see how this goes. (Tofu and potatoes with spices... what could possibly go awry‽)

Stubbornness AND heating plans are working out swimmingly. The temperature is plummeting towards the forecast freezing temperature, but I'll be damned if I light the stove after I've cleaned it all. (For the avoidance of doubt, the internal temperature is ~20°C. Planning is important.)

Dissensus > consensus.

Ooh, I might need some comedy, actually. The horrors are awaiting me tomorrow (I need to actually do things tomorrow.)

I mean, sure. (And we shouldn't forget about non-journal based scholarly publishing and dissemination.) I'm more concerned with the politics of contemporary knowledge production and publishing than the enterprise of stratifying OA: it is not a *thing*.

The very nice cup of lady grey I had earlier today has set me up for a night of tea and learning what else has gone wrong in global politics this evening. Such fun awaits...

LLMs and AI are flooding *parts* of the scholarly communication ecosystem. Particularly the parts that scale-up.

So *you tell me* why community-led OA needs to "scale up" to demonstrate its ~sustainability~.

I am waiting...

*librarianship doesn't have ownership or control of scholarly communication. The communities thereof include and exceed library workers.