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P-Reuse Prompts

Intro reuse prompts

This section contains a series of provocations and questions that address universalisms in Free Culture and Open Access. How to deal with issues of cultural appropriation, power differences and the limits of conventional citation and acknowledgment? These prompts were originally commissioned for the worksession “Revisit Reuse”, then partly rewritten to make them relevant to multiple contexts. They point towards potential gaps in the ways we practice reuse and purposefully trigger the reader to consider a specific angle. The prompts in this section take many forms or shapes from questions, to games, scores, mixtapes, drawings, diagrams, collages, and letters. They invite a response, and act as a device to make something happen.

In progress

To be done

Prompt 10: This Is Not A Prompt
Prompt 19: Space for discomfort
P-Prompt: Gabriela

P-Reuse Cases

Intro: Reuse Cases

The cases narrate moments where conflicts or dissensus arises around sharing and reuse in collective practice. We have drawn them from our own experiences and contexts, some were told to us by friends and colleagues, and others we have retold from public accounts. We invite you to use these cases to bring some nuance to the often polarised extremes of “universal entitlement” (permission to appropriate freely) and “universal restrictiveness” (cultural appropriation is impermissible), a binary that gets problematised by Thi C. Nguyen, who also contributed five cases from his own context in the US.

We wrote the cases as short vignettes omitting names, institutions or places on purpose. Their specificity is without detail to allow them to trigger actions, reflections and change of perspective in different contexts. As a collection, they function as a toolbox filled with newly combinable building blocks that can contribute to the construction of more complex accounts of reuse. These collected and curated accounts of lived situations went through an iterative process of telling, re-telling, editing and re-editing. It would be counterintuitive to sign them as authors rather we see our role to take responsibility as narrators.

Reuse Case: Cultural Appropriation
Reuse Case: Conceptual Poetry
Reuse Case: Entangled Authorship
Reuse Case: Non-Promiscuous Sharing
Reuse Case: Unsolicited Collaboration
Reuse Case: Declining Responsibility
Reuse Case: Wearing au dai
Reuse Case: Kimono runway
Reuse Case: Whose authority
Reuse Case: Shallow appropriation
Reuse Case: Balancing concerns
Reuse Case: Folktales
Reuse Case: Teaching Assignments
Reuse Case: Restitution

Draft Conversation Transcripts

Conversation with Séverine Dusollier
Conversation with Jennifer Hayashida

Readings, Podcasts, References

Intro: Readings, Podcasts, References

Here we collected some key texts and podcasts for those who want to dig deeper. They are drawn from the one-year [Glossary#Limits_to_Openness_Reading_Group|"Limits to Openness" Reading Group] that explored issues of universalism related to the idea of openness, as often presented in Open Content, Free Culture and dominant Open Access publishing. Drawn from different fields, such as philosophy, black studies, free culture, critical race studies, critical IP, among others, the range of texts and podcasts approach the question of how would decolonial, feminist practices of reuse look like from different perspectives. We include here also selected texts that informed the prompts or conversations. It is by no means meant as a complete bibliography or reference list, rather a selection of resources expanding those developed in our immediate environment.

Questions (no answers)

Intro: Questions (no answers)

This set of questions can be used as a warm-up exercise for collaborative practices that are committed to decolonial, feminist practices of sharing and reuse. The questions are meant to be activated at the beginning of a collective practice, at the moment you start to get a sense of how your practice reuses and might get reused. They resonate with prompts, cases, and conversations but are different because they take your own practice as a hands-on starting point for discussing the implications of reuse. You can select a few questions that feel relevant to your context, or pick 3–5 questions randomly. Answers can be revised over time.

Glossary

Practice Documents Examples

Sample documents

Intro Practice Documents Examples

In this section, we have brought together a set of documents that we have found helpful for navigating practices of reuse. They range from legal contracts to manifestos, from manuals to codes of conduct. Making the conditions of reuse explicit, they can be applied and adjusted to different contexts and needs. The collection includes conditional free licences, research agreements, protocols for cross-cultural sharing, and “commitments”. Most of the documents are published under Open Content licences, so you are welcome to download, copy, distribute, and rework them.

Biographies

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 This set of questions can be used as a warm-up exercise for collaborative practices that are committed to decolonial, feminist practices of sharing and reuse. The questions are meant to be activated at the beginning of a collective practice, at the moment you start to get a sense of how your practice reuses and might get reused. They resonate with prompts, cases, and conversations but are different because they take your own practice as a hands-on starting point for discussing the implications of reuse. You can select a few questions that feel relevant to your context, or pick 3–5 questions randomly. Answers can be revised over time.