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Ecologies of Dissemination: Contents

This issue of PARSE Journal starts from the tangled and mesmerizing fabric of collective artistic practice, particularly from the frictions that keep coming up when sharing work that was collectively produced, or, while reusing works made by others.

This issue is for anyone who engages in cultural production. For those who practice through citations, appropriations, referencing, fan-fiction, piracy and other forms of reuse; for those who recognize the tensions that emerge when the conviction that cultural work is collectively produced and owned is brought in conversation with power asymmetries, inequities and appropriative moves grounded in intersecting forms of oppression (racism, sexism, classism, among others). As such the issue highlights the need for solidarity in sharing and reusing work, and proposes modes of reuse that strengthen collective practice. Understanding that reuse always risks to contribute to patterns of extraction, we celebrate an ecology of dissemination that commits to decolonial feminist practices of reuse and works actively against social and epistemic injustice.

The contents are a set of interlinked palimpsestic provocations. They are as wild as cultural practice itself: not conclusive and contradictory. They do both enlarge the questions and zoom in to details of collective practice. We invite reusers to orientate and find a way within this thicket by moving around and trigger positions, reflections, and collective conversations.