Questions (no answers)

Try listing the materials/practices/works that you are reusing for the material/practice/work you are currently involved in. Is anything missing?​​​​​​​

Example: McKittrick remix practice (??) FS

   Do you remember the circumstances, people, tools, and experiences that shaped the work you are doing? Share the ways you could remember, recognise and acknowledge these encounters. Invent a few new ways.

       Example: A colophon featuring a narrative account of the encounters involved in creating a movie rather than a list of roles and responsibilities.

   What kind of citational strategies have you been experimenting with? 

       Example: Expand and experiment with your range of citational practice: avoid using given descriptors or names ("authors"). Flip the hierarchy of most important to least important. Cite a thing, a place, an experience. To further review your citation practice, see Angela Okune: Self-Review of Citational Practice.

   When we encounter something that catalyses our thinking, how do we make this encounter legible? 

Example: When you disclose how something comes into being, how do you account for the relationship that is being built? Nkule [REF] describes how she meticulously keeps track and documents each encounter in order to remember and be able to disclose how something comes into being. Are there any other strategies you know of? And how do you do this in collective situations, or when multiple strands of thinking are co-constructing each other?

   Can you think of yourself as a reuser (rather than an author). What shifts? Where do you feel frictions?

       Example: Black Studies scholar Katherine McKittrick distinguishes “making something your own” and “owning something”. (ref)

       Example: Cristina Rivera Garza insists that “First Times do not exist”. She talks about the communality of writing and counters the assumption that one could come first to a scene or start from scratch. Rather, she insists, that we are always building upon others' work. (ref)

       Example: Stephen Wright: re-re-re- ontology prompt more... (ref)

   Let's imagine ourselves as being outside of property relations. How do we negotiate relationships with each other? FS

       Example: See the proposal of an “intimacy of interdependency” in Andrea Francke's prompt “Intimacy vs Property”

   Let's imagine property to be inclusive, instead of exclusive (read the "Belonging vs Owning" prompt for some thoughts). What shifts? Where do you feel frictions? FS

       A quote from Severine

   If someone reused materials/practices/works you were involved in, would it matter who, what, when or for which purpose?

       Example: The Copy Far AI Licence can be added to any Free Culture licence to stipulate that “This work, in the present or previous versions, cannot be used for procedures known as “machine learning” and stylometric analysis without the previous authorization.” https://copyfarai.itcouldbewor.se/

   How could you share the histories and contexts in which the work/practice/material has been created?

       Example: A font publication includes next to the font files also source files, technical manuals and a documentation of the process.

   Release situation: What information/instructions can you provide to potential reusers inform reusers about the circumstances of the work/practice/materials so they can avoid contributing to power asymmetries, economic differences and privileges? EW

       Example: The open access publication As I Remember It Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder (2018) shares the teachings of elder and knowledge keeper Elsie Paul in Canada by setting an indigenous guest-host protocol to access the online publication. https://scalar.usc.edu/ravenspace/as-i-remember-it/index
   Do you think a compensation for reusing work is needed, and if so in what way, how much and who would need to be compensated? FS
       Example: flip CUTE

   What to do when we have reused work without recognising one another, or relevant issues, sufficiently? Correction? Omissum? Retraction? Apology?
       Example: An editors' note had been added to the ebook version of a publication that took another as inspiration stating the regret and grief about the ommission failing to cite the influences. The note is also understood to instigate a shared reflection on the oversight.
       Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives, edited by Sindi-Leigh McBride & Julia Rensing, 2023 (page 9)   https://zasb.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/zasb/Dokumente_website/Forschung/Publikationen/lost_lilbraries_burnt_archives_ebook.pdf

       Example: Omissum is term that was invented for what needed to happen in response to the omissions in editorial work with/around the historical figure Paul Otlet, which included to be silent about how racism is part of his oeuvre. The term ‘erratum’ was proposed at first, but rather than using a word that would suggest an isolated mistake that needs to be corrected, we considered the lack of attention for racism systemic, an issue we need to engage with as a process. We invite you to adapt and rewrite this omissum and insert it into other publications that might need it. https://diversions.constantvzw.org/paul-otlet-an-omissum.html

   How much time, headspace, and energy can you afford to accommodate negotiation and friction?
       Example: Prompt: Spaces for discomfort - Recognition​​​​​​​ (Nkule Mbaso)
       "If citation and referencing are about signalling how and when you come to know something, then what happens in the moments where it is not acknowledged. The space of discomfort means for me working through how to talk about it, how to deal with it. ​​​​​​​"

https://reuse.constantvzw.org/index.php?title=P-Prompt:_Spaces_for_discomfort_-_Recognition