We’re joined by Adam Jones from Acid Horizon to talk about cybernetics and systems of control. We talk about how systems of control impact libraries, and how cybernetics can help us see the connections between different systems.

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Media Mentioned

Acid Horizon podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/

Anti-Oculus https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734147/anti-oculus-by-acid-horizon/

"Queer Animality", Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1652/chapter-abstract/178668/Queer-Animality?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Trap Door: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544894/trap-door/

That Particular Flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrust_That_Particular_Flavor

Resisting AI https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Work Without the Worker https://www.versobooks.com/products/2518-work-without-the-worker

Heike Bauer, ‘Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin’, in Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, eds. Partington and Smyth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 17–33. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367662_2

Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/y926mbqh

Wednesday Aug 28, 2024

135 - The Once and Future Linked Open Data feat. Dorothea and Jonny

Wednesday Aug 28, 2024

The gang talks about linked open data. What did we learn in library school? What’s the future? Where does it fall off a cliff?

Media mentioned

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/

The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/430f30bf-e029-483d-b1c8-d7e9bb430a8e

Aaron Swartz unfinished book https://web.archive.org/web/20220512132144/https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00481ED1V01Y201302WBE005

Tim Berners Lee

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111938123937338008

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111939286501257910

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111731459659839112

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#knowledge-graphs-a-backbone-in-the-surveillance-economy

http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/publishing_bnb_as_lod.pdf

https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2024/20240507-introducing-oclc-meridian.html

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

Transcript (plaintext): https://pastecode.io/s/qundkp0n

Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

134 - Museum Ethics feat. Brigit

Tuesday Aug 20, 2024

This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too!

Media mentioned

https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14

"FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS" by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527

"US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024

https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list

The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act

The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916

https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs.

https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines!

https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan

Episode transcript in HTML (download to view): https://pastecode.io/s/e7ye92tz

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

Monday Jul 08, 2024

133 - Pentiment feat. All Gamers Are Bastards

Monday Jul 08, 2024

We’re joined by All Gamers Are Bastards to talk about Pentiment, a mystery game with an opening similar to the novel/film Name of the Rose (1986) in many ways. Time for the history boys to drop some historiography.

https://soundcloud.com/agabpod

https://x.com/agabpod

https://x.com/kayandskittles

https://x.com/laborkyle

Kay’s other podcast and YouTube show

https://x.com/vgatwtoe

https://www.youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles

Kyle’s other podcasts

https://x.com/horrorvanguard

https://x.com/profaneshow

Media mentioned

Kay’s video: Two Games About History (And Why You Should Care) https://youtu.be/A1ibaKebZjo?si=wY_gStTszO9a_Uz3

https://forgottencitygame.com/

Episode transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/xiawczu3

Wednesday Jul 03, 2024

132 - Death Glitch feat. Tamara Kneese

Wednesday Jul 03, 2024

This week we’re talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more!

Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/

Media mentioned

Tamara’s presentation at the Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfjjwmJ1Hc

Anya Bernstein Russian immortalists in the 19th century https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/anya-bernstein

Jacob Boss https://aiandfaith.org/featured-interview-jacob-boss

https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/

Episode transcript: https://pastebin.com/0RWi1j5R

Monday Jun 24, 2024

131 - Close-Up (1990)

Monday Jun 24, 2024

Movie night again! We’re talking about the film Close-Up about a strange case of fraud in Iran surrounding a film director, made by a film director who was part of the events because he wanted to make a movie about it. The layers!

Media Mentioned

https://web.archive.org/web/20120322165628/http://www.projectorhead.in/one/closeup.html

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1492-close-up-prison-and-escape

https://sabzian.be/text/%E2%80%9Cambient-genocide%E2%80%9D

Monday May 13, 2024

130 - It’s bad news roundup, pardner 4

Monday May 13, 2024

This week we’re doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests.

Media mentioned

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/

https://x.com/librarypunk/status/1786563891893342537

LFP Vendor Scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/Library%20Freedom-%20Vendor%20Scorecard-%20110719.pdf

https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/

VandeBurgt, M. M., Rodgers, B. M., & Brown, K. (2021). Testimonies: The rewards and challenges of letting their voices be heard. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(5), 102420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102420

Journal of Radical Librarianship https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12

Related: http://radicalreference.info/

Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59859/

Youtube Video Downloader Justin Recommends: https://www.4kdownload.com/-54

https://archive.ph/

https://climatemirror.org/

https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-problem-with-spotify-w-steve-albini

Zines and Distros

https://linktr.ee/mbtadistro

https://haters.noblogs.org/zines/

https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/

https://www.autistici.org/fugitivedistro/