[Commlist] New book: Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma

Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma <http://bak.ma>
Published by dpr-barcelona, June 2024
Author: Özge Çelikaslan

The book is available now for preorder with a discount:
https://dpr-barcelona.myshopify.com/products/archiving-the-commons 
<https://dpr-barcelona.myshopify.com/products/archiving-the-commons>

Description
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or 
disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, 
and its possible reappearance—feared by some, desired by others,” writes 
Thomas Keenan.

This book is about those stories and much more. Here the author uses 
bak.ma <http://bak.ma>, a digital media archive born out of the social 
movements in Turkey, to guide us through a journey in which archives 
become sites of other kinds of stories—some of solidarity, activism, and 
the commons. Çelikaslan uses the concept of archives of the commons 
reimagining archives as dynamic spaces of commoning in which creative, 
autonomous platforms are generated collectively to perpetuate knowledge 
and sociopolitical relations grounded in solidarity and an ethics of 
care, not in some distant future but in the here and now.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Thomas Keenan
Introduction
Chapter 2: Commons and Archives
Chapter 3: The Emergence and Configuration of bak.ma <http://bak.ma>
Chapter 4: Navigating the Archive
Chapter 5: Archival Vulnerabilities
Conclusion
Afterword by Pelin Tan
Acknowledgments
Lists
Bibliography
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