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- While lexical search returns literal matches to a search request, semantic search "understands" the query. When compiling the search results, this search procedure relies on previously entered, definitive, metadata information and thus usually returns more accurate results. Multiple requests can be combined to create more complex queries. There are two different factors to the queries: Which pages the search is based on and which information is obtained from them. WikiMedia uses a simple semantic language "Semantic MediaWiki"for this.
+ While lexical search returns literal matches to a search request, semantic search "understands" the query. When compiling the search results, this search procedure relies on previously entered, definitive, metadata information and thus usually returns more accurate results. Multiple requests can be combined to create more complex queries. There are two different factors to the queries: which pages the search is based on and which information is obtained from them. WikiMedia uses a simple semantic language "Semantic MediaWiki"for this.
We used it to selectively query the previously entered content using meta data.
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An API (Application Programming Interface) is an interface that enables external programs or systems to communicate with the software. The API defines how to access and how to define requests. Some APIs are created specifically for certain programs, others follow industry standards.
- We used MediaWiki's API to organize and bundle a large amount of material and later in the process also to export the search queries from the Wiki user interface and then, using query2html, converted them to HTML.
+ We used MediaWiki's API to organize and bundle a large amount of material and later in the process also to export the search queries from the Wiki user interface. Then, using query2html, we converted them to HTML.
A static website, the opposite of dynamic websites, is a website with unchanging content, which is mostly written in HTML and outputs the exact same content to each user. Benefits of this model are the lack of dependencies and increased security and performance. +
A static website, the opposite of a dynamic websites, is a website with unchanging content, which is mostly written in HTML and outputs the exact same content to each user. Benefits of this model are the lack of dependencies and increased security and performance.
A static website was used to publish the archive.
- Under certain conditions it may be necessary to publish content without leaving a trace of identity behind. To protect the contributors and server locations also means working with some technical limitations. At our project, this boiled down to facing reduced bandwidth speed when accessing websites, hosted in the Dark web through the Tor Browser, and also because of the necessity of implementing a static website.
- It makes no sense to try and work against these restrictions, but rather to accept and find ways to work within the limitations. A clearly defined field of work can also speed up and enrich the process.
+ Under certain conditions it may be necessary to publish content without leaving a trace of identity behind. To protect the contributors and server locations also means working with some technical limitations. In our project, this boiled down to facing reduced bandwidth speed when accessing websites, hosted in the Dark Web through the Tor Browser, and also because of the necessity of implementing a static website.
+ It makes no sense to try and work against these restrictions. Rather, we accept and find ways to work within the limitations. A clearly defined field of work can also speed up and enrich the process.
- The Dark Web is a portion of the Internet that one cannot reach by the use of regular search engines. Users need specific software, configurations, or authorization to access to be able to use it. This shelter of anonymity is of a great importance while dealing with censorship and privacy concerns, and because of that the Dark Web is also oftenly perceived as a haven for criminal activities. Tor browser is probably the most used tool to access the dark web.
- The Dark Web offers the protective layers that make sure the location of the servers and the identity of the users is secure in the case of possible attempts of persecution of any kind.
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- How does the need for emancipatory politics translate into different forms of expression and organization? How can the tangential dynamics of these different forms successfuly align under an overarching moniker, while still maintaining their locality, specificity and urgency? Does the potential of an inclusive communist project need to be reached by overcoming notions such as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism and the like? -
-- If we choose to look at the specific temporal context of <country> between 1972 and 1986, we arrive at an energetic socio-political environment confronted with pervasive forms of oppression. Faced with the contents of the documents of <archive> published during the aforementioned period, the need for undergoing a process of skimming at first and immersion closely after has resulted in a series of questions, curiosities and conceptual sparks. -
-- The following text is an attempt at compiling a series of contrasting socio-political tendencies into a communist narrative, which is latent within most of the <archive>'s material, but fractured in its many forms. These calls for unionizing, redistribution of wealth, and workers’ emancipation – amongst other recurring motifs – are extracted as snippets from distinct documents and stitched together into one piece. Thus, the method of assemblage becomes a helpful framework in mapping the diversity of communist aspirations and of the voices that propagate them. According to <philosopher>, an assemblage "is a multiplicity which is made up of heterogeneous terms and which establishes liaisons, relations between them, across ages, sexes and reigns – different natures. Thus the assemblage’s only unity is that of a co-functioning: it is a symbiosis, a ‘sympathy’. It is never filiations which are important, but alliances, alloys; these are not successions, lines of descent, but contagions, epidemics, the wind." -
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- The quoted paragraphs which this text consists of are not static, but rather, are made to speak to eachother and can be interchanged to break the current order. In no particular order, for now, the story goes like this:
+ At several different moments during the process we have divided upcoming tasks to individuals or groups. Right after the first contact with the archival material, we split it up into ten equal parts. Each individual had to deal with their part, while obeying the collective structure of categories and properties that we defined collectively. Later on in the process, we split the class of ten people into two sub-groups: one caring for the actual archive, while the other worked on the public website (that you are currently lurking at) and a printed publication. Within these sub-groups, specific tasks were further divided between the individuals.
+ The crucial importance for this approach are regular live meetings with the entire team, where catching-up and exchange of information happens. Of a big significance are also platforms on which we document progress. Do eveything you can to keep in contact with the work of other people.
- "The term communism may refer to the comprehensive Marxist-Leninist theory of the industrial proletariat or to a future social formation coming after the national democratic and socialist stages of the <nation> revolution. -
- […] -- The <political party> itself consistently declares that it is pursuing a national democratic revolution and not yet a socialist revolution – under the present circumstances of the <country>. Communism is something possible only as a result of a long process of socialist revolution and construction and the defeat of modern imperialism on a world scale. -
- […] -- Should the <political party> be legalized? Should there be a ceasefire between the <insurgent group 1> and the <insurgent group 2>? Should there be a coalition government which includes the revolutionary forces like the <political party>, <insurgent group 1> and the <revolutionary organization>?" -
-- "<Oppressive politician> continues to have a tight grip on the <insurgent group 2>. <Oppressive politician> continues to keep the courts and the sham parliament within the bounds of <possessive pronoun> dictatorial rule. <Oppressive politician> is frantically militarizing local officials and expanding the paramilitary forces. <oppressive politician>'s fake legislature is about to rig up an electoral code to <oppressive politician>'s complete satisfaction. The <government body> is prepared to fix the results of the forthcoming elections." -
-- "<Oppressive politician> on the Air. “My countrymen, we have carefully evaluated concocted information and have definitely established that Communists are behind the attack on the <event>, although I stood to benefit the most from the bombing. We are therefore suspending the <recourse in law>, ordering the raid of the campuses and the arrest of everyone in media, the academe, labor and other organizations who do not believe me, and hence are Commies. Consider this a dress rehearsal for <oppressive government ruling>.” -
-- "The overall human cost of the regime’s economic strategy is staggeringly painful for [the] majority of the people. Inflation, devaluation and wage repression have caused real family incomes to plummet nationwide. -
- […] + +- The rising poverty levels were confirmed by the high-powered <international body> “<aid program>” that visited the <country> in <year> and by <news article> in <year> . Both reports, however, bluntly ignored the root cause of widespread poverty because to delve into these would be to expose the massive failure of the <international body>-<international body> experiment in the <country>." -
-- "<Colonizer> Imperialist domination over the <country>, then, is not only limited to controlling the economic and political affairs of the country. It has likewise, made itself felt in our culture specifically thru religious manipulation. Thus as true <religious denominations> we have a very vital role to play in exposing and opposing the anti-people work of such pseudo-religious fronts of <colonizer> Imperialism and <acronym>’s. For it is by looking beyond our personal “salvation” that we realize the <religious scripture> of total, collective and historical liberation. In these days of alarming developments, let us heed God’s call to actively participate in people’s struggle towards a truly <religious denomination> society that is free, democratic, and sovereign." -
-- "<Clerical figure>, <clerical position> of <capital city>, denied yesterday, allegations that the local <religious body> has been infiltrated by radical elements “bent on overthrowing the present regime.”Maintaining that there can be no such group as “<religious denomination> leftists,” the <capital city> <clerical figure> said the specter of the <religious denomination> left has been raised by the government whenever news of major victories against subversive elements isreleased. + When developing the structure, form and function of the publication, it was essential to collect references. For inspiration, but also to communicate complex ideas in a team. Very helpful were lectures and discussions with Maydayroom, The Warp and Weft of Memory and OpenSourcePublishing.
- […] +- <Clerical figure> reiterated that, to <clerical figure>, the term “<religious denomination> Left” is a contradiction in terms. “How can a person who has vowed to follow <god>… be accused of embracing communism when communism is precisely the negation of <god>?" -
-- "It is wrong to insist that communism or a certain religious belief is the main political issue. The few who do so only objectively help the dictatorship. They wittingly and unwittingly join the <colonizer> imperialists and the <oppressive politician> regime in obscuring the real issue confronting the <nation> people today. And that issue of urgent necessity to the people at present is the struggle for national liberation and democracy against the <colonizer>-<oppressive politician> dictatorship." -
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- "… the <nation> revolution can and must break new ground in pursuit of this socialist revolution vision. Storming heaven’s gate may merely abort the future."
+ GIT is a version-based online data storage service that is used mostly to collectively work on code. This collaborative working environment retains all versions created, it is non-destructive. It also features the option of dividing a project into different versions, so called branches, which can be processed separately, and merged again afterwards.
+ SHARING IS CARING
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+ An Etherpad document can be used to collectively work on HTML, CSS and Javascript code, while still seeing a real time preview, using CURL.
+ We used this method while creating the website you're looking at.
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+ Curl is a command line tool, that automatically downloads content from a given URL and stores it in a file on your machine.
+ We used this tool as part of the Ether2HTML method.
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+ How does the need for emancipatory politics translate into different forms of expression and organization? How can the tangential dynamics of these different forms successfuly align under an overarching moniker, while still maintaining their locality, specificity and urgency? Does the potential of an inclusive communist project need to be reached by overcoming notions such as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism and the like? +
++ If we choose to look at the specific temporal context of <country> between 1972 and 1986, we arrive at an energetic socio-political environment confronted with pervasive forms of oppression. Faced with the contents of the documents of <archive> published during the aforementioned period, the need for undergoing a process of skimming at first and immersion closely after has resulted in a series of questions, curiosities and conceptual sparks. +
++ The following text is an attempt at compiling a series of contrasting socio-political tendencies into a communist narrative, which is latent within most of the <archive>'s material, but fractured in its many forms. These calls for unionizing, redistribution of wealth, and workers’ emancipation – amongst other recurring motifs – are extracted as snippets from distinct documents and stitched together into one piece. Thus, the method of assemblage becomes a helpful framework in mapping the diversity of communist aspirations and of the voices that propagate them. According to <philosopher>, an assemblage "is a multiplicity which is made up of heterogeneous terms and which establishes liaisons, relations between them, across ages, sexes and reigns – different natures. Thus the assemblage’s only unity is that of a co-functioning: it is a symbiosis, a ‘sympathy’. It is never filiations which are important, but alliances, alloys; these are not successions, lines of descent, but contagions, epidemics, the wind." +
++ The quoted paragraphs which this text consists of are not static, but rather, are made to speak to eachother and can be interchanged to break the current order. In no particular order, for now, the story goes like this: +
++ "The term communism may refer to the comprehensive Marxist-Leninist theory of the industrial proletariat or to a future social formation coming after the national democratic and socialist stages of the <nation> revolution. +
+ […] ++ The <political party> itself consistently declares that it is pursuing a national democratic revolution and not yet a socialist revolution – under the present circumstances of the <country>. Communism is something possible only as a result of a long process of socialist revolution and construction and the defeat of modern imperialism on a world scale. +
+ […] ++ Should the <political party> be legalized? Should there be a ceasefire between the <insurgent group 1> and the <insurgent group 2>? Should there be a coalition government which includes the revolutionary forces like the <political party>, <insurgent group 1> and the <revolutionary organization>?" +
++ "<Oppressive politician> continues to have a tight grip on the <insurgent group 2>. <Oppressive politician> continues to keep the courts and the sham parliament within the bounds of <possessive pronoun> dictatorial rule. <Oppressive politician> is frantically militarizing local officials and expanding the paramilitary forces. <oppressive politician>'s fake legislature is about to rig up an electoral code to <oppressive politician>'s complete satisfaction. The <government body> is prepared to fix the results of the forthcoming elections." +
++ "<Oppressive politician> on the Air. “My countrymen, we have carefully evaluated concocted information and have definitely established that Communists are behind the attack on the <event>, although I stood to benefit the most from the bombing. We are therefore suspending the <recourse in law>, ordering the raid of the campuses and the arrest of everyone in media, the academe, labor and other organizations who do not believe me, and hence are Commies. Consider this a dress rehearsal for <oppressive government ruling>.” +
++ "The overall human cost of the regime’s economic strategy is staggeringly painful for [the] majority of the people. Inflation, devaluation and wage repression have caused real family incomes to plummet nationwide. +
+ […] ++ The rising poverty levels were confirmed by the high-powered <international body> “<aid program>” that visited the <country> in <year> and by <news article> in <year> . Both reports, however, bluntly ignored the root cause of widespread poverty because to delve into these would be to expose the massive failure of the <international body>-<international body> experiment in the <country>." +
++ "<Colonizer> Imperialist domination over the <country>, then, is not only limited to controlling the economic and political affairs of the country. It has likewise, made itself felt in our culture specifically thru religious manipulation. Thus as true <religious denominations> we have a very vital role to play in exposing and opposing the anti-people work of such pseudo-religious fronts of <colonizer> Imperialism and <acronym>’s. For it is by looking beyond our personal “salvation” that we realize the <religious scripture> of total, collective and historical liberation. In these days of alarming developments, let us heed God’s call to actively participate in people’s struggle towards a truly <religious denomination> society that is free, democratic, and sovereign." +
++ "<Clerical figure>, <clerical position> of <capital city>, denied yesterday, allegations that the local <religious body> has been infiltrated by radical elements “bent on overthrowing the present regime.”Maintaining that there can be no such group as “<religious denomination> leftists,” the <capital city> <clerical figure> said the specter of the <religious denomination> left has been raised by the government whenever news of major victories against subversive elements isreleased. +
+ […] ++ <Clerical figure> reiterated that, to <clerical figure>, the term “<religious denomination> Left” is a contradiction in terms. “How can a person who has vowed to follow <god>… be accused of embracing communism when communism is precisely the negation of <god>?" +
++ "It is wrong to insist that communism or a certain religious belief is the main political issue. The few who do so only objectively help the dictatorship. They wittingly and unwittingly join the <colonizer> imperialists and the <oppressive politician> regime in obscuring the real issue confronting the <nation> people today. And that issue of urgent necessity to the people at present is the struggle for national liberation and democracy against the <colonizer>-<oppressive politician> dictatorship." +
++ "… the <nation> revolution can and must break new ground in pursuit of this socialist revolution vision. Storming heaven’s gate may merely abort the future." +
+ +Markdown is a markup language.
+ Markup languages are used to structure the linguistic syntax of a chosen system in a more user-friendly way. These languages are supposed to be easier to use than the actual code, as they are to be read by humans. What is written can easily be converted into the syntax of other languages.
+ Markdown has been originally developed to simplify writing HTML, but has ever since changed its role and now it provides conversions into different formats.
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+ We used Markdown while creating the annotated readers (SWARM 1,2,3) in order to convert plain text into html.
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+ Pandoc is a free command-line tool used to convert one markup format into a different one.
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+ We used Pandoc in the process of converting documents written in markdown into HTML.
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+ Hypertext Markup language (HTML) is what the basic building blocks of the web are made of. This language defines and categorizes the content of a website and guides the user, e.g. from one page to another with the use of the so called hyperlinks.
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+ Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is the visual facade, the makeup that is put on top of the HTML content. It refers to the categories assigned before. It is responsible for how a website looks like and also for basic interactions & animations.
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+ Java Script (JS) is the busy crane-worker that is still around, even after the building is already finished, to rearrange building blocks. Java Script controls interactions, animations, the loading and transformation of content.
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+ These languages can either be written all in one document or in separate ones, linked to one another.
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+ We used HTML, CSS and Java Script to create this website. We used CSS and Java Script to further edit the HTML created with query2HTML.
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+ Web2Print is a method, that uses websites as a basis from which print layouts are created. When using this online workflow contents are open to a number of contributors, flexible and easy to change throughout the process.
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+ We used Web2Print to enable the printing of the website you're looking at, as well as for the creation of the annotated readers (SWARM) in their physical form.
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+ Using the slow reading method we have read several texts as a group. We have collected annotations, additional information and imagery on an Etherpad. Afterwards, we have collectively revised the collected content, added a glossary, styled it with CSS - designed a cover and designed the overall appearance of it. We have converted it to a print layout using the Ether2HTML and Web2Print methods. Afterwards, we have printed out this material as booklets, which we have named: SWARM 1, 2 & 3. +
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