A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers
2023
Editor's note: This collaboratively-written book derives from a radical project to investigate and build collective, feminist, intersectional network infrastructure. Each stop on the network’s tour (it traveled!) is a separate section of the book. This book gets into the infrastructure and community, and is a freeform experimental publication as well as a model for future projects. Well-documented.
A booklet recapping a year of programming of a collaborative traveling feminist server project that took place in 6 locations
Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r)
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travelled between each other in 2022 to share and extend their knowledges through live gatherings. ATNOFS argues that such platforms and tools are necessary to navigate our communications and cultural growth beyond the current media oligopolies, and democratise cultural and political expression outside obscure, bureaucratic algorithms and advertising monetisation.
The project responded to the need for continuity, interrelation and support for self-hosted and self-organised computational infrastructures in The Netherlands (Varia, LURK), Romania (hypha), Austria (esc mkl), Greece (Feminist Hack Meetings) and Belgium (Constant).
This publication was collectively made with Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Vlad Dobrițoiu, Teo Săvoiu, Spideralex, Sergiu Nisioi, Roel Roscam Abbing, Reni Hofmüller, ooooo, Nina Botthof, Martino Morandi, Marloes de Valk, Mara Karagianni, Manetta Berends, Lídia Pereira, Julia Bande, Femke Snelting, elodie Mugrefya, Donatella Portoghese, Danae Tapia, Cristina Cochior, Azahara Cerezo, Aymeric Mansoux, Artemis Gryllaki, Aggeliki Diakrousi, Anca Bucur, amy pickles, Alice Strete, Alex Ștefănescu.
The publication and its chapters are licensed under CC4r, unless otherwise stated. The CC4r considers authorship to be part of a collective cultural efort and rejects authorship as ownership derived from individual genius. The CC4r favours re-use and generous access conditions. It considers hands-on circulation as a necessary and generative activation of current, historical and future authored materials. While you are free to (re-)use them, you are not free from taking the implications from (re-)use into account. The full CC4r license can be found here: https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/unbound/cc4r.