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Re-orientations, Mal-functions, Reading Tech Labor and Affect in Libraries with Audre Lorde: Audre Says 2

Re-orientations, Mal-functions, Reading Tech Labor and Affect in Libraries with Audre Lorde
Audre Says 2
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  1. Re-orientations, Mal-functions, Reading
  2. Audre Says 1
  3. Audre Says 2

Imagine if you will an animal, feed it memory, legacy, history,In the warm alchemy of it’s belly we find rest and lay soil for the futureI find my self asking is there anything that eats, grows indefinitely and can live?How might we share life rather than hoard it?


Audre says:

What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable… (1979).


I found myself thinking about digital librarianship as just as much of an affective labor, as connected to and a part of the people work, care work, central to librarianship. I wanted to write about logics of capture embedded in computational systems, or maybe write about being non-binary and doing labor dependent on inherently binary systems.

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