Teaching the Radical Catalogue: A Syllabus 2021–22

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Course Information

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Objectives

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Participation

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Course Description

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Course Calendar

Session 1:
“People don’t think of information retrieval as a political project”
With Emily Drabinski, Amanda Belantara

Session 2:
“Coloniality–it’s just really everywhere”
(Learning to not sustain processes of coloniality)
With Nora Schmidt

Session 3:
Decentralising
(Contextual and local cataloging)
With Library of Inclusions and Omissions

Session 4:
Read-ability
(“Making the biases of the catalogue visible: Why are the authors of the books I read so male, so white, so Eurocentric?”)
With Feminist Search Tools, Bibliothek Wyborada

Session 5:
Write-ability
(“there is no such thing as ‘technical’ choices”)
With Infrastructural Manoeuvres

Session 6:
Rewrite-ability
(Making the catalogue rewritable, challenging author-ities)
With The Rewrite

Session 7:
From Feminist to Intersectional Infrastructures
With Constant

Session 8:
Wrap Up & Outlook
(What remains open, to be done)

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