archivio grafton9 @grafton9@post.lurk.org

ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪꜱᴍ ɪꜱ ꜱᴏᴠɪᴇᴛ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴘʟᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪɢɪᴛɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴀʟ ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴀʀᴄʜɪᴠᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ.

Sergio Bologna ricorda Benedetto Vecchi
https://ilmanifesto.it/oggi-su-domani-in-memoria-di-benedetto-vecchi/

«Che succede quando hai una religione ma non i fedeli? Predichi ai passeri, sperando che un giorno acquisiscano la parola».
Questo erano le riviste degli anni Novanta. Questo era «DeriveApprodi», come le altre. Codici miniati e prediche ai passeri."

ancora:

"Partecipò (Benedetto Vecchi) alla progettazione e realizzazione dei «giornali di DeriveApprodi» da distribuire in migliaia di copie in occasione dei cortei di massa che si susseguivano: «Immaterial workers of the world», «Ora o may day»..."

questo l'avevamo incorniciato, primavera del 2000

"Transarchivio, note sul rapporto tra archivi e controcultura"
http://storieinmovimento.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Zap47_11-Schegge4.pdf
articolo dal numero 47 di @zapruder
<Rivolta la carta. Archivi e movimenti>
http://storieinmovimento.org/2018/12/06/quarantasettesimo-numero/

si parla dell'archivio del "Videogiornale" del DAMS (1990). alcuni video qui su Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/videogiornale

(link alla collezione originale https://vimeo.com/videogiornale )

A collection of underground metal #zines http://www.deathmetal.org/zines/

"Set your TARDIS to go back to the 1980s or early 1990s. There is no public internet; dial-up bulletin boards are not yet widely known. Your only source of news is either the mainstream, or tiny xeroxed magazines published by citizen volunteers.

Zines were the only source of news about underground metal for a long time. Knitted together by a postal network of letter-writers and tape traders, they united bands and fans for a genre that was too small and too alienated for the mainstream press.

We’ve put together an archive of metal zines from the classic period. It’s a free text directory tree, so there’s no fancy navigation, just the raw PDFs and JPGs themselves."

the dark, gothic, industrial scene of 80's in Italy: the <Creature Simili>

an introduction to the #zines
- http://www.kainowska.com/sito/creature-simili-parte-ii-a-___poetica-dei-primi-dark-degli-anni-ottanta-le-pubblicazioni-autoprodotte/
- http://fanzinemusicali.altervista.org/Amen/index.htm

some of them are available on https://grafton9.net (caution: NSFW!)

the outstanding creativity of Marco Corbelli (aka Atrax Morgue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrax_Morgue )
https://archive.org/stream/sick-things/#mode/2up
some of his works are very difficult to digitize because of attached phisycal objects (nails, iron fences)

"The technology of the information-retrieval system that we employ is incredibly primitive. We fumble around in bookshops, we buy magazines or subscribe to them. But I regard myself as starved of information. I am getting a throughput of information in my imaginative life of one-hundredth of what I could use. I think there's an information starvation at present and technology will create the possibility of knowing everything about everything." — J. G. Ballard, 1971
http://fentonville.co.uk/invisible-library/

UNSOUND, a zine from the eighties industrial scene.
https://archive.org/details/unsound-zine

actually, this was not scanned by us. we found the pdfs announced on reddit and published on some evilish file locker.
when you see something cool, published in the wrong place, download it, keep a copy, and upload to Internet Archive.

our #library can be downloaded, for free, and browsed #offline.
for bulk download pick this zip full of torrents (seeded by Internet Archive)
https://grafton9.net/grafton9-torrents.zip

or 👇

The future of library as digital and offline

https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-07-radical-tactics-of-the-offline-library-henry-warwick/

ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪꜱᴍ ɪꜱ ꜱᴏᴠɪᴇᴛ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴘʟᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪɢɪᴛɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴀʟ ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴀʀᴄʜɪᴠᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ.

new book:
Piermario Ciani. Dal Great Complotto a Luther Blissett (2000)
https://archive.org/details/piermario-ciani-great-complotto/page/n0

external resources:
http://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/1544
http://www.edueda.net/index.php?title=Ciani_Piermario

dear fellows: which software would you use today to crop (at the same size) a bunch of images (let's say they are book scans)?

the very ideal software is something like JPEGCrops http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
it has everything we need, but is for windows only. we used in the past with wine or dedicated vm, but too slow.

Scantailor https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced could works, but also is too slow, we want something faster.

maybe darktable https://www.darktable.org/ , but has too many options, we want something simpler.

cli script are not enough, we need visual to move the crop area.

join us in discussing #freesoftware tools for #diybooscanning ! thanks

Nicholas Thoburn — Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (2014)
https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18214

the three fatal shots that killed the press:
* desktop publishing has made it easy to design #books today
* the society of video and images: why read a book when you can watch the movie?
* the electronic distribution

La morte del libro, Erica Moira Pini, AAA Edizioni (1996)
https://archive.org/details/la-morte-del-libro/page/n0