Database as Book

Alternatives Imagine Knowledge as a Public Good

A comparison between the ARK system and the DOI makes their contrasting design logics unmistakably clear. ARK is built on the principle that knowledge should function as a public good—...Read more

2025_April11_Slides ROAC

I used these slides during the 2025 Radical Open Access Conference to speak about the "Database as Book" project.Read more

Dec 8 - 9, 2025 Program

This is the outline program for the "Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa" Workshop held at the British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA) on December 8 and 9th, 2025.Read more

translation as women (not)

This image, with women at the center of the Database as Book project, puts "the question of gender" into play as part of decolonizing knowledge. My reading here comes in the context of preparing...Read more

Barbara Love's "Liberatory Consciousness Framework" (2010)

I think it's important to read and study knowledge infrastructures in Kenya in parallel with critical liberation theory to help prompt those of us reaching for new, more anticolonial knowledge infrastructures to imagine what more radical alternatives should replace the existing systems of...Read more

"Database as Book" Proposal

This is the application proposal submitted to the call for experimental books by COPIM in early 2024.Read more

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