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• from: Clusterduck (chapter)

  Silvia (00:37:34) - The easiest way to understand who our audience is wherever we give talks. It’s very beautiful because there you see, “OK, so they were listening to us”. This is very important. And that is what we missed during Covid. In situations like festivals or gatherings — for example, there was one very nice symposium called “Organized by None”, or when we go to Aksioma or the Institute of Network Cultures — networkswe have this feeling that we are part of a greater community that is discussing the same topics as we are. But also all of us developed a community on the web. As everybody’s doing what you like, you become part of a discussion. Just like when Noel was talking about [[Who: Community of Publishing | Weird Facebook, it was when we were a lot into Facebook groups and we were discussing a lot about virtual reality, technology, post-Internet, and memes]]. I remember that Zuckerberg had to make the Facebook group functional because of the filter bubble problem, he wanted Facebook to be more local, so we exploited that feature in the platform.

• from: Clusterduck (chapter)

  (00:39:55) - The community is very diverse. [[Who: Community of Publishing | Every time that we go places, we invite people as a follow-up to join our Telegram chats. And then there is a network of people who we collaborate with in our jobs.]] And so during the years, every time that we wanted to do something, and we wanted to collaborate, for example, with a developer or with a designer, networkspeople were adding up to the cluster family. For example, the collaboration with referencesJules Duran, who is a very good designer and type designer, was very precious in the work on Meme Manifesto. There are some others, like developers, referencesPietro Arial Parisi, Super Internet, and Gregorio Macini, that are helping us with the development of the many websites that we did, but also intervening in other ways, because all of our collaborators are very interested in a lot of things.

• from: Clusterduck (chapter)

  Silvia (00:46:24) - The referencesSuper Internet Space is a multiplayer room in which everybody can draw, this was the start of it. Clusterduck organized things in this space in 2018 as part of references"Meme Propaganda", which was maybe our first participative operation. And it was the operation that Noel was talking about when we started to understand what memes can be, that memes can be used for propaganda. But later on, the networksSuper Internet Space developed into something which is a kind of satellite of Clusterduck with other collaborators.

• from: Clusterduck (chapter)

  Lorenzo (01:16:12) - One of the urgencies is defining a community. You have mentioned you move in both online and offline, real-life communities. networksI'm curious to know from you if, for example, the resilience of traditional publishing is based on the fact that offline and real-life communities are more defined than online communities, which are undefined or fragmented. I’m curious to know your opinion about that.

• from: Clusterduck (chapter)

  Silvia (01:17:16) - It’s true that online communities form very quickly. For example, the TikTok algorithm is very specialised. So, what is happening is that cores are becoming something very specific and sometimes communities start from how much you love a chair or how much you love peeling an iguana. And this is very strange because then it can be very fast and when you just stop to love peeling an iguana, your community is not there anymore. I’m joking, but what Nero did, and what the Institute of Network Cultures and Aksioma are doing is very similar. networksI love that you three are together because you are building a community behind publishing, which is very, very hard to do. But you’re also publishing in a very fast way and your covers are very Instagrammable. You are also trying to explore the communities that are forming in different social media. I see that you’re doing that. I think this is a very good strategy because it’s very similar to what we are doing when we create loops between the “real life” world and the URL world.