The Synware (sinwɛːʁ) collection explores the modalities of using, creating, and maintaining digital technologies collectively. Synware documents decentralized free software, their usage and community organization as much technical as conceptual, aesthetic and political.
This inaugural volume introduces the notion of free software syndicalism and questions the modalities of the free software movement facing up the transformation from a grass-roots movement in the 1980s to mainstreaming in the 2010s, industrialization in the 2020s, and the momentum towards becoming a public digital infrastructure.
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Where and when to meet with us?
| When | Where | With |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/12/27-30 | 37C3: Unlocked | First print run of 40 copies gone! |
| 2024/02/03-04 | O₄FFDEM | More books! |
| 2024/05/21-22 | Empodera Live | Some books! |
We’re looking forward to print more. If you could not get a copy at 37C3, but received a flyer instead, you can still order books with the reduction code until the end of the month of January 2024.
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| Version | ISBN | Files |
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| 978-2-931254-00-4 | synware-001-free-software-syndicates_v1.0.print.pdf (794.3 KB), synware-001-couv-recto.pdf (6.3 MB), synware-001-couv-verso.pdf (6.3 MB) | |
| screen | 978-2-931254-01-1 | synware-001-free-software-syndicates_v1.0.screen.pdf (1.2 MB) |
Sources
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
010 Editor’s preface
012 On software syndicalism
013 Abstract
015 Problem domain
019 Principles
025 Syndicalism
028 Opportunities
039 Challenges
046 A software syndicate, for whom?
048 Scavenging of free radicals
053 Polyglot technologies
062 Proximity transmission
076 Community
080 Supporting resistances
081 Dispelling the fog
084 Promoting mutual aid
087 Asserting ourselves together
090 Take me to your leader
108 What is at Stake with Interoperability
109 Consent & interoperability
110 Interoperability & interconnection
111 Interconnection & data portability
116 The threat to free software
116 An OFFDEM manifesto
123 The factory of technical violence
130 O4FFDEM Call for Presence
132 2-3 February 2024, Brussels
140 Post-truth Afterword
148 Countermeasures
Discussion
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