a-library
A-Library is a prototype, an offline digital library that exists on a modem-like piece of hardware. When someone joins this WIFI network, rather than connecting to the internet, they are directed to the a-library catalogue where texts can be uploaded or downloaded freely by anyone.
In other words:
a-library is simply that a library. Or more specifically, it is an offline digital library; a localised wifi network that hosts a free and open collection of documents. a-library was developed as a way for us to easily share books and articles with each other, and in the process to collectively develop a local archive of all the publications that are meaningful to us. By us, I mean you and I. even if we have not personally met, we have shared this location, and these texts are now between us.
a-library is open source, if you want setup your own or contribute to the project - checkout the code of github. It has previously existed at the ANU Gallery in Canberra, Physics Room in New Zealand, and will exist temporarily at SUCCESS in Perth throughout September.
The current catalogue:
Visit frontyard to access these titles, (or add your own texts to the library).
- Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf (epub)
- Sean Dockray, The Scan and the Export (pdf)
- Simon Worthington, Book to the Future (pdf)
- Stephanie Rosenthal (editor), 20th Biennale of Sydney Catalogue (pdf)
- James Stuart (editor), The Material Poem (pdf)
- Henry Warwick, Radical Tactics of the Offline Library (pdf)
- Elena Gomez, A Glazed Window W/Fat Borders//[Taut & Discoloured] (pdf)
- Jodi Dean, Sean Dockray, Alessandro Ludovico, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Nicholas Thoburn, Dmitry Vilensky, Materialities of Independent Publishing: A Conversation with aaaaarg, Chto delat?, I Cite, Mute, and Neural (pdf)
- Auto Italia South East, Mark Fisher, David Hilmer Rex, Marina Vishmidt, AAAAARG, Book Bloc, Deterritorial Support Group, We Have Our Own Concept of Time and Motion (pdf)
- Anna-Sophie Springer (editor), EX LIBRIS Commonplace Books (pdf)
- Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (pdf)
- Anne Carson, Economy, Its Fragrance (pdf)
- Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (pdf)
- Keller Easterling, Untitled (pdf)
- Aodhan Madden, Lapping the horizon (pdf)
- a.j. carruthers, The Agnes Martin Catalogue (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Where is the online education space for learning for its own sake? (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Interface Access Loss (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Openings and Closings - on education, publishing, and the military (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Vivian Ziherl, The Future and The Public School (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Matteo Pasquinelli, Jason Smith, Caleb Waldorf, There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Programs and Platforms (unpublished) (pdf)
- Sean Dockray, Search for New Forms (pdf)
- Anne Carson, Red Doc> (pdf)
- Bruce Wagner, On William Eggleston (pdf)
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (pdf)
- Brainlina (editor), Chantal Mouffe Reader (pdf)
- Frances Stark, The Architect and The Housewife: on Michael Lin (pdf)
- Chris Kraus, Sylvère Lotringer (editors), Hatred of Capitalism (pdf)
- Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland (first chapter: Iceland) (pdf)
- Kathy Acker, All Girls Together (pdf)
- Alexis Wright, Swan Book (pdf)
- Mira Mattar (editor), You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media on the Work of Chris Kraus (pdf)
- Vandana Shiva, Seed Freedom - What is at Stake (pdf)
- Laura Julier, Kathleen Livingston, * On Readers, Triggers, Access, and Accountability* (pdf)
- Beth Caird, Glossary of Words I Have Come To Know While Grieving Inside The Industrial Death Complex (pdf)
- Beth Caird, Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (pdf)
- Beth Caird, Natasha Madden Interview (pdf)
- Beth Caird, Interview with Patrick Staff (pdf)
- Beth Caird, TCB Gallery Text (pdf)
- Beth Caird, Scout’s Field Guide to Resuscitating an Other (Who Has Died) (pdf)
- Astrid Lorange, Eating and Speaking (pdf)
- Astrid Lorange, Pussy pussy pussy what what or Au lait day Au lait day (pdf)
- Astrid Lorange, How Reading is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein (pdf)
- Astrid Lorange, Pathetic Tower (pdf)
- Astrid Lorange, Minor Dogs (pdf)
- Astrid Lorange, 64, Headquarters, cornerist, accountant, and entrepreneur. (pdf)
- Benjamin Forster, Canons Illustrated (epub)
- Benjamin Forster, Crime / Thrillers (epub)
- Benjamin Forster, Romances (epub)
- Benjamin Forster, Sci Fi / Fantasies (epub)
- Benjamin Forster, Writing Written: Glamour of Grammar (epub)
- Benjamin Forster, Death and the Compass (pdf)
- Benjamin Forster (editor), MAC LOW (pdf)
- Angela Goh, Benjamin Forster, Rhiannon Newton, * Outcomes* (pdf)
- Benjamin Forster, Three Points (pdf)
- Vivienne Binns, Ian Milliss, Sydney Biennale: White Elephant or Red Herring (pdf)
- LIES Collective (editors), LIES (Vol. 1) (pdf)
- LIES Collective (editors), LIES (Vol. 2) (pdf)
- Aurelia Guo, Home Intruder Edition (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Subtext (How to do things with words) (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Aa Sample (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Black Birds (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Concrete (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Either Or (pdf)
- peter O’Mara, Holding Cloud (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Starvation of the Everyday (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, The (pdf)
- Peter O’Mara, Unladen Swallow (pdf)
- KK+JLD, Dimensions Booklet (pdf)
- KK+JLD, Going to Sleep in a City that Doesn’t Exist Yet (pdf)
- KK+JLD, Hurts Lots Booklet (pdf)
- KK+JLD, Samples (Warm Ups) (pdf)
- Kailana Sommer, Billy Tang, WeChat: spaces, histories, production, artists, nowness, Beijing and Australia. (pdf)
- Kailana Sommer, Fuzzy Logic (pdf)
- KK+JLD, Resisting plinths / Accommodation plinths (pdf)
- KK+JLD, Doh la, mm goi (到了, 唔該) or Here is good, Thanks (pdf)
- Kailana Sommer, Another Attempt ~ (pdf)
- Kailana Sommer, Now and the Beginning (pdf)
- KK+JLD, I Think: Christmas (pdf)
- Nicci Haynes, Time: cancelled (pdf)
- Samuel Beckett, Molloy (sucking stones excerpt) (pdf)
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (pdf)
- Charles Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements (pdf)
- Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (pdf)
- Karl Marx , Capital Vol 1 (pdf)
- Karl Marx, Capital Vol 2 (pdf)
- Karl Marx, Capital Vol 3 (pdf)
- Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (pdf)
- Giorgio Agamben , HomoSacer (pdf)
- Phillip K. Dick , Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (pdf)
- Brian W. Aldiss , Starship (pdf)
- Thierry de Duve, Joseph Beuys, or The Last of the Proletarians (pdf)
- Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias (pdf)
- Gail Rubin, Thinking Sex (pdf)
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (pdf)
- Ante Engel, Non-Normative Sexualities (pdf)
- Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant Garde (pdf)
- Michel Foucault , Discipline and Punish - The Birth of the Prison (pdf)
- Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (pdf)