# letter to campo sud summer camp participants

Dear participants,

we are looking forward to meeting you soon and working together on our collective experimental publication during the Campo Sud Summer Camp.

After roughly two years of collective work on the Pirate Care Syllabus behind us, we feel confident we have learned something about a collective writing processes. During that process we were playing with methodology, pedagogy and eventually software development. As a result we have developed a platform for experimental publishing *Sandpoints*.

We are very excited to go through that process, though in much shorter time, again with you in person next week.

The whole program looks fantastic and we are honored and priviliged to be part of it and to be in a position to propose a process on which we will work together.

We are, at the same time, aware that the our time together is limited, in an ambient which is so unique and inspiring in both the nature and the people surrounding us. We hope that our proposal will resonate with you in a such a way that it won't feel too productivist to compete with the visits to the beach or out of place after something amazing you have heard in a lecture or discussion late night before our sessions.

Let us reveal our little secret here: documenting any of those **highlights** of the night before is _actually_ what we expect from you :)

The structure of the experimental publication we will work on has few constraints which allows us to have hybrid project which, at any given moment of our development, can be printed out into well paginated PDF, work as a web site both accesible from a server or from a simple USB stick (with no need to install anything other than a regular web browser).

We expect that every day each of us comes up with a **highlight** or two and add it to the Sandpoints. **Highlight** could be a highlighted snippet from Gramsci's Prison notebooks (or any other book/publication we find interesting). It could be a quote from the lecture we have heard the day before or in an informal conversation with our comrades. It could be a digital photo/scan, an audio file, or simply any distinctive/descrete unit in our universe able to leave its digital trace.

Every day a couple among us will take up on themselves an editorial role and write a **reflection** (or two) on few selected **highlights** already captured in Sandpoints.

In the last phase of our work together, a day before our presentation, we will have time to get back to our **reflections**, give them a proper care to polish them up and then decide if the **reflections** we have written would make a good **spectrum** or **spectre** of reflections, or if they will transcend into something completly different deserving the new name we don't know in advance.

We believe that authorship as a concept, especially understood in terms of single individual author, doesn't do good in the world. Many would agree with us. And then offer as a quick fix adding a "co-" in front, making co-authorship a thing. We don't believe that that problem can be fixed as easily as that. We believe that collective process of production of knowledge need, at least for a start, more awareness and recognition of others, of other forms of labor and other roles.

In our collective endevour next week we want to play with a highlighter or marker, editor or reflector, writer, lector, avid reader, Mediterranean complainer, artist and, last but not least, an amateur librarian.

We are amateur librarians for the "Memory of the World" shadow library for more than 10 years now and we have managed to aggregate across our library catalogs more than 150000 books. So, few were surprised that we created a very tight integration between Sandpoints and their dedicated library catalogs.

We imagined our Campo Sud library catalog as a bookshelf we would like to sit next to when we find ourselves in a need of a moment to reflect on what is going on with us during our time on Sardinia.

We felt that it shouldn't be too hard for every one of us to propose a few titles to be placed on that virtual bookshelf before we meet, and one or two every day of our workshop.

Here are few of our proposals sorted after an embarrassing, lazy, free association stream:
* On the Frontlines of Fear Migration and Climate Change in the Local Context of Sardinia, Italy - Giovanni Bettini, Nicholas Beuret, Ethemcan Turhan[^sardinia]
* Some Aspects of the Southern Question - Antonio Gramsci[^gramsci]
* Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene - Stefania Barca
* Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud[^comics]
* Control and Freedom - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun[^freetrol]

If you need an inspiration please try any of these shadow libraries:
* https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/
* https://b-ok.global/
* https://monoskop.org/
* https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
* http://aaaaarg.fail/

Best,
Valeria, Tomi and Marcell

[^comics]: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/f8999246-09b1-41a1-aeff-3199f95cad21
[^freetrol]: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/eaa89d17-18a4-4abc-84ed-e0268a0c48f9
[^sardinia]: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/82d7017d-49f3-4692-882d-48309149bcb2
[^gramsci]: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/20232520-9682-4f7f-8c07-0ae9fe75e441