Navsuv | The Bi-Weekly Summary
| Published: August 24, 2025 |
What happens when books are the only currency of memory, when archives listen through echoes and silences, and when metadata wears a mask of resistance? New texts on literocentrism, sonic epistemologies, and semantic insurgencies, from the period 11 to 24 August 2025.
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Chronicles of a biblio-naturalist | The most recent post
Sonic Archives
| Silenced Knowledges and Memories in the Tropics (10) | Published: August 14, 2025 |
Sound is not just heard — it is remembered. In the tropics, every hum, call, and silence is part of an archive that refuses the page, demanding we listen on its own terms.
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Blog The Log of a Librarian | The most recent post
Libraries of Echoes, Archives of Silences
| The Taxonomy of Absence (10) | Published: August 19, 2025 |
What if libraries were not temples of silence but chambers of resonance? This is a story about echoes, memory, and the radical practice of listening.
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Critical notes | The most recent post
Trade and Control
| Dealing with Literocentrism (05 of 10) | Published: August 22, 2025 |
In the library, value is measured in pages. A book can be bought, bartered, or shelved — and so it counts. But a song, a silence, a gesture? They vanish at the door, not for lack of meaning, but for lack of currency. In a world where memory must be printed to exist, every gift that cannot be cataloged is refused.
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Key topics
Insurgent Epistemologies and Decolonialism
Displaced, denied, illegible ways of knowing. Produced and remembered by force. Thought from the South, from the margin, and from the undocumented cry. What doesn't fit in the archive. Memory that doesn't ask permission.
→ Read moreCritical Semantics and Library / Archive Composting
Composting "dead" libraries and archives so that something different can emerge from them: transforming rigid structures into living, dynamic systems capable of nurturing new forms of knowledge. Knowledge technologies serving other logics based on connectivity, decentralization, and respect for epistemological diversity. Unexpected connections, unsuspected weavings. Modeling the world without replicating its violence, building data architectures that acknowledge power, context, and resistance.
→ Read moreWeaving of Memories and Meanings to Produce New Knowledge
Weaving with memories, remnants, and gestures. Binding fragments to build something greater. Making objects, publications, and tools that carry memory inside. It's not about representation — it's about embodiment. Every form is also a form of knowing.
→ Read moreMargins, Epistemic Justice, and Othered Documents
Othered knowledges and memories. Documents that go unnamed. Orality, graffiti, basketry, ceramics, textiles, hairstyles, territory — archives without paper. The equality of knowledge systems. Ecologies of knowing, non-hegemonic epistemic networks. Working in the margins is how the center is made.
→ Read moreSounds and Silences
Musical instruments as archives. Soundscapes as libraries. Songs, noises, echoes, vibrations — ways of recording the unspeakable. And the silences that scream. Listening is also a way of archiving.
→ Read moreA territory under construction
This space is not a portfolio. It is not an academic site, a professional showcase, or a digital CV.
It is a woven landscape — uneven, layered, and sometimes opaque. Here, libraries, classification, silence, memory, and broken epistemologies intertwine — not as topics, but as tensions.
There is no clear structure. Some threads will vanish. Others will echo later. You are not expected to follow everything — only to listen.
Nothing here is optimized. Not for search engines. Not for clicks. Not for legibility. This is not where you scroll. This is where you stop.
My name's Edgardo Civallero. Welcome to my website.
[A central part of my current work—focused on researching, classifying, and documenting musical instruments as carriers of memory and epistemic devices—is gathered at Instrumentarium, a site I created and lead as Edgardo Civallero. There, I explore instruments as living documents, experiment with alternative taxonomies, and propose new ways of listening to and narrating the world.]
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