Navsuv | The Bi-Weekly Summary
| Published: September 7, 2025 |
What happens when RDF becomes a battleground, when libraries abandon growth for sufficiency, and when catalogues expose their literocentric skeletons? New texts on guerrilla metadata, degrowth infrastructures, and exclusionary cataloging, from the period 25 August to 7 September 2025.
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Chronicles of a biblio-naturalist | The most recent post
Future Spaces
| Silenced Knowledges and Memories in the Tropics (11) | Published: August 28, 2025 |
Libraries and archives are more than shelves and vaults — they are terrains of struggle. They can become regenerative infrastructures, weaving ecological memory, climate justice, and political agency into the very fabric of survival.
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Blog The Log of a Librarian | The most recent post
From Growth to Degrowth
| Metadata as Revolt (11) | Published: September 2, 2025 |
What if libraries were not monuments of endless growth but laboratories of sufficiency? This is a reflection on degrowth, repair, and the fragile ecologies of memory.
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Critical notes | The most recent post
Metadata for the Written Word
| Dealing with Literocentrism (06 of 10) | Published: September 05, 2025 |
Metadata is praised as a neutral scaffold, yet it is built for books alone. What cannot be paged, published, or printed —voices, dances, silences— is flattened into surrogates or erased outright. When cataloging speaks only in the language of literacy, entire worlds of memory are made invisible.
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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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