Critical notes

Not everything fits neatly into categories. This space is a crossroads where knowledge, power, and memory intersect — a place to unravel the broader tensions between information, politics, society, and culture.

From knowledge suppression to digital dystopias, from Epistemologies of the South to the future of archives, this is a space for reflections that resist easy classification.

Here, ideas collide. Assumptions are challenged. And the role of knowledge in shaping our world is put to the test.

Last published posts

Series Dealing with Literocentrism

Reading is queen. Writing is law. And the book —printed, bound, and cited— is still the sacred object at the center of most library systems. This series explores how libraries have become strongholds of literocentrism: institutions that privilege the written word above all other forms of knowledge. From cataloging standards and acquisition models to programming and metadata structures, libraries continue to marginalize or erase oralities, embodiments, and other non-literate epistemologies. By interrogating everything from the fetish of the book to the shame of illiteracy, these critical notes unravel the deep biases embedded in the architecture of librarianship. What if the library wasn't built around reading? What if memory didn't have to be written to count?

Keywords: Literocentrism | Critical librarianship | Oral memory | Sonic archives | Citation politics | Metadata bias | Anti-book fetishism | Embodied knowledge | Epistemic exclusion

  Dealing with Literocentrism (01 of 10) | Reading Is Queen [read] [LinkedIn]

Series Leaving Green Libraries Behind

Libraries have embraced the sustainability discourse enthusiastically, but how transformative are these initiatives? This set of critical notes explores how the concept of "green libraries" has been co-opted by eco-marketing strategies and greenwashing, diverting attention from the systemic changes the world urgently needs. From "sustainable" architecture and carbon offsetting to degrowth and minimalism, these notes challenge the superficiality of current solutions and propose radical alternatives that question the logic of perpetual growth and the commodification of environmental consciousness.

Keywords: Green libraries | Critical librarianship | Greenwashing | Degrowth | Critical sustainability | Ecological justice | Environmental colonialism

  Leaving Behind... (10 of 10) | Regenerative libraries [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (09 of 10) | Ecological justice [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (08 of 10) | Biomimicry [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (07 of 10) | Upcycling [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (06 of 10) | Minimalism [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (05 of 10) | Degrowth [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (04 of 10) | Token Sustainability [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (03 of 10) | Carbon Offsetting [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (02 of 10) | Architecture and Infrastructure [read] [LinkedIn]

  Leaving Behind... (01 of 10) | Greenwashing [read] [LinkedIn]

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