Table of Contents
↪ This website is the home of Performing Patents Otherwise. It is an archive, a website and an experimental electronic book that binds search, archive and writing in one publication. The landing page navigates the publication according to the conventions of a search engine, foregrounding search. The table of contents offers a way of navigating that foregrounds texts, which is more in line with the conventions of book making. The table of contents reveals a logic of zooming in, from the general search to more specific configurations of the relationships between search, content, ordering and sense-making.
### [Frontmatter](/frontmatter)
### [Introduction](/introduction)
### Search interferences
↪ Search interferences provide ways of searching that offer entry points to the patent archive that are otherwise obscured by the unspoken conventions of search engines.
- [A search engine](/)
- [A poetics of titles](/interferences/titles)
- [A handful of fragments](/interferences/fragments)
- [A scattering of images](/interferences/scattering)
- [A random entry](/interferences/random)
- [A juxtaposition of two](/interferences/juxtaposition)
- [Mapping the archive](/data)
### [Archive conversations](/conversations)
↪ Archival conversations enter into conversation with the materiality of the patents bringing aspects of the archive to the fore that computational search cannot capture.
- [Sewing the Archive](/conversations/sewing-the-archive "links to conversations section Sewing the Archive")
- [I, Martha Gowans](/conversations/i-martha-gowans "links to conversations section I, Martha Gowans")
- [Caribbean Quilt](/conversations/caribbean-quilt "links to conversations section Caribbean Quilt")
- [Women on the Move](/conversations/women-on-the-move "links to conversations section Women on the Move")
### [Making of](/making)
↪ Reflections from the makers of Performing Patents Otherwise.
- [Making Of—A Collective Interview](/making/interview "links to making-of section A Collective Interview")
- [On Combining Databases and Books](/making/database-book "links to making-of section On Combining Databases and Books")
- [Interfacing Data](/making/interface "links to making-of section Interfacing Data")