performing_patents_otherwise/web/content/TOC.md

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Table of Content

<span class="code">↪ This website is the home of “Performing Patterns 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 content offers a way of navigating that foregrounds texts, which is more in line with the conventions of book making. The  table of content reveals a logic of zooming in, from the general search to more specific configurations of the relationships between search, content, ordering and sense-making.</span>

Frontmatter

<span class="code">↪ add intro text to frontmatter here...</span>

Introduction

<span class="code">↪ add intro text to foreword here...</span>

Section 1: Archive Interventions

<span class="code">↪ Interventions are a mode of search, they disrupt ordering and invite unexpected readings....</span>

• A search engine
• A poetics of titles
• A handful of fragments
• A scattering of images
• A random entry
• A juxtaposition of two
• Mapping the archive

Section 2: Hidden in plain sight

<span class="code">↪ Searching for a history of women’s clothing inventors, that is in the archive, but hidden in plain sight....</span>

• Expanding citizens
• Active citizens
• Secret citizens
• Pissing & leaking citizens
• Working citizens
• Resourceful citizens

Section 3: Archive conversations

<span class="code">↪ Some things are all over the patent archive but never made explicit. Off the record presents four artistic works that render these absent-present realities visible...</span>

• Sewing the archive
• I Martha Gowans
• Caribbean Quilt
• Women On The Move

Section 4: Making of

<span class="code">↪ A series of essays from the makers on the research, methods, tools developed...</span>

• Making of—a collective interview
• On making the search-engine book
• A note on interface design