Constant in MARCH journal

MARCH invited Constant to publish a series of 6 articles from January 2022 till June 2022 in the context of the journal’s first long term inquiry Publishing As Protocol, which aims to explore the relationship between self-organizational models and technological sovereignty.

Publishing As Protocol complicates the dual implications of the word ‘protocol’ by purposefully conflating its meanings 1) as the ​accepted or established code of procedure or behaviour in any group, organization, or situation, and 2) as a set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between computing devices; in order to consider both definitions equally as protocol that can be not only read and activated, but also written and rewritten.

MARCH is a journal of art & strategy that embraces publishing as an act of protest to address the critical social and political issues of our time.


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