In her keynote, Gabriela Méndez Cota introduces Ecological Re-writing as Desappropriation, the first experimental book coming out of COPIM's Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers Pilot Case. She suggests to understand the re-writing of books published under an open licence as a way to question academic writing as an institution (Illich, 1993) including notions of individual authorship, objectivity, creativity, and authority.
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