Pierre (22.01): Your point about performativity and speech-acts-ish makes me think of programming languages being the only languages that execute (i.e. actually do what they say they do). Are there any examples of manifestoes that can be executed? That exist as software? Mateus's point about RFCs might be an example of it (is the RFC about DRM/Encrypted Media Extension an executable manifesto about intellectual property?). There are also video games that can act as manifestoes (e.g. https://www.molleindustria.org/)
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In 2022 I was part of a group of artists, technologists and theorists which made a dataset of xenoimages. This dataset was not functional, but a form of speculative/fictional design, and it was accompanied by a manifesto that we all wrote together. Once written, we decided to dramatise its reading in a presentation event. Your text made me wonder: why do we automatically dramatise reading? Apparently, in our imaginary as artists, that is the only option. You can watch the video of the event here. This is the manifesto in English. And the web which is in Spanish for the moment.
In relation to the theatricality of the manifesto, the dramatised readings of Paul B Preciado's book "Y soy el monstruo que os habla: Informe para una academia de psicoanalistas" [I am the Monster that speaks to you: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts]. I do not think he is calling this text "a manifesto", but it could be considered as such. As well as one more example of the need to bring Manifesto to the theatre space.
I wonder if the protocological structure of the internet feeds into the active, toolkit manifestos you've referenced. The internet standards emerge from RFC (request for comment) documents that are mostly quite dry and necessarily technical, but can often read a bit like manifestos (some are titled as manifestos). RFC1 RFC history page--Mateus (talk) 17:12, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
I love that you included Sadgrl's manifesto, I did a lot of work with her for my master's thesis on alternative online spaces, and I think perhaps we have a link here that we could explore further in the workshop? (Kendal)