Author(s): Various Authors

Publisher: Everyday Technology Press

Published: 2021

Pages: 112

What is the role of the vernacular in language and technology?

Vernaculars come to matter brings together a range of stories and practices that address this question. It is made in the context of the project VLTK, a Vernacular Language Toolkit in the making. In this publication, the vernacular appears in the counterdictionairies and formatterings of language; as a plurivocal remix bringing together recycled skills, diskarte practices, and humble templates; at eye level in the reverse diasporic circulation of Dutch-Turkish street photography; as an ongoing struggle with bureaucratic rigidity while transitioning gender or name; as a way to navigate the Leftove.rs archive of MayDay Rooms, where the ephemera of radical, anti-oppressive, and working class movements requires a very particular attention; or in the attitudes of photo editing software, such as ImageMagick, manifested as software culture. Vernaculars come to matter is edited by Cristina Cochior, Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Manetta Berends with contributions from Clara Balaguer, Cengiz Mengüç, Ren Loren Britton, Rosemary Grennan, Michael Murtaugh.

The book is available for 13 euros and can be found in Varia.

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This publication was made possible with the kind support of the Creative Industries Fund NL.

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