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<big><big><big><big><big><big><tt><span style="font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: 300;">Hola Tod@s,<br>
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The Transborder Immigrant Tool code is an
open-sourced gesture and the code was released in
2010 during the U.S.Congressional investigation of
TBT as a "traitorous" gesture against the nation,
and code was also made available on
Brett Stalbaum’s site
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.walkingtools.net/?page_id=12">http://www.walkingtools.net/?page_id=12</a>), that
allows anyone anywhere who wants to assemble TBT
codes to meet the conditions of an giving situation.
We imagine the code to switch
the question of the border to its possible use in
other
borders around the world and the possibilities of
other
global poetic systems to emerge. We also imagine
that the safety tool aspect of the code is a
queering of
poetry, that the effective code is poetry as well.
TBT is not a locative media project but a
dislocative media
performance.
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You can also find the code-a-poetry and poetry-as-code
in the recent publication here:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pactac.net/ctheory-books/blueshift-series/the-transborder-immigrant-toolla-herramienta-transfronteriza-para-inmigrantes/">http://pactac.net/ctheory-books/blueshift-series/the-transborder-immigrant-toolla-herramienta-transfronteriza-para-inmigrantes/</a><br>
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So anyone of you or your collectives or communities
could develop your version based the situations and
lands you want to<br>
navigate or have other navigate.<br>
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Very best,<br>
Ricardo<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/16/16 3:39 PM, Johannes Birringer
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My question yesterday actually was for Ricardo, and his idea of the "taking back gesture" -
and I inquired about what the preface meant by 'networked existence' and how/whether the transborder tool worked for migrants/asylum seekers/refugees coming across
borders,seas, rivers, and getting stranded in deserts. </pre>
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