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    Infrastructures of Autonomy on the Professional Frontier: ‘Art and the Boycott of/as Art'
    Butt, D ; O'Reilly, R (The Journal Press, 2017)
    Rachel O’Reilly and Danny Butt discuss an artistic refusal (boycott) to provide meaning for the service of the extractive and incarceration industries who sponsored the Biennial of Sydney.
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    Colonial Hospitality: Rethinking Curatorial and Artistic Responsibility
    BUTT, D ; Local Time, (Society for Artistic Research, 2016-05-06)
    The recent enthusiasm for gestures of hospitality in contemporary art promises relief from the individualising forces of neoliberal capitalism and the professionalised hierarchies of the art world. Yet, Jacques Derrida describes the gesture of hospitality as paradoxically asserting a kind of sovereignty that underwrites the 'right to host', returning hospitality to the conditionality of the authorising institution. In settler-colonial territories, these institutionally underwritten gestures always sit uneasily atop indigenous sovereignties that have not been ceded, requiring the positive gestures of hospitality to remain open to their structuring fissures. This paper considers figurations of hospitality and responsibility in works by Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Raqs Media Collective in reading the art collective Local Time’s research-driven practice that seeks to reconcile indigenous self-determination and settler gestures of hospitality.
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    New International Information Order (NIIO) Revisited: Global Algorithmic Governance and Neocolonialism.
    Butt, D (Fibreculture Publications, 2015-10-31)
    The field of Internet governance has been dominated by Euro-American actors and has largely resisted consideration of a holistic and integrative rights-based agenda, confining itself to narrow discussions on the technical stability of Internet Protocol resources and debates about nation-state involvement in multistakeholder governance of those resources. In light of the work of Edward Snowden documenting the close relationship between government security agencies and dominant social media platforms, this paper revisits the relevance of the New International Information Order (NIIO), a conceptualisation of the global politics of information described at the 1973 Fourth Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement of nations in Algiers. This paper argues that critical analysis of the oligopolistic structure of “platforms” and their algorithmic forms of governance can build a more inclusive movement toward social justice by extending the NIIO framework’s emphasis on decolonisation, collective ownership of strategic information resources, and documentation of powerful transnational entities.