A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints by Ruby Justice Thelot & Irrelevant Press
“This book is an homage to the innumerable efforts at staving off the ineluctable demise of all digital memories. Specifically, this book focused on Checkpoints, an emergent behavior which occurred in the comment section of a YouTube video from 2012 to 2021. There, the users, when algorithmically recommend the video, would write a “checkpoint,” a personal life update.
This book contains a curated collection of 99 Checkpoints, along with two essays and an interview with Rebane2001, the user who archived the video before its unfortunate deletion by YouTube.
Remember: memory is a radical act.” - Ruby Justice Thelot & Irrelevant Press
9” x 5.5” x 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
“This book is an homage to the innumerable efforts at staving off the ineluctable demise of all digital memories. Specifically, this book focused on Checkpoints, an emergent behavior which occurred in the comment section of a YouTube video from 2012 to 2021. There, the users, when algorithmically recommend the video, would write a “checkpoint,” a personal life update.
This book contains a curated collection of 99 Checkpoints, along with two essays and an interview with Rebane2001, the user who archived the video before its unfortunate deletion by YouTube.
Remember: memory is a radical act.” - Ruby Justice Thelot & Irrelevant Press
9” x 5.5” x 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
“This book is an homage to the innumerable efforts at staving off the ineluctable demise of all digital memories. Specifically, this book focused on Checkpoints, an emergent behavior which occurred in the comment section of a YouTube video from 2012 to 2021. There, the users, when algorithmically recommend the video, would write a “checkpoint,” a personal life update.
This book contains a curated collection of 99 Checkpoints, along with two essays and an interview with Rebane2001, the user who archived the video before its unfortunate deletion by YouTube.
Remember: memory is a radical act.” - Ruby Justice Thelot & Irrelevant Press
9” x 5.5” x 0.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Ruby Thelot (he/him) is an artist, cyberethnographer and designed based in New York. He is an adjunct professor of Design and Media Theory at NYU. He is the author of “Stonemilker” (Nueoi Press, 2022). His writing has been published in magazines, academic and literary journals internationally.
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Irrelevant Press is a zine collective and internet shop creating, printing, publishing, and distributing zines and art of all sorts in Oakland, Brooklyn, and on the world wide web. Their own work centers around the internet and online culture, but they print, product, and distribute work of other artists that range from educational resources to photography.
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