Cozy-Intentions

This page brings together the cozy intentions for the cozy-cloud.net. This is to give an understanding of how and why this crip server came to be and to share some of the desires we have when making an affirmative digital space that orients from disabled people, affirming politics and embodied expertise.

These intentions take the format of image and alt text pairs, each pair offering up their own thread to be followed, weaving together a story that figures out the cozy-cloud. In a crip move, these intentions entangle together the affective sense making and their knowledges, within political and relational imaginaries that aim to transform the capacities and imaginaries of sociotechnical infrastructures.

Working poetically with Alt texts these intentions emphasis how access practices have the capacity to be joyful, fun and cozy, not the determinate awkward and painful tasks they are often made out to be.

These intentions ask: If we as disabled x neurodiverse x chronically ill people have the capacity to shape digital infrastructure and the ways our communities meet online from our backgrounds and embodied expertise, what could that be and feel like?

Let's Get Cozy

Furry text saying "Let's Get Cozy", welcomes you to get cozy! This is an enthusiastic and loving message reminding you to get cozy in what ever way you are able to. Many times (not always) when we can't get cozy,our experience it is telling us that something might be wrong systemically. This text asks us to think, what would enable me to get cozy? What relations would have to change for us to actually be cozy? By trying to get cozy we start to make these transformations, so settle in and lets get cozy.

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Furry text saying "Let's Get Cozy", welcomes you to get cozy! This is an enthusiastic and loving message reminding you to get cozy in which ever way you desire to.

Many times (not always) when we can't get cozy, our sense making of misfitting here is telling us that something might be wrong systemically. This text asks us to think, what would make room for me to get cozy? What relations would have to change for me to actually be cozy? By trying to get cozy you start to make these transformations, so settle in and lets get cozy.

A Cozy Looking Cloud

A cloud sits unsure on a day with mixed weather. It feels sensitive to the gusts and gales of bigger clouds and so searches for a sheltered valley to get cozy and come back to earth. It asks us to think about how we feel in the cloud. When we are using cloud enabled devices, like streaming, cloud drives or social platforms do we feel a connection to what it is we are doing? What would it feel like to be in touch and get cozy with our digital infrastructures.

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A cloud sits unsure on a day with mixed weather. It feels sensitive to the gusts and gales of bigger clouds and so searches for a sheltered valley to get cozy and come back to earth.

It asks us to think about how we feel in the cloud. When we are using cloud enabled devices, like streaming, cloud drives or social platforms do we feel a connection to what it is we are doing? What would it feel like to be in touch and get cozy with our digital infrastructures.

Less Cloud More Cozy

The cozy-cloud sits within a ring of furry and cozy text saying "Less Cloud - More Cozy". It feels warmth in knowing its energies are conserved for doing cozy things and not being a part of deadly storms elsewhere. It asks us to think about less dispersion of our digital selves into a commercial cloud that displaces the harms of digital infrastructures out of reach. How can you settle in, keep ourselves close and feel out how cozy our clouds could be?

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The cozy-cloud sits within a ring of furry and cozy text saying "Less Cloud - More Cozy". It feels warmth in knowing its energies are conserved for doing cozy things and not being a part of deadly storms elsewhere.

It asks us to think about less dispersion of our digital selves into a commercial cloud that displaces the harms of digital infrastructures out of reach. How can we settle in, keep ourselves close and feel out how cozy our clouds could be?

Cloud is finite :( Coziness can be infinite

Slightly clumsy but cute furry text says "Clouds are finite :( Coziness can be infinite!". It sits slightly slumped to one side, exhausted with keeping up with the continuous expansion. It helps us to reflect on the limitations of computing and cloud infrastructures, the consumption of fossil fuels, rare minerals and people's labour to try to maintain the unmaintainable infinite growth. What if we centre our clouds on other infinities of care, compassion and coziness? What would network infrastructures feel like and have the capacity for through these more intimate modes?

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Slightly clumsy but cute furry text says "Clouds are finite :( Coziness can be infinite!". It sits slightly slumped to one side, exhausted with keeping up with the continuous expansion.

It helps us to reflect on the limitations of computing and cloud infrastructures, the consumption of fossil fuels, rare minerals and people's labor to try to maintain the unmaintainable infinite growth. What if we center our clouds on other infinities of care, compassion and coziness? What would network infrastructures feel like and have the capacity for through these more intimate modes?

Transform networks of control 2 constellations of care

A map of arpnet, an early computer network infrastructure produced by the us gov/army is transformed into a cozy-constellation. This transformation resembles the way digital networks have a history of control of space (both physical and virtual) through force and how we have to transform them with care and coziness. It asks us how we could imagine networks in retreat from these histories of mapping, taxonomy and capture to instead feel out what their affirmative promise could be.

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A map of arpnet, an early computer network produced by the us gov/army is transformed into a cozy-constellation. This transformation resembles the way digital networks have a history of control of space (both physical and virtual) through force and how we have to transform them with care and coziness.

It asks us how we could imagine networks in retreat from these histories of mapping, taxonomy and capture to instead feel out what their affirmative promise could be when embracing coziness.

This is a cloud

A png of a cloud with transparent background so that it appears comfortable and confident wherever it is displayed. The cloud presents so light and pretty floating on the page, but still on the edge of creating a little drizzle. The image itself is on a free license so is free like a cloud! It reminds us what a cloud looks like and what it has capacity for. The computational infrastructures that make up the commercial cloud could never be so light nor caring to our ecology and body/minds. What metaphors or analogies do you desire our network infrastructures to be performed through? How would you transform and shape them by putting these infrastructure in your own terms.

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A png of a cloud with transparent background so that it appears comfortable and confident wherever it is displayed. The cloud presents so light and pretty floating on the page, but still on the edge of creating a little drizzle. The image itself is on a free license so is free like a cloud!

It reminds us what a cloud looks like and what it has capacity for. The computational infrastructures that make up the commercial cloud could never be so light nor caring to our ecology and body/minds. What metaphors or analogies do you desire our network infrastructures to be performed through? How would you transform and shape them by putting these infrastructure in your own terms.

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