Preliminaries for a Primer

Imagine a primer, grammar or glossary that documents this evolving vocabulary, written collectively and kept in progress over time.

It seems as though there are certain key terms that are apt to arise again and again in our collective discussions.

What these terms probably all have in common is that they are
contested.

A wiki seems like a good site for the dialectical refinement of the definition of certain words that we are probably going to be saying a lot together.

Words like: community, public, history, space, local, landscape, archive, curation, use, nature, ecology, commons.

As a preliminary gesture I have flagged with those little red question marks all of the words in the text on the splash page that seem to me to be words of this kind.

Any reflections on these words, what valence they have for you, texts which you feel illuminate them, the names of books or films or artistic projects you have found useful, etc., would I expect be useful for all of us.

And I encourage other people who are interested to flag such words when they arise, using the nomenclature of double square brackets PrimerX double square brackets, where X = the word in question.