C& Center of Unfinished Business
Two scheduled activations and the reading room open by appointment
C& Center of Unfinished Business
29 October 2026
Join us at the OCA Library for two activations of C& Center of Unfinished Business with Piniel Demiss on 7 and 11 November!
The C& Center of Unfinished Business is a mobile reading room that offers an expansive and at times disconcerting selection of material connected to the topic of colonialism and its afterlives. In Oslo, this iteration titled "counter_programming" asks: how can hybrid libraries defy algorithmic logics of surveillance and classification? In a world increasingly mediated through technology, the reading room sets out to decode the entanglements between digitality, coloniality, indigeneity, and Blackness. Since 2017, the reading room has traveled to institutions around the world from Cincinnati to Hong Kong, via Berlin, Vienna, Toulouse, Athens, Kassel, and New York.
This iteration features a collection of books, vinyl records, card games, and C& Cyclopedia Station: a search tool and expansive digital knowledge platform mapping new epistemologies. It is curated by the C& Magazine editor-in-chief Ethel-Ruth Tawe.
Programme:
4. NOV & 11. NOV:
17:00 Introduction to the OCA Library and C& Center of Unfinished Business
17:30 Shared reading
18:30 Gaming & listening session
20:00 Library closes
Shared reading: a guided and collaborative gathering where you are invited to explore the C& Center of Unfinished Business and participate in a joint conversation.
Gaming & listening session: you are invited to listen to vinyls and play Warpmode; a conceptual card game and thought experiment created by artist Jazsalyn, with prompts that invite contemplations of Black Metatheories.
The OCA library and C& Center of Unfinished Business reading room are open by appointment outside these dates. Email library@oca.no
C& Center of Unfinished Business x OCA Resource List
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines
Reinforce Racism • Listening to Images
A Black Gaze • The Black Photo Album
African Fractals: Modern Computing and
Indigenous Design • The Invention of Africa:
Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of
Knowledge • Black Metal • Dark Matters:
On the Surveillance of Blackness • Digital
Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace • Passports
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic
Afro-modernity • Digital Democracy, Analogue
Politics: How the Internet Era Is
Transforming Kenya • Black Looks: Race and
Representation • Male Daughters, Female
Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African
Society • Science of the Dogon: Decoding the
African Mystery Tradition • Poetry Meets:
Togetherness – A Poetry Meets Anthology
Matter Mattering Matters: A Scienticity
Reader • Race After Technology: Abolitionist
Tools for the New Jim Code • Misogynoir
Transformed: Black Women’s Digital
Resistance • MAGNUMB • The Politics of Time:
Imagining African Becomings • The Sound of
Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Xenogenesis • Zong! • Cykofa: The Seeda
Origin Story • SWEET-THANG Issue 8: Dreaming
Imagination as Protocol: A Community
Technology Guide • Thinking from Black: A
Lexicon • Catalogue of Stolen Objects
C& Collectors Box • Black Meme • Glitch
Feminism • Cyberfeminism Index • World 3
On Lies, Secrets and Silence
