March International :Tools for Radical Study: A Collection of Manuals: KUNCI Study Forum and Collective

Why do tools become the locus of conversation? Reader of this publication may wonder. At least for those of us who reside amid the proliferation of collective practices in the Global South, this is particularly significant. Talking about and sharing tools means talking about and performing the redistribution of power-a power that is more likely derived through the process of knowledge accumulation Talking about tools also means talking about things one finds in places like public kitchens, village meeting halls, slaughterhouse, and residential gardens-places where theory and its methods are rarely found, whether on the ground or in quotidian conversation. We treat KUNCI's editorial role in this publication as an opportunity to network and cross reference our educational initiative, the School of Improper Education, with other initiatives and their publics. We understand cross-referencing as a framework to provide a grounded understanding of local study contexts while also engaging in the mobility and connection of people ideas, tools, and institutions that, in turn, multiply the frame of references in each implicated study practice. Inhabiting the space of sharing and collectively, this multiplication creates a commons-based production of knowledge rather than a centralized accumulation of intellectual property. All contributors to this publication offer alternative forms of learning that are fundamentally practiced as a mode of sharing and nurturing alternative publics or counterpublics.