How can we think about acts of recovery, re-publishing and making documents accessible as artistic gestures? What happens when documents that have already been published are made public again? For Hate Library, an installation presented at transmediale 2018, Nick Thurston took publicly available social media and web forum discussions between members of far-right groups from around Europe and transferred them in to a public space of exhibition. With reference to Harun Farocki's political film tradition, Lisa Gitelman's sociology of documents, Eyal Weizman's forensic aesthetic, methods of file sharing and leaking, and his own practice, Thurston examines how documents can become matters of public concern through their "social life"—through re-publishing, sharing, and discussing them.