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categories:
- Grad
- Writing
date: 16/05/2022
description: Spiritual consultation for writing the thesis
slug: graduation-divination
title: Graduation Divination
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This is a list of things that could sprout slowly toward the next year. For the bachelor I struggled a lot to choose a specific topic: deciding on something is really difficult when everything is so entangled. To approach next year in a different way maybe could be helpful to keep track of some ideas and try to understand why they trigger me.
BTW at the moment it's just a list of things that come to mind while playing basketball.
### How to deal with complexity
- complex systems and ways to access complexity.
- different form of intelligence: the word, the body, the emotion.
- how do these different kinds of _making sense of the world_ inhabit complexity?
- relations between complex systems and their context
- tools to access complexity, tools to interface complexity
- coding as a form of care instead of control
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### Tools to access, make meaning and gain agency over complexity
- critical tooling
- community software
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- Site specific software
- software for trigger dynamics in communities
- Creating rituals/dynamics within a specific topic
- Systems that helps make meaning together
- How system and software are offered, introduced and presented to a community
- How to model software and tool around and within specific contexts
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### Community software
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- [Lee Felsenstein](https://www.artistsandhackers.org/Community-Memory) & [Community Memory](https://computerhistory.org/blog/community-memory-precedents-in-social-media-and-movements/)
- [The Mother of All Demos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY)
- [The Software Arts](https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/book/625)
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- The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (2013)
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006)
- Radical Software
- Videobase and Jean Rouch (especially Chronique d'un été) and the video to create community are example of rituals informed by technology? ????
- The three SI as case studies. Try to formulate them in terms of critical tooling - community software - site specific software
- [Eventual Consistency](https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency), the case of [Y.js and Joseph Gentle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5XgnQ6rB4)
- How tools and communities shape each other
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### Tool to think with
- "The crisis can be solved only if we learn to invert the present deep structure of tools; if we give people tools that guarantee their right to work with high, independent efficiency, thus simultaneously eliminating the need for either slaves or masters and enhancing each persons range of freedom. _People need new tool to work with rather than tools that “work" for them._"
Industrialization and Conviviality (Ivan Illich)
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- Tool to work with / tool to think with
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- [On misconvenience - Silvio Lorusso @workshoppino xpub](https://pad.riseup.net/p/on-misconvenience-xpub-keep)
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- The Piet ? What's the difference between sharing the tools developed in the context of xpub (si16, si17, xbranch, soup aggregator, karaoke, aggregator, wiki api etc) & propose a collab tailored on the need of the piet ? (both things can cohexist)
### Documentation as a surface
- How tools are offered to a community through documentation
- Dig more into this idea of _offering_ - what does it mean?
- Documentation as an interface to complexity ? A way to navigate the unwkown
- [The documentation system](https://documentation.divio.com/)
- Soft software (just a nice name)
- Ways of sharing knowledge
- Documentation as a platform?
- What should be fixed and what should be flexible in a documentation ?
- How to take care of a documentation system ?
- Possible topic of research for applying to the server residency at [avantwhatever.net/](https://avantwhatever.net/)
- Knowledge system vs screening of dataset - [Ron Morrison - Decoding space: Liquid infrastructures](https://vimeo.com/showcase/5551892/video/306993793)
- Ron Morrison - Gap between the digits