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### Hello worlding
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tiger dingsun chimeric worlding is a text on graphic design used for worldbuilding
since special issue 16 i started versioning that text replacing graphic design with other practice / surfaces (ex: API as worldbuilding)
version it again for code documentation as worldbuilding
```
Our first project in XPUB was Special Issue 16: a collective exploration of natural language processing with a vernacular turn. It was published as an API, offering several functions to users to play with strings and texts.
During the preparation phases, I started versioning the readings we were trying to incorporate in our research. Applying small changes, replacing some words, shifting the context to resonate with our topic. From here came a new version of _Chimeric Worlding - What Can Graphic Design Learn from Poetics and World-building?_ by Tiger Dingsun, that was transformed in _What Can API Learn From Poetics and World-building?_.
Here the (versioned) author
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The Screenless Office is an _artistic operative system_ to reimagine personal computing away from pixel-based displays, using radically alternative forms of everyday human interaction with media.
Similarly to other operative systems, the Screenless Office can be used to read news, browse websites and interact with social media. What's different here is that the surface where all these exchanges happen is not a screen, but rather an articulated ecosystem of thermal and laser printers, barcode scanners and other interconnected physical devices that can be plugged in or printed at need.
Sample from `jokes.py`, the module of the _Department of Humor_. Here two _docstrings_ describe the bureau itself and the `joke` command.
Sample from `jokes.py`, the module of the _Department of Humor_. Here two _docstrings_ describe the bureau itself and the `Fortune Cookie` command.
Menu printed by the Inhuman Resources bureau using the docstrings from the other offices, ready to be invoked with the barcode-scanner.
Versioning Tiger Dingsun, code documentation can be intended as an act of world-building. In their essay _Chimeric Worlding_, the designer and writer explores what can graphic design learn from poetics and the art of creating worlds. It's enough to find&replace all the occurences of `graphic design`→`code documentation` in the text to get an interesting perspective on what's happening in the Screenless Office.
The essay questions the idea of _code documentation_ as a service voted to pure functionalism, as a lubricant for the smooth flow of capital, which relies on a singular, totalizing interpretation of the world. On the extreme opposites of the spectrum stand conventional mythos, common and accepted systems of knowledge, and personal ones, with their internal logic and structures. _Code documentation_ is stuck between these two. Referring only to conventional rules and standardized practices would result in a total disappearing of the context from where the documentation is coming from, conforming to the ideologies of the status quo. Drawing on just personal mythos on the other hand, would result inaccessible to external readers.
`this paragraph is too dense`
Conventional mythos and communal meaning
By refering to methodologies coming from literature and poetry, Dingsun notices how is at the intersection between personal and communal meaning that worlds thrive.
The office's aesthetic, with the collective imagery of characters, situations, and power dynamics, becomes an interaction design framework.
poetics often emerges from the overlapping of multiple systems of meaning.
poetics emerging from the frection between clarity and ambiguity
Seeking inspiration in literature and poetry, Dingsun report
- versioning tiger dingusun and the chimeric worlding
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Our first project in XPUB was Special Issue 16: a collective exploration of natural language processing with a vernacular turn. It was published as an API, offering several functions to users to play with strings and texts.
#### aesthetic programming as a bridge between software studies and creative coding
