There seems to be a risk in reducing sociality around software to a conflict between "friends and foes": a risk to reproduce forms of exclusion and violence typical of the IT world. To just swap good and bad, and offer clean solutions. Try instead to apply Chantal Mouffle's concept of agonistic politics to software development intended as struggle between different hegemonic projects.
There seems to be a risk in reducing sociality around software to a conflict between "friends and foes": a risk to reproduce forms of exclusion and violence typical of the IT world. To just swap good and bad, and offer clean solutions. Try instead to apply Chantal Mouffle's concept of agonistic politics to software development, intended as struggle between different hegemonic projects.
How can documentation create new spaces around code? Where new spaces means spaces for who are excluded.
How can documentation create new spaces around code? Where new spaces means spaces for who are excluded.
@ -49,13 +49,14 @@ Re-enchanting code means to create new narrations around software. As the artist
`Example:` Master-slave examples on version control software documentation. See [BitKeeper](https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/HOWTO. ask#L223)
`Example:` Master-slave examples on version control software documentation. See [BitKeeper](https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/HOWTO. ask#L223)
`Example:` The military term _deploy_ adopted by CI/CD systems such as the one on GitLab.
`Example:` The military term _deploy_ adopted by CI/CD systems such as the one on GitLab.
`Example:` The naming of group of servers as fleet on AWS documentation, a term referring to naval formation, often with military connotation.
`Example:` The naming of group of servers as _fleet_ on AWS documentation, a term referring to naval formation, often with military connotation.
These metaphors orient code in the world. They reinforce, highlight and validate certain practices. A fleet implies centralized control, a swarm implies direct influences between participants, a federation implies certain degrees of independence, etc.
These metaphors orient code in the world. They reinforce, highlight and validate certain practices. A fleet implies centralized control, a swarm implies direct influences between participants, a federation implies certain degrees of independence, etc.
Nanni Moretti was slapping people in the face to remark the importance of words and their usage, but in order to re-enchant code through documentation just finding & replacing terms is but a first step.
To re-enchant means to re-trace genealogies, to intercept and re-orient narratives and offer a redemption arc to those projects that were left behind. `need better transition`
Nanni Moretti was slapping people in the face to remark the importance of words and their usage. In the movie _Palombella Rossa_, the main character suffered from memory loss after a car accident, and every dialogue was a precious handhold to find back his lost identity. His struggle was less concerning the correct usage of italian language, and more related to the conceiled history in every word. A missing link between literal meaning of a term, and its broader traditions of uses, misuses, and transformations. The difference between talking and talking within a context.
To re-enchant code then means not only to _find & replace_ terms throughout the documentation, but to re-trace genealogies, to intercept and re-orient narrations, and offer a redemption arc to those projects that were abandoned. To re-enchant code means to add new systems of meanings around it.
A good example is the work of documentation around the Uxn ecosystem, a personal computing stack initiated by the 100 Rabbits collective. To meet their needs for a portable and lightweight infrastructure and reduce the energy consumption of their digital tools (they live on a wind & solar powered sailboat), while keep continuing developing games and software ...
A good example is the work of documentation around the Uxn ecosystem, a personal computing stack initiated by the 100 Rabbits collective. To meet their needs for a portable and lightweight infrastructure and reduce the energy consumption of their digital tools (they live on a wind & solar powered sailboat), while keep continuing developing games and software ...
