diff --git a/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md b/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md index 2d756c6..18a66c2 100644 --- a/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md +++ b/chapters/03_hello_worlding.md @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ _Case studies_: The soupboat. Avantwhatever.net. Queer Motto API. The Screenless ### Documentation as backdoor ```note -(not really sure where to put this) (need more glue here and there between these paragraphs) - pure programming: running away from the political - literacy and exposition to certain concepts @@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ reassure refrain, refresh, regret, reaffirm, register, readme 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. ```placeholder -Try instead to apply Chantal Mouffle's concept of agonistic politics to software development, intended as struggle between different hegemonic projects. +Try instead to apply Chantal Mouffle's concept of agonistic politics to software development, intended as struggle between different hegemonic projects. But maybe is to much of a stretch ``` ```placeholder How can documentation create new spaces around code? Where new spaces means spaces for who are excluded. @@ -90,9 +89,9 @@ Re-enchanting code means to create new narrations around software. As the artist 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. 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. +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 connected 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 coat new systems of meanings around it. +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 coat 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.