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Hello worlding
The third section is focused on worlding, and the relation between code, documentation practices and political aesthetic.
Here documentation is seen as a surface that could host principles in close contact with algorithms, letting them entangle and shape each other. A way to orientate our instruments towards "non-extractive relationships, but in the meantime, being accountable for the ones they are complicit with." (A Wishlist for Trans*feminist Servers, 2022)
Sections:
A first part of theoretical examples of technology and worlding: Trans*feminist Servers, Zach Blas, Tiger Ding Sun, James Bridle, Soon and Cox, Richard Gabriel.
A second part of case studies. The soupboat. Avantwhatever.net. Queer Motto API. The Screenless Office. The uxn ecosystem. list wip
Going with the flows
There could be several approaches for making worlds around software. Here are some keywords that refer to the kind of flow these worlding techniques activate. There are three directions: to reclaim is to demand something back: something that was stolen, or taken away, or lost, or forgotten. To reenchant means to intercept and reorientate towards different directions. To readjust a process, or to move for a different purpose. To reassure serves as a prompt to keep going. It helps making meaning, and refresh ideas. It offers way to register choices, and keep track of what has been done so far.
These labels are open and loose, overlapping and not mutually exclusive, temporary and on the move. They are meant to change, to expire fast, and going bad even faster: they require continuous treatments and repeated efforts. That's why I'm renaming them all after the re prefix: to aknowledge their being in progress, again second hand, already contaminated. Borrowed by friends and foes, that had borrowed themselves from someone else. Nonetheless, they offer ways to visualize different strategies to create worlds around software.
reclaim take back reenchant intercept reassure keep going
reclaim renegotiate, recuperate, remember reenchant reactivate, redirect, rebirth, reboot, rebrand reassure refrain, refuse, refresh, regret, reaffirm, register