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+title: Thesis outline
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+# themes
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+worlding & software
+world building & situated software
+documentation as a surface for world building
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+worlding	world building
+		aesthetic approach
+		a way to create loose yet coherent narrations
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+software	situated software
+		functional yet simbolic
+		embedded in social contexts
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+reference
+https://ecotones.caveat.be/osp.html
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+could software documentation be a surface for world-building?
+	world building and software? 
+		(exploration of coding contingencies)
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+what can practices of world building bring into the making of software?
+what are the relations between aesthetic and functionality?
+what could software benefit from process of world building?
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+0. coding contingencies
+1. situated software and world building
+2. documentation as an interface
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+could software documentation be a surface for world building?
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+    participation in world building
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+relations between software and world building?
+writing documentation as a publishing practice? (more than technical writing, more than learning process, more than autorship)
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+-   software is not an object in a vacuum
+-   it is embedded in contexts
+-   that project their narrations on the code
+-   technical, economical, cultural, creative, political
+-   these narrations orientate software in the world
+-   highlight certain aspects, hide others
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+-   how to face these narrations
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+-   sharing knowledge about software is sharing context
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+I want to write about worlding around software.
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+How do you chose a particular programming language, a coding style, a development environment and ecosystem, an infrastructure where to run the code, and so on? These are not just technical choices, but rather coding contingencies.
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+These contingencies are situated in precise contexts. Programming then is not just sharing code, but sharing context. It's providing a point of view and a perspective to look at the world, before attempting to get some grip onto it with a script.
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+More specifically, I would like to focus on software documentation as a surface for world-building.
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+semiotic triangle of graduation
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+The topological way to think and write (Law, Mol 2002) the thesis is to be found somewhere around:
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+    the list form used by LW in the Tractatus,
+    the branching and merging pathways of version control systems, and
+    the content aggregation approach of bookmarking tools such as are.na
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+At the moment I can see it as a feed with a tagging system. The plan is to gather contents and curate them in a non-linear fashion, so instead of following the index as a series of steps, imagine to read it as a coral-like creature, with materials forking and interfering with each other.
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+These contents will be a mix of diverse registry, from the essayistic to the technical to the anedoctic, in order to have several layers of accessibility. The consistency of the discourse will vary: some parts will be more narrative and some other more scattered.
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+    Coding Contingencies
+        Context of software studies
+        Documentation as an interface between the code, the user, the developer, and the world.
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+    Documentation as worlding
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+        Excerpts from API Worlding, versioned essay from T. Dingsun.
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+        When there is documentation
+            Language, modes of address.
+            Who writes? Who reads?
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+        And when there is not
+            A space to reactivate/reclaim/reorientate code?
+            Ways of writing, economies of knowledges
+            Practice proposals
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+        Worlding through documentations mixtape
+            Excerpts from documentations that world
+            Individuate approaches and angles
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+    Software as care
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+        Cases study articulated through the points emerged from 2.4.2
+            Soupboat
+            Hundred Rabbits, Tools ecosystem
+            Permacomputing Wiki
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+        A list of devices to articulate software documentation as a form of care (project overview)
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+Reference
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+    100r.co. (n.d.). 100R — tools ecosystem. [online] Available at: https://100r.co/site/tools_ecosystem.html [Accessed 18 Nov. 2022].
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+    Law, J. and Mol, A. (2002). Complexities social studies of knowledge practices. Durham: Duke University Press.
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+‌- permacomputing.net. (n.d.). permacomputing\
+. [online] Available at: https://permacomputing.net/ [Accessed 18 Nov. 2022]
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