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who out there is working on tools for {programming, digital creativity} in the pursuit of *liberatory* technology, as a reframing of concepts like usable/accessible/learnable? (see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02003-2 re: shifting power for an approximation of what i mean by liberatory)
or who is writing about this?
...should i write about this?
(how the terms usable, etc. can get co-opted by a desire to assimilate others into an existing technology rather than empowering them as co-creators)
...should i write about this?
(how the terms usable, etc. can get co-opted by a desire to assimilate others into an existing technology rather than empowering them as co-creators)
to answer my own question, of course @GalaxyKate is crushing it at this https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1291810449898397697
(5 days later follow-up)
I compiled a list of resources related to the concept of "liberatory programming" based on everyone's responses (and some of my own recollection): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWwsUDY9mHe97moysNv0PoYYfkzNPOjkKZN2hrL0Fcg/edit?usp=sharing
I compiled a list of resources related to the concept of "liberatory programming" based on everyone's responses (and some of my own recollection): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWwsUDY9mHe97moysNv0PoYYfkzNPOjkKZN2hrL0Fcg/edit?usp=sharing
New additions: the Convivial Computing Salon at the <Programming> conference: https://2020.programming-conference.org/home/salon-2020
(thanks to @ClarissaAdjoint for cluing me in on "convivial" as a keyword, as in Ivan Illich's "Tools for Conviviality")
(thanks to @ClarissaAdjoint for cluing me in on "convivial" as a keyword, as in Ivan Illich's "Tools for Conviviality")
New addition: @ag_dubs in the RustConf 2020 opening talk, on the political nature of technology like programming languages & Rust's explicit goal to redistribute power
Communities like Rust's today (and Twine's in the early 2010s) are so important to remember when we see homogenous white/cis/male CS communities and our colleagues throw up their hands because "the pipeline" clearly just doesn't have enough diversity in it
New additions:
- Postcolonial Computing: a Lens on Design and Development https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/c50.pdf
- Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/494648
- Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261134901_Bricolage_Programming_in_the_Creative_Arts
- Postcolonial Computing: a Lens on Design and Development https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/c50.pdf
- Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/494648
- Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261134901_Bricolage_Programming_in_the_Creative_Arts
Adding my talk to this thread https://twitter.com/chrisamaphone/status/1312458430309756928
