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In Varia's practice of collective infrastructure making, we often consider the sociality that is inherent within tool making and tool using. Open ended systems and extensible structures allow us to weave processes with each other and with others by adapting, extending, and transforming them. Within the Beyond the Essay meetings, we proposed three methods to engage with text in collective situations that respond to existing computational artefacts, namely tags (`__MAGICWORDS__`), indexing formats (`x-dexing`) and word2vec (`word2complex`). All of which end up structuring the circulation and writing and reading experience of readers, writers and publishers alike. How do we process essays differently from these perspectives? How can other forms of computing make space for a reconsideration of textual engagements? |
