diff --git a/content/pages/start.md b/content/pages/start.md index ef69a62..6e92100 100644 --- a/content/pages/start.md +++ b/content/pages/start.md @@ -7,7 +7,15 @@ Welcome to the online module *Bots as Digital Infrapunctures*. Inspired by the potential of *digital infrapuncture*, a term coined by researcher Deb Verhoeven, this module brings bots and infrastructure together as *infrapunctures*. *Infrapuncture* is a portmanteau word which conflates *infrastructure* and *acupuncture*, referring to small-scale interventions that have a catalytic effect on the whole. The term emerges from the need to reconsider our digital infrastructures, study their underlying systems of inequality and exploitation, and acknowledge their limits in terms of capacity and care. This module explores what role bots can have as infrastructural stress relievers, by actively engaging with the norms and values inscribed into computational tools and infrastructures. -The model intertwines theoretical and practical work together, [mb: insert prototypes as arguments]. +This module combines theoretical and practical work—bringing the fields of digital humanities, design and media art together—and proposes to use the format of the *prototype* [and the activity of *prototyping*] as performative theoretical tool that feeds different practices into each other. We understand the prototype both as a research methodology (to critically engage with digital infrastructures in a hands-on way) and as a prefigurative practice (to imagine possible transformations and interventions, bridging between past, present and future), following Alan Galey's and Stan Ruecker's work on framing how prototypes could argue as arguments[^prototype]. + + + + + + + + # Goals @@ -25,3 +33,7 @@ By the end of the module you will have: You can go through this module at your own speed. No subscription is required, you can simply start by clicking on the *start* button in each section and follow the instructions. You will need approximately 4 hours to go through this whole module. + +# Footnotes + +[^prototype]: Galey, Alan & Ruecker, Stan. (2010). How a Prototype Argues. LLC. 25. 405-424. 10.1093/llc/fqq021. \ No newline at end of file