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Title: Recap of what has happened until now Slug: 06-s7-step-1 Date: 2020-11-01 12:03 Summary: Overview of what we have been looking at
These different tracks have intersected, overlapped and sometimes diverted from one another, taking us along multiple roads that were looking at
- the potential of infrapunctures to address harms caused by digital infrastructures,
- the differences between digital infrastructures, computational infrastructures and platforms and what kind of friction that brings forward,
- how we can start understanding harms around, within and through computational infrastructures,
- bots as infrastructural embodiment,
- examples of bots as possible infrapunctures,
- the proposed term bot logic in relation to platform logic,
- bot behaviours
and two ways to engage with bot logic by writing a fictional scripted dialogue and diving deeper into their materiality by running a simple bot code template which toots on botsin.space.
While this short module is not a programming lesson, a tutorial, or a set of methodologies to understand the possibilities of bots as infrapunctures, we hope that it can point towards a few ways in which bots either support or challenge the relations and interaction that a digital infrastructure makes possible.
Bots are of course not a solution to computationally generated harm, nor are they able to repair infrastructures, but they nonetheless enable certain possibilities to get to know and engage with their material, political and social aspects.
Throughout this module we have tried to trace multiple forms of bot making and thinking with.