From 84c99686e4592b6748203cee21a1fca2d3d3092e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ccl Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:59:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/2022/more-than-computational-EN.md' --- content/2022/more-than-computational-EN.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2022/more-than-computational-EN.md b/content/2022/more-than-computational-EN.md index 1534e1de..401e82d5 100644 --- a/content/2022/more-than-computational-EN.md +++ b/content/2022/more-than-computational-EN.md @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Each of the scripts ended up structuring possible circulation, writing and readi
### `__MAGICWORDS__` + +`__MAGICWORDS__` have started being used in this way by amy pickles and Cristina Cochior during a Read & Repair session on Digital Solidarity Networks (2020), and have been re-used in multiple other sessions since.
`__MAGICWORDS__` is an open ended system for collective annotation of a text, using small instructions that can be activated during a collective reading experience. In the field of software, and specifically in the MediaWiki software, magic words appear as words with special programmatic functions, connecting a specific cue to a programmatic action, such as adding the current time on a page. Within the context of Varia's research, the `__MAGICWORDS__` are used to manually perform programmatic gestures with the text without the involvement of code. @@ -34,10 +36,11 @@ Magic words emerged from a curiosity to see what kind of social incantations can ![](/images/beyond-the-essay/beyond-the-essay-magic-words-2.png) -`__MAGICWORDS__` have started being used in this way by amy pickles and Cristina Cochior during a Read & Repair session on Digital Solidarity Networks (2020), and have been re-used in multiple other sessions since.
### `x-dexing` + +`x-dexing` was made by Jara Rocha and Manetta Berends to navigate and cross the book Iterations (2020), and appeared in a couple of other workshops and different versions since.
`x-dexing` is a cross-reading practice that through chance operations guides the reader in going over a body of texts. Contrary to an index, the `x-dex` invites to perform a non-linear distribution of attention across textures, semantics and aesthetics of the texts at hand. @@ -52,10 +55,10 @@ If “indexing” would be about gaining access through the illusion of complete ![](/images/beyond-the-essay/beyond-the-essay-x-dexing-3.png) -`x-dexing` was made by Jara Rocha and Manetta Berends to navigate and cross the book Iterations (2020), and appeared in a couple of other workshops and different versions since. -
### `word2complex` + +`word2complex` is a continuation by Manetta Berends and Cristina Cochior (2021) on the collective unfolding of word2vec in Algolit (2017).
`word2complex` is taking the algorithm word2vec as starting point for a discussion around how users can read alongside algorithms and how algorithms construct machinic readings of text. As a reading exercise, `word2complex` investigates how algorithms order our experience and understanding of relationality between different words, by calculating semantic distances and context similarities. By staying close to the logics of word2vec, `word2complex` aims to rethink contextual ways of calculating and proposes to form semantic distances between contexts in more-than-computational ways. @@ -70,9 +73,6 @@ Language analysis algorithms are pervasive in an online realm that is heavily te ![](/images/beyond-the-essay/beyond-the-essay-word2complex-6.png) -`word2complex` is a continuation by Manetta Berends and Cristina Cochior (2021) on the collective unfolding of word2vec in Algolit (2017). - - ## Reflection Forms of collective annotation, close reading and cross-linking, as proposed by the three scripts above, invite the formation of a social environment in and around text. They create space to engage with the ideas within a single text, to find connections between multiple texts, or to relate the text to a specific context or situation.