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[[It might be nice to have the terms link out to different definitions online maybe even if the links could randomly rotate so we can be more speculative/creative with definitions while also connecting to technical/historical/precise descriptions. It would also be nice if there were multiple links for a given term and each time you click you are sent to a different definition]]
[[And to be able to link terms together that overlap or have other kinds of relationships such as file/program/data. Word pairings. Odd pairings.]]
[[there should be a rule that there are at least two definitions for any term that is in the glossary]]
[[maybe doing a reconceptualization like haraway, a counter conceptualization with one expressions against another, see at the end of this paper http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~ewa/Haraway,%20Situated%20Knowledges.pdf ]]


[[operators, inoperators...could these relate to observation]]

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Motivation:
- capitalism as sorcery (Isabelle Stengers) : we are under the black magic of capitalism wor(l)d making
- reclaim a power of saying : we have the feeling that some words are impose to us

Goal:
- re-conceptualization
- counter conceptualization : we need new/other words to express and grasp software complexity
- Critically embracing Kittler's proposa: "There is no Software";
looking away from the 'center', towards peripheries; observe the 'negative' space of software. whats around it

Inspiration:
-Donna Haraway’s practice of diffraction, reopen possibility of naming things, demultiplicate knowledge out of a single line, for her the line of (masculine) objectivity.
Haraway`sresearch program : study using semiotics, visual culture and narrative practice + use society (genre, race, class) to explain phenomenon : situated knowledge.

Table of Haraway, from her article situated knowledge, p588:
Universal rationality                                 etnophilosophies 
Common language                                 heteroglossia 
new organon                                            deconstruction 
unified field theory                                   oppositional positioning 
world system                                             local knowledges
master theory                                            webbed accounts



Operators:
    
Could we depart/expand upon Haraway's analysis and investigate the possibility for a transversal/non-linear approach to her cathegories by adding a set of 'operators' and 'inoperators', 
a set of other terms both useful and useless, on one side embracing and on the other questioning the paradigm of instrumentality at the core of processes of definition and cathegorization.

    
Example of operators between parenthesis below :
    
Universal rationality                                 etnophilosophies (relocalization, multiplication)
Common language                                 heteroglossia (relocalization, multiplication)
new organon                                            deconstruction (unpacking, repacking, deconstruction)
unified field theory                                   oppositional positioning (positioning, mapping)
world system                                             local knowledges (relocalization, multiplication)
master theory                                            webbed accounts (networking)

-paradox
-inversion
-translation 
-traduction 
-remobilization 
-deconstruction
-reconstruction
-relocalization
-multiplication
-unpacking
-repacking
-positioning 
-mapping
-webbing, networking
-diffracting : record the passage of difference, interaction, interference


Inoperators:
    analogy
    neutralization
    parallelism

Model : 
    one word or expressions | operator | new word  | inoperator 
    
Example of reconceptualization with the concept of tranparency :
 
 Transparency regimes  0% Opacity | inversion, paradox |  modes of obfuscation | analogy, parallelism

Transparent accounts | effects, paradox, opening  | loop of never-ending suspicion and exegesis | neutralization 




LIST  o f   C O N C E P T S  i n  V O C A B U L A R I E S


#01 METAPHORS and PARADIGMS of Observations
#02 BIG and DEEP CONCEPTS
#03 Problematic TECHNOLOGICAL ‘D ICHOTOMIES’


#04 AXIS of Quality & Discourse PERPLEXITY of/on TECH

#05 ACTIONS OF OBSERVATIONS

#06 VALUES to ADD in the DEBATE 

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