Documentation - poetic computer
These are only some of the questions that I have spent the last few months thinking about, in an attempt to critically, and meaningfully inform my creative research practice. Programming paradigms seem to have an obsession with anthropocizing the language around computing. We declare variables, and assign values, and deploy applications- as Creators, and as militarians. But within this process of humanizing the machine, we are also trapped into losing the agency we were after. Computers were women who did the computing, and all it means now is a box of components. How do we take the agency back from the machines? Most natural languages are a product of culture. Culture changes, and the languages change with it. They grow and evolve. And a culture is nothing but collective. Most programming languages on the other hand are centered around productivity, and often are built to solve a specific institutional problem. They are trickled-down through a heirarchy. They do not evolve. They are u
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