FAQ
These are a sort of frequently asked questions.
What does a typical session look like?
- short introduction: Keep it very short, like; name and/or nickname, pronouns, plans for today if any.
- come and go as you please.
- talking is welcome, but the primary purpose is coding together. Ask each other for assistance and inspiration!
- anti-hierarchical: We all have something to learn, we all have something to teach. We respect each others abilities and skills
- inspirational sources:
- ask people in the space what occupies their attention these days
- resources available on our website (https://lowkey.ursuppe.dk/resources.html).
- keyword summaries from previous meetings.
- we have a Signal group you can join when meeting
- we take care of each other here. If anyone experiences something uncomfortable, please contact Anders, Sofie, or another organiser. When in doubt, refer to the Social Rules and Code of Conduct on the website (https://lowkey.ursuppe.dk/coc.html)
What does words like critique and critical mean in our hangouts?
lets figure out ourselves, in our practices of coding. A few references can be read for inspiration, but it is not necessary.
- “What is needed, I will argue, is a critical technical practice - a technical practice for which critical reflection upon the practice is part of the practice itself. […] The word "critical" here does not call for pessimism and destruction but rather for an expanded understanding of the conditions and goals of technical work.” (Philip Agre 1997),
- “Relevant in our understanding of practising critique then is an explicit connection to the notion of care and the caring for all involved actors and material-discursive entities, the perspectives and values they represent.” (Jonathan Gray, 2023)
- kant used “critique” in his philosophical writings as in examining the underlying conditions and assumptions that make something possible in the first place, and their capabilities and limits (e.g., Kant 1790)
- the Marxist-inspired philosophical framework critical theory analyses and critiques power structures, to examine and challenge social inequalities and create emancipation for people and historically particularly the proletariat (workers). "critical" implies an emancipatory purpose, unmasking ideology, reflexivity (aware of its own social position), history, and oriented toward practice (Nancy Fraser 1985, Max Horkheimer, 1937)
- Donna Haraway introduced the notion of situated knowledge and situatedness into the question of knowledge and critique: who produces it, and for whom is it for? In particular she critises the “God Trick” of "objective", "universal" and male-dominated knowledge (Donna Haraway, 1988)