Ab-Using Coding Structures

When building digital platforms, you cannot not code. That's our adaptation of Gayatri Spivak's felicitous construction for a double bind that begs for deconstruction: how can the structures of coding that drive not only digital technologies and software like these, but also drive forms of qualitative analysis (e.g. grounded theory) be ab-used, used from beneath and below, turned and perverted, read and written against the grain? What are the underground movements that operate otherwise than grounded movements, but still provide a working surface, stable enough, a different kind of place to support (different) truths (differently)?  Since we have to sign, how can you sign differently?  How do you write software code under erasure?  How do you ground theory when the grounds are already mined under? That's one way of describing the PECE experiment, an experiment continually in search of methods.

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August 7, 2019

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Mike Fortun. 7 August 2019, "Ab-Using Coding Structures", Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 29 March 2024, accessed 25 April 2024. https://worldpece.org/content/ab-using-coding-structures