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l
JAMMING TOGETHER FAR APART https://www.pastagang.cc/paper/ This is a paper about live programming, written by many many many people collaborating together in one shared document, with no one credited by name. It's getting submitted tomorrow.
i
Would love to see some sort of anonymized fast replay of the paper being written, with the text colored to indicate which author last touched it. I can imagine coming up with cute nicknames like "the ranter" for someone who bled out entire paragraphs in a go, or "the nitpicker" for someone who hopped around making micro wording changes, or "the poet" for someone who mostly fine-tuned word choice.
Love the juxtaposition of this is an essay written collaboratively with no central decision-making, it's an emergent mass practice and here are my personal reflections — "I first discovered pastagang…
l
there are many "I"s in the paper from the multi headed author
also I'm not sure it works like that
most edits were completely anonymous with no way of telling who is who, sessions weren't kept or tracked. if i had to guess i would say it was around 30 people but i might be way off in either direction
i
Right. I'm interested in preserving the anonymous / collective / collaborative nature of it, while finding a way to surface characters. Organisms are made of cells; what are the cells of a pastagang?
(I don't see this as 1-to-1 with people, so my idea probably doesn't satisfy. What I'm curious about is: what were the different writing approaches that emerged, not who did them)
l
you could probably extract all the history from 1. GitHub before it moved to the live editor https://github.com/pastagang/pastagang/commits/main/paper/readme.md 2. the live editor's revision history (find it in the menu of the editor)
it's a common thing to want to derive people or characters from the group, though i would advise letting go of that if i were you
i
Tell me more! Why? I'm interested not in identifying people, but approaches (which almost certainly don't map 1-to-1 with people)
l
well partly because i see it as clinging onto a non-jam-style approach - trying to focus on individuals rather than the collective but also it doesn't really matter you can do anything you want
i
I was about to say "makes sense; I don't like jamming" but on second thought I do, it's just that there's lots of kinds of jamming.
l
why don't you like jamming?
j
There’s something weird and profound to me about the use of “I” in this work. It’s like a whole new pronoun… a crystal full of reflecting light, or a mildly-body-horror-inspired life-form.
i
Yeah!
(Also, not answering that question here, it'd derail the thread)
l
yes i think the "I" first emerged from the pastagang blog, https://pastagang.cc/blog where conversation gradually converges into prose
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