%!HEADER: Healing and embodiment
%!SUBH: Feeling software.


> Giving some meaning / emotion to the time of "nothing happening",
> the moment of pause when logging in to a service, a return to the
> experience of the body.
> [@observatory:2017:saturday]

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> The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine
> that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.
> It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room,
> growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The dis-order of the desk,
> the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with
> scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought.
> The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
> Soon the programmer has no choice but to retreat into some private interior space,
> closer to the machine, where things can be accomplished.
> [@[pg.23]ullman:2012:close]

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> The list of things machines are good at continually expands, and assertions
> about the things humans are said to be good at generally consider only whether
> a human can physically or cognitively accomplish a task, rather than whether
> the task is morally and ethically defensible or desirable. [...] Assuming a timeless,
> natural division of labor in which we divvy up the work for humans and the work for
> machines each according to their abilities, deflects attention from the specific
> conditions under which humans labor, and the changing systems of compensation and
> reward in which they contribute value to the projects of others.
> [@ekbia:2014:heteromation]

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> Our therapeutic approach is inspired by the unix file system paradigm
> in which every component of a computer can be represented by a file,
> be it your hard drive, memory or sound card. Going together through
> the affordances and limitations of such a paradigm, we hope to provide
> a more intimate access to your software. Wheter it is about specific
> problematic situations with your computer, or to address a general
> curiosity about filesystems, we will take you by the hand through an
> extensive intake.
> [@observatory:2017:clinicfiletherapy]

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