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Bronac Ferran, John Bywater, David Heath & Luke Nicholson

panel discussion

John Bywater (Appropriate Software Foundation)
David Heath (freelance programmer, formerly One World International)
Luke Nicholson (MoreAssociates)
as well as myself

I'd like to call the panel 'When knowledge becomes quotidian.....'

John has produced an abstract for his presentation which will inform the
others as follows:

John Bywater:

The implications of 'those developments' (namely the appearance of
challenges to 'conventional practices of authorship, ownership and
distribution') are entirely located within the continuing development of
those implications.

In other words, if by 'implication' it is implied that the development
of such things as Free Software systems constitute challenges that are
affecting 'art,visual culture and cultural production in general' then
the real question is how development itself is being developed. In
other words, the real challenge is the development of a concept of a
veritable 'becoming-development'.

This paper sketches out the six tendencies within the development of
software that point towards the desirable tendencies within
informationalised (or the post-modernisation of) production as such,
tendencies which have led to the emergence of Free Software as one of
many affects. The tendencies are named as: (i) increasing common
ownership of codes (ii) increasing adoption of agile approaches to the
production of everything (iii) increasing production (and usage within
productions) of pattern lanaguges (iv) increasing organisation of
production within economic clubs (v) increasing levels and layers of
abstraction and (vi) increasing complexity of both process and product

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