The motivations behind the project are quite interesting and well argued: "Developing Open Source is a Political Act"
https://www.zettlr.com/post/release-developing-open-source-p...
https://www.zettlr.com/post/release-developing-open-source-p...
"When all you've got is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail."
Feels like it's straight out of that "everything is political" phase we are hopefully leaving behind, usually meaning - "I will try to problematise it to make it political".
> "Political activity is whatever shifts a body from the place assigned to it or changes a place's destination." (Rancière 1999, S. 30)
> What Rancière means by that is that politics occurs whenever a thing is not in its assigned place. This is perfectly valid for software: As soon as a person diverts from what is expected from them, software aborts with an error or "corrects" the "wrong" statement automatically. So at least from the view of Jacques Rancière, software is utterly political. It has a significant impact on our daily lives and we cannot do anything against this. And this is a problem that especially corporate software shows.
Publishing a paper, or citing it, doesn't confer the status to change the definition of words.