Oddkin

"Here’s Donna Haraway, talking about kin, in Staying with the Trouble (2):"Kin is a wild category that all sorts of people do their best to domesticate. Making kin as oddkin, rather than, or at least in addition to, godkin…troubles important matters, like to whom one is actually responsible….What shape is this kinship, where and whom … Continue reading Oddkin

A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery

"My sense is that you need to build up a nucleus of people who know each other and who can network and support each other [in developing a proficiency in a technology with the complexity of R.]"—Hadley Wickham in an interview with Dan Kopf, "What’s next for the popular programming language R?" Quartz. August 17, … Continue reading A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery