live-coding-making-strange

in reading the blackwell-et-al-2022-live-coding-user-manual and it spelling out the definition of what live coding is. I really like this bit:

“Live coding gives us a way to think otherwise about coding—what it can be, rather than what it is. We might consider this capacity of live coding as a technique of making strange (or defamiliarization), in the sense first intended by the Russian literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky, as presenting familiar things in a strange way in order to enhance apperception.8 Live coding makes software strange,9 allowing us to see beyond routine practices and interpretations of code.”

it connects to work that I did whilst on my masters, around making the familiar stange, and it lends itself to a spirit of playfulness that is an important undercurrent motivating my approach to conducting research