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[...]los s
ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--commitmentss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> friendship, neighborlines s, familial ties

large arsenal of off-color s cls s="trms">joks>es about specias cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> fogures of all s cls s="trms">religs>ious traditions in the popular culture of the subcontinent...
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">horrors> s cls s="trms">storiess>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•psychological profile of mullas
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•weekly skewing of mullas
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mulla s cls s="trms">joks>es
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•cartoons
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> political commentary ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> criticism
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> mulla was to blame for everything that was perceived to be wrong (in Pakistan) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">pervs>asive skepticism<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[also in s cls s="nms">Irans>ss='lgc'>]

skepticism shadows striving (?span>)

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the other of the striving muslim in Pakistanss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•shadowi s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shia
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•deceiving Ahmadi
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•bad-tempered mulla s>بدمزاجs>
sts>

mullass='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•Iqbal ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> os sification of the institution of ulama
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•Pakistani state ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> os sification of commentary upon Islamic texts
sts>
...everyday as sertion that one's s cls s="trms">religs>iousity is superior to others

mullass='lgc'> = full-fls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>d maleficent persona

skepticism of daily existence
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1. ...(they become skeptical) about his rationality and grounds for his beliefs
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2. ...(at some point) anything could be said or believed about him
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">3. ...(he felt like) everyone around him had turned to s cls s="trms">animals>s
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">4. ...(he presumed) everyday life was one of illusion and appearances ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> go tospan> s cls s="nms">keliles> demne s>این همه سودا است، مجازs>ss='lgc'>]
stsrd> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> actualize the potential for <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>skepticism that existed in the s cls s="trms">socis>al fabric<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>=/= chance encounter
ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="trms">pervs>asive condition

figure of the mulla ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= collective fear ss='lgc'>+ revulsionss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>--s cls s="trms">traves>rsess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the fragmented public culture of the city

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]ulamass='lgc'>: guardian, transmitter, s cls s="trms">inters>preter of shari'a
ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">specifis>c claims of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> uponss='lgc'>:
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1. s>تفسیرs> tafsir (commentary upon the Quran)
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2. s>فقهs> figh (jurisprudence)
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">3. s>حدیثs> hadis (sayings of the prophet)
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">4. s>کلامs> kalam (speculative theology)
stsrd> ss='lgc'>+ (in Pakistan) personnel in mosquess='lgc'>:
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1. s>امامs> imam
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2. s>خطیبs> khatib (Frida sermon)
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">3. s>قاریs> ghari
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">4. s>موذنs> muezzin
stsrd>
mulla ss='lgc'>--derogatoryss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> one who is overzealous in upholding the letter of the shari'a
(ss='lgc'>+ additional connotationss='lgc'>:)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ignorant master ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> go tospan> mulla nasruddinss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">religs>ious master who gets by in life through hypocrisy and cunning ss='lgc'>+ outsmarting those of noble birth and high cultivationss='lgc'>]
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•gabza s cls s="trms">agens>t (seizure of property)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•sodomizer (one who rapes men)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a naive fool out of step with his time
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>

colonial politics in south Asia ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> British colonial administration in India see ulama as outdated, deliberately obscurantist, jahel ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> negative stereotype ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> post-colonial period

mullaismss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•Pakistani state ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> fos silized state of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> on Islam
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•Iqbal ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> mullaism ss='lgc'>=/= freedom of ijtihad
sts>

(Talal Asad ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) Islamic diskursive tradition is grounded in <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>argument that anticipates resistance<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> in the form of doubt, ins cls s="trms">differens>ce, or lack of understanding ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> it employs the force of reason to bring forth the <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>willing performance of a practice<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>==producess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> domain of orthodoxy (ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">relations>s of power)

(for ss="ppl">Naveeda) s cls s="trms">anxis>ety or skepticism ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= sign of aspiration for striving

labbaikss='lgc'>: i am here (to follow your orders)

theatrical unteality

...animus lies in the s cls s="trms">worlds>
ss='lgc'>[later hess='lgc'>] identitues this animus with thr workings of iblis (satan)
...this is a city of whispers ss='lgc'>[waswasenss='lgc'>], a city of mad pos ses sion ss='lgc'>[sharss='lgc'>], a city of deviation ss='lgc'>[ilhadss='lgc'>], a city of s cls s="trms">anxis>ety ss='lgc'>[tazadzudss='lgc'>], a city of dispersion ss='lgc'>[intisharss='lgc'>]

the ability to smell oneself ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to experience oneself as other

how public culture can ability skepticism as a s cls s="trms">pervs>asive condition

mulla s cls s="trms">joks>es ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">horrors> s cls s="trms">storiess>ss='lgc'> = fear ss='lgc'>+ revulsion

(ss="ppl">Freudian) eruptive quality of s cls s="trms">joks>es ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">joks>e erupts into everyday life as of from elsewhere

political cartoonss='lgc'>: maximum effect through a minimum of details

(mulla) s cls s="trms">joks>es, s cls s="trms">horrors> s cls s="trms">storiess>, political cartoons ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">Naveedass='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>exiling the foreignnes s within<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

s cls s="trms">storiess> ofss='lgc'>:
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1. mosque in an upscale shopping center
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2. sexually predictory mulla
stsrd> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (speaks ofss='lgc'>:)
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1. the perception that there were places in Pakistan where vise was allowed to grow unchecked
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2. the menace the ulama introduced into everyday life
stsrd> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> (the effect ofss='lgc'>:)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•keeping public attention upon pos sible sites and s cls s="trms">agens>ts of corruption
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•putting the everyday life into s cls s="trms">questions> (as to whether it was what it appeared to be)
sts>

political cartoons ss='lgc'>--implyss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•Pakistanis are caught in someone else's game
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•growing unfamiliarity of Pakistan
sts>

(charges of)
sinfulnes s
sexual voraciousnes s
cunning
gluttony
political ambition
worthles snes s
corruption
self-destruction
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> continuous efforts to set the mulla outside of oneself (ss='lgc'>=/= everyday familiarity with the ulama)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>negative s cls s="trms">storiess> and cartoons ss='lgc'>--expres sss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> various degrees of skeptical orientation to the s cls s="trms">worlds><strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
s cls s="trms">joks>es ss='lgc'>--(descriptive s cls s="trms">denss>ity)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> full expres sion to skepticism
ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>{also in s cls s="nms">Irans>ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> making (mulla) grotesquely other ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> inconcevable to s cls s="trms">imagis>ne any points of relatednes s (to mulla)

sts cls s="lsts lst1">•scatological s cls s="trms">joks>es
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•reworking of official s cls s="trms">rhetors>ic for ludic effect
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•exaggerated performance of power
sts> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--Mbembess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “s cls s="trms">relations>ship of conviviality with the realm of official power”

vulgarity ss='lgc'>==long-termss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>zombification of official figures<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (robbed of their humanity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> they cannot be apprehended except through their caricatures)

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to loosen some terms carefullyss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">mems>ory, form, order,

ss="large lg6" stl="font-size:124%">
ss='lgc'>[The arts of s cls s="trms">mems>ory- Comparative perspectives on a mental artifact. Revised and updated by the s cls s="trms">authors> ss="ppl">Carlo ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Severi. s cls s="trms">Translats>ed by ss="ppl">Matthew ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Carey - ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Severi - HAU- Journal of Ethnographic Theoryss='lgc'>]

s cls s="trms">mems>ory as a domain of s cls s="trms">socis>al life

archive
“order” constitutes a principle to engender other forms of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>

totem poles, simply records the s cls s="trms">differens>t circumstances that marked a particular s cls s="trms">socis>al group, were comprised of organized series
occupied with the transs cls s="trms">mis sions> of ‘names’, but neces sarily, paralleled by a form of logical power, implies sequential ordering of s cls s="trms">differens>t forms of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>.

the “art of s cls s="trms">mems>ory” applies s cls s="trms">differens>t types of s cls s="trms">relations>ships or archival s cls s="trms">techns>iques that are not limited to mere numerical calculationss='lgc'>: mnemonic, iconographic, and logical s cls s="trms">techns>iques.

provide a convincing account of the complex proces s of ordering

in a s cls s="trms">meass>ured s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>orous way...

what characterizes the s cls s="trms">syss>tem

development of taxonomic principle
s cls s="trms">syss>tem endowed with a high degree of logical power

ss='thdf'>the idea of pure quantity, based on decimal numbers applicable to wide range of s cls s="trms">categs>oriesss='lgc'>: people, objects, units of time or space, etc.

an “art of s cls s="trms">mems>ory” pos ses sed of rudimentary form of visual salience and an extremely complex ordering of res cls s="trms">presens>table knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>

what s cls s="trms">matters>s are s cls s="trms">syss>tem's logical implications and not its visual manifestations

salience
(colors, shapes of knots, s cls s="trms">folds>s)

the qualitative s cls s="trms">categs>ories (meant to be named)

(finding) the organizing principles

precisely calibrated
oriented space
(s cls s="trms">geomes>trically?span>)

what constitutes the logical poles of the vast spectrum of the projects in the archive (people, objects, units of time or space, etc.)

(concerning the archive) we can negotiate two types of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>ss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>s and s cls s="trms">narrats>ives

to identify a series of key elements that allow us to rethink a wider chronology

textual archaeology - evaluates and decrypts, layer by layer

discovering (evidential) mnemonically oriented means of organizing traditional knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>

(Montesinos's s cls s="trms">books>ss='lgc'>:) “s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> of one hundred kings”

should we abandon the conventional terms of “s cls s="trms">narrats>ive”
the term s cls s="trms">narrats>ive used to describe mnemonically oriented s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>s of names..
s cls s="trms">narrats>ive was just one of several s cls s="trms">differens>t means of organizing knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>..

graphical res cls s="trms">presens>tation, capable of developing further degrees of complexity

“form”
recreate the ‘form’ (form ss='lgc'>: ‘state of organization of s cls s="trms">matters>’)

within (this/a) variable s cls s="trms">syss>tem

“text” as sequences of cords

s cls s="trms">mems>orization (the creation of mnemonic s cls s="trms">relations>) neces sarily implies the modular organization of the knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> it res cls s="trms">presens>ts

constitutive dualism in many forms of the art of s cls s="trms">mems>oryss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•order (Anordnung) and salience (Hervorspringen)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•expres sivity (and power)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ens cls s="trms">cods>ing (Verschlüs selung) and evocation (Herbeirufen)
sts>
pos sible course between the twin rocks of s cls s="trms">writs>ingss='lgc'>: “s cls s="trms">socis>al” and “arbitrary”

at the end it is the mental operation
(s cls s="trms">techns>iques of thought)

the image plays a central role in the construction of s cls s="trms">relations>s between (visual) themes and particularity of words, which in turn help organize s cls s="trms">narrats>ives

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these all were s cls s="trms">techns>ical or formal s cls s="trms">questions>s so far

s cls s="trms">mems>ory is a way consistency maintains itself

civil s cls s="trms">socis>ety is afraid of personal recollections and s cls s="trms">pervs>erse s cls s="trms">datas>bases, digital collections

is khm’s archive a state sponsored s cls s="trms">mems>orialization, monuments of a consistent s cls s="trms">histos>ry?span> (that as sumes a s cls s="trms">sublims>e ending?span>)

the ims cls s="trms">mems>orial (in s cls s="trms">mems>orial)

have a strong philosophy of s cls s="trms">techns>ology with this project
there is never merely a s cls s="trms">techns>ological s cls s="trms">questions>, always als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y s cls s="trms">ontos>logical

who wants to res cls s="trms">mems>ber, solidify, and s cls s="trms">mems>orialize?span>
and for whom?span>
building a s cls s="trms">techns>ological temple of s cls s="trms">mems>ory, khm s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic s cls s="trms">narrats>ive of its own s cls s="trms">histos>ry?span>
(first there is one big account of property that all these fragmented s cls s="trms">histos>ries of numerous people who worked in khm are singed under one sigs cls s="trms">naturs>e, of khm)

should we disavow any notion of “spirit” in khm?span>
we must agree that khm's render of its own s cls s="trms">histos>ry is pure s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic what so ever.

we must remain committed to the experimental, when dealing with archival domains in the school of media art where experimentation was in its os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>inal conception and foundational roots (as Zielinski expres ses in one s cls s="trms">inters>viewss='lgc'>: “ss='lgc'>+25 KHMss='lgc'>: s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Siegfried Zielinski” https://www.youtube.com/watch?span>v=s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S3JQ3aTwu2s)

arte
DAs s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S KURZFILM-MAGAZIN
KURZs s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>SCHLUs s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Ss s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S
s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Siegfried Zielinski im s cls s="trms">Inters>view
http://cinema.arte.tv/de/artikel/siegfried-zielinski-im-s cls s="trms">inters>view

hybrid objects?span>
is the logistic characteristic of digital s cls s="trms">datas> inconsistent with the hybrid objects of art?span>

Forms of thought, from what Lévi-ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Straus s called the “s cls s="trms">syss>tematization ss='lgc'>[ofss='lgc'>] what is immediately s cls s="trms">presens>ted to the senses,”

(ss="ppl">Jakobson)
transmutationss='lgc'>: cognition involved by the form of s cls s="trms">translats>ion

s cls s="trms">datas> s cls s="trms">ontos>logy

what is the point of view of rationality in this for us?span>
(what is the point of view in witchs cls s="trms">crafts>?span> knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> is a performative recipe)
what is the point in point of view?span>

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(ss="ppl">Jorge Luis Borges - ‘Funes the s cls s="trms">Mems>orious’ in ‘Labyrinthsss='lgc'>: selected s cls s="trms">storiess> &span> other s cls s="trms">writs>ings’ 1964)
in Borges s cls s="trms">storys>, Funes, the character unable to forget is incapable of the concept of ‘general’
solitary and lucid s cls s="trms">spectas>tor of ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] an intolerably precise s cls s="trms">worlds>
not capable of thought
in order to sleep, he had to s cls s="trms">imagis>ne a direction he would turn his face, made of homogeneous darknes s
“To think is to forget s cls s="trms">differens>ces, s cls s="trms">generalizs>e, make abstractions.”

Borges ‘homogeneous darknes s’ is what we as forgetful immortals afraid of to turn to?span>
maybe the directions we sleep into, orientation to the s cls s="trms">cosmos>s?span>!

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is archive s cls s="trms">naturs>ally and neces sarily generated (out of regular form of activity)?span>

a (s cls s="trms">techns>ologically implemented) beyond

the drive to animate and mobilize; and the drive to conserve, to fix, and so forth, are s cls s="trms">mutuals>ly constitutive for s cls s="trms">moderns> imagery and media (from museum to archive)
archive performs a strange dialectics

to see the archive as a s cls s="trms">techns>ological rational s cls s="trms">questions>, and engineering as signment, is to naively avoid the thinking about your own activity as a constructive activity

depriving yourself of any tools to act
is archive a tool to act?span>

the s cls s="trms">agens>cy of an archive..

“other ways” of s cls s="trms">composs>ing?span>

marking its territory?span> how to make a map without giving way to the territory as an extension of the map?span>

ss='lgc'>["Angels Without Wings” A conversation between ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bruno ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour and Anselm Frankess='lgc'>]

the mechanical extension, Res extensa, the (descartian) extended thing, the visualizing s cls s="trms">techns>ologies, s cls s="trms">techns>ical drawings, has been so strong that the temptation so say “well, that's what the s cls s="trms">worlds> is really like” is very great, especially when your foreground is all of the engineering talents and engineering s cls s="trms">skils>ls that are neces sary to as semble.

to attribute strangenes s...
what ‘will’ you ins cls s="trms">herits>?span>
you have little idea of what will you ins cls s="trms">herits>
(other way of not thinking about your activity now)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the s cls s="trms">questions> of future

ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Ronellss='lgc'>]

ss="large lg34" stl="font-size:106%"> false res cls s="trms">mems>brance, displaced s cls s="trms">mems>ory, that actually repeatedly repres ses and disturbs ‘giving’

any res cls s="trms">mems>brance involves forgetting
an official call for design an archive from khm also invoked that the institution is s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y to forget, announces institutional forgetting, and disavows res cls s="trms">mems>brance

res cls s="trms">mems>ber ins cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>des the lost-s cls s="trms">mems>ber, bringing my s cls s="trms">mems>ber, the phalus (in English ‘s cls s="trms">mems>ber’ also means the male organ of copulation)

ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. “Das Gedächtnis.” ‘Enzyklopädie Der Philosophischen Wis senschaften Im Grundris se’ 1817. Web.ss='lgc'>]

ss="ppl">Hegel makes a distinction of two modalities of s cls s="trms">mems>oryss='lgc'>:
(1) ‘Erinnerung’ (s cls s="trms">inters>nalized s cls s="trms">mems>ory, which is s cls s="trms">situs>ated in the heart), (it could also be s cls s="trms">hallucins>atory, might dependent on an s cls s="trms">inters>iority that isn't there!);
(2 and this one concerns archive) ‘Gedechnis’ (s cls s="trms">techns>ological s cls s="trms">mems>ory, a supplement or prosthetic device that reminds you. ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> it's mechanical, it's on the side of death and forgetting, a kind of s cls s="trms">mems>ory that needs to be prompted) (to choose the s cls s="trms">techns>ology of s cls s="trms">writs>ing/archive the subject of s cls s="trms">mems>ory is so screwed.)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>everything depends on the ways we res cls s="trms">mems>ber!

ss='lgc'>[footnote on German s cls s="trms">mems>oryss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>[blackwellreference.com, entryss='lgc'>: “s cls s="trms">mems>ory, recollection and s cls s="trms">imagis>nation"ss='lgc'>]
ss="ppl">Plato's doctrine that all learning is the recollection (anamnésis) of things previously known but later forgotten casts a shadow over the ideas cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>s’ uses of Erinnerung.

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is any act of res cls s="trms">mems>brance also a traumatic experience?span> (ss="ppl">Freudian take on s cls s="trms">mems>ory) ss='lgc'>-- archive is so “not” traumatic therefore a tool of amnesia. (archive in digital agess='lgc'>: the oblivion of availability ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> media theory)
can we think of a non-traumatic s cls s="trms">gests>ure of s cls s="trms">socis>alization of s cls s="trms">mems>ory?span> or s cls s="trms">mems>orial activity “has” to be violent in order to be res cls s="trms">mems>bered?span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">sublims>e) (like what s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis> does, tattooing me, every time he tells me one of his s cls s="trms">storiess> of trauma)
like i said before, “who” wants to res cls s="trms">mems>ber?span>

(masculinity is s cls s="trms">writs>ten all over this s cls s="trms">anxis>ety-ridden res cls s="trms">mems>brance ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ress='lgc'>+s cls s="trms">mems>ber, bringing back the s cls s="trms">syms>bolically lost phallusss='lgc'>: “s cls s="trms">mems>ber” means “the male organ of copulation” in English)

trauma makes available, brings back lost objects to the consciousnes s, in a psychoanalytical sense. is then the digital archive an absolute oblivion?span>

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///////// newer notes, saved in 11 s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>September 2016 /////////

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ss='lgc'>[as ss="ppl">Holderlin announces that the “remains” for which s cls s="trms">poes>ts are s cls s="trms">respons>sible.ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">mems>ory (don't let engineers build you archives! let the s cls s="trms">poes>t be s cls s="trms">respons>sible for whatever has “remained.”) ss='lgc'>[this would be ss="ppl">Holderlinian advicess='lgc'>]
-inappropriable remainder(s)
span>
s cls s="trms">mems>ory/res cls s="trms">mems>ber is sojourn

the importance of archive is today perhaps not in creating one but in s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing them.
ss='lgc'>--how many archive we still need to s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> and probe and consider, with concepts or para-concepts that we thought we had a hold on.

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being ens cls s="trms">folds>ed is often a strategy for survival (?span>, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Marks)
(ss="ppl">Akira Mizuta ss="ppl">Lippitss='lgc'>:) things are not saved by being archived (Borgesian nightmare)
s cls s="trms">histos>ries for which the s cls s="trms">presens>t is not s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> what are those sites where s cls s="trms">histos>ries slip into latency?span>

(how not?span>) <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>to enter a culture from outside<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> (problem of the prophet, both Moses and ss="ppl">Freud) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>everything depends on the ways we ‘bring’ things<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[bringing monotheism, destruction, etc.ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> (s cls s="trms">socis>al and s cls s="trms">materis>al) milieu thinking (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to think about Baten in Baten)

(art's will and the judgment of value that informs it...) Kunstwollen's desire to grow and s cls s="trms">traves>l

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ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Ariella ss="ppl">Azoulayss='lgc'>]

() the ops cls s="trms">posits>ion between keeping and putting away, preservation and cancelation.

archivess='lgc'>: the home of the dialectic of preservation and cancellation

...when fully lit and relatively flat

ss="ppl">Derridass='lgc'>: (archive) “is a s cls s="trms">questions> of the future, the s cls s="trms">questions> of the future itself, the s cls s="trms">questions> of a s cls s="trms">respons>se, of a promise and of a s cls s="trms">respons>sibility for tomorrow.”

archive's ss="ppl">Foucauldian “space of appearance”

constructed as ex-territorial and as a receptacle (makhzan) for the s cls s="trms">pasts>

archive is not a fortres s external to our s cls s="trms">worlds>, with us as its pilgrims

(the s cls s="trms">ontos>logical performance of filling a document)

(a constellation, aimed at distancing and disturbing us)

collecting ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> grouping
extracting ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> sharing
cataloguing ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> indexing and tagging

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(for ss="ppl">Freudss='lgc'>:) trauma <ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=> s cls s="trms">mems>ory
(for ss="ppl">Nietzschess='lgc'>:) “Man could never do without blood, torture, and sacrifices when he felt the need to create a s cls s="trms">mems>ory for himself.” ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ‘ritual’ may be seen as a way to keep s cls s="trms">mems>ory alive without the experience of pain?span>
(ss="ppl">Bataille after ss="ppl">Nietzschess='lgc'>:) ‘sacrednes s’ss='lgc'>: the revelation of continuity through the death of a discontinuous being

within the political art domain the “I feel your pain” has s cls s="trms">syms>pathetic currency. one is punished by drawing public attention to their pleasures
(I feel your pleasures ss='lgc'>=/=) “sense of pain” ss='lgc'>[an as set of the artistss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>==establishesss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> awarenes s of the existence of the body

proces sing is largely parallel, while, attention is largely serial

disciplines of the s cls s="trms">moderns> subject
(in artistic work the unsolved is sue remiansss='lgc'>:) s cls s="trms">techns>niques for/of the external control

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ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>] which spaciotemporal vectors are embeded in the archive, as a s cls s="trms">moderns> feeling of arrow that thrusts forward s cls s="trms">differens>tiating s cls s="trms">pasts> from the future, “archaic” from the “advanced”?span>

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>] archive produces a “yesterday”
a ds cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ous arrow of time that is constituted and announced
-how do we attend the s cls s="trms">histos>ries of implication and attachment?span>
span>
futurity ss='lgc'>[aghebat s>عاقبتs>, (even) akherat s>اخرتs>ss='lgc'>], the promis of the archive

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traumass='lgc'>: that which it won't tell its s cls s="trms">storys> ss='lgc'>=/= total recall
how can s cls s="trms">histos>ry tell?span>
s cls s="trms">histos>ry, a compensatory device?span>

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gist
s>جان کلامs>
s>مرادs>

ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Geoffrey ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowkerss='lgc'>]
http://www.ics.uci.edu/ss='lgc'>~gbowker/forget.html

Grand s cls s="trms">Histos>riographer, s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sima Qin (1994 ss='lgc'>[ca 100BCss='lgc'>]), s cls s="trms">writs>ing of the burning of the s cls s="trms">books>s in 213BC, notes that the Chief Minister adviced the emperor thatss='lgc'>: Aall who pos ses s s cls s="trms">literas>ture such as the s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Songs, the Documents, and the sayings of the hundred schools should get rid of it without penalty. If they have not got rid of it a full thirty days after the order has reached them, they should be branded and sent to do forced labor on the walls. there should be exemption for s cls s="trms">books>s concerned with medicine, pharmacy, divination by tortoise-shell and milfoil, the sowing of crops, and the planting of trees (31). In s cls s="trms">respons>se to this, the Emperor ordered the famous burning of the s cls s="trms">books>s - to s cls s="trms">cites> Qinss='lgc'>: Athe First Emperor collected up and got rid of the s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Songs, the Documents, and the sayings of the hundred schools in order to make the people stupid and ensure that in all under Heaven there should be no rejection of the s cls s="trms">presens>t by using the s cls s="trms">pasts>. The clarification of laws and regulations and the settling of statutes and ordinances all stared with the First Emperor. He standardized documents.

(to think of) s cls s="trms">mems>ory as a construction of the s cls s="trms">presens>t

analyzing organizational s cls s="trms">mems>ory
organizing analytical s cls s="trms">mems>ory
s cls s="trms">mems>orizing organizational analysis
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> multifaceted s cls s="trms">storiess> open to s cls s="trms">inters>pretation ss='lgc'>=/= true/false facts

<strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls>res cls s="trms">mems>beringss='lgc'>: an activity which carries with it its own context<strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls>

work on s cls s="nms">ajayebs> and my ongoing commentary on archive and s cls s="trms">mems>ory is part and parcel of the organizational theory

not to forget thatss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•rediscovery is easier than res cls s="trms">mems>bering
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•statistics ss='lgc'>--asss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> filtering mechanism ss='lgc'>--asss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> proactive forgetting
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•forgetting ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> change of identity ss='lgc'>['clean slate’ is very well known state to mysticism, ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> clearance(ss='lgc'>=?span> is to take away useles s theory) and os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ins in s cls s="trms">geomes>try - ss='at'>#ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Serresss='lgc'>]
sts>
organizational forgetting ss='lgc'>--producing/maintainingss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tems ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> move from heterogeneous forms of s cls s="trms">mems>ory operating within multiple frameworks ss='lgc'>[like s cls s="nms">ajayebs> s cls s="trms">bestiars>iesss='lgc'>] to the privileging of a form of s cls s="trms">mems>ory (potential s cls s="trms">mems>ory) operating within a well-defined information infrastructure subtended by clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tems. (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker)

if your work is an s cls s="trms">inters>mediary profes sion invisible and removed at the earliest opportunity from the official record, create a “ss='lgc'>[name of your practicess='lgc'>]-ing s cls s="trms">inters>ventions clas sification” (?span>!) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a fascinating s cls s="trms">syss>tem that creates a standardized s cls s="trms">languages> for describing what is it that your practice does in s cls s="trms">differens>t or difficult ways
other s cls s="trms">syss>tems (to organize and critique your accumulation of experience)ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•sensitive outcomes clas sification scheme
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•diagnosis scheme
sts> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>sometimes what you do does not need to leave a trace, like nursing (in which your duty is to res cls s="trms">mems>ber for others) ss='lgc'>[a profes sions without form ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~> nothing can be preserved, s cls s="trms">cods>ing s cls s="trms">pasts> knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> and linking it to current practicess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---in the context of the hospital's s cls s="trms">socis>os cls s="trms">techns>ical s cls s="trms">syss>temss='lgc'>], or cleaning ss='lgc'>[doing everything that nobody else doesss='lgc'>], or s cls s="trms">storys>telling ss='lgc'>[you have to go to a new country every day, going to a foreign zonesss='lgc'>], or certain kinds of performances ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Ariannas> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the intensity, focus, and complexity of caress='lgc'>], ss='lgc'>[going from being expert to novicess='lgc'>], and many times not s cls s="trms">cods>able into discrete units of work practice to be carried out on s cls s="trms">specifis>c occasions

in my hypertext s cls s="trms">writs>ing, am i trying to enable myself to talk about my workspan> in a s cls s="trms">languages> that computers could understand?span>

(do we need?span>) to get at (and maintain?span>) the deep structure of the one's s cls s="trms">situs>ation
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> transformational grammar
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> bring intuitive decision-making to a conscious level

ss='at'># the is sue of the validity or not of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> is entirely orthogonal to my purpose. I am producing an anatomy of what it has meant in the case of s cls s="trms">bestiars>y s cls s="trms">writs>ing to create such a s cls s="trms">scies>nce

(my is sue with) ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]strategyss='lgc'>: a way of managing a s cls s="trms">pasts> that threatens to grow out of control

(in working with s cls s="trms">bestiars>ies my researchspan> s cls s="trms">questions>ss='lgc'>:) what could provide for a good ordering of s cls s="trms">mems>ory?span>

-(which profes sions act as) distributed s cls s="trms">mems>ory s cls s="trms">syss>tem (for who?span>)
span> -(what blocks between) s cls s="trms">inters>nal s cls s="trms">mems>ory and external s cls s="trms">mems>ory ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the time needed to work complex res cls s="trms">presens>tations
span>
(we are trying to) s cls s="trms">situs>ate our activity visibly within an informationalss='lgc'>[?span><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>] s cls s="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> to be factored
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>in an informational s cls s="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>: accountabilityss='lgc'> = s cls s="trms">meass>urable, s cls s="trms">finits>e, packaged, ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>--✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (other modes of) invisible and s cls s="trms">articulats>ion work

...when s cls s="trms">techns>icians/artists seeking new ways of s cls s="trms">writs>ing (s cls s="trms">scies>ntific/s cls s="trms">poes>tic) papers so that their work gets acknowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>d ss='lgc'>==(and yet)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> the s cls s="trms">naturs>e of their (s cls s="trms">scies>ntific/artistic) truth is not impeached<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> and sometimes we restructure our work so that (organizational, informational or truth-related) challenges will not be neces sary ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (at the end of the day there will be ss='lgc'>[always?span>ss='lgc'>] an) information infrastructure for the kind of work which contains an account of your activity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> “informational panoptica” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker)

the clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tems we are giving to embed in the tools and reports we give in s cls s="nms">apas ss>

(in s cls s="nms">apas ss> problematically we are asked to) copy the transparency of our activity from one res cls s="trms">presens>tational space (s cls s="trms">inters>nal s cls s="trms">mems>ory, nomenclature, s cls s="trms">pasts> events, paper) to another (computerized record, giving a talk, time-framing) (ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="trms">contingens>cy) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> an s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of attention ss='lgc'>: <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>what can be forgotten and what should be res cls s="trms">mems>bered<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> development of (information) infrastructure
what is res cls s="trms">mems>bered in the formal information s cls s="trms">syss>tems ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">ontos>logy of that s cls s="trms">syss>tem

...recorded on a form; and forms neces sarily impose/s cls s="trms">naturs>alize clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tems (through the form's speed, rhythm, dimension, and how its s cls s="trms">specifis>cations are implemented) <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
(how am i working this in my pop-up s cls s="trms">books> and hypertex?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> clas sification scheme of relevant events for my researchspan>)
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>informational space is (sufficiently well) pre-structured ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> some things/details can be as sumed or are dropped out of the res cls s="trms">presens>tational space
-in my pop-up s cls s="trms">books> i am ens cls s="trms">cods>ing a kind of s cls s="trms">mems>ory in an organizational file ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==>?span> “potential s cls s="trms">mems>ory” (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= pos sible future reconstructions) ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- rejecting the ways in which s cls s="trms">mems>ory is structured in the organization named s cls s="nms">Irans>, or Middle East, or Germany, or Europe,
span> needed for development of potential s cls s="trms">mems>oryss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(forms of) erasure of local context ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to some degree this is always done
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(forms of) clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tem ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> computerized, s cls s="trms">affects>ual, or s cls s="trms">materis>ally textured s cls s="trms">categs>ories
sts>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> construction is always reconstruction <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

artificial s cls s="trms">mems>ory (characteristic of the 16th centuryss='lgc'>:) “a search for the perfectly proportioned image containing the ‘soul’ of the knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> to be res cls s="trms">mems>bered” ss='lgc'>--toss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> discovery of the s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht logical s cls s="trms">categs>ory ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> clas sifying the s cls s="trms">mems>orization the s cls s="trms">worlds> s cls s="trms">scies>ntifically

clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tem ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> filter ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ens cls s="trms">cods>ing (of information about the environment) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> coherent frameworkss='lgc'> = s cls s="trms">mems>ory (s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Schachter, 1996)

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker > Matsuda > Edouard Claparede's experiment (1907) of having a strs cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers> rush into the clas sroom, do something outrageous, and then have students describe what happened ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “that the s cls s="trms">pasts>ss='lgc'>--even of a simple eventss='lgc'>--was les s a record than a s cls s="trms">sorts> of taxonomy. Not perceptions, but s cls s="trms">categs>orization of familiar types was the major function of s cls s="trms">mems>ory”
ss='at'>#bambi

pigeonholing of facts

how s cls s="nms">apas ss> as an organizations is s cls s="trms">cods>ing for artistic research within the framework of their s cls s="trms">mems>ory s cls s="trms">syss>tems?span>

“There is no room on the ss='lgc'>[fillingss='lgc'>] form to s cls s="trms">writs>e an es say on race identity politics.”

do we need to develop and standardize my discipline-s cls s="trms">specifis>c nomenclature (in our research micros cls s="trms">worlds>) in order to name without ambiguity?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> redes cls s="trms">finits>ion of disciplinary boundaries ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> shaping of your work so that its future practice converges on potential s cls s="trms">mems>ory

we murder, they note
they draw from their secretss='lgc'>[sss='lgc'>]

infrastructure-thinkingss='lgc'>: Ajayeb s cls s="trms">Networks>-Making Minimum s cls s="trms">Datas> s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Set
in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">literas>ture the very information infrastructure itself (should let be or) is in flux ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> discourses make strange connections between themselves
-in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> the infrastructure as sumes the s cls s="trms">posits>ion of every node ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> reworked in my ss='at'>#s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs>s
span>
“...we are afloat in a sea of multiple, fractured s cls s="trms">causas>lities each s cls s="trms">demands>ing their own clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>temsss='lgc'>--and their own s cls s="trms">apparatuss> of record collection.” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker)

clas sification (s cls s="trms">syss>tems)ss='lgc'>: a warrant and a tool for forgetting, and operating the distribution of this forgetting (in space of s cls s="trms">scies>ntific s cls s="trms">mems>ory.)
it tells you what to forget (for example the s cls s="trms">religs>ious and s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ical,) and how to forget it

ss='lgc'>[the formation (training) of artists covers up the formation (production) of artistic knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>ss='lgc'>]
-the s cls s="trms">socis>al s cls s="trms">storys> of s cls s="trms">scies>nce is exs cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>ded from the organization of the s cls s="trms">scies>nces, and held outside of it ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="trms">situs>ated knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>
span> -a s cls s="trms">naturs>al hierarchy of s cls s="trms">scies>nces is offeredss='lgc'>: every discipline needs to res cls s="trms">mems>ber only a given set of facts ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> each type of s cls s="trms">mems>ory which has been distributed in space will also be sequenced in time (http://s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net/?span>q=imperativess='lgc'>+ofss='lgc'>+knowing) ss='lgc'>[ss='thdf'>for example mathematics ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> physics ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> chemistry ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> biology ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">socis>ologyss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> formal s cls s="trms">mems>ory s cls s="trms">syss>tem
span>
the problem of the detective is that for him only those facts are relevant that hand him the solution of crime (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> goal-oriented individual diss cls s="trms">posits>ion) ss='lgc'>=/= chasing rabbits
-the detective (has to) clas sify away tracesss='lgc'>: the s cls s="trms">syss>tematic and deliberate forgetting of some actions in order to better res cls s="trms">mems>ber others
span> -what makes a s cls s="trms">differens>ce?span>
span> -in s cls s="trms">sorts>ing s cls s="trms">animals>s which s cls s="trms">pasts> knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="nms">ajayebs>) are deliberatly forgotten in order to res cls s="trms">mems>ber them as incorporated into an information infrastructure called ‘s cls s="trms">species>s’?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->! the clas sified are res cls s="trms">mems>bered (in the s cls s="trms">techns>os cls s="trms">scies>nce s cls s="trms">worlds>)
span>
(what is the) complex s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of s cls s="trms">mems>ory practices (particular within s cls s="nms">apas ss>?span>)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hodas> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> politics of res cls s="trms">mems>brance
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="frds scrmbld">Zoumanas> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">situs>ated perspective
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">narrats>able s cls s="trms">pasts>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="frds scrmbld">Marialenas> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> type of s cls s="trms">languages>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S
sts>
today, 18.07.2017, the s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> can be stored and expres sed in a quite restricted range of genres called myth, ancient, s cls s="trms">imagis>nary,

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http://www.ics.uci.edu/ss='lgc'>~gbowker/records.html

we have learned from ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Foucault that s cls s="trms">differens>t (medical) records, s cls s="trms">differens>t practices of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing and s cls s="trms">writs>ing are s cls s="trms">inters>twined with the production of s cls s="trms">differens>t patient's bodies, body politic, and bodies of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>
ss='at'>@Olga

record is the s cls s="trms">storys> of the organizational infrastructure ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Marialenas>, Olgass='lgc'>]

ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Foucault on knowing in the practice of medicine:ss='lgc'>] cascade of inscriptions ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">writs>ing ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> totality of observers/observations ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> “true knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>"ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">moderns> clinical gaze ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> pathological proces ses of individual bodies (ss='lgc'>=/= medicine of s cls s="trms">species>sss='lgc'>: individual s cls s="trms">syms>ptoms / medical knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>, es sential truth beneath the sensible individuality)

...a body which hides the es sences of the disease ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> production of the organizations which enact and treat it

How is the patient (or choreographic) body's s cls s="trms">specifis>c s cls s="trms">geomes>try and its s cls s="trms">histos>ricity created?span>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>body is produced through s cls s="trms">embods>ied, s cls s="trms">materis>ally heterogeneous work

(ss="ppl">Foucauldian) diss cls s="trms">posits>ifss='lgc'>: a s cls s="trms">networks> within which the body acquires its s cls s="trms">specifis>c s cls s="trms">ontos>logy

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour < ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowkerss='lgc'>:) the record ‘mediates’ the s cls s="trms">relations>s that it organizes, the bodies that are configured through it

regarding record, we can be concerned withss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•practices of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing and s cls s="trms">writs>ing which bring the record to life
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mapping the cons cls s="trms">figurats>ions the record helps bring into being
sts>
how the structuring of the record speaks to the structuring of the bodies (of the artists?span>) we investigate?span> (ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sofias>, Olga)

record ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{
production of human bodies
organizational hierarchies
selective s cls s="trms">mems>ories

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Ribes ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker - Between Meaning and Machine.pdf

...in the wake of s cls s="trms">ontos>logies
in participating in knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> projects, first we learn about s cls s="trms">ontos>logies and then learned how to create them
(we rarely “produce” knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>, we always participate)

s cls s="trms">ontos>logyss='lgc'>: an information s cls s="trms">techns>ology for res cls s="trms">presens>ting specialized knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> in order toss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•facilitate s cls s="trms">communs>ication acros s disciplines
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•share s cls s="trms">datas>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•enable collaboration
sts>
(am i) res cls s="trms">presens>ting the knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of my s cls s="trms">communs>ities (?span>) ss='lgc'>-- what does that mean?span>

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">routins>ization<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (is that which is at stake in s cls s="trms">ontos>logies) ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>apprehension<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>: orientation to the informational organization of ones field
(to attend the s cls s="trms">routins>izations and apprehensions in one's own practice ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">ontos>logy building)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•my s cls s="trms">routins>es of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing, highlighting, s cls s="trms">writs>ing, idios cls s="trms">syncs>ratic talks, feedbacks, s cls s="trms">questions>s, silences,
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (attend to the) transformative consequences of learning and s cls s="trms">traves>rsing s cls s="trms">routins>es ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>+ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the practice and s cls s="trms">materis>al tools that accompany the reworking of them ss='lgc'>{knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> in informational terms, s cls s="trms">fables>s, etc.ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> problematic of s cls s="trms">inters>-operability
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (and asking) how a (broader) s cls s="trms">communs>ity's s cls s="trms">inters>ests are at stake with this?span> ss='lgc'>{to engage and enrol that s cls s="trms">communs>ity through what activities?span>ss='lgc'>} ss='at'>#micros cls s="trms">worlds>

ss="large lg14" stl="font-size:119%"> (my s cls s="trms">routins>esss='lgc'>:) with confidence deliberately working withss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">inters>rupting s cls s="trms">storiess> with s cls s="trms">storiess>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•partial connection (and its performance)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•moving arguments through by infecting them with other arguments (ss='lgc'>=/= dialectical)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mobilizing (multidisciplinary) fields (ss='lgc'>=/= the imperative of knowing A, B, and C first before you do D)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mobilizing s cls s="trms">citas>tion s cls s="trms">apparatuss> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> that which gives sense to what enables this work ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> deliberately having a conversation with s cls s="nms">s cls s="nms">ajayebs> al makhlughats>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mobilizing anachronic s cls s="trms">apparatuss> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> mobilizing s cls s="trms">differens>t timescales ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> mixing up what counts as “us” (ss='lgc'>=/= chronology ss='lgc'>[?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> belongingss='lgc'>])
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•res cls s="trms">mems>bering what one knows (and organizing, performing, reworking it)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•having stakes in rationality (i constantly criticize rationality, but as you can see, i am not at all throwing it out)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•omnivorous approach
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
s cls s="trms">wilds> facts amenable (s>تابعs>) to formal res cls s="trms">presens>tation (formal modeling)

s cls s="trms">routins>ess='lgc'>: practically enacted, having no existence outside its performance, embedded in the cons cls s="trms">figurats>ion of s cls s="trms">materis>al resources that enable practical work

ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>#workshop s cls s="trms">fables>sss='lgc'>] how, by s cls s="trms">traves>rsing the s cls s="trms">routins>e, “knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>” and “s cls s="trms">communs>ity” took on new meaning, as they were res cls s="trms">articulats>ed in the s cls s="trms">differens>t s cls s="trms">languages>s

uncertain activities of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>

(what i am learning in s cls s="nms">apas ss> is that) modeling s cls s="trms">ontos>logies involves s cls s="trms">articulats>ing knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> in ways that sometimes appears alien to that domain s cls s="trms">communs>ity
ss='lgc'>[asking with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker:ss='lgc'>] for my s cls s="trms">ontos>logy-building to appear res cls s="trms">presens>tative, does my s cls s="trms">communs>ity itself have to learn the goals and s cls s="trms">languages> of my knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> modeling?span> (the s cls s="trms">questions> i asked s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Svens>, telling others ‘this or that is the s cls s="trms">languages> i am using.’) (i am using a s cls s="trms">languages> that is ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Harawayian, ss="ppl">Ronellian, s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sadrian)

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http://www.ics.uci.edu/ss='lgc'>~gbowker/actnet.html

...it is easy to get lost in ss="ppl">Baudrillard's cool s cls s="trms">mems>ories of simulacra (1990)

at stakess='lgc'>: day to day work of building clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tem

things to learnd from actor-s cls s="trms">networks> approachss='lgc'>: (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour, Callon > ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•regimes of delegation
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•centrality of mediation
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the s cls s="trms">posits>ion that s cls s="trms">naturs>e and s cls s="trms">socis>ety are not causes but consequences of human s cls s="trms">scies>ntific and tachnical work
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “s cls s="trms">techns>os cls s="trms">scies>ntific s cls s="trms">socis>eties are powerful precisely because they are so good at delegating and distributing; and that actor-s cls s="trms">networks> theory is well s cls s="trms">posits>ion to track and describe the work of delegation and distribution.”

fact is a consequence
(Dewey)

(in a way, my workspan> and s cls s="trms">inters>est in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is about s cls s="trms">histos>ries of standards in knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> production, which, i argue, is key to all s cls s="trms">sorts>s of other productions) (& the politics of res cls s="trms">mems>brance ss='lgc'>: the politics and philosophy of clas sifying certain textual/s cls s="trms">materis>al activities such that they have a chance of being part of the cultural <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>potential<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> s cls s="trms">mems>ory)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{Olga, s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hodas>, s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sanas>ss='lgc'>}
artists are using a lot of standards (of res cls s="trms">presens>tations or s cls s="trms">materis>als)
(out of) control standards
-there is a huge amount of standards i am depending on in my hypertext
span> -s cls s="trms">inters>national diplomacy depends on manufacturing and enforcement of standard s cls s="trms">vocabulars>y ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> how much are we really in diplomatic busines ses?span>
span>
Googless='lgc'>: “To organize the s cls s="trms">worlds>'s information and make it universally acces sible and useful”

standards are oftenss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•making things work together
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•enforced by legal bodies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•have their own (significant) inertia ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> hard to change, and is not about the s cls s="trms">techns>ically superior standards winning ss='lgc'>[DOs s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S, VHs s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S, A4, etc.ss='lgc'>]
sts> standards ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>aspect of acting in the s cls s="trms">worlds><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> clas sifications

what are (or have been) the behind the ss cls s="trms">cenes>s, boring, background proces ses of the “real” work of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> (and any s cls s="trms">pasts> and practical politics of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> production)?span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> becoming s cls s="trms">inters>ested in a wider scope of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ingss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">rhetors>ics, s cls s="trms">semios>tics, objectivity, analysis, architecture,)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">histos>rically creation of the infrastructure
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ubiquity and webbed saturation of clas sifying and standardizing
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">materis>ally textured (layered, tangled)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•their negotiated s cls s="trms">naturs>e
sts>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>distribution of s cls s="trms">mems>ory (and distribution of res cls s="trms">presens>tation)ss='lgc'>:
X ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">histos>rical s cls s="trms">contingens>cies ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a s cls s="trms">narrats>ive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> practical politics ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> standard s cls s="trms">narrats>ive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> universal s cls s="trms">categs>ory ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> erases its own s cls s="trms">narrats>ological s cls s="trms">pasts>, (employed s cls s="trms">inters>nallyss='lgc'>+externally) deletion of modalities in the development of (s cls s="trms">scies>ntific) texts; ss='lgc'>[a modality can be deleted in a number of s cls s="trms">differens>t waysss='lgc'>: ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>] it might be distributed (held in another part of the organization than in that which produces the text), ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>] built into the infrastructure (the work environment is changed such that the modality is never encountered), etc. ss='lgc'>=/= ss='at'>#accountabilityss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> fact (ss='lgc'>+ single s cls s="trms">articulats>ion, only one plot of s cls s="trms">datas>) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> mobilizing a set of black-boxesss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{s cls s="frds scrmbld">Xiris>'s “queers,” s cls s="frds scrmbld">Eszters>'s “participants,”ss='lgc'>: what goes inside these black-boxes and how they look like, is seen as irrelevant for them. ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">translats>ing from the context of storage to the s cls s="trms">presens>t s cls s="trms">situs>ation (one might store a fact for reason X but recall it for reason Y) ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowkerss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>}
X ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> indeterminacy &span> multiplicity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> conflict ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> negotiations ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> standard

where to make the cuts in the s cls s="trms">syss>tem, for example, down to what level of detail one s cls s="trms">specifis>es a description of work, of an illnes s, of a setting, ss='lgc'>[of an s cls s="trms">animals>, of a queernes s, of a subjectivity, and so on.ss='lgc'>]

residual s cls s="trms">categs>ories ss='lgc'>{rest, others, miscellaneous,ss='lgc'>} are ubiquitous

what are the mismatches between subs cls s="trms">syss>tems in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> and Qur'an?span>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “cumulative mes s s cls s="trms">trajects>ory” (ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Straus s) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> when the s cls s="trms">trajects>ories become so tangled that you can't return and the s cls s="trms">inters>actions multiply

we are riding on s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>es to move in a s cls s="trms">denss>ely clas sified s cls s="trms">worlds>

“There is no way of ever getting acces s to the s cls s="trms">pasts> except through clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tems of one s cls s="trms">sorts> or another - formal or informal, hierarchical or not” ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“in the 14th century” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> segmentation of time, s cls s="trms">syss>tem of calendar
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“s cls s="nms">Irans>ian” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> discourse of national genius only arose in the 19th century
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“revolution” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> our current conception of ‘revolution’ is marked by the s cls s="trms">histos>riographical work of Karl ss="ppl">Marx
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(s cls s="trms">histos>riographical traditions)
sts>
compare first lines of Halaj's biography in ss="ppl">Attar and Wikipediass='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s>آن فی الله فی سبیل الله آن شیر بیشه تحقیق آن شجاع صفدر صدیق آن غرقه دریای مواج حسین منصور حلاج رحمةالله علیه کار او کاری عجب بود و واقعات غرایب که خاص او را بود که هم در غایت سوز و اشتیاق بود و در شدت لهب و فراق مست و بی‌قرار و شوریده روزگار بود و عاشق صادق و پاک باز و جد وجهدی عظیم داشت و ریاضتی و کرامتی عجب و عالی همت و رفیع قدر بود او را تصانیف بسیار استs> ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>]
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•Mansur al-Hallaj (ss="ppl">Arabicss='lgc'>: Abū ‘l-Muġīṭ Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ; Persianss='lgc'>: Mansūr-e Ḥallāj) (c. 858 – 26 March 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH – 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, s cls s="trms">poes>t and teacher of s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sufism ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>]
sts>

(at the end it is the colonialism that) decides what a disease is ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>=/= other s cls s="trms">syss>tem/culture (fragile s cls s="trms">networks>s) for clas sifying diseases of the body and spirit, such as s cls s="nms">ajayebs>. (for example see how s cls s="trms">schizos>phrenia is clas sified and understood)ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> practical s cls s="trms">ontos>logy
res cls s="trms">presens>tation of the s cls s="trms">pasts>
sequencing of the s cls s="trms">presens>t
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> making it appear that s cls s="trms">scies>nce describes s cls s="trms">naturs>e ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">socis>al power

(at the end you see only those actants who are strong enough, and shaped in the s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht way, to impact)

“ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] the loosest clas sification of work is s cls s="trms">accords>ed to those with the most power and discretion, who are able to set their own terms.” ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker 1996

s cls s="trms">lingus>a franca of the medical insurance companies

actor s cls s="trms">networks> theoryss='lgc'>: looking in detail at the role of (relatively) black-boxed hybrids ss='lgc'>[what s cls s="trms">scies>ntists are actually manufacturingss='lgc'>] in creating the discourse of pure s cls s="trms">scies>nce (as endpoint)

s cls s="trms">scies>nce's objective account of s cls s="trms">naturs>al orderss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•trials of strength
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•enrolling of allies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•cascades of inscriptions
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•operation of immutable mobiles
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> development of standards

‘Janus face’ of s cls s="trms">scies>nce
ss='lgc'>[Janus, in ancient Roman is the god of beginnings, gates, s cls s="trms">transits>ions, time, duality, doorways, pas sages, and endings. a god of s cls s="trms">transits>ions. having two faces, he looks to the future and to the s cls s="trms">pasts>. (s cls s="trms">Greeks>s had no equivalent to Janus.)ss='lgc'>]

when your work (artistic/s cls s="trms">scies>ntific) can be seen as a direct s cls s="trms">translats>ion of the quest for s cls s="nms">Irans>ian/French honor after defeat in the battlefield ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the actors don't see what is exs cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>dedss='lgc'>: they construct a s cls s="trms">worlds> in which that exs cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on could occur

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">accords>ing to American s cls s="trms">pragmas>tist strongholdsss='lgc'>:) realityss='lgc'> = 'that which resists’

common s cls s="trms">languages> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= standard s cls s="trms">languages>
(we can't talk about the commons without s cls s="trms">sorts>ing out our understanding of our standard-saturated s cls s="trms">worlds>)

(my hypertext is not s cls s="trms">datas>-driven ss='lgc'>[= a s cls s="trms">syss>tem with focus on the acquisition, management, proces sing, and s cls s="trms">presens>tation of ‘atomic-level’ s cls s="trms">datas>ss='lgc'>] nor a proces s-driven (or proces s-sensitive s cls s="trms">syss>tem, for example delivering a care), what is it then?span>) (also not s cls s="trms">syss>tematically storing ss='lgc'>[myss='lgc'>] “knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>” for later acces s, storage of information in such long-term s cls s="trms">mems>ory, no no no)
-is it a support for my various tasks and practices outside the computer?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">exces ss>-driven s cls s="trms">storys>tellings ss='lgc'>=/= minimum s cls s="trms">datas> set
span> -a non-s cls s="trms">datas>-driven s cls s="trms">syss>tems in this s cls s="trms">socis>ety are named secretive and mysterious in the name of transparency
span> ss='at'>#in a way i am building an adequate mode of encounter with the “s cls s="nms">Irans>ian s cls s="trms">scies>ntist”

they draw from their secretss='lgc'>[sss='lgc'>]

a s cls s="trms">techns>ical is sue (for example about how to s cls s="trms">cods>e proces s) is also a an organizational theory

s cls s="trms">socis>al embeddednes s of s cls s="trms">scies>ntific truth

(s cls s="trms">authors>s of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> approached s cls s="trms">naturs>e not in a way to sketch the boundaries of a discrete s cls s="trms">animals> event, therefore, a unit of analysis, (which is very s cls s="trms">naturs>al at 21st century;) rather an infrastructure itself in flux, providing an uns cls s="trms">naturs>al hierarchy)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> this is my s cls s="trms">rhetors>ical s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>

as long as you/God pays attention to them, they will continue to exist

‘uninventing X’ss='lgc'>: changing s cls s="trms">socis>ety and s cls s="trms">techns>ology in such a way that the X becomes an impos sibility. (Donald Mackenzie)
development and maintenance of s cls s="trms">techns>ical standards is a site of political decisions and struggle

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against ss='thdf'>the idea that “s cls s="trms">pasts> is a s cls s="trms">differens>t country, they do things s cls s="trms">differens>tly there”

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>how we are creating s cls s="trms">differens>t kinds of s cls s="trms">pasts> (out of the information infrastructures that we build)?span>

(pointed out by ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker) the whole notion of big s cls s="trms">datas> is coming from the invention of census (amar-giri s>آمارگیریs>) in late 18th century, as its predeces sor in a genealogy of s cls s="trms">techns>iques of government. “big s cls s="trms">datas> is grown up around that idea of control” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> statisticsss='lgc'>: (etymologically) the s cls s="trms">scies>nce of the state<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
“I” ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== me ss='lgc'>+ my s cls s="trms">datas>

heavily informated s cls s="trms">worlds>

flashbulb s cls s="trms">mems>ory<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
‘what were you doing when ss='at'>#s cls s="nms">Bambis>'s mother got shot?span>’ people have vivid but 80%span> of the time wronge s cls s="trms">mems>ories of that day ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> we are good at creating certainty in s cls s="trms">mems>ory, but not very good at recognizing the ways s cls s="trms">pasts> is s cls s="trms">differens>tly configured s cls s="trms">accords>ing to s cls s="trms">differens>t kinds of <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">mems>ory practice<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

the eternal flame file type/format

the psychoanalyst of Tintin

active archiving is about the framing of the s cls s="trms">presens>t, and not about the future record

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>coms cls s="trms">mems>oration is behind a lot of the ways in which we create s cls s="trms">mems>ories and s cls s="trms">histos>ries (on the web)ss='lgc'>: that there will be someone who has the time to go back and recognize the values we have created ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> recognize ourselves as monuments in the s cls s="trms">worlds>

(thinking with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker fL94LVYjhQQ) as new entities will come to being in the s cls s="trms">worlds>, instead of creating acces s to what is reconfiguring of the s cls s="trms">pasts> we lock ourselves into single unitary visions of the s cls s="trms">pasts> totally unneces sary ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> that is exactly what i am trying to do, providing and creating a kind of approach to what would be an acces s to a reconfiguring of the s cls s="trms">pasts>, s cls s="nms">ajayebs> as the case in a s cls s="trms">Farsis> speaking s cls s="trms">worlds>

on way or another, s cls s="trms">datas>bases are structured objects, they constraint the forms of s cls s="trms">narrats>ive you can take ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> a restrict set of s cls s="trms">storiess> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> when we are dealing with s cls s="trms">datas>base we don't have an ins cls s="trms">finits>e sets of s cls s="trms">narrats>ive space

i am taking a theological alterity discourse from pre-enlightenment (islamicated s cls s="trms">cosmos>logy) and puting it in ss='lgc'>[...?span>ss='lgc'>]<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour is putting it in s cls s="trms">scies>ntific style of faith)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•artistic research practices/discourses
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">moderns> s cls s="nms">Irans>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">moderns> culture
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
non-contemplative intelligence basing the s cls s="trms">datas>base in our time (ss='lgc'>=/= older traditions of sequencing)

ss="large lg30" stl="font-size:102%"> <smlbrkr stl="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................smlbrkr>

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>deterioration of the immanent (eco-, politico-,) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> corruption of s cls s="trms">socis>al s cls s="trms">relations>s ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> corruption of s cls s="trms">mems>ory<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> (of a shared existence, of coexistence with ss='lgc'>[Div, jinn, shadow, s cls s="trms">birds>s, Hindus, Arabs, ss='lgc'>]) !!!ss='lgc'>--✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> is sues of s cls s="trms">histos>rical injustice
-or-
span> corruption of a river ss='lgc'>: the entropy and deterioration immanent to it ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> conditions of pos sibility for corruption of intimate s cls s="trms">relations>s and of s cls s="trms">mems>ory ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--(ss='lgc'>[thisss='lgc'>] experience of corruption)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> takes the s cls s="trms">naturs>e of being defrauded (s>روزگار فريبکارs>) of one's own form of life, one's family or one's ins cls s="trms">herits>ance<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>

(ss="ppl">Naveeda ss="ppl">Khan talking about river's point of view in Bangladesh, but her keywords are all relevant for s cls s="nms">Irans>'s landscape as well)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>the muslim s cls s="trms">respons>ses to entropy<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>==?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> eschatology
ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> muslim majority regions are more embeded in the s cls s="trms">worlds> that what we know from islam

s>سازشs>
limits of “adaptation”

a rapport ss='lgc'>~ s>ربط تقریباً همگامs>
or orientation s>جهتگيرىs>

a looming future

“ss='lgc'>[howss='lgc'>] politics and policies of climate change stand to shortchange the s cls s="trms">presens>t and the s cls s="trms">pasts>”

ss="ppl">Naveeda ss="ppl">Khan exploring the perception of climate change within everyday life

those who live on such formations ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>[powerful river waters, eroding, accreting, village politics, dynamics of individual lives,ss='lgc'>]

fret s>ترش کردنs>

s>مزروعىs> arable lands

thinking riversss='lgc'>:
to consider water as a ‘total s cls s="trms">socis>al fact’, to think hos cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ically about water ss='lgc'>[Caton &span> Ors cls s="trms">lovs>ess='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>=/= ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Naveeda'sss='lgc'>] climate thinking ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> that there is s cls s="trms">specifis>city that needs attendingss='lgc'>: rivers are major conduits s>هادىs> of ‘connectivity’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> domain of localized s cls s="trms">inters>actions
-to take the river to convey local, s cls s="trms">embods>ied knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> within the longer temporalities and emergent horizons (ass cls s="trms">socis>ated with climate change,) (new global urgencies produced by climate thinking)
span>
a sufficient sense of the river

(Cavell < ss="ppl">Naveeda's) there-nes s of the riverss='lgc'>: “the rivers are a distinctive and significant locale at which human beings, though not only human beings, find their dwelling place.” Cavell s cls s="trms">respons>ds thus, “The river s cls s="trms">poes>tizes the human being because, in providing <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the unity of locality and journeying<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> it conceals and reveals Dasein's being and becoming ‘homely,’ homelike, I might say, homebound.”

in an analytical approach to examine separately ss='lgc'>[that is ‘to model'ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>: narative actions and ss='lgc'>[-ianss='lgc'>] images

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Marks’ understanding of film as conveying the corporeality of objects

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]milieu
a powerful concept with genealogy acros s a range of disciplines ss='lgc'>[physics, biology, geography, s cls s="trms">literas>ture ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> orienting our use of itss='lgc'>]
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•18th centuryss='lgc'>: the fluid or ether in which physical bodies are immersed ss='lgc'>==(that enable their)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">inters>-dependence (ss='at'>#shena, shenavar?span>) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> milieu becomes universal
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•19th centuryss='lgc'>: as producing circumstances that changes needs ss='lgc'>[Lamarckss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> for ss="ppl">Darwin milieu only produced change (at the level of the organism's phenotype)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•milieu rendered as complexes of elements whose actions s cls s="trms">mutuals>ly limit each other and in which the effects of causes become causes in turn, modifying the causes that gave rise to them. (ss="ppl">Canguilhem)
sts>
nature material computation atom science knowledge representation zoom simulation innovation wealth Hydrogen asymmetry [source: http://www.nature.com/] umweltss='lgc'>: organisms privilege certain stimuli and s cls s="trms">respons>se, thus, sugs cls s="trms">gests>ing to ss="ppl">Canguilhem that it isn't merely ‘need’ mediating between organism and milieu (as in Lamarck's s cls s="trms">formus>lation) but a s cls s="trms">priors> sense of values that evaluates certain signals as worthy of s cls s="trms">respons>se over others
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the s cls s="trms">animals> finds it simpler to do what it privileges<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss="ppl">Canguilhem 2008)

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]sensess='lgc'>: (from the biological and psychological point of viewss='lgc'>:) an appreciation of values in s cls s="trms">relations> to a ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]needss='lgc'>: (for the one who experuences and lives itss='lgc'>:) an irreducible ss='lgc'>==(thereby)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> absolute, s cls s="trms">syss>tem of reference

ss="ppl">Naveeda's notion of river's point of viewss='lgc'>:
“...” while the inorganic, such as a river, lacks the building blocks of life in being produced through the action of geological forces, it too has norms and values that take statistical form or are found (in both sense of the wordss='lgc'>: discovered and os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>inating) in moments of spontaneous action (ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> go tospan> ss="ppl">Delandass='at'>#)

...village and kinship structures being flexible, there is a high value places on sexual normativity

absence of water ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> human suffering ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the death of the river ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> emergence of land as property

ss="ppl">Naveeda examines 3 filmsss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•focus on corruption, melodramatic s cls s="trms">specifis>cities of the film-scale, subtext of pain ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Titash Ekti Nodir Naam
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•focus on entropy within the Padma river, <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ambivalent expres sion over the neces sity for migration that will undoubtedly be one of the strategies of adaptation for an ocean-facing country such as Bangladesh<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Padma Nodir Majhi
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(film's anticipation of) how s cls s="trms">rumors>ssts>[...]