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="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> what is the point of view of rationality in this for us='qstn'>?
(what is the point of view in witch="trms">craft='qstn'>? knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is a performative recipe)
what is the point in point of view='qstn'>?

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(="ppl">Jorge Luis Borges - ‘Funes the ="trms">Memorious’ in ‘Labyrinths='lgc'>: selected ="trms">stories ='and'>& other ="trms">writings’ 1964)
in Borges ="trms">story, Funes, the character unable to forget is incapable of the concept of ‘general’
solitary and lucid ="trms">spectator of ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] an intolerably precise ="trms">world
not capable of thought
in order to sleep, he had to ="trms">imagine a direction he would turn his face, made of homogeneous darkness
“To think is to forget ="trms">differences, ="trms">generalize, make abstractions.”

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

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is archive ="trms">naturally and necessarily generated (out of regular form of activity)='qstn'>?

a (="trms">technologically implemented) beyond


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


to see the archive as a ="trms">technological rational ="trms">question, and engineering assignment, 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='qstn'>?


the ="trms">agency of an archive..


“other ways” of ="trms">composing='qstn'>?


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

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

the mechanical extension, Res extensa, the (descartian) extended thing, the visualizing ="trms">technologies, ="trms">technical drawings, has been so strong that the temptation so say “well, that's what the ="trms">world is really like” is very great, especially when your foreground is all of the engineering talents and engineering ="trms">skills that are necessary to assemble.



to attribute strangeness...
what ‘will’ you in="trms">herit='qstn'>?
you have little idea of what will you in="trms">herit
(other way of not thinking about your activity now)

='strcls'>*the ="trms">question of future



='lgc'>[="ppl">Ronell='lgc'>]

false re="trms">membrance, displaced ="trms">memory, that actually repeatedly represses and disturbs ‘giving’

any re="trms">membrance involves forgetting
an official call for design an archive from khm also invoked that the institution is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to forget, announces institutional forgetting, and disavows re="trms">membrance

re="trms">member in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the lost-="trms">member, bringing my ="trms">member, the phalus (in English ‘="trms">member’ also means the male organ of copulation)


='lgc'>[="ppl">Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. “Das Gedächtnis.” ‘Enzyklopädie Der Philosophischen Wissenschaften Im Grundrisse’ 1817. Web.='lgc'>]

="ppl">Hegel makes a distinction of two modalities of ="trms">memory='lgc'>:
(1) ‘Erinnerung’ (="trms">internalized ="trms">memory, which is ="trms">situated in the heart), (it could also be ="trms">hallucinatory, might dependent on an ="trms">interiority that isn't there!);
(2 and this one concerns archive) ‘Gedechnis’ (="trms">technological ="trms">memory, a supplement or prosthetic device that reminds you. ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> it's mechanical, it's on the side of death and forgetting, a kind of ="trms">memory that needs to be prompted) (to choose the ="trms">technology of ="trms">writing/archive the subject of ="trms">memory is so screwed.)

='strcls'>***everything depends on the ways we re="trms">member!


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

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is any act of re="trms">membrance also a traumatic experience='qstn'>? (="ppl">Freudian take on ="trms">memory) ='lgc'>-- archive is so “not” traumatic therefore a tool of amnesia. (archive in digital age='lgc'>: the oblivion of availability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media theory)
can we think of a non-traumatic ="trms">gesture of ="trms">socialization of ="trms">memory='qstn'>? or ="trms">memorial activity “has” to be violent in order to be re="trms">membered='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sublime) (like what ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali does, tattooing me, every time he tells me one of his ="trms">stories of trauma)
like i said before, “who” wants to re="trms">member='qstn'>?

(masculinity is ="trms">written all over this ="trms">anxiety-ridden re="trms">membrance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re='lgc'>+="trms">member, bringing back the ="trms">symbolically lost phallus='lgc'>: “="trms">member” means “the male organ of copulation” in English)

trauma makes available, brings back lost objects to the consciousness, in a psychoanalytical sense. is then the digital archive an absolute oblivion='qstn'>?

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='lgc'>[as ="ppl">Holderlin announces that the “remains” for which ="trms">poets are ="trms">responsible.='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">memory (don't let engineers build you archives! let the ="trms">poet be ="trms">responsible for whatever has “remained.”) ='lgc'>[this would be ="ppl">Holderlinian advice='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-inappropriable remainder(s)

="trms">memory/re="trms">member is sojourn


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

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being en="trms">folded is often a strategy for survival (='qstn'>?, ="ppl">="ppl">Marks)
(="ppl">Akira Mizuta ="ppl">Lippit='lgc'>:) things are not saved by being archived (Borgesian nightmare)
="trms">histories for which the ="trms">present is not ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what are those sites where ="trms">histories slip into latency='qstn'>?

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

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

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Ariella ="ppl">Azoulay='lgc'>]

() the op="trms">position between keeping and putting away, preservation and cancelation.

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

...when fully lit and relatively flat

="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>: (archive) “is a ="trms">question of the future, the ="trms">question of the future itself, the ="trms">question of a ="trms">response, of a promise and of a ="trms">responsibility for tomorrow.”

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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:114%"> constructed as ex-territorial and as a receptacle (makhzan) for the ="trms">past

archive is not a fortress external to our ="trms">world, with us as its pilgrims

(the ="trms">ontological performance of filling a document)

(a constellation, aimed at distancing and disturbing us)

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

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

within the political art domain the “I feel your pain” has ="trms">sympathetic currency. one is punished by drawing public attention to their pleasures
(I feel your pleasures ='lgc'>=/=) “sense of pain” ='lgc'>[an asset of the artist='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==establishes='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> awareness of the existence of the body


processing is largely parallel, while, attention is largely serial

disciplines of the ="trms">modern subject
(in artistic work the unsolved issue remians='lgc'>:) ="trms">technniques for/of the external control

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] which spaciotemporal vectors are embeded in the archive, as a ="trms">modern feeling of arrow that thrusts forward ="trms">differentiating ="trms">past from the future, “archaic” from the “advanced”='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] archive produces a “yesterday”
a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous arrow of time that is constituted and announced
="prgrph">-how do we attend the ="trms">histories of implication and attachment='qstn'>?

futurity ='lgc'>[aghebat عاقبت, (even) akherat اخرت='lgc'>], the promis of the archive

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trauma='lgc'>: that which it won't tell its ="trms">story ='lgc'>=/= total recall
how can ="trms">history tell='qstn'>?
="trms">history, a compensatory device='qstn'>?

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gist
جان کلام
مراد

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

Grand ="trms">Historiographer, Sima Qin (1994 ='lgc'>[ca 100BC='lgc'>]), ="trms">writing of the burning of the ="trms">books in 213BC, notes that the Chief Minister adviced the emperor that='lgc'>: Aall who possess ="trms">literature such as the 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 ="trms">books concerned with medicine, pharmacy, divination by tortoise-shell and milfoil, the sowing of crops, and the planting of trees (31). In ="trms">response to this, the Emperor ordered the famous burning of the ="trms">books - to ="trms">cite Qin='lgc'>: Athe First Emperor collected up and got rid of the 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 ="trms">present by using the ="trms">past. 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) ="trms">memory as a construction of the ="trms">present

analyzing organizational ="trms">memory
organizing analytical ="trms">memory
="trms">memorizing organizational analysis
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multifaceted ="trms">stories open to ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>=/= true/false facts

='strcls'>****re="trms">membering='lgc'>: an activity which carries with it its own context='strcls'>****

work on ="nms">ajayeb and my ongoing commentary on archive and ="trms">memory is part and parcel of the organizational theory

not to forget that='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rediscovery is easier than re="trms">membering
="lsts lst1">•statistics ='lgc'>--as='lgc'>='lgc'>--> filtering mechanism ='lgc'>--as='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proactive forgetting
="lsts lst1">•forgetting ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> change of identity ='lgc'>['clean slate’ is very well known state to mysticism, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clearance(='lgc'>=='qstn'>? is to take away useless theory) and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins in ="trms">geometry - ='at'>#="ppl">Serres='lgc'>]

organizational forgetting ='lgc'>--producing/maintaining='lgc'>='lgc'>--> classification ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> move from heterogeneous forms of ="trms">memory operating within multiple frameworks ='lgc'>[like ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] to the privileging of a form of ="trms">memory (potential ="trms">memory) operating within a well-defined information infrastructure subtended by classification ="trms">systems. (="ppl">="ppl">Bowker)

if your work is an ="trms">intermediary profession invisible and removed at the earliest opportunity from the official record, create a “='lgc'>[name of your practice='lgc'>]-ing ="trms">interventions classification” (='qstn'>?!) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a fascinating ="trms">system that creates a standardized ="trms">language for describing what is it that your practice does in ="trms">different or difficult ways
other ="trms">systems (to organize and critique your accumulation of experience)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sensitive outcomes classification scheme
="lsts lst1">•diagnosis scheme
='strcls'>*sometimes what you do does not need to leave a trace, like nursing (in which your duty is to re="trms">member for others) ='lgc'>[a professions without form ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> nothing can be preserved, ="trms">coding ="trms">past knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and linking it to current practice='lgc'>='lgc'>---in the context of the hospital's ="trms">socio="trms">technical ="trms">system='lgc'>], or cleaning ='lgc'>[doing everything that nobody else does='lgc'>], or ="trms">storytelling ='lgc'>[you have to go to a new country every day, going to a foreign zones='lgc'>], or certain kinds of performances ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Arianna ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the intensity, focus, and complexity of care='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[going from being expert to novice='lgc'>], and many times not ="trms">codable into discrete units of work practice to be carried out on ="trms">specific occasions

in my hypertext ="trms">writing, am i trying to enable myself to talk about ='mywrk'>my work in a ="trms">language that computers could understand='qstn'>?

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

='at'># the issue of the validity or not of ="nms">ajayeb's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is entirely orthogonal to my purpose. I am producing an anatomy of what it has meant in the case of ="trms">bestiary ="trms">writing to create such a ="trms">science

(my issue with) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]strategy='lgc'>: a way of managing a ="trms">past that threatens to grow out of control

(in working with ="trms">bestiaries ='mywrk'>my research ="trms">question='lgc'>:) what could provide for a good ordering of ="trms">memory='qstn'>?

="prgrph">-(which professions act as) distributed ="trms">memory ="trms">system (for who='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-(what blocks between) ="trms">internal ="trms">memory and external ="trms">memory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the time needed to work complex re="trms">presentations

="large lg10" stl="font-size:135%"> (we are trying to) ="trms">situate our activity visibly within an informational='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ="trms">world ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to be factored
='strcls'>*in an informational ="trms">world='lgc'>: accountability='lgc'> = ="trms">measurable, ="trms">finite, packaged, ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (other modes of) invisible and ="trms">articulation work

...when ="trms">technicians/artists seeking new ways of ="trms">writing (="trms">scientific/="trms">poetic) papers so that their work gets acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged ='lgc'>==(and yet)='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> the ="trms">nature of their (="trms">scientific/artistic) truth is not impeached='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and sometimes we restructure our work so that (organizational, informational or truth-related) challenges will not be necessary ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (at the end of the day there will be ='lgc'>[always='qstn'>?='lgc'>] an) information infrastructure for the kind of work which contains an account of your activity ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “informational panoptica” (="ppl">="ppl">Bowker)

the classification ="trms">systems we are giving to embed in the tools and reports we give in ="nms">apass

(in ="nms">apass problematically we are asked to) copy the transparency of our activity from one re="trms">presentational space (="trms">internal ="trms">memory, nomenclature, ="trms">past events, paper) to another (computerized record, giving a talk, time-framing) (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">contingency) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> an ="trms">ecology of attention ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***what can be forgotten and what should be re="trms">membered='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> development of (information) infrastructure
what is re="trms">membered in the formal information ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">ontology of that ="trms">system

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ...recorded on a form; and forms necessarily impose/="trms">naturalize classification ="trms">systems (through the form's speed, rhythm, dimension, and how its ="trms">specifications are implemented) ='strcls'>***
(how am i working this in my pop-up ="trms">book and hypertex='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> classification scheme of relevant events for ='mywrk'>my research)
='strcls'>*informational space is (sufficiently well) pre-structured ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> some things/details can be assumed or are dropped out of the re="trms">presentational space
="prgrph">-in my pop-up ="trms">book i am en="trms">coding a kind of ="trms">memory in an organizational file ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? “potential ="trms">memory” (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= possible future reconstructions) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- rejecting the ways in which ="trms">memory is structured in the organization named ="nms">Iran, or Middle East, or Germany, or Europe,
needed for development of potential ="trms">memory='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(forms of) erasure of local context ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to some degree this is always done
="lsts lst1">•(forms of) classification ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> computerized, ="trms">affectual, or ="trms">materially textured ="trms">categories

='strcls'>* construction is always reconstruction ='strcls'>*

artificial ="trms">memory (characteristic of the 16th century='lgc'>:) “a search for the perfectly proportioned image containing the ‘soul’ of the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to be re="trms">membered” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discovery of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right logical ="trms">category ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> classifying the ="trms">memorization the ="trms">world ="trms">scientifically

classification ="trms">system ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> filter ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> en="trms">coding (of information about the environment) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> coherent framework='lgc'> = ="trms">memory (Schachter, 1996)

="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > Matsuda > Edouard Claparede's experiment (1907) of having a str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger rush into the classroom, do something outrageous, and then have students describe what happened ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “that the ="trms">past='lgc'>--even of a simple event='lgc'>--was less a record than a ="trms">sort of taxonomy. Not perceptions, but ="trms">categorization of familiar types was the major function of ="trms">memory”
='at'>#bambi

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> pigeonholing of facts

="large lg10" stl="font-size:124%"> how ="nms">apass as an organizations is ="trms">coding for artistic research within the framework of their ="trms">memory ="trms">systems='qstn'>?

“There is no room on the ='lgc'>[filling='lgc'>] form to ="trms">write an essay on race identity politics.”

do we need to develop and standardize my discipline-="trms">specific nomenclature (in our research micro="trms">world) in order to name without ambiguity='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rede="trms">finition of disciplinary boundaries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shaping of your work so that its future practice converges on potential ="trms">memory

we murder, they note
they draw from their secret='lgc'>[s='lgc'>]

infrastructure-thinking='lgc'>: Ajayeb ="trms">Network-Making Minimum ="trms">Data Set
in ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">literature the very information infrastructure itself (should let be or) is in flux ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> discourses make strange connections between themselves
="prgrph">-in ="nms">ajayeb the infrastructure assumes the ="trms">position of every node ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reworked in my ='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs

“...we are afloat in a sea of multiple, fractured ="trms">causalities each[...]