[...]hetic 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”

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

(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)

="large lg6" stl="font-size:108%"> 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

...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

pigeonholing of facts

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 ="trms">demanding their own classification ="trms">systems='lgc'>--and their own ="trms">apparatus of record collection.” (="ppl">="ppl">Bowker)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:128%"> classification (="trms">systems)='lgc'>: a warrant and a tool for forgetting, and operating the distribution of this forgetting (in space of ="trms">scientific ="trms">memory.)
it tells you what to forget (for example the ="trms">religious and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical,) and how to forget it

='lgc'>[the formation (training) of artists covers up the formation (production) of artistic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the ="trms">social ="trms">story of ="trms">science is ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded from the organization of the ="trms">sciences, and held outside of it ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-a ="trms">natural hierarchy of ="trms">sciences is offered='lgc'>: every discipline needs to re="trms">member only a given set of facts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> each type of ="trms">memory which has been distributed in space will also be sequenced in time (http://="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=imperative='lgc'>+of='lgc'>+knowing) ='lgc'>[='thdf'>for example mathematics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chemistry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> biology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociology='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> formal ="trms">memory ="trms">system

the problem of the detective is that for him only those facts are relevant that hand him the solution of crime (='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> goal-oriented individual dis="trms">position) ='lgc'>=/= chasing rabbits
="prgrph">-the detective (has to) classify away traces='lgc'>: the ="trms">systematic and deliberate forgetting of some actions in order to better re="trms">member others
="prgrph">-what makes a ="trms">difference='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-in ="trms">sorting ="trms">animals which ="trms">past knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb) are deliberatly forgotten in order to re="trms">member them as incorporated into an information infrastructure called ‘="trms">species’='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->! the classified are re="trms">membered (in the ="trms">techno="trms">science ="trms">world)

(what is the) complex ="trms">ecology of ="trms">memory practices (particular within ="nms">apass='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld">Hoda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics of re="trms">membrance
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld">Zoumana ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situated perspective
="lsts lst1">•="frds">Sina ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narratable ="trms">past
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld">Marialena ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> type of ="trms">language
="lsts lst1">•S

today, 18.07.2017, the ="nms">ajayeb's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge can be stored and expressed in a quite restricted range of genres called myth, ancient, ="trms">imaginary,

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

we have learned from ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault that ="trms">different (medical) records, ="trms">different practices of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">writing are ="trms">intertwined with the production of ="trms">different patient's bodies, body politic, and bodies of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='at'>@Olga

record is the ="trms">story of the organizational infrastructure ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena, Olga='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Foucault on knowing in the practice of medicine:='lgc'>] cascade of inscriptions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">writing ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> totality of observers/observations ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “true knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modern clinical gaze ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> pathological processes of individual bodies (='lgc'>=/= medicine of ="trms">species='lgc'>: individual ="trms">symptoms / medical knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, essential truth beneath the sensible individuality)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ...a body which hides the essences of the disease ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> production of the organizations which enact and treat it

How is the patient (or choreographic) body's ="trms">specific ="trms">geometry and its ="trms">historicity created='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*body is produced through ="trms">embodied, ="trms">materially heterogeneous work

(="ppl">Foucauldian) dis="trms">positif='lgc'>: a ="trms">network within which the body acquires its ="trms">specific ="trms">ontology

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> regarding record, we can be concerned with='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•practices of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">writing which bring the record to life
="lsts lst1">•mapping the con="trms">figurations the record helps bring into being

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