[...] 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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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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:136%"> (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:113%"> (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

...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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:130%"> ='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)

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)

...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

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

how the structuring of the record speaks to the structuring of the bodies (of the artists='qstn'>?) we investigate='qstn'>? (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sofia, Olga)

record ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
production of human bodies
organizational hierarchies
selective ="trms">memories

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="large lg6" stl="font-size:109%"> Ribes ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker - Between Meaning and Machine.pdf

...in the wake of ="trms">ontologies
in participating in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge projects, first we learn about ="trms">ontologies and then learned how to create them
(we rarely “produce” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, we always participate)

="trms">ontology='lgc'>: an information ="trms">technology for re="trms">presenting specialized knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in order to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•facilitate ="trms">communication across disciplines
="lsts lst1">•share ="trms">data
="lsts lst1">•enable collaboration

="large lg10" stl="font-size:126%"> (am i) re="trms">presenting the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of my ="trms">communities (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>-- what does that mean='qstn'>?

='strcls'>*="trms">routinization='strcls'>* (is that which is at stake in ="trms">ontologies) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*apprehension='strcls'>*='lgc'>: orientation to the informational organization of ones field
(to attend the ="trms">routinizations and apprehensions in one's own practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontology building)
="lsts lst1">•my ="trms">routines of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, highlighting, ="trms">writing, idio="trms">syncratic talks, feedbacks, ="trms">questions, silences,
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (attend to the) transformative consequences of learning and ="trms">traversing ="trms">routines ='lgc'>--='lgc'>[='lgc'>+='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the practice and ="trms">material tools that accompany the reworking of them ='lgc'>{knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in informational terms, ="trms">fables, etc.='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problematic of ="trms">inter-operability
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (and asking) how a (broader) ="trms">community's ="trms">interests are at stake with this='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{to engage and enrol that ="trms">community through what activities='qstn'>?='lgc'>} ='at'>#micro="trms">world

(my ="trms">routines='lgc'>:) with confidence deliberately working with='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interrupting ="trms">stories with ="trms">stories
="lsts lst1">•partial connection (and its performance)
="lsts lst1">•moving arguments through by infecting them with other arguments (='lgc'>=/= dialectical)
="lsts lst1">•mobilizing (multidisciplinary) fields (='lgc'>=/= the imperative of knowing A, B, and C first before you do D)
="lsts lst1">•mobilizing ="trms">citation ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which gives sense to what enables this work ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deliberately having a conversation with ="nms">="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat
="lsts lst1">•mobilizing anachronic ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mobilizing ="trms">different timescales ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mixing up what counts as “us” (='lgc'>=/= chronology ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> belonging='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">membering what one knows (and organizing, performing, reworking it)
="lsts lst1">•having stakes in rationality (i constantly criticize rationality, but as you can see, i am not at all throwing it out)
="lsts lst1">•omnivorous approach
="lsts lst1">•

="trms">wild facts amenable (تابع) to formal re="trms">presentation (formal modeling)

="trms">routine='lgc'>: practically enacted, having no existence outside its performance, embedded in the con="trms">figuration of ="trms">material resources that enable practical work

='lgc'>[='at'>#workshop ="trms">fables='lgc'>] how, by ="trms">traversing the ="trms">routine, “knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” and “="trms">community” took on new meaning, as they were re="trms">articulated in the ="trms">different ="trms">languages

uncertain activities of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

(what i am learning in ="nms">apass is that) modeling ="trms">ontologies involves ="trms">articulating knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in ways that sometimes appears alien to that domain ="trms">community
='lgc'>[asking with ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker:='lgc'>] for my ="trms">ontology-building to appear re="trms">presentative, does my ="trms">community itself have to learn the goals and ="trms">language of my knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge modeling='qstn'>? (the ="trms">question i asked ="frds scrmbld">Sven, telling others ‘this or that is the ="trms">language i am using.’) (i am using a ="trms">language that is ="ppl">="ppl">Harawayian, ="ppl">Ronellian, Sadrian)

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

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

at stake='lgc'>: day to day work of building classification ="trms">system

things to learnd from actor-="trms">network approach='lgc'>: (="ppl">="ppl">Latour, Callon > ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker)
="lsts lst1">•regimes of delegation
="lsts lst1">•centrality of mediation
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">position that ="trms">nature and ="trms">society are not causes but consequences of human ="trms">scientific and tachnical work
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">techno="trms">scientific ="trms">societies are powerful precisely because they are so good at delegating and distributing; and that actor-="trms">network theory is well ="trms">position to track and describe the work of delegation and distribution.”

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> fact is a consequence
(Dewey)

(in a way, ='mywrk'>my work and ="trms">interest in ="nms">ajayeb is about ="trms">histories of standards in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production, which, i argue, is key to all ="trms">sorts of other productions) (& the politics of re="trms">membrance ='lgc'>: the politics and philosophy of classifying certain textual/="trms">material activities such that they have a chance of being part of the cultural ='strcls'>*potential='strcls'>* ="trms">memory)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{Olga, ="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld">Sana='lgc'>}
artists are using a lot of standards (of re="trms">presentations or ="trms">materials)
(out of) control standards
="prgrph">-there is a huge amount of standards i am depending on in my hypertext
="prgrph">-="trms">international diplomacy depends on manufacturing and enforcement of standard ="trms">vocabulary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how much are we really in diplomatic businesses='qstn'>?

Google='lgc'>: “To organize the ="trms">world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”

standards are often='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•making things work together
="lsts lst1">•enforced by legal bodies
="lsts lst1">•have their own (significant) inertia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hard to change, and [...]