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='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.

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%">
(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 lg1" stl="font-size:114%"> (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:111%"> ...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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:150%"> 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)

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