[...]on-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'>?

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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)

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)

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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:134%"> 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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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

(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.”

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 is not about the ="trms">technically superior standards winning ='lgc'>[DOS, VHS, A4, etc.='lgc'>]
standards ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*aspect of acting in the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> classifications

what are (or have been) the behind the s="trms">cenes, boring, background processes of the “real” work of ="nms">ajayeb (and any ="trms">past and practical politics of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production)='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> becoming ="trms">interested in a wider scope of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>: ="trms">rhetorics, ="trms">semiotics, objectivity, analysis, architecture,)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">historically creation of the infrastructure
="lsts lst1">•ubiquity and webbed saturation of classifying and standardizing
="lsts lst1">•="trms">materially textured (layered, tangled)
="lsts lst1">•their negotiated ="trms">nature

='strcls'>*distribution of ="trms">memory (and distribution of re="trms">presentation)='lgc'>:
X ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical ="trms">contingencies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practical politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> standard ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universal ="trms">category ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> erases its own ="trms">narratological ="trms">past, (employed ="trms">internally='lgc'>+externally) deletion of modalities in the development of (="trms">scientific) texts; ='lgc'>[a modality can be deleted in a number of ="trms">different ways='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] it might be distributed (held in another part of the organization than in that which produces the text), ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>] built into the infrastructure (the work environment is changed such that the modality is never encountered), etc. ='lgc'>=/= ='at'>#accountability='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fact (='lgc'>+ single ="trms">articulation, only one plot of ="trms">data) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mobilizing a set of black-boxes='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="frds scrmbld">Xiri's “queers,” ="frds scrmbld">Eszter's “participants,”='lgc'>: what goes inside these black-boxes and how they look like, is seen as irrelevant for them. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translating from the context of storage to the ="trms">present ="trms">situation (one might store a fact for reason X but recall it for reason Y) ="ppl">="ppl">Latour ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker='lgc'>]='lgc'>}
X ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> indeterminacy ='and'>& multiplicity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conflict ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> negotiations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> standard

where to make the cuts in the ="trms">system, for example, down to what level of detail one ="trms">specifies a description of work, of an illness, of a setting, ='lgc'>[of an ="trms">animal, of a queerness, of a subjectivity, and so on.='lgc'>]

residual ="trms">categories ='lgc'>{rest, others, miscellaneous,='lgc'>} are ubiquitous

what are the mismatches between sub="trms">systems in ="nms">ajayeb and Qur'an='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “cumulative mess ="trms">trajectory” (="ppl">Strauss) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when the ="trms">trajectories become so tangled that you can't return and the ="trms">interactions multiply

we are riding on ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphores to move in a ="trms">densely classified ="trms">world

“There is no way of ever getting access to the ="trms">past except through classification ="trms">systems of one ="trms">sort or another - formal or informal, hierarchical or not” ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker
="lsts lst1">•“in the 14th century” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> segmentation of time, ="trms">system of calendar
="lsts lst1">•“="nms">Iranian” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discourse of national genius only arose in the 19th century
="lsts lst1">•“revolution” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> our current conception of ‘revolution’ is marked by the ="trms">historiographical work of Karl ="ppl">Marx
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">historiographical traditions)

compare first lines of Halaj's biography in ="ppl">Attar and Wikipedia='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•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 است ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Mansur al-Hallaj (="ppl">Arabic='lgc'>: Abū ‘l-Muġīṭ Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ; Persian='lgc'>: Mansūr-e Ḥallāj) (c. 858 – 26 March 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH – 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, ="trms">poet and teacher of Sufism ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]

="large lg1" stl="font-size:146%">
(at the end it is the colonialism that) decides what a disease is ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= other ="trms">system/culture (fragile ="trms">networks) for classifying diseases of the body and spirit, such as ="nms">ajayeb. (for example see how ="trms">schizophrenia is classified and understood)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practical ="trms">ontology
re="trms">presentation of the ="trms">past
sequencing of the ="trms">present
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> making it appear that ="trms">science describes ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social power

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

“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the loosest classification of work is ="trms">accorded to those with the most power and discretion, who are able to set their own terms.” ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker 1996

="trms">lingua franca of the medical insurance companies


actor ="trms">network theory='lgc'>: looking in detail at the role of (relatively) black-boxed hybrids ='lgc'>[what ="trms">scientists are actually manufacturing='lgc'>] in creating the discourse of pure ="trms">science (as endpoint)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:100%"> ="trms">science's objective account of ="trms">natural order='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•trials of strength
="lsts lst1">•enrolling of allies
="lsts lst1">•cascades of inscriptions
="lsts lst1">•operation of immutable mobiles
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> development of standards

‘Janus face’ of ="trms">science
='lgc'>[Janus, in ancient Roman is the god of beginnings, gates, ="trms">transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. a god of ="trms">transitions. having two faces, he looks to the future and to the ="trms">past. (="trms">Greeks had no equivalent to Janus.)='lgc'>]

when your work (artistic/="trms">scientific) can be seen as a direct ="trms">translation of the quest for ="nms">Iranian/French honor after defeat in the battlefield ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the actors don't see what is ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded='lgc'>: they construct a ="trms">world in which that ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion could occur

(="ppl">="ppl">Latour ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">according to American ="trms">pragmatist strongholds='lgc'>:) reality='lgc'> = 'that which resists’

common ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= standard ="trms">language
(we can't talk about the commons without ="trms">sorting out our understanding of our standard-saturated ="trms">world)


(my hypertext is not ="trms">data-driven ='lgc'>[= a ="trms">system with focus on the acquisition, management, processing, and ="trms">presentation of ‘atomic-level’ ="trms">data='lgc'>] nor a process-driven (or process-sensitive ="trms">system, for example delivering a care), what is it then='qstn'>?) (also not ="trms">systematically storing ='lgc'>[my='lgc'>] “knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” for later access, storage of information in such long-term ="trms">memory, no no no)
="prgrph">-is it a support for my various tasks and practices outside the computer='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excess-driven ="trms">storytellings ='lgc'>=/= minimum ="trms">data set
="prgrph">-a non-="trms">data-driven ="trms">systems in this ="trms">society are named secretive and mysterious in the name of transparency
='at'>#in a way i am building an adequate mode of encounter with the “="nms">Iranian ="trms">scientist”

they draw from their secret='lgc'>[s='lgc'>]

a ="trms">technical issue (for example about how to ="trms">code process) is also a an organizational theory

="trms">social embeddedness of ="trms">scientific truth

(="trms">authors of ="nms">ajayeb approached ="trms">nature not in a way to sketch the boundaries of a discrete ="trms">animal event, therefore, a unit of analysis, (which is very ="trms">natural at 21st century;) rather an infrastructure itself in flux, providing an un="trms">natural hierarchy)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is my ="trms">rhetorical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="nms">ajayeb

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

‘uninventing X’='lgc'>: changing ="trms">society and ="trms">technology in such a way that the X becomes an impossibility. (Donald Mackenzie)
development and maintenance of ="trms">technical standards is a site of political decisions and struggle

______________


against ='thdf'>the idea that “="trms">past is a ="trms">different country, they do things ="trms">differently there”

='strcls'>***how we are creating ="trms">different kinds of ="trms">past (out of the information infrastructures that we build)='qstn'>?

(pointed out by ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker) the whole notion of big ="trms">data is coming from the invention of census (amar-giri آمارگیری) in late 18th century, as its predecessor in a genealogy of ="trms">techniques of government. “big ="trms">data is grown up around that idea of control” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> statistics='lgc'>: (etymologically) the ="trms">science of the state='strcls'>*
“I” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== me ='lgc'>+ my ="trms">data

heavily informated ="trms">world

flashbulb ="trms">memory='strcls'>*
‘what were you doing when ='at'>#="nms">Bambi's mother got shot='qstn'>?’ people have vivid but 80='prcnt'>% of the time wronge ="trms">memories of that day ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are good at creating certainty in ="trms">memory, but not very good at recognizing the ways ="trms">past is ="trms">differently configured ="trms">according to ="trms">different kinds of ='strcls'>*="trms">memory practice='strcls'>*

the eternal flame file type/format

the psychoanalyst of Tintin

active archiving is about the framing of the ="trms">present, and not about the future record

='strcls'>*com="trms">memoration is behind a lot of the ways in which we create ="trms">memories and ="trms">histories (on the web)='lgc'>: that there will be someone who has the time to go back and recognize the values we have created ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recognize ourselves as monuments in the ="trms">world

(thinking with ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker fL94LVYjhQQ) as new entities will come to being in the ="trms">world, instead of creating access to what is reconfiguring of the ="trms">past we lock ourselves into single unitary visions of the ="trms">past totally unnecessary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that is exactly what i am trying to do, providing and creating a kind of approach to what would be an access to a reconfiguring of the ="trms">past, ="nms">ajayeb as the case in a ="trms">Farsi speaking ="trms">world


on way or another, ="trms">databases are structured objects, they constraint the forms of ="trms">narrative you can take ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a restrict set of ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when we are dealing with ="trms">database we don't have an in="trms">finite sets of ="trms">narrative space

i am taking a theological alterity discourse from pre-enlightenment (islamicated ="trms">cosmology) and puting it in ='lgc'>[...='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='strcls'>*** (="ppl">="ppl">Latour is putting it in ="trms">scientific style of faith)
="lsts lst1">•artistic research practices/discourses
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern ="nms">Iran
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern culture
="lsts lst1">•

="large lg22" stl="font-size:116%"> non-contemplative intelligence basing the ="trms">database in our time (='lgc'>=/= older traditions of sequencing)

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='strcls'>*deterioration of the immanent (eco-, politico-,) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> corruption of ="trms">social ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> corruption of ="trms">memory='strcls'>*** (of a shared existence, of coexistence with ='lgc'>[Div, jinn, shadow, ="trms">birds, Hindus, Arabs, ='lgc'>]) !!!='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> issues of ="trms">historical injustice
="prgrph">-or-
corruption of a river ='lgc'>: the entropy and deterioration immanent to it ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conditions of possibility for corruption of intimate ="trms">relations and of ="trms">memory ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--(='lgc'>[this='lgc'>] experience of corruption)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> takes the ="trms">nature of being defrauded (روزگار فريبکار) of one's own form of life, one's family or one's in="trms">heritance='strcls'>***


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

='strcls'>***the muslim ="trms">responses to entropy='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eschatology
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> muslim majority regions are more embeded in the ="trms">world that what we know from islam

="large lg18" stl="font-size:100%"> سازش
limits of “adaptation”

a rapport ='lgc'>~ ربط تقریباً همگام
or orientation جهتگيرى

a looming future


“='lgc'>[how='lgc'>] politics and policies of climate change stand to shortchange the ="trms">present and the ="trms">past”


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


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


fret ترش کردن

مزروعى arable lands


thinking rivers='lgc'>:
to consider water as a ‘total ="trms">social fact’, to think ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listically about water ='lgc'>[Caton ='and'>& Or="trms">love='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="ppl">Naveeda's='lgc'>] climate thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that there is ="trms">specificity that needs attending='lgc'>: rivers are major conduits هادى of ‘connectivity’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> domain of localized ="trms">interactions
="prgrph">-to take the river to convey local, ="trms">embodied knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge within the longer temporalities and emergent horizons (as="trms">sociated with climate change,) (new global urgencies produced by climate thinking)

a sufficient sense of the river

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


="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> in an analytical approach to examine separately ='lgc'>[that is ‘to model'='lgc'>]='lgc'>: narative actions and ='lgc'>[-ian='lgc'>] images


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


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]milieu
a powerful concept with genealogy across a range of disciplines ='lgc'>[physics, biology, geography, ="trms">literature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> orienting our use of it='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•18th century='lgc'>: the fluid or ether in which physical bodies are immersed ='lgc'>==(that enable their)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">inter-dependence (='at'>#shena, shenavar='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> milieu becomes universal
="lsts lst1">•19th century='lgc'>: as producing circumstances that changes needs [...]