[...]n) ='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'>==> “true knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modern clinical gaze ='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'>==> mixing up what counts as “us” (='lgc'>=/= chronology ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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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="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:143%"> (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'>==> 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'>==> 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 i[...]