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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)
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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)
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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'>]
(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)
="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
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="trms">social embeddedness of ="trms">scientific truth
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(="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
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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">•
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
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.”
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
='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 ='lgc'>[Lamarck='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ="ppl">Darwin milieu only produced change (at the level of the organism's phenotype)
="lsts lst1">•milieu rendered as complexes of elements whose actions ="trms">mutually limit each other and in which the effects of causes become causes in turn, modifying the causes that gave rise to them. (="ppl">Canguilhem)
umwelt='lgc'>: organisms privilege certain stimuli and ="trms">response, thus, sug="trms">gesting to ="ppl">Canguilhem that it isn't merely ‘need’ mediating between organism and milieu (as in Lamarck's ="trms">formulation) but a ="trms">prior sense of values that evaluates certain signals as worthy of ="trms">response over others
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the ="trms">animal finds it simpler to do what it privileges='strcls'>* (="ppl">Canguilhem 2008)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sense='lgc'>: (from the biological and psychological point of view='lgc'>:) an appreciation of values in ="trms">relation to a ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]need='lgc'>: (for the one who experuences and lives it='lgc'>:) an irreducible ='lgc'>==(thereby)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> absolute, ="trms">system of reference
="ppl">Naveeda's notion of river's point of view='lgc'>:
“...” while the inorganic, such as a river, lacks the building blocks of life in being produced through the action of geological forces, it too has norms and values that take statistical form or are found (in both sense of the word='lgc'>: discovered and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating) in moments of spontaneous action (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Delanda='at'>#)
...village and kinship structures being flexible, there is a high value places on sexual normativity
absence of water ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human suffering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the death of the river ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emergence of land as property
="ppl">Naveeda examines 3 films='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•focus on corruption, melodramatic ="trms">specificities of the film-scale, subtext of pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Titash Ekti Nodir Naam
="lsts lst1">•focus on entropy within the Padma river, ='strcls'>*ambivalent expression over the necessity for migration that will undoubtedly be one of the strategies of adaptation for an ocean-facing country such as Bangladesh='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Padma Nodir Majhi
="lsts lst1">•(film's anticipation of) how ="trms">rumors and bad news come to unsettle existence, the ="trms">rumor of climate change may do more to re-organize a ="trms">social milieu than its actual binding reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Chitra Nodir Parey
='strcls'>*there is a “="trms">systematic undervaluation of involuntary loss of places and cultures ='lgc'>[which='lgc'>] disguises real, experienced but subjective limits to adaptation ='lgc'>[and ="trms">integration='strcls'>*='lgc'>]” (="ppl">Naveeda > Adger)
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(people in ="trms">inter="trms">relation to the Jamuns river...) what may be coming up or downstream or even overhead or below ground, that they are also involved in displacements in ="trms">situ either because of floods or erosion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continual throwing up of constitutive elements of ="trms">social life into the air and their constant re-organization when they return to ground
the erosive tendencies of the river ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the slow movement in place or lateral shifts that lead people to just drop off the s="trms">cene
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(="ppl">Naveeda='lgc'>: we are in a) landscape not just erosive of ="trms">relations but also ='strcls'>*[...]