[...]
______________


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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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”

="large lg18" stl="font-size:135%"> 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'>]


(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

="large lg26" stl="font-size:133%"> (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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:109%"> (="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”

="large lg30" stl="font-size:119%"> 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

="large lg26" stl="font-size:109%"> ='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)

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

='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


="large lg14" stl="font-size:100%"> “='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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:126%">
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 lg1" stl="font-size:114%"> 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)


(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


(="ppl">Naveeda='lgc'>: we are in a) landscape not just erosive of ="trms">relations but also ='strcls'>*productive of forgetting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adaptation in the ="trms">present entails an ongoing corruption of ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="ppl">="ppl">Bowker, forms of erasure='lgc'>]='strcls'>***
(='at'>#="trms">stories of ="trms">integration in Germany)

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

='lgc'>[pre-notes with ="ppl">Delanda's A Thousand Years of Nonlinear ="trms">History='lgc'>]

what are word-forming resources in ="trms">farsi='qstn'>?
(not to increase their prestige, rather, to problematize) reservoirs of expressive resources in ="nms">ajayeb and ="nms">tehran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to challenge which ="trms">international standard='qstn'>?

what are the de="trms">finitive ="trms">historical process that create uniform set of ="trms">linguistic norms in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?

in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb, also, perhaps i am offering a grammar to the empire='lgc'>='lgc'>---learning ="trms">system thinking

="trms">dictionary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> formal ="trms">codification of ="trms">language

regarding my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? certain spelling rules, grapheme نويسه ='lgc'>[characters A, B, ...='lgc'>], ="trms">morpheme واژک ='lgc'>[smallest meaningful ="trms">language unit='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what are my ="trms">articulatory shortcuts='qstn'>? (least effort needed)

="prgrph">-how ="trms">internet press is aiding which minor ="trms">languages in their struggle against majors='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-and which standards are rising there='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-and what are the hegemonizing effect of my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext on ="trms">language and energy='qstn'>? its conservative pressures (on ="trms">literary ="trms">imagination) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my concern with ="trms">farsi ="trms">linguistic evolution and its contaminations with other ="trms">languages

what are my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext contact ="trms">situations='qstn'>?


(in my ="nms">ajayeb) “='qstn'>?q=” ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? searching device abstract probe head
='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? ="trms">sorted into homogeneous sets
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? abstract automata ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ ="nms">ajayeb.net ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a valid-enough mean of transferring the ='strcls'>*combinatorial productivity='strcls'>* of automaton ='lgc'>[by ="trms">different (="trms">social) dynamics='lgc'>] ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? ='at'>#bottom-top approach to ="trms">writing

my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs are about='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•processes ="trms">responsible for the generation of phrases and sentences
="lsts lst1">•to produce new strings ='lgc'>=/= checking them for validity


(you cannot be not connected to) ='strcls'>*collective assemblage='strcls'>* (of ="trms">enunciations)

(what is my -or-) do i need an abstract machine that connects my ="trms">language to the semantic and ="trms">pragmatic contents of statements, to the collective assemblage='qstn'>?

my ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: a throng (هجوم) of (neo-English-="trms">Farsi) dialects, patois, slangs, and specialized ="trms">languages


my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs... ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•local restrictions of wach word
="lsts lst1">•the tendency of words to occur next to each other their degree of crystallization

='lgc'>[for my hypertext='lgc'>] (Zellig Harris='lgc'>:) the constraints or ="trms">demands that words place on one another are transmitted as ="trms">socially ="trms">obligatory information ='lgc'>[as physical information, the kind ="trms">measured in bits, not the semantic information used in ="trms">dictionary de="trms">finitions.='lgc'>]

="trms">socially ="trms">obligatory ‘information’-='lgc'>[as ‘physical information’ (kind ="trms">measured in bits) ='lgc'>=/= semantic information (used in ="trms">dictionary de="trms">finitions)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==(transmits)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constraints or ="trms">demands that words place on one another

="large lg18" stl="font-size:108%"> (my hypertext ="nms">ajayeb is an) “informational niche”
='lgc'>[and what about the ="trms">matter of ‘actual use’='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="nms">ajayeb.net “rules”='lgc'>: a set of normative combinatorial constraints
recursive application of existing constraints ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new patterns

='strcls'>*process of ="trms">language='lgc'>: from optimal to ="trms">obligatory='strcls'>*
(in respect of ="trms">history='lgc'>: ="trms">obligatory meanings of ="ppl">Attar, and so on)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in ='mywrk'>my work this flow is reversed='lgc'>: from ="trms">obligatory (meanings of ="ppl">Attar or ="nms">ajayeb) to optimal. that is perhaps why sometimes people say that they don't understand me or that I am wonge.
="prgrph">-="trms">memory is the ="trms">matter of statistical fact='lgc'>: (core) meaning ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “selection”

='strcls'>***the fate of my contribution depends on and is determined by my ="trms">position in the ="trms">communicative ="trms">network


pidgin دست وپا شکسته ومخلوط ='lgc'>: creative adaptations
="nms">ajayeb.net is a pidgin='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*pidginization='lgc'>: any process of reduction or simplification of ="trms">linguistic resources ='lgc'>{"='lgc'>=/=”, “=”, “='lgc'>='lgc'>==>”, “='lgc'>='lgc'>-->"='lgc'>}

my ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">writing='lgc'>:
step 1='lgc'>: redundent simplification of ="trms">linguistic resources ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creoles نژاد مخلوط='lgc'>: that segment of a continuum of variation which exhibits the maximum divergence from the standard but which is still connected to other portions of the meshwork (="trms">Farsi='lgc'>+English)='lgc'>]
step 2='lgc'>: reenriching itself with features eliminated during step 1 ='lgc'>~ recomplexification of creoles ='lgc'>}='lgc'>==(how='qstn'>?!)='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
step 3='lgc'>: diversifying the number and type of uses it can be put to

double ="trms">articulation='lgc'>: a ="trms">sorting operation that yields a homogeneous distribution of elements and a consolidation operation that defines more or less permanent structural linkages between ="trms">sorted ="trms">materials.
if and when the ="trms">materials on which a ="trms">sorting device operates acquire the ability to replicate with variation, a new abstract machine emerges, in the form of a blind probe head capable of exploring a space of possible forms


="nms">ajayeb's (specia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list) jargon ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- what intensified them='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>? tech, colonialism, schooling,


what i am trying to do with ="nms">ajayeb, in making this hypertext, is to connect its syntactical constructions to fresh reservoirs of ="trms">linguistic resources ='strcls'>***

with ="nms">ajayeb.net i am learning to resist the hierarchical weight of “received pronunciations” and official criteria of correctness of “="nms">ajayeb”

my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs, ="trms">="trms">equipped with “knobs”='lgc'>: controlling parameters whose intensity defines the dynamical state of the structure-generating process


='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is an inquiry (or critique) in the ways we re="trms">present the ="trms">world to ourselves ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organizing objective referents and label-concepts='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a homogenizing ="trms">social critique='qstn'>?

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

what is gained and what is lost when “tidying up the archive” ='qstn'>?

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

='lgc'>[Yates='lgc'>]

in the ages before printing a trained ="trms">memory was vitally important; and the manipulation of images in ="trms">memory must always to some extent involve the psyche as a whole

='strcls'>** mnemo="trms">technical side of the art is always ="trms">present ='strcls'>**

Mnemosyne, said the ="trms">Greeks, is the mother of the Muses

occult ="trms">memory ="trms">systems ='lgc'><='lgc'>== Renaissance Hermetic tradition ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lullism (lullaby='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld">Hoda) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-- ="trms">rhetoric tradition

the ="trms">history of ="trms">memory

the problems of the mental image, of the activation of images, of the grasp of reality through images

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

the ="trms">horror of no longer re="trms">membering the reason for forgetting, or, “when the times comes for our battle, the ="trms">memories'll be the armour”
Thyrza Goodeve

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure
how do changes in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructures reinforce or redistributes ="trms">authority, influence, and power='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ways of thinking and acting

create ='lgc'>+ share ='lgc'>+ dispute knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

(Face="trms">book, Google, etc.='lgc'>:) vast stores of anonymized ="trms">data to analysis and exploitation, engaging users and publics in new ways

axes of change='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[fundamental transformations challenging our understanding of the ways knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is processed:='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">1- ="trms">technical ="trms">systems and standards
="lstsrd">2- new modes of analyzing ="trms">social (re)organization that exploit the extensive traces left behind by users of information

in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•education
="lsts lst1">•libraries='lgc'>: changing structures, services, and physical spaces
="lsts lst1">•publishing industry
="lsts lst1">•intellectual property
="lsts lst1">•global flow
="lsts lst1">•knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge politics='lgc'>: filter bubble, counter-expertise,
="lsts lst1">•

unpaind individuals
“sticky” processes and ="trms">routines ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*most knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge workers’ salaries are still paid by bricks-and-mortar organizations with hierarchical structures, established in="trms">situtional cultures, ="trms">systems of credit and compensation/

eventual rise of a ="trms">scientific culture of “extreme openness”

(forms that are) human-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable ='and'>& machine-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the move i made from my note="trms">book to ="nms">ajayeb.net


="large lg34" stl="font-size:127%">
infrastructure ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">system

infrastructure perspective='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•modular
="lsts lst1">•multi-layered, multi-scaled (layered ="trms">nature of infrastructure, navigating among ="trms">different scales)
="lsts lst1">•rough-cut character
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecologies/complex adaptive ="trms">systems
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='strcls'>** infrastructures consist of numerous ="trms">systems, each with unique ='strcls'>*o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins and ='strcls'>*goals, which are made to ="trms">interoperate by means of ='strcls'>*standards, socket layers ='lgc'>[='lgc'>: a bony hollow into which a structure fits='lgc'>], ="trms">social norms, and individual behaviors that smooth out connections among them
='lgc'>=/=
="trms">system perspective='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fully coherent
="lsts lst1">•deliberately engineered
="lsts lst1">•end-to-end process


(Weinberger's notion of) ='strcls'>*stoping point='strcls'>*
“knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a series of stopping points”
="lsts lst1">•printed journal articles
="lsts lst1">•="trms">books
="lsts lst1">•text="trms">books
="lsts lst1">•(other fixed products)
='lgc'>--='lgc'>[changing to='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">world where knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is perceptually in motion ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in a way ="nms">ajayeb.net is part of this ="trms">transition
we face a ="trms">world of abundant information, hyperlinked ideas, per="trms">mission-free resources, highly public ="trms">interaction, and massive, unresolved disagreement. (Weinberger)
individual expertise is (many argue) being replaced by the wisdom of crowds='lgc'>: noisy and endlessly contentious, but also rich, diverse, and multi-="trms">skilled ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= fantasies of Black Mirror TV series='lgc'>]


wikis of all ="trms">sorts

(='qstn'>?is my ="nms">ajayeb.net a) citizen ="trms">science

vigor and growing utility

“distance ="trms">matters”
(Olson)


commodification of ="trms">data ='lgc'>: the ="trms">presentation of ="trms">datasets as complete, ="trms">interchangeable products in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readily exchanged formats


="trms">data-driven ="trms">science
problem of evaluation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***Do we know things if we cannot explain why they are true='qstn'>?='strcls'>*** (Anderson)

hierachically organized forms of credentialing

in Julia's seminar we were trying to examine='lgc'>: commodified ="trms">data analysis tools and widely available software ="trms">skills ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (larger number of participants to) analyze ="trms">data and run models

(='strcls'>*a problem with university students='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[students who do appear='lgc'>] more motivated by the university as a ='strcls'>*rite of passage='strcls'>* (گذار از بلوغ) and a ='strcls'>*lifestyle='strcls'>*
='lgc'>=/= learning
='strcls'>*professors are no longer seen as infallible experts, but as resources whose facts can be checked in real time

(="trms">question of) standard / ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (desire for) universality / (need for) change


knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ="trms">past climates


='at'>@="nms">apass
(through my ="trms">love and study for ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> infrastructure ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">questions for ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-what new forms of organization and ="trms">community are emerging='qstn'>? what power ="trms">relations do they rely on, create, or destroy='qstn'>? who wins and who loses as knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure change='qstn'>? (="trms">questions proposed by a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure workshop 2012)
="prgrph">-(ways to) en="trms">code and reinforce existing ="trms">interests and ="trms">relations of power
="prgrph">-(we need) a design ="trms">community versed in these ="trms">literatures='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">different ="trms">social ="trms">worlds
="lsts lst1">•conflicting conceptual frameworks
="lsts lst1">•="trms">sociology of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology
="lsts lst1">•="trms">sociology of standards (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> standardizing ="trms">data has proven to be a crucial activity in ='strcls'>*scaling up='strcls'>* the ="trms">sciences) ='at'>#lens
="lsts lst1">•boundary objects
="lsts lst1">•trading zones
="lsts lst1">•actor ="trms">networks
="lsts lst1">•how sharing works in practice
="lsts lst1">•agreements on shared norms, practices, and ="trms">technical ="trms">systems (problematized by ="frds scrmbld">Femke, she focuses my attention on how software developers are too quick to construct “="trms">ontologies”)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to scale up the generally lower-level focus of design thinking ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how my ="nms">ajayeb.net addresses this='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to co-design new infrastructures
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to look beyond the scale of a field and timeframe of a career


(we need) meaningful access to digital media (not an exciting add-on investment)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure may disadvantage and devalue older forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•new sensor ="trms">network replacing ="trms">ecological fieldwork ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? my ='at'>#amazon
="lsts lst1">•“="trms">instrumenting ocean” supplanting traditions of the oceanographic cruise ='lgc'>[in the last 20 years new sensor grids have come to cover the oceans, land, sky and space='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? my ='at'>#="nms">ajayeb's is concerned with thinking “beyond the ='strcls'>*="trms">instrumental ="trms">languages of utility and function='strcls'>*, which tend to cast knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructures as ='strcls'>*neutral ="trms">instruments='strcls'>* whose ="trms">positive and negative effects lie solely in the way they are operationalized and used”

='strcls'>*consequences of change are rarely ="trms">socially, culturally, or economically neutral='strcls'>*


collectives
assemblages
con="trms">figurations

try to tell yourself a “="trms">technology only” or “="trms">social only” ="trms">story of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure (and you will find it impossible)
(Brunton's) spam ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> co-evolution of ="trms">technical ="trms">systems, ="trms">communities, and ="trms">social norms

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructures ='lgc'>==carry='lgc'>='lgc'>==> significant distributional consequences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> advancing the ="trms">interests of some and actively damaging the prospects of others

(ways of producing “raw” date) davulated by “="trms">data sharing”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*labor-intensive='strcls'>* collecting practices
="lsts lst1">•site-="trms">specific expertise required
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> long-standing ="trms">craft traditions

once-vast secretarial ranks (of large organizations) ='lgc'>[a British nostalgia for bureaucratic hierarchy fantasized and franchized by Harry Potter='lgc'>]


="nms">ajayeb's 13th century's “="trms">technologies” for “virtual” witnessing


='lgc'>--imbalance in the structure and distribution of our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>--
overre="trms">presentation of research on “charismatic megafauna” (cuddly pandas, expenssive human-like chimps, tigers, ="trms">hallucinogenic plants, etc.)


='strcls'>*dark continent fallacy='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ignorance (='lgc'>~ non-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)='lgc'> = absence of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>: a site, ="trms">phenomenon, or set of ="trms">questions that we haven't yet been able or thought to investigate, as='lgc'>: ‘darkness='lgc'> = absence of light’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek idea of frontier) ='lgc'>--='at'>@!='prcnt'>%='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">relationship between knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and non-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge may not be as simple or innocent as that

new (forms of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructures (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ways of knowing) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•new ="trms">questions thinkable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> whole classes of ="trms">questions, ="trms">phenomena and forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge may be lost or rendered unthinkable
="lsts lst1">•new maps to known territories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reshape the geography itself
="lsts lst1">•rework existing (stocks of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•reorder our sense of value and structure in the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">write new ="trms">ontologies over old ones='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in working with ="nms">ajayeb)
="lsts lst1">•embed ="trms">social norms

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">sociology of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
= robust ="trms">inter="trms">networks of people, artifacts, and institutions='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to attend kno.infs. as wholes, rather than focusing only on their most rapidly evolving elements; ='at'>#="trms">ontology. and attending to the ="trms">social ="trms">relations both created and broken) ='lgc'>[='at'>#to attend to ="nms">Tehran's new digitally mediated ="trms">social norms of negative ditributional consequences of change='lgc'>]
any effective ="trms">sociology of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ought to provide some account of its op="trms">posite='lgc'>: the accidental and ="trms">systematic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> means by which non-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is produced and maintained
='strcls'>**(="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robert Proctor's) agnotology='lgc'>: the ="trms">systematic study of ignorance='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ Irvin Schick='lgc'>: unknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= ignorance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">socially constructed lack of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>: a conscious absence of ="trms">socially pertinent knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ='thdf'>for example ‘terra incognita ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Western political and economic attention ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enabling colonialism...='lgc'>]

="large lg22" stl="font-size:132%"> institutional elements of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge infrastructure='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•universities
="lsts lst1">•libraries
="lsts lst1">•="trms">scientific ="trms">societies
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they all have typically conservative, slow-changing forms='strcls'>* ='lgc'>-- because when they change, ="trms">authority, influence, and power are redistributed; (changes takes decades rather than years) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a long-time-scale, ="trms">historically informed framework to ="trms">situate our thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sustainable, accumulative, and shareable qualitative ="trms">databases


="trms">internet-supported citizen ="trms">science

the 19th century's ="ppl">Darwin favored ‘genetic form’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> massive and global shift in modes of classification


standard ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*preserving the meaning of ="trms">data is a human affair, requiring continuous curation


='at'>#knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">zoom lens ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the long now” (="ppl">="ppl">Bowker)


(it took 200 years for printed ="trms">book's) ='strcls'>*intellectual armature='strcls'>* (that now we consider intuitive='lgc'>:)
(in ="nms">ajayeb.net i am ="trms">responding and working all of them)
="lsts lst1">•index
="lsts lst1">•table of contents
="lsts lst1">•bibliography
="lsts lst1">•footnotes
="lsts lst1">•generally agreed rules on plagiarism
="lsts lst1">•page numbers (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> =^77988.1.6$shathiat)


='strcls'>***qualitative ="trms">science='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: detailed, indepth, and meaning-oriented investigations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analysis, statistical (for example the ="trms">social ="trms">network analysis strengths of scope and summation in Braudel's study)
(="trms">question of my “="trms">writing”='lgc'>:) how to nourish mechanisms for large-scale, long-term research='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-we need to go beyond one-off projects to develope ="trms">systems and standards for collecting, curating (my knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="nms">ajayeb's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) while ="trms">simultaneously protecting subject's identities and ="trms">interests /='strcls'>***
='lgc'>=/= short-term, project-by-project work

="prgrph">-(constantvzw is doing this='lgc'>:) build collaborative ="trms">sciences
="trms">socio="trms">technical ="trms">phenomena do not rest within the domain of a single discipline

="prgrph">-comparative analysis ="trms">techniques
comparison across cases (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="frds scrmbld">Kobe in his case-based work produces a critically comparative ="trms">data='qstn'>?)
creation of compatable ="trms">data ='lgc'>[='lgc'>: properly documented ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> facilitate sharing='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how for my ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?)
(in your work and research ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) encouraging the identification of crucial similarities and ="trms">differences

="prgrph">-sustainable and sharable ="trms">data archives, collected over multiple investigative projects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb.net='lgc'> = knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/thoughts/notes of multiple projects (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this my “="trms">data”='qstn'>?)

cyberscholarship

='at'>#lens, to scale up qualitative ="trms">social ="trms">science ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deploy ="trms">data storage, visualization, hypertext, and collective-creation possibilities of the web and ="trms">social media, ='strcls'>*new tools for textual analysis='strcls'>*

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

='lgc'>[which='lgc'>] cultures (or ="trms">stories) permit a graceful ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening forth to our seeing='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

(="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical economy of) ='strcls'>*mnemonic deep='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">past is a thing that you escape at all costs, our ="trms">past explains who we are,
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">palimpsest, The in="trms">finite faces of the ="trms">past can be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read off the ="trms">present face ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">narrative ideal ="trms">presen
="lsts lst1">•

the time that the institution of the ="trms">sciences create='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- the time of the experiment/field study='lgc'>: going back billions of years, quantum units of time, tree rings; peat mosses; fossil seeds;
="lstsrd">2- the time of the ="trms">scientific enterprise, ="trms">historiographical stances shared among sets of disciplines
="lstsrd">3- the law of ="trms">nature='lgc'>: the ="trms">past which ="trms">scientists create can be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read as an eternal ="trms">present

(total recall='lgc'>:) ="trms">memory as a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor needed by a ‘handicapped’ observer who cannot see a complete ="trms">system

(same ="trms">technique was used in Gulf War, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's production of con="trms">sensus by flat) encephalogram

="frds scrmbld">Ehsan's trans="trms">mission sub rosa of information='lgc'>: ="trms">stories and practices from his ="trms">wild, discontinuous, ever-changing ="trms">past


(Lyell's geology of earth='lgc'>:) working from the ="trms">position that there was no sign of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the earth, nor any portent of its end='lgc'>--what we have access to is a set of records in the landscape which leave the impression of massive upheaval and discontinuity in the ="trms">past


tools to think ="trms">past ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? tools of (our own) archive


“most groups ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] engrave their form in some way upon the soil and retrieve their collective re="trms">membrances within the spatial framework thus defined” (Halbwachs 1968 > ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker)

built='lgc'>: we often don't think of such ='lgc'>[reworked ="trms">natural landscapes='lgc'>] trails in ="trms">memory terms, because it is not our own personal ="trms">memory that is being engraved='lgc'>--it is the collective ="trms">memory of our culture


(my favorite) specialized archival ="trms">technology (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">memory practice)='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='strcls'>*

="trms">synchronization in the 14th century, where information provided the ‘coin’ which allowed multiple endeavors='lgc'>--="trms">social and ="trms">natural, along a (="trms">different) ="trms">material substrate

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

idio ='lgc'>+ ="trms">sync
="prgrph">-idio- (“private,” “one's own,” not capable of engaging in the public sphere, for Athenians='lgc'>: concerned ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively with private (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">natural state of ignorance that all persons are born into) (private soldier with no ="trms">skills='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? mast مست='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= “polites” ='lgc'>~ police ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? mohtaseb محتسب (='lgc'>--from='lgc'>='lgc'>--> احتساب, شمارنده, بشمارآورنده)='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-syn- (“with”)


کرم ='lgc'>+ حلیه
hile ='lgc'>+ karam

سجده شوریده

خام کن پخته تدبیرها

اول او اول بی ابتداست
آخر او آخر بی‌انتهاست

کار فلک بود گره در گره


="large lg18" stl="font-size:126%"> (expelled from the temple of ="trms">science) the collector and the classifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to grosser objects that we can taste, touch, accumulate

the master of ceremonies to a cage of tigers

="ppl">="ppl">Bowker on Charles Lyell

Buckland='lgc'>: (generally speaking) all things on earth can be seen at once objects and archives='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•as objects='lgc'>: they function in the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•as archives='lgc'>: they maintain traces of their own ="trms">past

a rock='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•object of lithosphere
="lsts lst1">•document of its ="trms">history (striation='lgc'>: ="trms">past glaciation; strata='lgc'>: complex ="trms">stories of de="trms">position ='lgc'>+ radioactive isotopes; journy through the mantle; etc.)


earth='lgc'>: a variable legible ="trms">palimpsest

(office procedures ='and'>& computer programs are both) designed as ='strcls'>*abstract machines='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-for ="nms">ajayeb i designed an abstract machine called ="nms">ajayeb.net to realize a seamless ="trms">interchangeability between my artist/research procedures and computer programs

boots="trms">trap='lgc'>: a simple ="trms">system activating a more complicated ="trms">system

(i have become hypersensitive to='lgc'>:) progressivist telling of the ="trms">history of the earth ='lgc'>=/= strangely ="trms">synchronic ="trms">world where there is no effective arrow of time

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">synchronization='lgc'>: the work that it takes to bring the various bits of the ="trms">world into a single archival framework='strcls'>*** (with their ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and strategies) ='lgc'>==permit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cohabitation of discipliness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">synchronization of the ="trms">social and ="trms">natural ="trms">worlds to the same temporality='strcls'>**
(="trms">synchronization is always at work and is ="trms">technologically determined)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conjuring of the ="trms">social and ="trms">natural ="trms">world into forms that render themselves amenable to recording ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (imperial records) archiving changes the ="trms">world ='and'>& creates a record of it ='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sequential ='and'>& jussive (imperative)
='lgc'>+ ="trms">scientific work epitomized the developement and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous application of these procedures (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Serres's o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of ="trms">geometry and ="trms">greek empire)
='strcls'>***="trms">synchronization brings ="trms">material forms (commodity flow, train ="trms">travel) together and when geological and ="trms">historical time are mapped into the same time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical ='and'>& ideological ='and'>& ="trms">material ="trms">interact (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emerging powerful possibilities) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in art we also do a lot of ="trms">syncing and ="trms">synchronization (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is perhaps what ="frds scrmbld">Pierre meant by saying that rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers are creating their own ="trms">science)='lgc'>]


time management, a central issue in industrialization
Babbage='lgc'>: clock='lgc'> = regulator of time

industrial ="trms">world-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> importance of the division of the ="trms">history of the earth into equal periods of time

information drive (a drive ='strcls'>*to save as little information as possible about something='strcls'>*)

(="ppl">="ppl">Latour's) oligopticon='lgc'>: special places where the micro-structures of macro-="trms">phenomena are ="trms">crafted, local activities become a “bigger” issue (such as parliaments, courtrooms, offices), where ="trms">different strands of “macro-="trms">social” ="trms">phenomena are weaved
="prgrph">-they see much too little, but what they see, they see it well (='lgc'>=/= total sur="trms">veillance of panopticon)


watch (from 1800 to 1820 at least 100000 clocks and watches were produced every year)

“clockwork ocean” with waves and cycles of salinity as “balance wheels”
(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > Graham Burnett > Fontaine Maury)

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> imposing a ='strcls'>**temporally mediated qualitative ="trms">difference between the creator and created='strcls'>** (instantiated on the factory floor and in ="trms">nature) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creators stood outside regular space and time (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)

(19th century) ="trms">scientific work='lgc'> = im="trms">position of a re="trms">presentative framework of regular space and time on ="trms">social and ="trms">natural time
(="trms">science was and still is) making ="trms">society confirm to the same spatiotemporal re="trms">presentational framework it was/is “discovering” in ="trms">nature (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ='at'>#="trms">scientification of christian genesis in Nolan's Noah film)
='strcls'>*im="trms">position of a regular spatiotemporal re="trms">presentational framework='strcls'>*='lgc'> = (="ppl">="ppl">Bowker's) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]convergence (a key aspect of ="trms">synchronization)='lgc'>: a ="trms">cosmology (inspired by factory production) of ="trms">nature and humanity='lgc'>--to make ="trms">science, art and politics converge more and more towards the same goal, to introduce to them ='thdf'>the notion of change, progress, succession, continuity, life, submit them to the same law (of constancy and uniformity)
="lsts lst1">•in astronomy='lgc'>: (1836) “the return of the comet of Halley at its predicted time has been remarked with intense curiosity and satisfaction by astronomers, and by the public. this has now become a regular and well ordered ="trms">member of our ="trms">system” (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb)

='strcls'>*re="trms">presentational framework of temporal regularity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> one can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read backward into the ="trms">past and forward into the future (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'># sequential ="trms">palindromic time)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tale of the real archive ='lgc'>: tale of stasis ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “violent care”='lgc'>: preservation of current ="trms">species and the im="trms">position of stasis='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: single law ='lgc'>: (the ="trms">fable of='lgc'>:) “perturbations and oscillations providing noise that true understanding [...]