[...]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
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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'>]
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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
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='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
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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)
(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)
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='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'>?
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(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
(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”
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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
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='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'>?
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