[...]='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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (='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'>]

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

="large lg10" stl="font-size:116%">
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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:107%"> ="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'>*

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="large lg6" stl="font-size:111%"> ='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

="large lg26" stl="font-size:134%"> ="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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:137%">
(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

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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


(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 would filter out”


="trms">fable of industry='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•how humanity had gone from being initially weak to currently king of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>: “industry='lgc'> = second ="trms">nature”

="lsts lst1">•art submits to ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•industry recognizes ="trms">science for its regulator


="large lg6" stl="font-size:104%"> chaotic spacelike, lacking direction and granularity

working of ="trms">childhood marked by staccato ="trms">syncopation (='lgc'>=/= regular rhythms)

machine regularizes “man”='lgc'>: processes ="trms">synchronizing him to industrial time
mechanical uniformity became the “="trms">natural” state of affairs


Face="trms">book within the spirit of industry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “under the ='lgc'>[spirit of industry's='lgc'>] influence, people will begin by grouping themselves more ="trms">naturally ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] people will come closer together, mass ="trms">according to their real analogies and ="trms">according to their real ="trms">interests ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the same ideas will circulate in all countries ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] uniformity of costumes ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the same needs, a similar civilization, will develope everywhere ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] without confusion or violence, ="trms">relations both as complex and as easy, as peaceful and as profitable as may be” -Charles Dunoyer


ufs (unidentified flying subject)
ufo


arguments about rates of change='lgc'> = about facts of change

eternal, unchanging ="trms">present


="large lg18" stl="font-size:100%"> train ="trms">traveler looking out the window
a ="ppl">Newtonian ="trms">world of abstract qualities size, shape, quanity, motion
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> space out of the window of a moving train='lgc'>: a new kind of geographical re="trms">presentation, abstract and regular

="large lg26" stl="font-size:134%">
(a problem in management='lgc'>:) “time had conspired with capital to annihilate space
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana

='lgc'>[a ‘second ="trms">nature’ being created='lgc'>] railway (='lgc'>+ telegraph) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> commodification ='lgc'>+ ="trms">communication

in our trip to Rivage with ="frds scrmbld">Marialena we were in terested in signs in the built landscape, the “second ="trms">nature” in the ="trms">nature of Rivage, which were “concrete ="trms">embodiments of the environmental partitioning that made farming possible”

a heterogeneous collection of lived spaces and ="trms">histories
a heterogeneous collection of lives and spaces

why ="trms">translation must be a monopoly (="trms">according to railway)='lgc'>:
you need centralized bureaucracy and effective monopoly in order to operate with efficiency ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] you could not have every train running on its own (loca) time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (Bahn railway map =) a re="trms">presentation that permit efficient operation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*an absolute time and annihilated space='strcls'>*

(industrialization ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) railway/railroads ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> basic accounting ="trms">techniques used by American business enterprise (into the 20th century)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> infrastructural ="trms">technology='lgc'>: organizational form (accounting ="trms">techniques, reports, etc.) ="trms">synchronized with its own impact on the ="trms">world (regularizing it) providing both a ='strcls'>***="trms">material and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical implusion='strcls'>*** (to order its forms of inquiry/activity)


='at'>@="nms">apass monday ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
means of new infrastructural ="trms">technobody ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">techno="trms">scientific re="trms">presentations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (dual process of) commodification (railway) ='lgc'>+ re="trms">presentation (abstract space-time)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “you need to be able to re="trms">present the ="trms">world in a ='strcls'>*coherent and standard='strcls'>* form ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="trms">databases='lgc'>] in order to run railways ='lgc'>[or program ="trms">language operation='lgc'>] and deal in commodities

increasingly less well-defined boundaries ='lgc'>--="ppl">Serres='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need analytic ="trms">categories that allow us to account for the unified re="trms">presentational time and space applied to both bureaucratic and ="trms">scientific work ='lgc'>--(Sohn-Rethel)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">relationship between) ='strcls'>**commodity form and the process of intellectual abstraction='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[-abstractness governs the whole orbit of commodity form='lgc'>]. when commodity is up for sale, it is by de="trms">finition not to be used; it exists in a kind of “frozen time” outside the normal flow of time. it moves in an abstract spatiotemporal ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “second ="trms">nature"='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cognitive faculty of conceptual things='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= concrete ="trms">world of “first ="trms">nature”)
='strcls'>*import='strcls'>* the ideal abstraction basic to ="trms">greek philosophy and to ="trms">modern ="trms">science


="trms">systematizers

="large lg6" stl="font-size:104%"> nested series of regions

="trms">synchronic extension ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “trace” back records in ="trms">past='lgc'>: indian empire preceded edgyptian preceded persian preceded western. a second ="trms">world, Europe, is contained within larger ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= european union) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">fable of the “step by step”='lgc'>:) man has step by step, broken with this ="trms">natural asian ="trms">world, and constructed, through industry and trial a ="trms">world informated by liberty ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my german orientation course, “='thdf'>that is why refugees are coming here"='lgc'>]


="trms">fable='lgc'>: ="trms">history as the tale of struggle (='lgc'>~ liberty against fatality)

(glorious) race into the future


temps
="lsts lst1">•time
="lsts lst1">•weather


(i have been working against='lgc'>:) “the irrelevance of the ="trms">past for a purified real ="trms">present (which ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker underlines in Lyell's work)

syllogism صغرى کبرى
soghra kobra

senility kohulat


='strcls'>**="trms">database
(replacing syllogism) principle of the ='strcls'>*division of labor='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">simultaneity of groups (of people) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the succession of acts of which a single act is ="trms">composed, is the same thing as the succession of diverse works necessary to arrive at a result which is nevertheless single.” (this) succession ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> division of labor


“there is not context only text” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when you get to Paris, upbringing and race are irrelevant to a person's actions. contemporary humanity would move completely outside the flow of ="trms">narrative time


1830s geology
="trms">history='lgc'>: a ="trms">science of singularity and secular change
earth='lgc'>: records of catastrophic events that ="trms">affected the body terrestrial (much as political events ="trms">affected the body politic)
(Lyell ='lgc'>+ Buchez ='lgc'>+ Michelet ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) (reconfigured the ="trms">world from) a ='strcls'>*tapestry of tales='strcls'>*='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> random access ="trms">memory/archive ='lgc'>[RAM='lgc'>]='strcls'>****

isotropic spatiotemporal analysis

glitterati
glitter ='lgc'>+ ="trms">literati
(framed people='lgc'>: made ="trms">fashionable and beautiful)


Lyell's time='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- time='lgc'>: passive container ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attempt to give a chronology to the ="trms">history of the earth, to trace its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin or deny that there is any evidence that it has o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin
="lstsrd">2- time='lgc'>: process ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attempt to pick out certain types of changes that are invariably as="trms">sociated with the ="trms">history of the earth at any age ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> RAM='lgc'>] and are thus in a sense a feature of time itself


="ppl">="ppl">Bowker ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading consistant patterning in Lyell's ="trms">writing, finds that in his work in each disparate quotes that ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker ="trms">cites='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the part='lgc'>: (is take as) varying, ="trms">liable to be created or destroyed
="lsts lst1">•(='lgc'>=/=) the whole='lgc'>: immutable and eternal (just like Buchez's ="trms">society)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">fable of ‘="trms">nature as a whole’
='lgc'>[='lgc'>==asserting='lgc'>='lgc'>==> that no hybrid had ever achieved a permanent niche on earth='lgc'>]='strcls'>**
that ="trms">nature keeps a check on the whole process by organizing flora and fauna into “nations”
='lgc'>[='lgc'>==asserting='lgc'>='lgc'>==> nothing can survive long outside its nation='lgc'>]='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= cyborg)

“cycle” of years ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a region
a climatic great year ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> earth over time
“revolutions” of the earth's surface ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">species change

industrial revolution, reaching its peak as Lyell was ="trms">writing
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the stillness, the ='strcls'>***ineluctable equilibrium between creation and destruction='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= other facts available to Lyell's contemporaries)

(="trms">fable, a powerful myth still stalking our collective discourse today='lgc'>:) that human time was going faster now than it ever had in the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give humanity a privileged ="trms">position within the geological record
(a ="trms">different time for geology)


='strcls'>**='lgc'>[clockwork mechanism='lgc'>]

how geology in the 19th century shaped our contemporary ideas of ="trms">database
="prgrph">-(earth is an archivist, but a bad one, it is up to the geologist to pull together information ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ earth creates false records ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humands create false records through mudging the earth's annals with mules, hybrids, and ="trms">monsters ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geologist can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read between the lines ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> true record of stasis)
the earth's archival ="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ efficient use of information ="trms">technology

astronomy was in the 19th century the ="trms">science of regularity ='lgc'>: all the apparent perturbations in the earth's orbit were reckoned to be embedded in cycles of varying duration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universe='lgc'> = effectively clockwork mechanism

(for an archivist ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ Lyell='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) earth='lgc'> = special kind of clock, an ='strcls'>*hourglass='strcls'>*

(astronomy ='lgc'>+ geology ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) (a contemplation of) the regular clockwork mechanism that seemed to govern both the heavens and the earth ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ Babbage='lgc'>: judged that human ="trms">history was in its underlying tendency equally regular='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***first and second ="trms">nature converge ="trms">onto a timeless ="trms">present and an anisotropic flow of time='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*anisotropic='lgc'>: having a physical property which has a ="trms">different value when ="trms">measured in ="trms">different directions. (wood is stronger along the grain than across it, or anisotropic filtering in computer graphic rendering at oblique viewing angles)
="prgrph">-varying in magnitude ="trms">according to the direction of ="trms">measurement. (electron scattering is anisotropic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="trms">palindromic time

='strcls'>*isotropic='lgc'>: having a physical property which has the same value when ="trms">measured in ="trms">different directions. not varying in magnitude ="trms">according to the direction of ="trms">measurement


(my project='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>**picture of earth ="trms">sciences='strcls'>**
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">stories of macrocosm in ="ppl">Olearius)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:134%"> picture of earth in 1830s='lgc'>:
earth itself as a kind of large information storage device not a very efficient one, but still remarkable ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->> the inefficiencies of the storage device could be mitigated (as Beaumont and Lyell pointed out) by redundencies in the recording process ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->> these redundencies could be perceived through efficient use of the new transport infrastructure (steamboat, train, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->> then geology would converge with astronomy in calling forth a ="trms">historical time as regular and perfect as that of the clockwork solar ="trms">system (hymned as an accurate clock)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
“archival process ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a ="trms">natural ="trms">technology” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from ="trms">natural to ideal='lgc'>: archive being mediated by ="trms">technology marked by clockwork regularity
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “earth='lgc'> = clock” (as="trms">sociated with the triumph of industrial ="trms">society, because it ran like clockwork ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to german pünktlich punctuality='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> industrial time ="trms">writen into Lyell's geology='lgc'>: two ="trms">methods of factory production ='strcls'>*the division of labor='strcls'>* and the ='strcls'>*parceling up of time into regular units='strcls'>* are both ="trms">writen into time that Lyell created for the new discipline of geology
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> factory ='and'>& geology were the precisely the same problem='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*organization of time='strcls'>*


census
statistical record-keeping, a central ="trms">technology for a ="trms">modern state

statistical thinking


(this is Lyell in ="ppl">="ppl">Bowker's research on ="trms">memory practices in ="trms">sciences='lgc'>:)
through a ="trms">linguistic ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, Lyell endeavored to explain the apparent a="trms">symmetry between ="trms">past and ="trms">present. this ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor brings out the peculiar centrality of humanity in Lyell's geology and thus the centrality of human ="trms">society to his problematic


idea of the ‘="trms">book of ="trms">nature’

(Lyell's logic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we humans have access only to a limited and random grammar of the ‘="trms">book of ="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*burden of proof='strcls'>* lies with those with thier set of ='strcls'>*="trms">past causes='strcls'>* to explain the ="trms">past
='lgc'>[!!='lgc'>]

Lyell's geology is a kind of ="trms">bookkeeping device that allows the storage of vast amounts of information by ="trms">sorting them into a kind of filing cabinet of ="trms">different kinds of events (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb)
(his work revolving around an understanding of archives)

Lyell's “economy of ="trms">nature”
principle of division of labor into the profession of geology ='lgc'>+ into the economy of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cumulative reports in a stateless ="trms">present (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> calculus of regularity out of apparent chaos and old time

="large lg26" stl="font-size:111%">
true ="trms">language of geology

(from a) groundwork ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contemplation of more general ="trms">questions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complicated results ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ inde="trms">finite lapse of ages ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the existing causes of change


(='qstn'>?="frds scrmbld">Marialena contributing to) earth's archive

="large lg10" stl="font-size:133%"> scriptural ="trms">authority (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor)


halcyon future
ایام خوب گذشته ayam-e khub-e gozashte/ayande


when the center of calculation is in place, there is no need to move

="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge developed catastrophically, and analysis were framed in terms of catastrophes
="trms">present ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge develops uniformly and analysis are framed in terms of continual steady change


Buchez ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science would be the ="trms">agent that converged both human and ="trms">natural ="trms">history ="trms">onto iso="trms">morphic time='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[fantasy of ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek='lgc'>]

="trms">symmetry between the ="trms">past of the geological discipline and of the earth


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="ppl">Freud's penis

inscription of records ="trms">onto skin


the changes humanity has brought are (not of physical but of a) moral ="trms">nature

strange tale! ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is the bestial part of humanity fitting into the economy of ="trms">nature, whereas civilized humanity operates in a ="trms">different dimension to ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creating the temporary appearance of an anomaly in “="trms">nature's ="trms">book”


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the time of the good record keeper='strcls'>*

time of God


sybarites (an ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbanite addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses)
sycophants (='lgc'>=/= a public informer)


incalculable, irrational ="trms">past seems to Lyell full of noise and cacophony irregularity


="trms">memory ensconced in ="trms">books (='lgc'>~ filtered ="trms">memory, rational ="trms">memory, part of the archive with its very clear point of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin in printing) freed us from instict and brutality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to TED talk ‘big ="trms">history’ by David ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian, ="trms">fable of printed record and progress of humanity tale='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > Babbage='lgc'>:) until the invention of printing, “the mass of mankind were in many respects almost the creatures of instict” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “flood of light over the darkened intellects of their thankless countrymen”
(the spirit of 19th century ="trms">embodied in Babbage) making the ='strcls'>***act of making information='strcls'>*** such a key variable='lgc'>:
(print rational/archival ="trms">memory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) new space and time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (need for) regular working of the machines of ="trms">nature and the ="trms">world ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*regularization of time and the distribution of tasks='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mythological operation='lgc'>]='lgc'><='lgc'>== infrastructural work='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•developement of computing (='lgc'>+ machineries)
="lsts lst1">•division of labor

Buckland ='lgc'>+ Babbage ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> complete knowability of the ="trms">Book of ="trms">Nature


="large lg18" stl="font-size:127%"> information and ="trms">database theory (in genomics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a core ="trms">science of our time)
archive ='lgc'>==(is central to ‘thinking about’ ='and'>& ‘="trms">writing down’ of)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objects being studied


information explosion of the early 19th century ='lgc'>+ new ways of describing the ="trms">past


“locality of each geologist will be the terrestrial globe” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> locality of ="ppl">Olearius)

heroic age ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everyone constructed complete ="trms">systems (that are thrown up and down in cataclysmic succession ='lgc'>[!='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">question of artistic research='lgc'>]


...relics of the animate creation of former ages ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science special effects, museum of continuity,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]


indi="trms">finite space as filled with ="trms">worlds...


colossi

earthquakes
floods
storms

tranquil variations


“second ="trms">nature”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(from) ="trms">past
="lsts lst1">•analytical constructs of extended ="trms">present


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***an irregular ="trms">past and a totalizing ="trms">memory='strcls'>***
(‘chaos’ characterized of/for archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> human ="trms">nature)

moral duty as humans ='lgc'>[!!='strcls'>**='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to recognize stasis at the heart of disorder ='strcls'>**** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ancient ="trms">fable, ="trms"nttrm="search">archetype) ='strcls'>*apperceive='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ perceive in terms of a ="trms">past experience, accumulative perception='lgc'>] ="trms">synchrony in the midst of diachrony='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ look for ="trms">historical changes/roots in ="trms">languages='lgc'>]='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ to ="trms">sync (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">synchronization='lgc'>: to bring ="trms">social and ="trms">natural time into a unified form ='lgc'><='lgc'>--through='lgc'>-- production and storage of records)
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena

the metronomic ="trms">story
the mnemonic ="trms">story


='strcls'>***spatializing time='strcls'>***
(for humanity) going out in space, to India, to the Orient, or within France to Brittany or the Pyrennees, was going backward in time (='lgc'>~ mapping ="trms">technique ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">position of “humanity” out there nowhere ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anomalous, moral, short term ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “impact” of ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek crew(='lgc'>~ a cult of people who have unlocked the secret of life and the universe) on the ="trms">worlds they visit='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> faceless ="trms">scientist working in a vast and effective machine (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway talks about the same)


new ="trms">memory practices
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***lie at the heart of our ways of knowin[...]