[...]="lsts lst3">◾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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>*

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='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

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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

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(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

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:117%"> 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 (im[...]