[...] ="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

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(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'>]

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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'>*)

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:149%"> (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)
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