[...]="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'>==> 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
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industrial ="trms">world-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>==> “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
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
train ="trms">traveler looking out the window
a ="ppl">Newtonian ="trms">world of abstract qualities size, shape, quanity, motion
='lgc'>==> space out of the window of a moving train='lgc'>: a new kind of geographical re="trms">presentation, abstract and regular
(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'>==> 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'>==> (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'>==> 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'>==> ="trms">techno="trms">scientific re="trms">presentations ='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'>==> 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
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'>]
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="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
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(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
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='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'>==> 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
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