[...]d 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
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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'>='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'>='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
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
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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)
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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
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
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'>]
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="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
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
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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 knowing (both ourselves and the ="trms">world)='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•they skew our available ="trms">ontological space
it seems our contemporary ="trms">memory practice is highly prosaic ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ german='qstn'>?='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= baroque)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>***mythological dimensions of new ="trms">memory practices:='lgc'>] (='strcls'>*there is a compelling connection between the information revolution as an economic fact and as a statement about the ="trms">nature of universe='lgc'>:)
19th century rationalization ='lgc'>+ bureaucracy (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dramatic new information-processing and ="trms">communication ="trms">technologies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> today's institutions='lgc'> = ='strcls'>**to oppose entropy='strcls'>** ='at'>@="nms">apass
DNA ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= global economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature of existence ='and'>& new ="trms">technology ="trms">synchronized
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">history of ="trms">science as successive decentralization of human) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***eschatological (base of) information revolution='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: every ="trms">material structure or energy flow (='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's pot carrier) could be used/seen to carry information
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (mediated in 19th century='lgc'>:)
="trms">nature of the universe ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature of humanity ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organization of economy
information mythology ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ “information” can ="trms">travel anywhere and be made up of anything ='lgc'>~ “everything is information"='lgc'>]='lgc'> = ="trms">interface between the ="trms">social and ="trms">natural ="trms">worlds
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘a general statement about the ="trms">nature of information'='lgc'> = 'a general statement about the ="trms">nature of the universe’
(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker='lgc'>:) the new ="trms">memory modality was at root an economic process of ordering ="trms">social and ="trms">natural space and time so that “objective” information can circulate freely ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> democracy, ="trms">science='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> package the ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ make it deterministic
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we must) make information ="trms">historical (again)='strcls'>*
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="ppl">Avital's work has concerned itself ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] with the fact that ="trms">technology is irremissible. Mary Shelley projected this view of ="trms">technology with her massive, monumental, com="trms">memorative work on the ="trms">technobody, which was the nameless ="trms">monster. The problem with (or opening for) ="trms">technology is that no one is or can stay behind the wheel, finally, and no one is in charge. And the way she has tried to route and circuit the thinking of ="trms">technology='lgc'>--indeed, in a posthumanist frame='lgc'>--exposes the extent to which it belongs to the domain of testing.
the contiguous neighborhoods of broken experience and rerouted ="trms">memory
the myths of liveness
='lgc'>[my='lgc'>] problem with television='lgc'>[/news='lgc'>] is that it exists in trauma
="prgrph">-trauma undermines experience and yet acts as its tremendous retainer
='strcls'>*trauma='lgc'>: a ="trms">memory that one cannot ="trms">integrate into one's own experience, and as a catastrophic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that one cannot ="trms">communicate to others
the black-box of talking survival
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robocop='lgc'>: highly complex cyborg (who came ="trms">="trms">equipped with ="trms">memory traces, superego, id, and='lgc'>--ever displacing the ego='lgc'>--a crypt)
court's frame-by-frame analysis of video ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recording and human ="trms">memory ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali
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which ‘well-defined terms,’ ='strcls'>*qualities of persistence='strcls'>*, object re="trms">pository, and identifier resolvers am i using in ="nms">ajayeb.net='qstn'>?
the performance of digital objects (and identifiers) (not treated as a simple binary property)
='strcls'>*(to retrieve) human- and machine-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable information='strcls'>*
persistence of ="trms">cited objects (in ="nms">ajayeb.net)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]persistence='lgc'>: a pre="trms">diction about an archive's commitment and capacity to provide some ="trms">specific kind of long-term functionality
which objects in ="nms">ajayeb.net are='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•strictly unchanging
="lsts lst1">•subject to correction
="lsts lst1">•subject to significant update
='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Calvert naming strategy='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an approach='lgc'>: to invent a term (a portmanteau word واژه مرکب از دو واژه) or choose an existing word that is unusual enough (rare, archaic) to make the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader hesitate to jump to a con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion about its meaning ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[i used a ="trms">farsi word in english='lgc'>: zolmat, pir, tarof,='lgc'>]
nothing is permanent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we call some things/objects/identifiers naively nuanced “persistent” or “not persistant”
(important ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>** of course, it is not a thing that resists change, it is the provider of a thing that resists or, more precisely, controls change ='strcls'>**
“reproducible ="trms">science needs ="trms">citations” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- what is my ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">relation to this='qstn'>?
(i am modifying some of ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert's term='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]identifier='lgc'>: an (always breakable) as="trms">sociation
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]actionable identifier='lgc'>: an identifier that can be acted upon by widely available ="trms">interpretive ="trms">systems ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]queryable='lgc'>: effectively leading to a ="trms">story
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]content='lgc'>: abstract substance ‘usually’ found in strings
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">history='lgc'>: a ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of (not always all the) versions, (a human-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable document that describes the change='qstn'>?)
(="nms">ajayeb.net must always help users) guage the persistence commitments and abilities of re="trms">positories and archives ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- element names, values, and precise semantics are in flux
='strcls'>*content variance='strcls'>* in ="nms">ajayeb.net
(how did i or didn't perform/="trms">stage setting user expectations in my ="nms">apass re="trms">presentations of ="nms">ajayeb.net)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of) ='strcls'>*objects that grow='strcls'>*, identifier assignment policy, content moves away (varies) from its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal state
(any) content change ='lgc'>==t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggers='lgc'>='lgc'>==> generation of new object identifier
="trms">finite, inde="trms">finite, lifetime, subin="trms">finite
content in the ="trms">presence of versions
(="ppl">="ppl">Calvert's defining “content” without using the term “meaning”='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]content='lgc'>: abstract substance, found in such strings as ="trms">writing, speech, images, and music, (='lgc'>=/= form, ='lgc'>=/= style)
content that in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes an actionalbe id string='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•ex="trms">traversuioned, offering no direct actionalbe access
="lsts lst1">•introversioned, version is opaque, shyness='qstn'>?, good for longevity, bad for inferring provenance منشاء
found in the ="trms">wild
found in ="nms">ajayeb.net='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•constructed content reference
="lsts lst1">•scholarly web
="lsts lst1">•standardized query strings
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of landing page ='lgc'>--with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> typed links navigable by software
how ="nms">ajayeb.net performs analysis and ="trms">prioritization of its own service de="trms">finition='qstn'>?
how ="nms">ajayeb.net ="trms">translates its politics into ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= machine-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable persistence statements='lgc'>]='qstn'>?
which “well-intentioned but untested” set of terms are used and addressed in ="nms">ajayeb.not='qstn'>?
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='lgc'>[(gendered, racialized, politicized, colonial,,,) ="trms">narratives of innovation='lgc'>]
(i tended to this field with ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>[عجایب المخلوقات='lgc'>: a context of pedagogy and librarianship='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) library and information ="trms">science ='lgc'>: ="trms">technologically intensive profession (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- also many other professions)
علوم بايگانی ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> علوم کتابداری
(my performance and ="trms">literary ="trms">interest='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*librarianship and teaching are both professions that resist commodification because they rely on ="trms">embodied labor and personal ="trms">interaction='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*people-centric work='strcls'>* (like library ="trms">science and education)
quantitative ='lgc'>=/= qualitative
="trms">measurable ='lgc'>=/= descriptive
(objective concepts)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Calvert ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading) the ostensibly qualitative, ="trms">measurable, and hence objective concepts of competition and competitiveness stand in contrast with qualitative, descriptive concepts of both “culture and collaboration”
to open up some of the ‘="trms">literature of’
(="ppl">="ppl">Calvert working on) the implicit notion that competition and innovation are a ="trms">natural fit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the “="trms">measure, controlm and automatic” rationality of US-style economic competition
difficult to commodify
difficult to describe
not taking apparent ="trms">differences (between men and women, human and ="trms">animal,,) to be timeless, necessary, or inevitable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> descriptive ='lgc'>=/= prescriptive (descriptions not intended to be[...]