[...]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
chaotic spacelike, lacking direction and granularity
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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
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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
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
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="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)
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(="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
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(for an archivist ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ Lyell='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) earth='lgc'> = special kind of clock, an ='strcls'>*hourglass='strcls'>*
(astronomy ='lgc'>+ geology ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) (a co[...]