[...]econd ="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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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


="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)

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’

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (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


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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:121%">
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 [...]