[...]cal discipline and of the earth


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="ppl">Freud's penis

inscription of records ="trms">onto skin

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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


="large lg1" stl="font-size:122%"> “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

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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

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='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'>?)
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