[...]be” (='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'>]


="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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

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)


="large lg1" stl="font-size:119%"> 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'>?)

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

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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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="large lg5" stl="font-size:148%">
='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 [...]