[...]lks 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)


="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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 lg14" stl="font-size:127%"> (="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 prescriptive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to ="trms">historicize and de="trms">naturalize concepts (of competition, innovation,,)='strcls'>*

="ppl">="ppl">Bowker ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star > ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*things perceived as real are real in their consequences='strcls'>*

="trms">market competitiveness has a plethora='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="trms">excess, افراط ,ازدياد='lgc'>] of ="trms">measures ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> profit='lgc'>: the seller-centric proxy ="trms">measure of ="trms">consumer ="trms">interest

“our idealized notion of competition as a generator of innovation black-boxes a host of processes for competition, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding unfair practices, externalizing costs, ="trms">marketing, deception, and de="trms">skilling.”

(our idealized notion of='lgc'>:)='lgc'>{ competition ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> innovation ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--black-boxes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a host of) processes for competition='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unfair practices
="lsts lst1">•externalizing costs
="lsts lst1">•="trms">marketing
="lsts lst1">•deception
="lsts lst1">•de="trms">skilling
="lsts lst1">•

individua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic and ="trms">social ="ppl">Darwinist overtones

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]inovation='lgc'>: a form of wishful thinking that aims to bring about the desired transformations without the as="trms">sociated costs in time and human effort (Suchman ='and'>& Bishop)
(‘labor-intensive artistic work’='lgc'>: noninovative creative work; deepen the ="trms">density of curiosity;)

capitalism continuously applies new ="trms">technology designed to fragment and de="trms">skill labor, so that labor becomes cheaper and subject to greater control (="ppl">Wajcman)

(sometimes) obsolescence is created through minor redesigns of ="trms">consumer commodities

“let's sell more” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> undesirable consequences for human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights, global trade in rare ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metals, and toxic waste disposal

="large lg14" stl="font-size:115%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">technological determinism and optimism='lgc'>: the belief that the ="trms">present ="trms">social arrangements and ="trms">technologies were the inevitable byproducts of ="trms">historical developement, and that any problems entailed in our ="trms">technologies and their production processes can be eliminated with further ="trms">technological innovations

competetiveness and the ="trms">technological ='strcls'>*savvy='strcls'>* implicit in innovation are themselves markers of contemporary masculinity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the enduring force of the identification between ="trms">technology and manliness is not an inherent biological sex ="trms">difference. it is instead the result of the ="trms">historical and cultural construction of gender” (="ppl">Wajcman)

a big part of the problem is that women's ="trms">technological labor (='lgc'>=/= ghost busters) is culturally invisible ='lgc'>--(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King in her research on ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies argues)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a metonymy='lgc'>:) when ="trms">technologies are reduced to singular, stable, self-contained devices ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= assemblages
='lgc'>[dichotomy of “enforcement ='lgc'>=/= destruction” ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars either or='lgc'>: if you are not destroying it you are enforcing it='lgc'>]

problems that cannot be conceptualized in terms of ="trms">measures and endpoints, or which involve ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic, qualitative solutions, will be at a disadvantage for selection

(Cowan shows) the developement of new household tachnologies did not free women from the domestic shpere. rather, it allowed women to enter the paid labor force while leaving the gendered division of labor in the home untouched.


(makes me throw up ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) large ="trms">literature of self-determination theory (='lgc'>~ showing people are more creative and happy when their work allows them to be autonomous, related, and competent) ='lgc'>+ reward ="trms">systems cultivating competitive environments
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]autonomy='lgc'>: self-willing, volitional, being an ="trms">agent in the action ='lgc'>=/= being a “pawn”

spheres where processes and outcomes have been the name of the game (in feminized fields of education and librarianship)

labs (such as laser developement) that require collaboration with other labs

trading zones='lgc'>: a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for understanding how cooperation between rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers enables new ="trms">scientific paradigms ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Galison

='strcls'>*the development of this or that research looks like a continuous ="trms">trajectory, but the ="trms">trajectory was actually discontinuous and ruptured. that fact that we have invented or discovered something makes that developement seem inevitable, but things could always have turned out some other way='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Cowan > ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert

competition is not a guarantor of innovation, our cultural belief in it can obscure other explanations for innovation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example (Wylie showing='lgc'>:) (archaeology's enshrined belief that) male-centered hunting activities dominated pre="trms">historic caloric intakes ='lgc'>==='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>==> other hypotheses for the ="trms">transition to agriculture ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> women's leading role in the development of agriculture='lgc'>--arguably the most significant innovation in human ="trms">history='lgc'>--could finally be detected


='lgc'>[bids for status by denying the feminized and second class aspects of library work='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the labor of care is at the core of library work='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*teaching, like ="trms">technology, is always a ="trms">relationship, and that ="trms">relationship is undergrided by the labor of care='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective labor is ="trms">literally vital to the successful delivery of other kinds of services)='strcls'>***
the ways women are called on to manage their and other's feelings ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technology is ="trms">positioned in out culture as rational and precise and therefore (masculine and) unemotional ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> look at the film Lucy='lgc'>]

successful education and mentorship depend on this ="trms">skill, which, like household labor, is difficult to account for in “competitive” economic analysis


='strcls'>**="trms">articulation work='strcls'>**
the labor necessary to make ="trms">technologies fit together seamlessly ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star
(='mywrk'>my work begins in) information ="trms">systems may leave gaps in work processes that require real-time adjustments, or ‘="trms">articulation work,’ to complete the processes
(='mywrk'>my research='lgc'>: through ="nms">ajayeb i have been busy with learning to “make friends” with both ="trms">technologies and theories)

every ="trms">system is an assemblage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert applying ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's insight and think of ="trms">technologies as significant prostheses ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]librarianship='lgc'>: a work that (primarily) hooks up people with their ="trms">technologies

librarians ="trms">articulate ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they help people adapt ="trms">technologies

="large lg14" stl="font-size:108%"> librarian's ="trms">articulation work is both ="trms">technological and ="trms">affective ='lgc'>=/= competitive


(in ="trms">techno-capital) supressing labor costs ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de="trms">skilling

de="trms">skilling and de-professionalization under the ="trms">intertwined guises of competitiveness and innovation

an ='thdf'>example of de="trms">skilling='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>: “to be feminized means to be made extremely vulnerable; able to be disassembled, reassembled, exploited as a reserve labor force, seen less as workers than as servers; subjected to time arrangements on and off the paid job that make a mockery of a limited work day; leading to an existence that always borders on being obs="trms">cene, out of place, and reducible to sex. de="trms">skilling is an old strategy newly applicable to formerly privileged workers.”

education has been difficult to comodify, and remains labor intensive ='lgc'>=/= innovations in online education ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creating inroads in the de="trms">skilling and commodification of teaching labor='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•course curriculum ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> course content
="lsts lst1">•teaching ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery
='strcls'>*video ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>+ ="trms">internet ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> face-to-face ="trms">interpersonal relating to be captured and reused ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new depths of commodification
='strcls'>*="trms">internet ="trms">technologies can be used to provide ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous, a="trms">synchronous learning and mentorship, or they can be used to decrease labor costs, but they cannot do much of both ="trms">simultaneously(='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">question ='at'>@="nms">apass)


="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[...however,='lgc'>] for competition='lgc'>--='lgc'>[or any good/bad object we are working on='lgc'>] to be a useful strategy, it has to happen in a larger context of cooperation and collaboration
(='thdf'>for example ='thdf'>the notion of “future” has to happen in a larger context in which ="trms">different futurities for diverse ="trms">communities is thinkable)


="trms">method ='lgc'><='lgc'>==='lgc'>{
='lgc'>+ sensitivity to the ="trms">historical moment (multiculturalism, extreme changes in the meaning of ‘global,’ etc.)
='lgc'>+ an assemblage of tools that are ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to hand (theoretically driven, are pleasant and effective to use, etc.)
='lgc'>+ ="trms">embody an ethical commitment to ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst2">◦emic='lgc'>: the values and meanings of those who are being studied
="lsts lst2">◦etic='lgc'>: within a way to explore the conventions, standards and infrastructures that both constrain and enable their experiences


="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star
="lsts lst1">•qualitative ="trms">methods
="lsts lst1">•lateral thinking
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poetics of infrastructure
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]boundary objects='lgc'>: examines assemblages of humans and things, and how things that exist in more than one ="trms">community of practice are used in performing cooperative work


the role of practical knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in organizational life

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> sensitivity of an ethno="trms">methodological orientation

(="nms">apass's) intellectual capital (is not centered in their official document re="trms">positories and ="trms">databases, rather is in the largely undocumented ideas, insights, and know-how of its ="trms">members='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ="frds scrmbld">Nicolas, ="trms">Joke, ="frds scrmbld">Steven, Michele,)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:128%"> exigencies of work

='strcls'>****much of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge often remains ="trms">embodied in the practice
commonly shared through conversations and ="trms">stories among small circles of colleagues and work groups ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> local vernacular ='lgc'>--convert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other forms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> other ="trms">members of the organization can understand ='and'>& ='strcls'>*act upon='strcls'>* together

="frds">Sina ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> richer comprehension of ="trms">socially organised work practice into the process of engineering ="trms">technological ="trms">systems

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> her work is about the enduring qualities of the ="trms">book and how its resistance to commodification enables this thing we call a public library.
she is ="trms">interested in developing library-appropriate research meth[...]