[...]ovation 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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> “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

='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

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:124%"> de="trms">skilling and de-professionalization under the ="trms">intertwined guises of competitiveness and innovation

="large lg14" stl="font-size:102%"> 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

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,)

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

="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 ="trms">methods for thinking critically about old and new ="trms">technologies
="prgrph">-we ="trms">naturalize the way ="trms">technological infrastructures make ethical decisions for us ='lgc'>=/= producing ="trms">methods/ethic that allows librarians to mandate characteristics in developing ="trms">technologies which both preserve librarians’ prerogatives to make (necessary visible) ethical judgment calls ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert
جعبه='lgc'>--"containers” continue to ="trms">dictate the name of the game (for the immensely diverse patronage of the public library)

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bi="trms">lingualism
="trms">different ="trms">languages (="trms">farsi and arabic in ="nms">ajayeb) refers to ="trms">different value ="trms">systems and to ="trms">different lived experience

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>]

(="trms">complaint ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=) diversity-work='lgc'> = ="trms">data-collection

we learn about the damage we cause, of how causes are understood as damage

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my old background (in computer ="trms">sciences)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•www.joelonsoftware.com (Joel Spolsky runs a company which sells bug ="trms">databases, “FogBugz”)
="lsts lst1">•wiki.c2.com
="lsts lst1">•“Structure and ="trms">Interpretation of Computer Programs”


computational process

abstract beings (processes='strcls'>*) manipulate other abstract things (="trms">data='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a pattern of rules (program='strcls'>*)

programming='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">linguistic abstraction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engineering design='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: building a mini-="trms">language to express a problem, using a fixed computer programming ="trms">language (on a given hardware) to construct a new ="trms">language that enables describing (and hence to think) the problem ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> using='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•primitives means of combination
="lsts lst1">•primitives means of abstraction
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presentation of ="trms">data and control (='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ individual bits of storage and primitive machine ="trms">instructions)
='lgc'>+ using the given hardware to erect ="trms">systems/utilities for the efficient implementation of resource-limited computations


distinction between “passive” ="trms">data and “active” processes ='lgc'>=/= Lisp
(procedures and ="trms">data are just abstractions, they are not really distinct) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> programming ="trms">language should have ="trms">methods for combining and abstracting procedures and ="trms">data

means of abstraction='lgc'>: by which compound elements can be named and manipulated as units


modularity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> localized part of the ="trms">system
='lgc'><='lgc'>== perception of the ="trms">system
="lsts lst1">•objective='lgc'>: viewing a large ="trms">system as a collection of distinct objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concerned with how a computational object can change and yet maintain its identity
="lsts lst1">•streamous='lgc'>: information that flow in the ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delayed evaluation

(='thdf'>for example) a bank account='lgc'>: has state in that the answer to the ="trms">question “Can I withdraw $100='qstn'>?” depends upon the ="trms">history of de="trms">posit and withdrawal transactions

object de="trms">composed into computational objects (each with their own time-varying local state variables) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> model

object programming='lgc'>: model real-="trms">world objects with local state by computational objects with local variables ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> identify time variation in the real ="trms">world with time variation in the computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> implement the time variation of the states of the model objects in the computer with assignments to the local variables of the model objects
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (how='qstn'>?) model a time function

stream='lgc'>: delayed (in="trms">finite) ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list

stream programming='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">different abstractions such as='lgc'>: map, filter, accumulate,
="lsts lst1">•transformations of ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•sequence manipulations without incurring the costs of manipulating sequences as ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•tadriji incremental computation


random='lgc'>: statistical properties of uniform distribution


object-orientation='lgc'>: poly="trms">morphic abstract ="trms">data types ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">relational ="trms">data model



Building Abstractions with ="trms">Data

how to use='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•primitive ="trms">data (numbers)
="lsts lst1">•primitive operations (arithmetic operations)

building abstractions by combining ="trms">data objects to form compound ="trms">data ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*to increase the modularity='strcls'>* of (our) designs ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to increase/enhance the expressive power of our ="trms">language

="trms">data abstraction='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*="trms">technique of isolating='strcls'>* (the parts of a program that deal with) how ="trms">data objects are ‘re="trms">presented’ from (the parts of a program that deal with) how ="trms">data objects are ‘used’


versioning
garbage collection

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the ="trms">question of “what ='lgc'>[='not'>✕='lgc'>] can learn from ='lgc'>[Y='lgc'>]='qstn'>?”


="ppl">="ppl">Calvert on Mestiza consciousness
library and information ="trms">scientists
consciousness of the borderlands ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ in between ="trms">categories, creative/annihilating forces a person living borderlands must struggle against='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***contradictory impulse for ='strcls'>*hording='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*sharing='strcls'>*

="trms">categorizing, naming, describing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power-laden practices we cannot do without

each ='strcls'>*schema='strcls'>* reveals its ="trms">priorities, legitimizes/delegitimizes, renders visible/invisible the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge it contains/ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes

(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>:) library='lgc'>: (places that preserve) discourses that one wishes to re="trms">member and keep in circulation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Anand's jinn temporality and genealogy of human ="trms">memory='lgc'>]

="large lg6" stl="font-size:115%"> mestiza ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hybrid way of knowing/acting/living, as “none of the above”
what is hybrid and impure may be ="trms">monstrous (in the ="trms">epistemologies of power) and may experience ='strcls'>*hightened visibility='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= scrutiny, study, problematization, pity)

“orphans of infrastructure” (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)

locked in a duel with the oppressor
lived experiences of marked classes
(in each duality pair, one is called “the con="trms">situtive outside” ='lgc'>[subject/object, male/female, etc.='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> switching polarity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> valorizing feminine over masculine, black over white, nurture over ="trms">nature, emotion over reason

crossing of cultures

='strcls'>*which collectivity does the daughter of the darkskinned mother ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

(while i was in ="nms">apass i had a shift of attention to) the ='strcls'>*labor of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge work='strcls'>* (in collective digital flesh life)

media ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= knwol="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge form

in media arts studies i learn to ask which cruicual ="trms">material limitations have been radically eased in a digital era ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impulse to hoard/share ='lgc'>+ constant tension with the ="trms">epistemological work of ="trms">categorization and classification (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">database) ='lgc'>+ (ongoing) feminization of the field

the library and information ="trms">science knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intense expertise required to enact it ='lgc'>=/=!='qstn'>? art expertise (a ="trms">category of works that are expertise-free)

(gift of ="ppl">Marx, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, Lorde, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star in) ='strcls'>*understanding subjugated ="trms">epistemologies='strcls'>*

(Lorde) master's tool dismantle the master's house='qstn'>?='lgc'> = can the ="trms">technologies and ="trms">epistemologies that have been used to organize thinking about the ="trms">world in one way succesfully uproot that way='qstn'>?

“recovering multivocality”

رسوب
='strcls'>*enact residuality
='strcls'>*residual (of transformations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sometimes wiping away previous ="trms">techniques for dividing and describing, and substituting another set of ="trms">categories that don't easily map to the first ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eliminating the residuum of the old order ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> case of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can we make overlaps and hybridities of old/new ="trms">categories='qstn'>? ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*residual ="trms">categories='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ="trms">affective-="trms">epistemic content that often go unclassified. ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">affect='strcls'>* is too thin, too subjective to calcify into a ="trms">category. it abundantly uses its ="trms">categories in a way that offers a kaleidoscopic shuffling and reshuffling of the items='strcls'>***)='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*residuum

="trms">categories overlapping, non-hierarchical (“="trms">animal” ='lgc'>+ “livestock”, etc.)

truthiness
melting pot
actions (filled with ="trms">verbs)
nouns (both living and nonliving entities)

='strcls'>*score of recognizable ="trms">historical era='strcls'>*

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> using='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•filmic ="trms">techniques (animation, montage, time lapse)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective ="trms">techniques (sarcasm, intimacy)


how can we address aspects of ="nms">apass's exceptionalism='qstn'>?
(with its things='lgc'>: characters, colors, doings, values)
='strcls'>*="trms">historical/cultural ="trms">specificities of ="nms">apass='strcls'>*


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> enlightenment in="trms">heritances='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•quest for universality
="lsts lst1">•


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