[...]s may avoid a ="trms">scientific debate because='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- they feel out of their depths ="trms">interpreting ="trms">scientific ="trms">data
="lstsrd">2- they resist ="trms">scientific ="trms">authority in ="trms">response to well-documented instances of ="trms">scientific exploration of people of color
="lstsrd">3- they may have surrendered to ="trms">science the work of settling ="trms">matters of fact, keeping hermeneutics and textual ="trms">matters for themselves


="trms">science and ="trms">technology studies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*tracing objects through the practices and discourses that produce them as settled ="trms">matters of fact, made, but not made up='strcls'>*

(tracking) ="trms">social and legal arrangements ='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> race

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%">
='strcls'>***="trms">science is ="trms">coded as the ="trms">interpreter of ="trms">nature in western discourse='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i have to study ="trms">science in ='mywrk'>my research on ="trms">bestiaries


Hammond ='lgc'>+ Herzig on how ="trms">scientific practices across disciplines describe and create what thereby becomes ='strcls'>*="trms">naturalized ="trms">difference='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= describing the ="trms">nature of ="trms">difference itself)

(learn from Hammond ='lgc'>+ Herzig ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->)
source ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organize ='and'>& comment ='lgc'>--sustain='lgc'>='lgc'>--> argument
='lgc'>+ ="trms">questions that point the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader to discoursive moves and modes of attention of the ="trms">author (='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Quinsy's ملانقطى pedantic exploration of racism)

(politically correcting the popular understanding of race ='lgc'>=/=) to show the unsettled and ongoing ="trms">nature of the debate. ='lgc'>[asking ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers='lgc'>] to track the rise and permutation of various features of the argument
='lgc'>[asking Captain America ='lgc'>--anatomical='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] “in what larger political, economic, and ="trms">social contexts might ears, noses, index fingers, or brains hemispheres attract attention as re="trms">liable signs of racial ="trms">difference='qstn'>?”


some wrong ideas='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•adaptation to new environments signals evolution (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= degenerating groups would eventually cease to exist)
="lsts lst1">•high mortality rates could signal problems in work and living condition
="lsts lst1">•sexual di="trms">morphism thought to be a component of degeneration
="lsts lst1">•“more often than not, the views of ="trms">society have shaped ="trms">science rather than the other way around. in this instance, it may be time for ="trms">science to reshape the views of ="trms">society.” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- scary!='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•


to start with political ="trms">agenda (good or bad) and fit evidence to that
political correctness (='lgc'>~ a ="trms">social ="trms">interest)
dogged persue of truth

='strcls'>*="trms">science's power to beguile اغفال ="trms">imagination='strcls'>* (for example genomics testing to discover and reveal “truths” about unknown ="trms">ancestry)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a post ="trms">World War II and post-holocaust aspiratoin='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure here is to finally prove we are all the same under the skin, or at least that we have more in common than we had liked to admit='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- another project for making race ="trms">matter, but ="trms">differently

(="frds scrmbld">Quinsy urgently need to learn) how not to be conversation stopper


Bland ='lgc'>+ Doan's Sexology Uncensored

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

scope of information ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: organized physical evidence

new digital ="trms">technologies renews old ="trms">questions and also old confusions between medium, message, and meaning

document
ordniary information storage and retrieval ="trms">system='qstn'>?

bibliography='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•collecting
="lsts lst1">•preserving
="lsts lst1">•organizing (arranging)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">presenting (describing)
="lsts lst1">•selecting (retrieving)
="lsts lst1">•reproducing (copying)
="lsts lst1">•disseminating
="lsts lst1">•
(of documents)

early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> documentation adopted (in europe) instead of bibliography

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]documentation='lgc'>: a set of ="trms">techniques developed to mange significant (or potentially significant) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]document='lgc'>: any expression of human thought (beyond ="trms">written texts)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ='strcls'>*novel form of signifying objects='strcls'>*

objects bearing traces of...
='strcls'>*if you are informed by observation of it, you are looking at a document='strcls'>*

="large lg6" stl="font-size:123%"> document='lgc'>: any ="trms">material basis for extending our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge which is available for study or comparison
='strcls'>*capable of being used for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*reference='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*study='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">authority='strcls'>*

1951
document='lgc'>: evidence in support of a fact
any physical or ="trms">symbiotic sign, preserved or recorded, intended to re="trms">present, to reconstruct, or to de="trms">monstrate a physical or conceptual ="trms">phenomenon
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> viewed with access to evidence
='lgc'>=/= (concerned with) text

document ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb's text object ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>]

(object)    (document='qstn'>?)
star in the sky    no
photo of star    yes
stone in river    no
stone in museum    yes
="trms">animal in ="trms">wild    no
="trms">animal in ="trms">zoo    yes


Briet's rules for determining when an object has become a document='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. there is ="trms">materiality
="lstsrd">2. there is intentionality
="lstsrd">3. the objects have to be processed (they have to be made into documents)
="lstsrd">4. there is a ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">position (the object is perceived to be a document)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:115%"> indexicality='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the quality of having been placed in an organized, meaningful ="trms">relationship with other evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gives an object its documentary status='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- for who and why is this useful='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


="trms">modernist mentality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">scientific management
="lsts lst1">•standardization
="lsts lst1">•bibliographic control
='lgc'>--as='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complementary and ="trms">mutually reinforcing bases for achieving progress

spiritual movement of ="trms">anthroposophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognitive aspects of the medium of the message
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> document='lgc'>: re="trms">pository of an expressed thought ='lgc'>+ spiritual character

1963
document='lgc'>: micro-thought on a flat surface (fit for physical handling, transport across space, and preservation through time)

cultural ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">material culture” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> onject as document
artifacts contribute important evidence in the documentation and ="trms">interpretation of experience

artistic research='lgc'> = ="trms">aesthetic object ='lgc'>+ signifying object

="trms">semiotics
information ="trms">sciences
="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object-as-sign
there is always a meaning which overflows the object's use
text='lgc'>: patterns of ="trms">social ="trms">phenomena not made of words or numerals


='lgc'>[signs have to be treated a something invented='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">social construction of meaning='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> viewer's perception of the significance and evidential مدرکى character of documents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “relevance” is now considered to be ="trms">situational and ascribed by the viewer (in digital)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== the property of being a sign is not a ="trms">natural property ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>***property is given to objects='strcls'>***


Wikipedia='lgc'>: all signifying objects (points to) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> forensic ="trms">aesthetic='lgc'>: all evidence='lgc'> = signifying فوری (easy ='lgc'>+ immediate) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">aesthetic object فرار (volatile)

object in evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> offer it as evidence by the way it is arranged, indexed, ="trms">presented
its manner ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in arranging ="trms">material so that someone may be able to make use of it as new evidence for some purpose (='lgc'>=/= finding ="trms">material that al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready is in evidence)

what is a digital document='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--Buckland='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becomes more problematic, unless we re="trms">member the path of reasoning underlying the largely forgotten discussions of Otlet's objects and Briet's antelope


='strcls'>**documenting the antelope='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb
antelope='lgc'>: Ethiopian word for the elusive unicorn

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

="ppl">="ppl">Calvert
="trms">technobibliocapital

librarians cannot hope to really change how people seek knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in libraries (they are not ='strcls'>*information awareness office='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= news ="trms">agency)

will to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--manifest='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in a massive electronic ="trms">data processing project

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]library ="trms">science='lgc'>: a set of practices for producing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in subjects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*producing subjects through knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='strcls'>*

patron='lgc'>: certain kinds of subjects (='lgc'>=/= citizen), ="trms">consumers with an abiding ="trms">market rationality and an ="trms">interest in individua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list private space

enmeshed in practices of classification, circulation, collection

="trms">technology ='lgc'>+ libraries ='lgc'>+ capital
="lsts lst1">•capital='lgc'>: ="trms">social, political, economic, and other ="trms">relationships crystallized in things, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">books and libraries
="lsts lst1">•biblio='lgc'>: libraries, ="trms">books, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•="trms">techno='lgc'>: ="trms">technologies (both silicon-based and not) that make producing, storing, and reproducing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge possible and efficient

="large lg22" stl="font-size:114%"> ="trms">technology and capital shaping library practices ='lgc'>[and animation of ="trms">animal practices='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emphasize ="trms">animal geography='lgc'>]

(legacy of bibliography and ="trms">book collecting) 1930 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> library practice centered on the development of bibliographic standards emphasizing procedures for identifying and indexing ="trms">authors and tides

(21st century) democracy of texts, collaboration with autodidacticism and public education, is now giving itself over to the ='strcls'>*circulation of commodities='strcls'>*

='strcls'>**the subjects produced through 21st century librarianship are customers and ="trms">consumers='strcls'>** (who seeks content ='lgc'>=/= knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)

new librarian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new freedom of information ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> free ="trms">market (in the form of atomized particles of “microcontent” allowing free-floating information to be freely accessed via computers and ="trms">networks, without the censorious mediation of ="trms">embodied librarians)

libraries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">techniques for ordering (='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> discourse of standardization)

(shifting) ways the library has operated alongside the state as a disciplinary ='and'>& ideological ="trms">apparatus
="lsts lst1">•18th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> national library
="lsts lst1">•19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">techniques for ordering, discourse of standardization and order (in the library) ='lgc'>+ searching and retrieval external to the mind of the librarian
="lsts lst1">•19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[emerging understanding of the role of ="trms">literacy in worker self improvement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] public library ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a project of nation, citizenship, democracy, self-betterment, universal education ='lgc'>+ concurrent with a ="trms">serious reconstitution of hierarchies of access to ="trms">books
="lsts lst1">•late 19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paterna="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list financial auspices of Andrew Carnegie (who funded 1689 library buildings) for the explicit objective of the self-education of
workers and immigrants ='lgc'>--purpose='lgc'>='lgc'>--> acculturation and assimilation
="lsts lst1">•Paul Otlet ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universal decimal classification 1899
="lsts lst1">•late 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dreams of intelligent computers and objectivized information ="trms">science ='lgc'>: (from) library school ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> school of information management ="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*schematization efforts='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (20th century) library ="trms">science (continue producing itself) as a cooperative venture of flourishing information ='lgc'>[triumphant rationalism='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•standardization
="lsts lst1">•automation
="lsts lst1">•propagate
="lsts lst1">•expand

(in the name of) democratization ='and'>& civil ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights

library ='lgc'>==contribute='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to the civic sphere='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•providing the information
="lsts lst1">•providing ='strcls'>*behaviors='strcls'>* necessary for appropriate citizenship

library ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> classification ="trms">system (DDC) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> general knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge organization tool

late 20th century neo-liberal rationality ='lgc'>==intensify='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•moral directive for self-betterment (as workers)
="lsts lst1">•reorienting the ="trms">relation of subjects (toward the state and the ="trms">social) as one of ="trms">consumership
='lgc'>+ shift in the de="trms">finition of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

="trms">technobibliocapital ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (new era of) ordering texts ='and'>& subjects

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*appreciative ='lgc'>=/= affirmative='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert, we can be appreciative but not affirmative='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[to be critical =='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****not to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•dismiss X (by thinking of it as) ="trms">composed entirely of domination ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='at'>@="nms">apass, ="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to laud something as a timeless ideal
="lsts lst1">•evoke a sense of relief that we have X that are free (of power ="trms">relations, freely available to all, and filled with free-flowing information)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical ='lgc'>+ ="trms">present ='lgc'>+ future-looking ="trms">formulations of X

="lsts lst1">•reverence for libraries of long gone days...
="lsts lst1">•accolades مراسم اعطای منصب شوالیه for librarians as heroes...
="lsts lst1">•libraries as the saviors of the people...
="lsts lst1">•as just another manifestation of government intrusion (paternalism, library='lgc'>: robust civilizing ="trms">apparatuses, an ideal phil="trms">anthropic gift)...
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**libraries are potent resources with vast possibilities for creating the ="trms">worlds we inhabit='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]library='lgc'>: (collectively produced ='lgc'>~ both collectively funded and collected from many sources) vibrant sites of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge generation ='lgc'>+ of power (for those who generate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through libraries in turn diffuse this knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through other places and other people)

without a robust de="trms">finition of power ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>='lgc'>==> librarians have been unable to see or ="trms">articulate how libraries have been in the service of disciplining subjugating power (a power that is productive not just for ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers but of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers)

..weak appeals to ="trms">market freedom

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

service-dominant logic='lgc'> = an enframing act ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of framing the ="trms">world (which like all logics) chooses what to in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude and what to ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude from its frame of investigation and theory ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how it enframes the ="trms">world

="trms">marketing ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (delineated between) “="trms">material (raw) resources ='lgc'>=/= im="trms">material (dynamic) resources”

resources-assets-capabilities

(in math)
operand='lgc'>: passive objects that are manipulated (3, 5)
operator='lgc'>: ="trms">specific actions that act upon operands (='lgc'>+, x)

importance of the operand resource
="prgrph">-the relative role of operand resources began to shift in the late 20th century as humans began to realize that ="trms">skills and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge were the most important types of resources

operand resource='lgc'>: (raw ="trms">material and land) an act is performed on them ='lgc'>=/= operant resource='lgc'>: (="trms">technologies, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">skill) those employed to act on operand resources
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a conceptual separation with roots in ="trms">Greek philosophy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Plato='lgc'>: “="trms">material ="trms">embodiment='lgc'> = distraction to true knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>: privileging of mental life over physical ="trms">matter
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> we in="trms">herit this style of philosophy (in the west) that values formal abstract objectless thinking as the standard canonical way of knowing the ="trms">world

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*information age='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•endorses the pre-eminence of the im="trms">material and dis="trms">embodies (mind, ="trms">skill, mental life) over the ="trms">material and ="trms">embodied (brute ="trms">matter, physicality)
="lsts lst1">•celebrate a ='strcls'>*culture of de="trms">materiality='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>=/= object oriented philosophy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Heidegger's theory of tool-being
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Latour's displacement of the human proposed by the actor-="trms">network theory
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Merleau-Ponty's ="trms">sensual ="trms">phenomenology
="lsts lst1">•

(continental philosophy ='lgc'>+ analytical philosophy in West ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>**philosophies of access='strcls'>** to the ="trms">world ='lgc'>: they assume that the human-="trms">world gap is the privileged site of all ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous philosophy
="trms">interest in human access to objects ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: if things exists, they do so only for us='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">interest in objects


(in ="trms">marketing ="trms">literature)
="lsts lst1">•operant resources='lgc'>:
human        sophisticated
cultural     strategic
active       dynamic
="trms">agentic      im="trms">material
specialized  intelligent
="trms">relational   primary
='strcls'>*in="trms">finite='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--link='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to notions of progrss and achievement in contemporary ="trms">society

="lsts lst1">•operand resources='lgc'>:
inhuman     machine-like
basic       stuff
functional  physical
inanimate   raw
inert       less important
secondary   lesser
tangible    subordinate
='strcls'>*="trms">finite='strcls'>*


service-dominant logic ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•operant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">finite ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human's ="trms">skill
="lsts lst1">•operand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">finite ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world's ="trms">material

service-dominant logic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a cut (“='lgc'>=/=”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operant resources will take these sluggish raw inherently secondary ="trms">materials and act on them to whisk them into something valuable
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Barad='lgc'>='lgc'>--> every act of observation makes a “cut” in what is otherwise an indissolubly unauflösbare entangled ="trms">natural-cultural universe ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*every new way of observation cuts open new logics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> undermines what is known ='lgc'>+ what can be known='strcls'>*


="large lg10" stl="font-size:106%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]operand resources='lgc'>: resources which require action to create benefit
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crucial scenarios where operand resources (forests, sea beds, topsoil) require the op="trms">posite of action (unused or underused) in order to create or maintain (their intrinsic) value

='strcls'>*value-in-use='lgc'>: somthing is assessed ="trms">according to the use a ="trms">consumer has for it

='strcls'>*value-in-underuse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (tourism's) deserted beaches, unspoiled countryside, uninhabited ruins
='thdf'>for example brand management implicitly leverages the concept of ='strcls'>*value-in-underuse='strcls'>*
brands are often valuable for the very fact that they are underused ='lgc'>: when their use is confined to small ="trms">communities, enabling them to maintain their cultural capital (ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusivity or authenticity)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:124%"> ='strcls'>*vlaue-in-context='lgc'>: value is conceived as something that is collectively co-created by multiple actors
='thdf'>for example in service-dominant logic an operant resource like ='strcls'>*brand vlaue='strcls'>* is one which is externally-based and dynamically determined in the context (cannot be own by a single actor) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">consumers might co-derive ="trms">affective cognitive ="trms">social value in creating the brand but economic value that accrues as a result belongs entirely to the brand's shareholders='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> issue with fandom='lgc'>]
='thdf'>for example ='strcls'>*="trms">affective value='strcls'>*='lgc'>: when vlaue lies in the general sentiment of a ="trms">networked group of actors

(in ="trms">marketing's theory of value creation) the ='strcls'>*role of the ="trms">consumer='strcls'>* in the value creation process is now explicitly recognized and ="trms">articulated (incorporated) through compelling concepts such as cocreation, coproduction, ='strcls'>*prosumerism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[an individual who both ="trms">consumes ='and'>& produces='lgc'>]
='at'>@="nms">apass collaborative environments

='lgc'>[="trms">consumer research='lgc'>]
recognizing the ways in which ="trms">consumers and ="trms">consumption are both productive and value-adding

Holbrook's topology of ="trms">consumer value
value is active='lgc'> = when it entails physical or mental manipulation of an object
value is reactive='lgc'> = when things are done by a product to the ="trms">consumer (objects act on ="trms">consumers to create value)


xxxxxx

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

Hayles

(to take) a problem-based approach ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking a problem and looking for solutions ='lgc'>=/= investigating problematics (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- humanities ='lgc'>[and art='lgc'>])

what are the reward structures in artistic research='qstn'>? (the way a work is recognized and validated by the field)

post="trms">literacy
the future of human ='and'>& the future of ="trms">writing are entwined
meaning='lgc'> = resistance
to be human='lgc'> = to resist ="trms">techno-="trms">language

an informed ="trms">scientific-="trms">literate and humanistically educated public ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> democracy

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

(mass media) cultural standing (and standard) of live performance
paradigm of televisual ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> digital

(Auslander ="trms">historicizing) liveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontological)

ideology of authenticity (in live music)

at the level of cultural economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theatre (live performance) ='lgc'>=/= mass media

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

='lgc'>[why is contemporary art so reluctant to describe our experience of digitized life='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--Bishop='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] digital ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">code (inherently alien to human perception) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">linguistic model

="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='strcls'>*physical and the ="trms">social were pitched against the virtual and the re="trms">presentational='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ “subjective ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technological” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">social ="trms">relations today are not mediated by monodirectional media imagery ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•favor ="trms">intersubjective exchange and homespun activities (cooking, gardening, conversation) with the aim of reinforcing a ="trms">social bond fragmented by ="trms">spectacle
="lsts lst1">•desire for face-to-face ="trms">relations against the dis="trms">embodiment of the ="trms">Internet
="lsts lst1">•retro-="trms">craftiness
="lsts lst1">•fiddly collages
="lsts lst1">•tapestries
='lgc'>--assert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjectivity (='lgc'>+ tactility) ='lgc'>=/= impregnable surface of the screen

="large lg18" stl="font-size:107%"> reformatting
trans="trms">coding
modulation of preexisting files ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> selection strategy ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> meaningful recontextualization (of existing artifacts)

="trms">paranoid will to connect what cannot be connected
subjective rationales
arbitrary ="trms">systems (='lgc'>=/= established taxonomies)

vernacular forms of aggregation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everyone with a personal computer today has become a de facto archivist (storing and filing thousands of documents, images, and music files, ='lgc'>+ porn)

analog in appearance ='lgc'>+ digital in structure

="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

eschatos='lgc'>: furthest, last (in ="trms">Greek)

theological ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the theory of the person


='qstn'>?how eschatological attitudes changed over time ='lgc'>+ how they hovered over human experience

millenarian expectation
='qstn'>?how year 1000 was perceived

="lsts lst1">•preoccupation with the time of Christ second coming
="lsts lst1">•="trms">natural and political disasters and upheavals ='lgc'>--sign='lgc'>='lgc'>--> denouncement of sacred ="trms">history


medieval='lgc'> = fear ='lgc'>+ passion (='lgc'>+ expectation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eschatological ="trms">imagination

escapology='lgc'>: significance of immanent (catastrophic) future ="trms">history

calculations of the end
="trms">demand for reform
monastic analysis

discourse against an identifiable moment of apocalypse

="lsts lst1">•antichrist
="lsts lst1">•whore of Babylon
="lsts lst1">•angelic pope

un="trms">folding end of ="trms">history ='lgc'>[humbling of the mighty='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ justice for the in="trms">articulate (oppressed) ='lgc'>[exhalation of the meek='lgc'>]

apocalyptic speculation about the enclosed unclean people of Gog and Magog

mystical ="trms">response
spasmodic irrationality

the fate of the individual at the moment of “personal death” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> guilt culture (fear of damnation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> life='lgc'> = ritual preparations for dying)

deathbed demons
hell in art
="trms">religious ="trms">anxiety
mechanism of ="trms">social control

(from) collective ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individual
(from) temporal ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atemporal or beyond time
(from) stress on spirit ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sense of ="trms">embodied or re="trms">embodied self

(shift from) tamed death='lgc'>: a death expected and prepared for, experienced in ="trms">community ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personal death='lgc'>: the moment of death as decisive accounting for an individual self

purgatory='lgc'>: in-between time and space

afterlife ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the concept of the (="trms">embodied) human person

somato="trms">morphic='lgc'>: separated soul ="trms">imagined as bodily
ordinary piety ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•significance of physical death
="lsts lst1">•spiritual value of somatic ="trms">phenomena (namely suffering)

the sense of an ending hovers over all spiritual ="trms">writing in the middle ages

eschatology of='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. resurrection='lgc'>: a sense of last things that focuses significance in the moment at the end of time when the physical body is reconstituted and judged
='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- arise from traditions with a much less immanent sense of “last things"='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--emphasis='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst2">◦time end
="lsts lst2">◦person ="trms">embodied
="lsts lst2">◦humanity collective
="lstsrd">2. immortality='lgc'>: the experience of personal death is the moment of judgement
="lstsrd">3. apocalypse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (coerces) ='strcls'>**what ="trms">matters is the here and now='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- implying a political payoff
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> inflect and deepen the ="trms">literature (description of plague, visions of heaven and hell)

="large lg18" stl="font-size:132%"> ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> three eschatology differ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what is the person fundamentally
="lsts lst1">•fate collective or individual
="lsts lst1">•how and whether time m="trms"nttrm="search">arches
="lsts lst1">•where the end is located
="lsts lst1">•


medical eschatology

eschatology (in the west) is perhaps the most paradoxical (and inconsistent) aspect of ="trms">religiosity
(traditions in which) earthly experience is a moment in an eternal dreaming

Islam, Judaism, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christianity are brooded over by the sense ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]last things='lgc'>: a sense of the end ='lgc'>[soon or distant, individual or collective='lgc'>] contradicts itself (explodes itself) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*it looks for a moment that gives significance to the course of time by finally denying (erasing, ending) that to which it offers significance='strcls'>* ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>--- western european middle ages utilizes and deepens this multi="trms">fold and contradictory tradition (='lgc'>=/= deny, impoverish)

(three types of awareness='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- significance of dying and afterlife ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> space time of personal collective destiny
="lstsrd">2- apocalyptic time ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">3- eschatological ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->

purgation

purgatory time
="lsts lst1">•do pottery while you are in purgatory
="lsts lst1">•learn ice-skating while you are waiting in zamharir
="lsts lst1">•

='lgc'>{personal drama of death ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progressive un="trms">folding of collective ="trms">history='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ultimate dis="trms">position for individual soul and body ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ='thdf'>the notion of ='strcls'>***bliss after torment='strcls'>***

torment='lgc'>: individual glimpse of the end


="ppl">Augustine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the imperfect but not reprobate

suffering='lgc'>: means of salvation (of we join the agony of Chris on the cross)
pain in this life ='lgc'>: inevitable accompaniment to the corrupt body whose weakness and rottenness are indication of the approach of death

an era of exile ='lgc'>--promise='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new exodus from human fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure and corruption


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
beautitude

Bernard's heaven

painted ="trms">embodiedness of the blessed (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- problematic ='lgc'>+ powerful)

out of time heaven in which the soul is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready body-shaped ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> somato="trms">morphic selves before judgement


="large lg10" stl="font-size:135%"> apocalyptic moment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self-referentiality='lgc'>: when the ="trms">author reflects on the limits of their knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and expression

(all) eschatological texts (="trms">poems) in some way reflect their status as ="trms">fiction ='lgc'>--assert='lgc'>='lgc'>--> their ="trms">nature as mediating and ="trms">contingent


xxxxxx

="brkr">
Trans-ing xeno- unsettles the oversimplified Others necessary for the production of stratification and disallowance, without in the process destroying ="trms">difference and the ethics of encoun[...]