[...]br />
='strcls'>*** Tabula Asiae ='strcls'>***

="ppl">Olearius's ="trms">travel account also seeks to be encyclopedic
...describe and judges the deviations from the European norm

common
barbarous
destruction of the body itself

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> Munster's final judgment='lgc'>:
“='lgc'>[Perisans='lgc'>] do not speak much and are more apt to act than to speak. they like the uncleanness or lust of the body; they are ="trms">measured in their eating habits; they seldom keep to what they promise unless it is to their advantage” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a laconic (mojez موجز) group of people who are frugal (sarfeju صرفه جو) in their habits, rarely keep their word unless it is to their advantage and are also oversexed ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> they are indeed ="trms">different from the Europeans


discourse of analogy
cartographic evidence

a ="trms">book of others

the ways it ="trms">fashions received information

“Ortelius's innovation in the ="trms">science of cartography is that he attends less to the “big picture” of the ="trms">world than to putting together an illustrated summery of possibly in="trms">finite number of fragmentary parts (="ppl">Conley)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “segmentable” units of an in="trms">finite possibility of scale and focus (='at'>#Goolge maps)


='lgc'>[='lgc'>]
Blue Map of Persia


influence of Ptolemy on the early islamic cartographers, in the time of Ma'mun

='thdf'>the notion of the inhabitable ="trms">world being divided into seven horizontal bands called ‘climata’ or agalim/aghalim/ اقلیم(a geographical model derived probably from Persia)

='strcls'>*encircling ocean='strcls'>* surrounded the known ="trms">world, and that usually have south at the top, probably to emphasize the importance of Mecca

="trms">system of Climes

(="trms">book of) notification='lgc'>: tanbih تنبیه


...pioneer on the road toward a (geographically) correct picture of Persia
_Persienbild_

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“drawn from life”

the imagery and allegorical figures found on the frontispiece are learned signifiers belonging to a visual ="trms">world that reflects and prefigures the ="trms">verbal description that forms the body of the work

="ppl">Olearius designs a brilliant visual program
visual table of contents
his nascent (dar tavalod درحال تولد) nationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list feelings
he ="trms">translates both='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">literature of the Persian ="trms">poet
="lsts lst1">•the visual ="trms">code of the land (he has visited)

traces of the ="trms">author within the map
signs of the hidden power ="trms">relation
depiction of the exotic “other” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presented visually and typologically ="trms">categorized, be it within the map itself, or in the boundary areas, in the margins of the re="trms">presentational space='strcls'>**

='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Timuri jiz

patronage
naming


“es gab eine lustige perspective”

="large lg1" stl="font-size:125%"> of note in this s="trms">cene ='lgc'>[shah Safi's banquet for the Hostein embassy='lgc'>] is the woman alongside the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right wall, who seems to be flirting coquettishly with a German looking in her direction, thus establishing a kind of contact between the two cultures

the monarch's true ="trms">nature is laid bare

“you see me from the outside, as a pleasant young man in years, but on the murderous ="trms">interior i am a tyrant.”

the s="trms">cene of Eastern opulence and decadence cor="trms">responds to a 17th century (or even 21st century) Westerner's conception of an Oriental court

oriental ="trms">stage

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صورت الأرض  surate al-arz (face of earth)

اصطخری Istakhri, 10th century, ="trms">translated into German by Mordtmann
he met another celebrated ="trms">traveler, Ibn Haukul ابن حوقل

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="ppl">Verran='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*innovating to effect the discipline of deductive proof in ancient ="trms">Greek='strcls'>*

(i found out='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Pierre also noted='lgc'>--that in ='mywrk'>my work i tend to) inspire a baroque style of ="trms">="trms">empirical analysis

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]baroque
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> now you see it, now you don't
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of innovation in) mixing words and visuals
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder-filled ="trms">difference
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sensibility concerned with collective way finding through complexity
='strcls'>*baroque sensibility='strcls'>* ="trms">loves unlikely juxta="trms">position
='strcls'>*baroque form lives with passionate intensity='strcls'>*

='strcls'>****forms of non-explanation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to reflect of ‘what is’ from a ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta ="trms">position='strcls'>****='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•juxta="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stories
="lsts lst1">•framing
="lsts lst1">•reframing
="lsts lst1">•="trms">folds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> working within the ‘="trms">folds’
="lsts lst1">•working on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*pushing and pulling at the ="trms">interfaces we feel ourselves enmeshed in='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- that is exactly the description of what i do. ='at'>#amazon project='lgc'>]


to recognize ="trms">stories of entrepreneurship as ="trms">stories of working ="trms">relations between people, ="trms">technology, and ="trms">nature
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Setareh

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acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge our “understanding of”(s)


(taking diagrams as involved only in) ="trms">epistemic practices linking the mess of the actual and ='thdf'>the ideal of the future ='lgc'>=/= (account of diagrams that focuses on their unique) contribution in ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*collective way-finding='strcls'>* (that ='at'>#="ppl">Olearius works agains for ="nms">iranians and german, and ="ppl">Sa'di's version)
='lgc'>[diagrams:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(graphs, images, visuals that fill the) two-dimensional physical spaces
="lsts lst1">•screened images that cover the surfaces of a ='strcls'>*tapestry='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•visuals performing in a graphic register in ='strcls'>*tension='strcls'>* with ="trms">linguistic registers (="ppl">Verran) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">figurations designed to work with text ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open up a space for ="trms">imagining their capacities as ='strcls'>*="trms">agential devices='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (how) diagrams ="trms">intervene in the organization and governance of institutions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*diagrams as objects of governance and organization='strcls'>* embeding working ="trms">imaginaries (such as in the imperial enterprise of the Duke Frederick that ="ppl">Olearius worked for) ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diagramatic devices of ="trms">techno="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> enforcing ='strcls'>*non-equivocation='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*non-contra="trms">diction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: the standard ="trms">rhetoric of Western ="trms">scientific thought and argument - - ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***devices enacting norm='strcls'>***

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]diagrams='lgc'>: a juncture='lgc'>: text-graphic / graphic-text as an ephemeral clot لخته of ="trms">material ="trms">semiotic resources where words are embedded in graphics as much as graphics are buried in words


...not collaborate enough to benefit from each other's insights


='lgc'>[re="trms">presenting passage of a domain of innovation from ="trms">past to future='lgc'>]
is there a way re="trms">presenting the many ="trms">differences at play='qstn'>? are there other ways apart from one arrow pointing towards one futre='qstn'>? the answer was swift='lgc'>: “no, that would not be wise. we need to de="trms">monstrate that we stand united ='lgc'>[as an industry, nation, family,,,='lgc'>]” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it was ="trms">mutually and tacitly agreed that this is how innovation happens ='lgc'>: man-made devices ride into the future on arrows of progressive tinkering with heterogeneous things

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(="ppl">Verran ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading/naming of) normative iconography of ="trms">technological innovation

assumptions of ="trms">technological innovation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•physics as fundamental knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">translation of kinetic energy to electrical energy and the variables that influence the efficiency of that ="trms">translation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--(this is)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge relating to environmental and ="trms">social contextualization of the ="trms">techniques described by physics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constitution of environmental robustness ='lgc'>==achieving='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">social acceptability='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">rhetoric of a diagram embeding that assumption='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦‘additive’ ='lgc'>: that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes relevant at ‘later’ ="trms">stages in the life of the model asserted by the diagram. the purview of the ‘additive’ diagram ='lgc'>: negotiation and strategy reside in the realm of subjectivity, therefore cannot be re="trms">presented ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subjects, those who do the organizing and the gi="trms">verbing, do not belonge to the ‘core’ that the diagram claims to re="trms">present ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[subject='lgc'>]='lgc'>--='lgc'>[emptiness='lgc'>]='lgc'>--='lgc'>[dieagram='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rendering innovation as a ‘general event’ of an ‘un="trms">specifiable future’ that is progressed towards ='lgc'>+ idealizing sites ='lgc'>[= times and places (of these affairs)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[not allowing the ="trms">questioning of these sites as ="trms">obligatory passage points (for innovation)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> claiming for itself a capacity to rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listically map a stable ="trms">system
(diagram of ="trms">technological innovation='lgc'>: a cartography of stable entities and stable ="trms">relations) ='lgc'>=/= a complex and emergent ="trms">system embedding ambiguity and contra="trms">diction
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> promoting an organizational regime that proceeds by conforming to standards of non-contra="trms">diction and non-equivocation in its ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>=/= baroque baldachin (arshe عرشه) (with other than re="trms">presentation capacities) explicitly recognizing complexity, openness, and emergence ='lgc'>--offering='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[enabling graphics to offer='lgc'>] pilotage خلبانى

='strcls'>***every tool should pose not only ="trms">technically compl[...]