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Yes of course you did-- I was referring to the Google news feed reported by
Alan. I thought THAT was interesting in its omission. Apologies if you thought
I was referring to your posts Ana!
Diana
Diana Taylor
University Professor
Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, NYU
Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
> On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Ana Valdés <agora...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Some quick answers: Jon, check the archives of -empyre and you can read
> Alicia Migdal's quotations of Agamben and its Homo Sacer.
> And Diana, two days ago I posted to the list the links with live strem to the
> protests in Mexico when the news of the killed 43 students reached us. And
> Alicia and me discussed it in the list.
> Ana
>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Jon McKenzie <jvmcken...@wisc.edu> wrote:
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>> typographic t/error: "the neutral observer of vita contemplativa"
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Jon McKenzie <jvmcken...@wisc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I’m enjoying the engagement here, troubling as the topics have been. The
>>> posts by Alan, Johannes, Ana, Reinhold, John, Eric and others have been
>>> very provocative, and the different speeds and tenors of post-communication
>>> is breath-taking.
>>>
>>> I’ve tried to respond in a slow way, for I think/believe/feel that absolute
>>> terror is both unprecedented and yet everyday, as it connects to the slow
>>> terror of economic, environmental, and cultural progress-gone-awry.
>>>
>>> In You Must Change Your Life, Sloterdijk distinguishes vita performativa
>>> from both vita contemplativa and vita activa. His figure for Western
>>> theoretical man, the neutral observer of vita activa, is one of suspended
>>> animation, all head (capital) and no body (Diogenes). In the Art of Life,
>>> he traces modernism’s attempts to kill the Man of Logos.
>>>
>>> The most surprising thing I’ve discovered through our conversations is the
>>> uncanny resonance between videoed beheadings and Bataille’s Acephale. The
>>> significance of this reverb is as legible as a tarot card.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are pictographics permitted on this list?
>>>
>>> Like graphe, the term “performance” is polymorphic enough to stretch from
>>> acts of violence (those we call real, actual, unmediated, etc) to violence
>>> enacted within theatrical and artistic contexts (those we call artificial,
>>> representational, mediated etc.), while also opening up unsettling
>>> practices in-between. In "Prison Theatricality in the Romanian Gulag,”
>>> Ruxandra Cesereanu describes Cold War prison performances in which guards
>>> forced prisoners to reenact the torture of saints and other scenes of
>>> blasphemy in grotesque living tableaus. More mundane and profound is the
>>> realization that all techniques, performances, experiences are generated
>>> via practice, repetition, alternation, fine-tuning, etc. that is, are
>>> emergent via graphe.
>>>
>>> So by performances I mean actual and enacted acts and the blur from which
>>> this distinction emerges, for each act of terror, torture, rape is at once
>>> unique, singular, immediate and at same time multiple, citational, mediated
>>> by the material environments and symbolic contexts through which it
>>> unfolds, those of victim, perpetrator, witness, etc. This holds long before
>>> cameras, poets, and speculators arrive (assuming they’re not always on the
>>> scene: where I’m coming from techne operates in physis along the lines
>>> Deleuze and Guattari staked out as machinic phylum, graphe meets
>>> autopoesis).
>>>
>>> And once media technologies do arrive, they can’t be assumed as external to
>>> the performance of violence, merely exploiting the situation, repeating the
>>> event, etc. Images and cameras, audio and sound systems themselves carry
>>> force, both physical and performative force, to do things not only to
>>> witnesses but also to victims and perpetrators. At US prisons at
>>> Guantanamo, Bagram, and Abu Ghraib, cameras and images were part of the
>>> psychophysical interrogation regime, used to humiliate, intimidate, and
>>> psychologically torture detainees, as well as to document and produce
>>> “actionable” intelligence. Videos posted online by ISIS and its precursor
>>> organizations serve as warnings to other groups and populations, as
>>> provocations to the international community, and also as recruitment tools
>>> for seasoned and new jihadists. Electronic terror is built atop public
>>> electric utilities.
>>>
>>> To miss the tele-pathy (pathos, suffering, passion at a distance) of
>>> anachronistic (wars on) terror is to miss the most proximate of events and
>>> all the affective networks in-between, here, for instance, on this
>>> listserv. Triads of victim, perpetrators, and witnesses multiply, morph,
>>> recombine, and rotate over time and at different scales. Whether one misses
>>> the tele-pathy or not, it’s bound to reverb, if not return.
>>>
>>> “Homo sacre data body” is a term coined a decade ago to tune in the reverb
>>> by mashing up Giorgio Agamben and Critical Art Ensemble. If Agamben’s camp
>>> signals the democratization and generalization of homo sacre, CAE’s data
>>> body doubles the physical body with a virtual double composed of
>>> information stored in networked databases. Ideally, homo sacre data body is
>>> ubiquitous yet intimately customizable. Facebook meets Acephale. The
>>> intersection of homo sacre and data body can be a drone strike, a care
>>> package, or getting hauled away by border officials. Its thumbprints are
>>> your passport, ID cards, passwords, and cookies.
>>>
>>> Homo sacre data body emerges as a microcosm of hypergraphe, the
>>> metasisizing of graphic violence and graphic media, producing the vast
>>> intermittent images of contemporary terror. The society of spectacle of
>>> scaffold is as much temporal as spatial, as much rhythm and break as stage
>>> and spectacle. Theater and spectacle hook up with visualizations,
>>> algorithms, and 24/7 dataveillance. Coming and going, mobile biometrics are
>>> the happy form of tiny terror.
>>>
>>> To think and act on links between absolute terror and the globality of
>>> economic, cultural environmental devastation is to grapple with the
>>> emergence and dissolution of individuals and lifeworlds near and far and to
>>> struggle with one’s own performances as victim, perp, and witness.
>>>
>>> In puppet theory form, today’s installation of global performance might be
>>> called “The deaths of God and Man are trying the patience of Gaia.”
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> I want to thank Johannes for all the work he's done here, and all the
>>>> guests current and future; it's an amazing and intense month.
>>>>
>>>> and from my current Google newsfeed (space and time displacements) -
>>>>
>>>> Suicide bombing at Nigerian school kills 47Sydney Morning Herald
>>>> Military Plans 'Operation No Mercy' Against Boko HaramAllAfrica.com
>>>> Palestinian stabbed Israel soldier in attack near Tel Aviv train station,
>>>> police say
>>>> :Palestinians break through West Bank barrier to mark Berlin Wall
>>>> anniversary RT
>>>> Egypt jihadists vow loyalty to ISIS In this Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 photo,
>>>> smoke rises from explosions demolishing houses on the Egyptian side of the
>>>> border town of Rafah as seen from the Palestinian side of Rafah in the
>>>> southern Gaza Strip.
>>>> Cyberespionage group targets traveling execs through hotel networks
>>>> Russia Says Sanctions Hurting as Bank Moves to Defend Ruble
>>>> Russian Military Encounters With West at Cold War Levels: Report
>>>> Suicide bomber kills 47 boys in Nigeria school massacre
>>>> Daily Mail - 1 hour ago
>>>> Suicide bomber kills 48 at school assembly in Nigeria
>>>> IBNLive - 1 hour ago
>>>> UPDATE 3-Suicide bomber kills dozens at school assembly in Nigeria
>>>> Reuters - 45 minutes ago
>>>> ... * Suicide bomber dressed as student kills 48, injures 79. * Detonates
>>>> device during school's morning assembly. * Angry locals block access to
>>>> school buildings, hospital.
>>>> Leaders of China and Japan hold first face-to-face talks amid tensions CNN
>>>> Trending on Google+:Palestinians break through West Bank barrier to mark
>>>> Berlin Wall anniversaryRT
>>>> Opinion:Terror attack in Tel Aviv: Palestinian stabs, critically wounds
>>>> IDF soldierJerusalem Post
>>>> From Nigeria:Scores Of Insurgents Killed In Mubi By SoldiersNAIJ.COM
>>>> Clashes with Israel Police settle down in Arab locales
>>>> ISIS gaining followers but losing leaders?
>>>> CBS News - 52 minutes ago
>>>> CAIRO -- Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai
>>>> Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security
>>>> forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
>>>> (ISIS).
>>>> African nations counter Ebola's tourism damageTimes of Malta
>>>> Mali due to declare 108 Ebola-free after quarantineeNCA
>>>> China's president praises Hong Kong chief's handling of democracy protests
>>>> Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
>>>> In a high-profile meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his
>>>> support for the Hong Kong government's handling of the ongoing
>>>> pro-democracy demonstrations even as student protest leaders seek to
>>>> schedule direct talks with central government ...
>>>> Opinion:Russian Forces Provoked West 40 TimesDaily Beast
>>>> In Depth:Russia's 'close military encounters' with Europe documentedBBC
>>>> News
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