[-empyre-] another kind of violence

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- My friend and colleague Cecilia Parsberg, Swedish visual artist, who went with me to Palestine and took the pictures in Jenin and made the films I linked yesterday too, is working with an unique project, How to be a succesful beggar in

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing week 2

2014-11-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- good morning, to you all and week 2 starting up, and it's great to return to our roundtable and find Ana so very active and involved – thanks to all the responses between speakers here, and welcome to others, who just came, like Maria

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2014-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- 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

Re: [-empyre-] Mother Courage, Antigone's bones

2014-11-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- small mix tape, with collected impressions, organized as a sounding board (inspired by Plastic Art Foundation). - Trashman Ana - just watched the first part of your friend Cecelia's documentary interviews with Maria begging on the

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2014-11-10 Thread Diana Taylor
--empyre- soft-skinned space--It's stunning to me that there's nothing about Mexico and the current political crisis. 100,000 people dead, some 40,000 missing in the last 7 years, 43 students massacred on Sept 26, protests all over the country, and protestors burned the

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2014-11-10 Thread Jon McKenzie
--empyre- soft-skinned space--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

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2014-11-10 Thread Jon McKenzie
--empyre- soft-skinned space--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,

Re: [-empyre-] Mother Courage, Antigone's bones

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdes
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes a quick answer to your direct question. I left Sweden when one million people voted for Sverigedemokraterna now the third party in Sweden. A xenophob party wanting forbid the begging and stop the immigration.  I came back to

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2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--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

Re: [-empyre-] para empyre / Mother Courage, Antigone's bones

2014-11-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [traducción rápida de mi ‘mix tape’/compilación] ..una compilación pequeña, con las impresiones recogidas, organizada como una caja de resonancia (inspirado por la Fundación de Artes Plásticas). - -Hombre de la basura Ana - acaba de

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2014-11-10 Thread Diana Taylor
--empyre- soft-skinned space--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

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2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Maybe Mexico is too near the US to be worth some alert in Google? :( Ana On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Diana Taylor diana.taylo...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Yes of course you did-- I

Re: [-empyre-] Pier Marton's 1st Appearance on -empyre- Part 1

2014-11-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [relay to all those who did not receive this per e-mail] Thank you to Alan for inviting me to this month’s empyre discussion. As the new kid on the bloc, I hope to learn quickly the lay of the land to be shorter in the future! As a

Re: [-empyre-] Pier Marton's 1st Appearance on -empyre- Part 2

2014-11-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Continued from Part 1 __ In many ways things have not changed much since that 1994 text, except that now video is part of new media, the screens are everywhere, Skype and Facebook consolidate our

[-empyre-] I feel today a bit patriotic :)

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Today started the Syrian kids their first day as pupils in a public school in Montevideo. They are among the 120 refugees taken as political refugees to Uruguay. Several of them are Palestinian living in Syria as refugees, the war expelled

Re: [-empyre-] I feel today a bit patriotic :)

2014-11-10 Thread Leandro Delgado
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi This evening I was watching TV at the doctor’s waiting room (everything was OK). The breaking news was about the beheading of a woman whose head was found rolling down a highway by a driver in the outskirts of a very well known

Re: [-empyre-] I feel today a bit patriotic :)

2014-11-10 Thread Leandro Delgado
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi This evening I was watching TV at the doctor’s waiting room (everything was OK). The breaking news was about the beheading of a woman whose head was found rolling down a highway by a driver in the outskirts of a very well known

Re: [-empyre-] language/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-10 Thread John Hopkins
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- halló -- perhaps better late than never, the flow of late is a bit much for me to manage as I'm editing a book right now as well... too many words! dear all, one can only thank those who have joined so far, and welcome Olga and Pia, and

Re: [-empyre-] I feel today a bit patriotic :)

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi - I agree with you here, however I do not watch beheading or other torture videos; I know no one personally who does. They're not shown on the new here. At one point I did see the beheading of Daniel Pearl; I felt connected to the

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- What I cut and pasted from was the headline page only, which breaks things down in categories; there's a lot of news, but one massacre seems to supercede another. The headline page also depends on categories the user assigns; for

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2014-11-10 Thread Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all, Thank you for this month's discussion and thank you for bringing in what is happening in Mexico to this very difficult but very needed conversation. Here in Mexico the news have been emotionally draining for most everyone,