Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-10 Thread Elizabeth Wijaya
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you, Cengiz for sharing your op-ed on lean production with Anna Watkins Fisher. I'm particularly struck by this line: "This crisis is making visible the fragile social relations that have until now invisibly underwritten the new

[-empyre-] Models and Simulations, Oh my!

2020-04-10 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello to all of you. I am feeling overwhelmed this week as Cornell actually began classes this week online. My job as Director of Undergraduate Studies also has me busy virtually reaching out to potential art students who were just

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-10 Thread Junting Huang
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you, Jonathan and Sorelle for sharing your writings. I have been always amazed at the amount of shared vocabularies between biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, and computation—— as we know, a vicious computer

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-10 Thread Vanouse, Paul
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello everyone, I think my situation here is similar to many of you who are primarily experiencing this pandemic as a slow-down, isolate, stay-at-home, talk-to-your-family-on-phone, wait-to-see-if-I’m-sick,

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-10 Thread Sorelle Henricus
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you Renate, Jonathan, and Elizabeth, and to Junting for inviting me to participate. I've really appreciated the thoughtful and measured, yet personal reflections in my first weeks at empyre as I have been attempting to limit my