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

2020-04-19 Thread Stewart Auyash
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you, Paul, for your always interesting insights along the borders of art and science. I still have fond memories of your visit to Ithaca College a few years ago. Arthur and Bishnu, your posts moved me to think about the virus and our

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

2020-04-17 Thread Vanouse, Paul
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello Junting, Ah, yes, thank you for connecting this! I saw Parasite in a small theater here in Buffalo about a week before quarantine began, but I hadn’t yet processed it fully. I think I was so struck by the genre crossing and

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

2020-04-13 Thread Vanouse, Paul
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Picking up on Cengiz and Gloria’s great comments… Thanks Gloria for your topical reference to Mark Fisher’s Weird and the Eerie and for noting that, "One of the most notable parts of quarantine/self-iso. is the loss/fear of touch”.

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2020-04-12 Thread Gloria Kim
--empyre- soft-skinned space--HI everyone - thanks to Renate for the opportunity and thanks to everyone else for their contributions. Lots of exciting issues to pick up on, but I'll offer just a couple things. Jumping off of the discussion on models and simulations

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2020-04-11 Thread Cengiz Salman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hey all, Just wanted to comment on Elizabeth and Paul’s respective posts as they seem very related to the work that Anna and I did in that quick op-ed for Medium. I think you are absolutely correct in pointing out that what we suggested

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

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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,

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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

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

2020-04-09 Thread Cengiz Salman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello all, Thank you so much for the opportunity to share some thoughts about the current pandemic. In a recent op-ed that I wrote with one of my advisors, Anna Watkins Fisher, we contextualize our pandemic and the under preparedness

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2020-04-09 Thread Jonathan Basile
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Thank you to Junting and Renate for inviting me and to all the guests this week. I'm very excited to take part. A while ago, my dissertation research on scientific and philosophical definitions of life brought me to focus on

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

2020-04-09 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Many thanks to our special guests Christina McPhee and Melinda Rackham. Also to William Bain, Simon, Aviva Rahmani, Brett Stalbaum, Cengiz Salman, Gary Hall and of course my two fellow moderators Tim Murray and Junting Huang for posting