[-empyre-] virtually true

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear friends, apparently my post didn't go through. I am doing a repost. For last couple of years I occupied myself with the research of the cultural imagination of war that resulted in thesis titled Virtually True: Intermedial Strategies

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

--empyre- soft-skinned space--closing out the week... recently adapted mother courage, and closed it with a short play (below); i'm interested in the permission to despair... not to a vanishing point, but to suspend in the midst of intractable difficulty. this

[-empyre-] The horror, the horror

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Las secuencias cronológicas y emocionales de este año: todavía bajo el impacto del secuestro masivo de niñas por Boko Haram, la capacidad de percepción de se desplaza a la masacre de Gaza que a su vez, como en una carrera de postas es

Re: [-empyre-] The horror, the horror

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Alicia wrote a great text, very strong, making us to remember Pol Pot, a forgotten horror as she call it. Maybe Pedro is around (Pedro, en dónde andás, te extranamos!) and we could translate it. Sadly for these kind of poetic and complex

Re: [-empyre-] virtually true

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, two comments, Could you elaborate on Ethical concerns: I was very insecure dealing with the most controversial issue, best exemplified by the title of book by american psychologist James Hillman A terrible Love of War (2004)

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote: (not quotable :-( Could you say something about the staging? And is there a relationship with noh? (I've always felt that tragedy, violence, underlies the surface of noh.) And finally, Raven, is

[-empyre-] Fwd: The horror, the horror

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- The chronological and emotional sequences of this year: we are still shocked by the impact of the massive kidnapping of the girls by Boko Haram, our capacity of perception goes to the massacre of Gaza, as in a relay race ISIS takes over

[-empyre-] the horror, the horror

--empyre- soft-skinned space--*Hola,* *envío nuevamente mi texto en la opción que Johannes y Ana me indicaron para que sea legible*. Las secuencias cronológicas y emocionales de este año: todavía bajo el impacto del secuestro masivo de niñas por Boko Haram, la

[-empyre-] concerning violence

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear All, thank you for being here with you and being able to take part in the discussion. The violence we are talking about is not a spontaneous act, it is an act of intended traumatization (to use a concept I found in the books of

Re: [-empyre-] mountains, black shirts, male fantasies, stimulus shield

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all- thank you Ana, for this wonderful translation, so quickly shared, of Alicia's text (and also for re-posting the clear spanish version, I received Alicia's writing not inside this email, as you should now, but as a tiny txt

[-empyre-] speed of the list

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi - Just want to say that I think the 'speed of the list' is just right; I had someone complain that it was too slow. I see it more of a conversation or seminar, than a series of texts, although it can be that too. My own feeling is

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 08/11/14 04:48, Reinhold Görling wrote: this lasting impact of violence is exactly the denial of recognition and the lack of mediation that is in the core of the theatricality of violence. Violence aims to produce an image of negation

Re: [-empyre-] the horror, the horror

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 08/11/14 05:17, Alicia Migdal wrote: con su apariencia de espontaneidad sucia. dirty translates 'sucia' but also 'obscene'. Perhaps it ties in with Alan's 'abject'? (The obscene community of witnesses and victims, bound together all

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks for the question and the possibility to try to say it more precisely. To ways to describe this come into my mind. The first follows Fanon and his rewriting of the master-slave-dialectics in Hegel’s „Introduction“ to his

[-empyre-] interesting about violence

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Violence is a key ingredient of human storytelling: from our first oral tales, violent acts have heightened audience attention and underlined the dangers of our world. What happens to a child who goes off alone? She is beset by ogres!