Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Christina Spiesel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- All, Thank you for this discussion! It comes at a time when I am digesting two documentary films that take on genocide (Indonesia 1966 ) and terrorism in Sierra Leone's civil war (1991-2002). /The Act of Killing/ by Joshua Oppenheimer

[-empyre-] Introducing Monika Weiss

2014-11-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I'd like to introduce Monika Weiss, who is a guest for the second week of our dicussion. I'd like to thank everyone who is participating; please continue! I've known Monika's work for years;, and identify with the concerns of mourning,

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Christina Spiesel wrote: As testimony to the importance of feeling and the emotions as guides to value -- something very much devalued at the moment as humanities and arts budgets are slashed and education is

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I lived 32 years in a region, the North of Europe, Sweden, which was, in the Middle Ages, one of the most violent places in Earth. The Vikings, the ancestors of the Norwegian, Danes and Swedes, were feared in the rest of Europe. They come

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Monika Weiss

2014-11-17 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome Monika! I remember fondly our former exchange when you were a guest to -empyre as well and you shared with us your work Sustenazo, (Laments), so mighty powerful. I encouraged Alan to invite you I think our discussion at that time

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Christina Spiesel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 11/17/2014 10:18 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Christina Spiesel wrote: As testimony to the importance of feeling and the emotions as guides to value -- something very much devalued at the moment as humanities and

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread PierMartonGmail
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- In my eyes, Peter Kassig’s beheading yesterday makes the topic of powerlessness more salient and urgent. The expressions “my heart goes out to… or RIP, as heartfelt as they are, represent easy ways to say something (the phatic function?

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [encryption tests] - reflecting last week's discussion, which started, in my recollection, with Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos stating he would not wish to be here, but wish to be nowhere. His post examined the distinctions of

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [encryption tests 2] A question was raised, by Alan Sondheim [Saturday, November 15, 2014] :: How can art, art performance, performance, heal, help one make it through the day, inspire one, against this background of continuous

[-empyre-] Monika Weiss Post

2014-11-17 Thread Monika Weiss
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Following the October 2012 debate on Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual I am now re-joining the debate on ISIS, Absolute Terror, Performance. Thanks to Alan and Renate and everyone for having me back as a quest. Alan writes in his

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Reinhold Görling
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Pier: The violence of communication/language: The subject is constituted by language and other forms of communication. This is why speech acts and other forms of communication are not only performative in the sense of Austin, they

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss Post

2014-11-17 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 18/11/14 10:22, Monika Weiss wrote: looking at our own past and our future as they are collapsing and colliding, the true end of times On 18/11/14 10:22, Monika Weiss wrote: one must ‘go on’ sang Beckett. Meanwhile, Leonard Cohen,