[-empyre-] Cybernetics, Pain, and Butoh

2011-10-29 Thread Sondra Fraleigh
Thank you Branden, This is an indirect response to your post in relation to free will and dancing - more than butoh. This is about pain, dance, agency, all topics that interest me deeply. You mention Yoshito's view that dancing with freedom alone is unfree. Here is a bit more in my way of short

Re: [-empyre-] (E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration: time/space prospection, vacant lots

2011-10-29 Thread dee reynolds
I find Branden's post fascinating, and to pick out one point: 'Put simply, this predation consists only of renaturing entities so that they are rendered compatible to networks of various kinds, so transforming them into constituents of systems. This network imperative is predatory to the extent

Re: [-empyre-] (E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration: time/space prospection, vacant lots

2011-10-29 Thread Bojana Kunst
Dear all, Unfortunately I could not take part in your inspiring discussion due to the stubborn influenza which rearranged my plans in this month. I'm sending you the text which I wrote a year ago for the conference in London on duration in which I'm writing about relations between subjectivity

Re: [-empyre-] (E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration: time/space prospection, vacant lots

2011-10-29 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear all: hmm, Sonja may very well be right in critiquing a superficial use of the notion of the post-urban, and my use of course was a romantic one reflecting my naive arrogant fascination with Texas and Houston when I moved there, not finding anything i knew, and thus trying to