[-empyre-] Amazed

2011-10-31 Thread Sondra Fraleigh
and can't help wondering what all of you look like. I would love to receive photos. I'll save them in a soft-skinned folder. I'm a bit of a material girl. I appreciate so much being part of this and thanks to all of you for what you have taught me. Sondra ___

Re: [-empyre-] distracting to and from cosmic deceleration

2011-10-31 Thread Sondra Fraleigh
Thank you for this link Simon. Love the music video - the hypnosis amidst an objective world, bicycle, upending on the ladder, clock time, musical time, mindful creepers, confetti. Comers/Goers. Mime in light and shadow. Sondra On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:41 PM, simon wrote: > Dear empyreans, > > Th

[-empyre-] on James Hillman

2011-10-31 Thread Sondra Fraleigh
James Hillman has just died at age 85. His "Anima Mundi: The Return of the Soul to the World" represented a turning point in depth psychology. We have touched upon some of his concerns, see his words below: "Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal indi

Re: [-empyre-] 'deceleration' and dark matters

2011-10-31 Thread Sondra Fraleigh
I would like to pick up just one thread that has entered into our conversation about "movement towards life," a term that entered through a reference to Anna Halprin's work - movement toward life, or moving toward life. Anyway, the movement/life connection. We have already said in many ways th

[-empyre-] String Theory.....Swan Song?

2011-10-31 Thread Akram Khan
Dear all, this has be a fun month for a scientist to hear such sweet and creative voices, it would be wonderful to meet up or arrange a workshop where we can explore in greater depth the complexity of the interfaces in particular with science! I can not resist but to copy an over i gave on the

Re: [-empyre-] distracting to and from cosmic deceleration

2011-10-31 Thread Akram Khan
this is a wonderful and detail view of the many faces of reality but all combined to make our own mathematical logical of universe..it also brings out the poetry of the physical world with many different languages! cheers akram From: empyre-boun..

Re: [-empyre-] THE SOCIETY OF DEFICIENCY / DARK MATTER in the ruins of imperial culture

2011-10-31 Thread sergio basbaum
Thank you Scott, for this all. s On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Johannes Birringer wrote: > > and 'Thanks Scott for returning with "the Society of Deficiency,"  I am > catching up,'  i wrote, > > not knowing what a darkly imaginative and richly probing essay it turned out > to be, and yo

[-empyre-] distracting to and from cosmic deceleration

2011-10-31 Thread simon
Dear empyreans, Thank you for a fascinating and satisfying month of discussion. By way of a final distraction, as it was in the beginning, here also at the end: another music video, I dreamt last night, at liminal first light, that it might be apropos: made by my brother and I for SJD: ht

Re: [-empyre-] 'deceleration' and dark matters

2011-10-31 Thread Johannes Birringer
Dee, what would such a cultural pre-movement / effort be, "pre-movement' as discussed by Hubert Godard, "which is not under the control of the conscious subject and combines the cultural as well as the individual"? what notion of affects or forces is posited here, Dee? I am curious what Goda

Re: [-empyre-] 'deceleration' and dark matters

2011-10-31 Thread dee reynolds
Dear all I confess that ironically, this list is going somewhat too fast for me as I go about multitasking, which at the moment includes many hospital visits for myself and members of my family - including this afternoon where I had a very unpleasant experience of 'deceleration' while positioned ve

Re: [-empyre-] THE SOCIETY OF DEFICIENCY / DARK MATTER in the ruins of imperial culture

2011-10-31 Thread Johannes Birringer
and 'Thanks Scott for returning with "the Society of Deficiency," I am catching up,' i wrote, not knowing what a darkly imaginative and richly probing essay it turned out to be, and you have given us much to grapple with, writing also the second dance/choreography piece, and sending it

Re: [-empyre-] 'deceleration' and dark matters

2011-10-31 Thread Johannes Birringer
thanks Anne-Sarah for sharing your work – "Outre-ronde - Beyond-Round. (Lentir, sentir, sondre)" 
 – with us, and some of the links where we can see the configurations for your interactional design... was it just now shown at ZKM in Karlsruhe?i like the overall "theme" of the exhibitio

[-empyre-] Final input from my side

2011-10-31 Thread Elisita Smailus
Dear soft skinned and open minded/hearted forum participants, I am happy that Michl has come back to discussion at the end of "our" month - having appreciated so much the wonderful statements he (with Johannes as moderator) had shared after the direct experience of the International Choreolab w

Re: [-empyre-] CORRECTION:

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Taylor
Note: correction: "The tribe which was unable to follow the coordination presented by the other tribe would lose the contest." Thanks, Scotus ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net

Re: [-empyre-] DANCING ON A TANGENT:

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Taylor
RE: DANCING ON A TANGENT: So, you are wondering what it was I wanted to say in my last posting which was germane to dancing? Well my point is really rather simple: over the last centuries western culture has moved from a “make-belief” culture to a “make-believe” culture. Most earlier artist

Re: [-empyre-] "(E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration" ends Tuesday Nov. 1

2011-10-31 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear all -- thanks much for these many dense and fascinating contributions over the weekend, and we can go on with our on-line debate until Tuesday evening of November 1, so please if you wish to make any further comments and replies, feel free to send them in; I was grateful for Elisita for

Re: [-empyre-] "(E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration: particle acceleration / intimations of soul

2011-10-31 Thread sonja lebos
Thank you Johannes for the beautiful description of what is going on in London. Recently I was listening to an interview with George Steiner, who, in short, warned against people disability to keep an eye on the street, to feel other people and to note common gestures. Precarious times, and thes

Re: [-empyre-] JORG IMMENDORFF (1945-2007): THE SOCIETY OF DEFICIENCY:

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Taylor
RE: JORG IMMENDORFF (1945-2007): THE SOCIETY OF DEFICIENCY: Thank you all, patient readers, dear colleagues, for plowing through my rather negative riff the other day. I am just as disconcerted as many that the complexities of our age defy easy percepts, concepts or articulation. In no way

Re: [-empyre-] the first story of deceleration

2011-10-31 Thread David Hughes 19
Oh I love this posting, Akram. Lots of things. Two right away. I love the idea that I am born alive and born dead at the same time. That I am light and dark, matter and antimatter, at the same time. Also isn't the corollary of the Heisenberg (is it indeterminacy theory?) or the Copenhagen Interpr

Re: [-empyre-] musings from the edge of scientific knowledge

2011-10-31 Thread David Hughes 19
Just to test a bit of water, Akram. You write: ""1) If the Universe began with the Big Bang – what happened to the antimatter that ought to have been there? .i.e. what is the matter with antimatter? Through an asymmetry in the early universe the laws of nature were biased towards matter, which is

[-empyre-] technique

2011-10-31 Thread Branden Hookway
Thanks to all for these discussions. One of the things that interested me about the cockpit was that its evolution was tracked by a parallel evolution of psychological apparatus. Along these lines, I found Amos Hetz' post on choreographic notation systems compelling in that it tied the theme of

Re: [-empyre-] 'deceleration'

2011-10-31 Thread aslemeur
Hi there, Thank you very much for these discussion theme, so interesting to question with technologies ! Some of you may be interested in my interactive work Beyond-Ronde (Outre-ronde in french) http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/images/lemeur_zkm_verso_eng_web.jpg I would like to testify of t

[-empyre-] 'deceleration'

2011-10-31 Thread claudia robles
I am sorry I couldn't follow the discussion last week... now I am trying to catch up. just to give my last contribution about ''deceleration" not so much as scientific as the last so interesting mail from Akram, but something for the HERE and NOW. ... people ( we) are, for the most part