Thank you Johannes for this Zizek's reference and your ideas.
I also think that there is a lot of noise about the occupy movement and not a
lot of interesting things were born from it till now. I also find ineffective
many occupations and urban resiliences. I do not believe in utopian
Dear all, I am so impressed and happy for the great input and the quality
of the discussion we carry on here! As someone coming back to my homecity
after 34 years of abscense living abroad (Stockholm) it's vital to me
understand the codes and the networks working here in Montevideo, a city
still
hola all,
I thought that Nick's essay on #OWS linked nicely into the dialogue
about different modalities of skinning the city - as space, space as
history of power, and gaming (networks). I would also like to suggest
that reclaiming spaces and concepts - can be expanded to the gesture of
Estimados,
quisiera introducir en esta conversación una referencia al eje Norte-Sur,
o, ya que escribo desde el Sur, el eje Sur-Norte.
El pintor Joaquín Torres García tiene una famosa obra de los años 30 donde
el mapa de las Américas está invertido, señalando así el lugar de novedad
estética que
Dear all: I wish introduce in this conversation a reference to the axis
North-South or since I write from the South, the axis South-North.
The Spanish-Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres García has a famous work from
the 30:s where the map of America i(both North and South) is reversed,
pointing
Dear -empyrians, I has been working hard this week making translations of
the wonderful wellwritten and inspirating posts made by my friends Alicia
Migdal and Sabela de Tezanos, two of the most lucid intellectuals I know
and extraordinary writers.
I had already difficulties with Sabelas first
dear Ana
thanks for what you are doing this month, translating, moderating, and
encouraging
and the wide-ranging discussion, I believe, due to its international
dimensions, just needs its own time (no need for you to feel pressured at all)
and we call can make the effort to read
Thank you dear Johannes for your generous words! I feel exactly what you
say, I moved some months ago from the North-North (Stockholm) and I am now
living in the deep South. It's challenge and I agree with you, as an
intelectual belonging to the North and to the South I think my duty and my
