dear all
it's not easy to write about grief and mourning, to comment on other's
(Monika's) reports of others crying or feeling sadness of happiness. Responses
to a funeral can be very complex, and I asked Ana what catharsis she keeps
invoking, just think about the commuuity here, the tiny
Johannes, as usual, your words trigger thoughts and questions :) we
need you to be aware of all tendences to Romanticism here :)
But my Romanticism is a German one (I am raised by nuns from Paderborn
:), more Sturm und Drang than litchick writing :) More Caspar
Friedrich more Caroline von
The second week of October's -empyre- discussion will start tomorrow,
continuing with the topic of Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual. The
guests will be Yael Gilks aka Fau Ferdinand and Jon Marshall. Their
biographical information is below. We expect the discussion will continue
around
Firstly Thanks to Alan and Sandy for inviting me to participate in a great
topic – hope I can live up to it.
I’m more than overwhelmed by what people have been describing and referring to.
It was a privilege to try and read. My writing is not on such a scale, it is
about online life as an
My thanks to the - e m p y r e moderators for the invitation and to all of
you who responded to my initial meditations/manifestos with very important
remarks and questions. It's been a pleasure.
I will continue on the receiving and reacting end now Looking forward to
the next chapter!
II
I began living online with a thesis in mind, sometime in 1994. I had read much
of what was then available as analysis. This is ‘ancient history’ and the
amount of writing was small enough. But what was then available, struck me as
fundamentally misguided. Firstly people tended to write
Jon, I did my share of writing at that time and my first book about
the subject, Internet and Women, was published 1995. To write the book
I travelled to Palo Alto and me Howard Rheingold, Brenda Laurel, Sandy
Stone, Anne Balsamo (who was a guest at -empyre not so long time ago),
Marcus Novak.
The
Hi Ana
Jon, I did my share of writing at that time and my first book about
the subject, Internet and Women, was published 1995. To write the book
I travelled to Palo Alto and me Howard Rheingold, Brenda Laurel, Sandy
Stone, Anne Balsamo (who was a guest at -empyre not so long time ago),
Marcus
III
However, despite these theoretical enthusiasms and preparations, when I arrived
online there was, in contrast, only the surprise that people brought with them
that which made them people offline. And that included, culture, bodies, place,
pain and affect amongst other things. Online life
Interesting, for me the virtual was not the lists, in despite I come
early to Netbehaviour, -empyre, Nettime, Rhizome and many others. For
me virtuality come with the online games, the RPG. I played Ultima
Online and met doctors playing healers and soldiers playing warriors
and women playing men
I felt the virtual in the games was a continuation of the body, as my
body limits dissapeared. I was stronger taller more fit I was a
god/goddess, I could climb mountains swim in the oceans fly on the sky
marry someone of my own gender :) or not marry at all, be a munk or a
shaman or a priest or a
Jon and Ana,
history relish
Thanks so much for reminding everyone of how different the rhetoric was
back in the day, esp. re: notions of the virtual. It's an important historical
reference, especially because so much of what was written before the year 2000
seems to have been forgotten, as others
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Johannes Birringer wrote:
Ana's references (and the discussion between Alan and Sandy) seem to be
to the Real (and yet I sense so much slippage to the virtual in Alan's
and Sandy's discussion, surely intended, and if we follow through the
idea of the virtualization (opera,
Hi Jon again,
I think some of these concerns were addressed by you in III, in which case
possibly ignore the below.
For me, re the discussion, the virtual and the real are inconceivably
entangled; on one side, subject/abjection and on the other /virtual
elementary particles/particle
Diane writes
In any case, when one of my former colleagues at UW's HITLab discovered that
VR was as effective as opioids for people who suffered 3rd degree burns,
I was compelled to return. (Videogames don't come close.)
this is extraordinary.
What kind of VR was it? and did it work for other
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