Re: [-empyre-] night sea crossing 4

2012-10-22 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear soft_skinned thank you for clarifications, Alan. you never meant to draw us into the second lives and virtual spaces as such (as well as the extended terrain of social media, f-book, online lists, etc) or examine avatars and digital online spaces , but you felt that at issue - when

[-empyre-] week four: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-22 Thread Alan Sondheim
The fourth week of October's -empyre- discussion will start tomorrow, continuing with the topic of Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Real and Virtual. The guest will be Maria Damon. Her biographical information is below. I've followed Maria's work for a long time, and it has always amazed

Re: [-empyre-] night sea crossing 3 + 4

2012-10-22 Thread simon
On 22/10/12 17:10, Alan Sondheim wrote: Celan, an inertness or silence that's uncanny. isn't Celan's speaking 'uncanny'? 'uncanny' is not the word. The word will have the smell of almonds and bite like teeth. But that the word can, is uncanny - can as in a meditation of Nietzsche be