Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems

2014-07-03 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear soft_skinned space members we were hoping to have many more of you becoming involved in the forum; I see the month as a very open debate platform, where perhaps some, or many of us, might even wonder what virtual embodiment would

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems

2014-07-03 Thread John Hopkins
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hei folks -- As a gadfly, I'd point you to a short text excerpted from my dissertation that proposes a novel definition of the 'virtual' or 'virtuality'. It may be demonstrated as directly connected with last months sonic (energy!)

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems window weather [gluggaveðri]

2014-07-03 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear John, building the house has priority, but thanks for sending in this fascinating excerpt you wrote on energized matter/ glass, and flow relations to/with environment -- and I hope Douglas Kahn is still reading -- yes things

Re: [-empyre-] virtual embodiment - some thoughts on resonances of the virtual in 2014

2014-07-03 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Good to be reminded to slow down and perhaps breathe: I have a few responses queued up but will start with two. When I read Sue's words around 'ersatz' movement and the price of movement freedom in virtual systems I felt that sort of

Re: [-empyre-] Feminism Confronts Audio Technology

2014-07-03 Thread Timothy Morton
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi everyone, As far as I'm concerned, two awesome things happened in the 70s: --Irigaray started publishing things --Eliane Radigue started using ARPs Parallel, in my mind, with a third awesome thing (much maligned as essentialist):

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems window weather [gluggaveðri]

2014-07-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, I'm writing in answer to Johannes' invitation, and will be somewhat short here. I've dealt with issues of sexuality, pain, death, and mourning in the virtual, and in the virtual in relation to the real. The points I'd make are as

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems

2014-07-03 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Yes - I'm saying we are the dispositif, the system. We are that, we are defined by that - we become what we are through that. But the dispositif is multi-modal. It is all about how we exist in our relations - our relations with things,