Re: [-empyre-] the city and the network

2012-03-27 Thread Antonas Office
Ana, Thank you for your remarks. I think we have to insist on community protocols and their formation. Internet may be a helping tool for such legislative micro-structures if we have the opportunity to use it; we think about its rules as a possible background. But it can only determine

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / time and space and movement

2012-03-22 Thread antonas office
society may function. We need the operational formats to undertake this work and this is what the urban protocols propose foremost. Aristide Antonas sent from antonas office iPad On Mar 22, 2012, at 0:12, Johannes Birringer johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote: dear all thank you Aristide

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / time and space and movement

2012-03-20 Thread antonas office
Dear Johannes, Thank you for the remarks; they show some of the dead ends related o the conditions we live into. Find below some answers that shed light to new questions. sent from antonas office iPad On Mar 19, 2012, at 15:41, Johannes Birringer johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote

Re: [-empyre-] network critical: immanent effects

2012-03-18 Thread Antonas Office
Dear Simon Taylor, Thank you for bringing Albert-László Barabási in the discourse. I am very interested in your observations. My idea about your question will be that the ruling concept in this distinction between the network and the real world is the concept of protocol. In the net we seem to

Re: [-empyre-] network critical: immanent effects

2012-03-18 Thread Antonas Office
other, services, open spaces and houses? Again, if we got back to Henri Pirenne's analyze of the Mediterranean cities, it was veru clear that they were networked cities. Ana On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Antonas Office antonasoff...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Simon Taylor, Thank you

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots

2012-03-15 Thread Antonas Office
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

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

2012-03-09 Thread Antonas Office
Dear Ana, I do not find Johannes reaction insulting nor patronizing. I only think it is wrong strategically to underestimate a change. I propose a reading of an urban field; I think that there is a significant transformation recorded in the city of Athens and that we have to study it not as an

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

2012-03-08 Thread Antonas Office
Thank you Johannes Birringer for your observations. I would like to comment the Zizek's reference to Athens and Sparta. I was not there and I cannot see from your reference which was his point. I made my reference to Athens because I consider it the contemporary city that comes first in a

Re: [-empyre-] Urban resilience

2012-03-05 Thread Antonas Office
at 3:49 AM, Kamen Nedev kamenne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Antonas, On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Antonas Office antonasoff...@gmail.com wrote: The appearance of an already deconstructed field, a non hegemonic, not hierarchically structured multiplicity of fragments, described by Negri, can

Re: [-empyre-] Urban resilience

2012-03-04 Thread Antonas Office
Yes empyre is a nice living room, Ethel, we may continue here an older discussion. @Ethel Baraona Pohl: To me there is a strategic problem in the distinction between resistance and resilience that drives us back to the difference between the society of a recent past and the social landscape

Re: [-empyre-] Urban resilience

2012-03-03 Thread Antonas Office
Hi Ethel, Nice to meet again here. Resistance is a concept that depends to a power to which it is opposed. It is presented as a negative power defined by this reference. Resilience is proposed as a positive constructive power. It invents its background. Aristide Antonas Sent from antonas