I just found this article:
http://criticalenvironmentalism.org/2012/01/19/occupy/
And I really liked the idea they express when pointing *This thing,
this occupation is an idea as much as it is an act. It is an idea that no
one place or group can own. It is an inhabit-able idea, an enact-able
That's the spirit, Ethel! To pose questions is often more creative than
tell answers :)
He or she who answers have a tendence to interpret facts and believe there
are answers. I think creative questions are far more complex than give
answers,
I think this is -empyre's and other forum's role in the
We delve into questions that have no answers anyway. But there is a perspective
that can make sense. I tried to work a bit on urban issues in Athens which is
an emblematic city for the future. Its common ground is somehow dissolved
already in an interesting way. In order to act in an urban
Thank you Antonas and all for so interesting views! I want go back to the
concept of commons, which is one of the most important concepts in urbanism
and in politic. The idea of a common wealth based on the work of everyone
is an old concept negotiated after the transition between Feodalism and
Before going back to commons, I'd like to add that resistance movements
could (or should) be analyzed in terms of city sustainability. I found the
p2p urbanism really interesting.
As far as I know, there are few resistance movements related to some kind
of urbanistic thought in South America
Thank you Leandro for taking us back to reality here, in this urbanized
continent :)
Interesting about the Old Town in Montevideo taken by criminal maffia or
drugsellers. Carlos Fuentes, the great Mexican writer, wrote a book for
many years ago about a similar development in Mexico DF, where
Hola, Ethel,
I'd turn your question upside-down: Is resilience the new resistance?
By now, you must have gathered I have some serious reservation about
the proliferation of the term resilience. But I think there is a
good reason for this phenomenon. We're all struggling to grasp the
real
I'm really glad to fin some good friends on this discussion!
@Aristide Antonas: I find quite interesting the difference you remark
between resilience and resistance and the opposition between positive
and negative connotations. But is not adaptability a kind of passive
resistance? In case we
How about discussing Urban resistance?
Quoting Ethel Baraona Pohl ethel.bara...@gmail.com:
I'm really glad to fin some good friends on this discussion!
@Aristide Antonas: I find quite interesting the difference you remark
between resilience and resistance and the opposition between
I see the point following Ethel's proposal and discussing the differences
between resilience and resistance. I remember attending a meeting in Prag,
where we met the president Vaclav Haverl (my good friend Alicia Migdal was
also there, I hope she remembers the discussion too). Havel stressed the
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ethel Baraona Pohl
ethel.bara...@gmail.com wrote:
@Kamen I'm aware about your reservation of the proliferation of the term
resilience.
Ooooh... What make you think that? XD
Still, trends (and trending topics) aside, I think notions such as
resilience need to be
Let me tell about Nablus, one of the oldest cities in the world, with one
of the oldest souks in the world, protected by the Unesco as one of the
world's heritage.
The Israel army had the city besieged almost one year with curfews every
day and often the whole day. When the curfew was lifted,
I 'like' the subject of this thread.
Ethel , and all,
Perhaps some of you may be acquainted with p2p urbanism ?
( and mailing list )
//
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Urbanism
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Urbanism_Projects
*P2P urbanism is open source urbanism, by the people, for the people.
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Urban resilience
I'm really glad to fin some good friends on this discussion!
@Aristide Antonas: I find quite interesting the difference you remark
between resilience and resistance and the opposition between positive
and negative connotations. But is not adaptability
I have to agree with Ana here.
Resistance and resilience are different things, and cannot be
collapsed onto one another or interchanged.
Still, we need to assess in what way they are different if we want
this to be a productive discussion.
On the one hand, Ana's examples of non-conformist
I find the example of Nablus very interesting, Ana.
It is also representative of tactics to make do that citizens come
up with when faced with severe repression, or, in this case, a
full-blown military siege.
But I am also wondering about the cultural specificity of how citizens
use - and
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
Dear empyreans,
might this idea of resilience have something to do with or have its
psychic corollary in the limited durational frames of consciousness -
multiple personas / Pessoan heteronyms / little objects of self-love
http://squarewhiteworld.com/2012/03/04/little-objects-of-self-love/ -
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
propose different strategies of resistance. I believe
Hello everybody at empyre,
I'm Ethel Baraona Pohl, architect, researcher and publisher living in
Spain, where the current sociopolitical and economic situation is driving
architects to focus again in concepts like resilience, as Ana pointed two
days ago when she introduced the topic of March. I
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
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Hi Ethel and I am so happy you introduced yourself in such a flamboyant way
:)
I am not familiar with the Occupy Movement (the two cities I live between,
Stockholm and Montevideo, are very lawful cities :) nobody occupies :)
But I know a bit of the Arab Spring, I have been in the Middle East ten
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