Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-17 Thread ARISTIDE ANTONAS
Dear Teddy Cruz, dear Ana Valdés, Strategy is the topic to discuss, because the phenomena we are into can only keep a continuity to the past through the inertness that you described as the last important refuge of capitalism: a transformation of the left rhetorics to a banal way of capitalistic

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-17 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Aristide, Teddy again, Johannes, Alicia, Sabela, Ethel and all writing those passionated and smart arguments: I think we are all conscient about the difficulties of achieving real changes (not cosmetic or superficial changes) without finding new forms. The change is maybe the form. The

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-17 Thread Brian Holmes
Hello everyone - Greetings from Chicago, and thanks to all for a fascinating list conversation so far. Here is a perfect place for me to jump in (so thanks particularly to Teddy Cruz for relaying and reformulating many core ideas of the entire conversation): the question remains: How are

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-17 Thread Ana Valdés
Thank you Lucio, Brian, Teddy and all participating in the discussion in the last two days! I feel very inspired and very challenged here, because we are discussing things at the macro level and at micro level. How can we change things in the suprastructure and in the everyday life? How can we

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-16 Thread Teddy Cruz
Dear Ana, Thanks for inviting to be part of this conversation! I had not been able to participate until now. I have been reading the postings and also have been taking notes, so wanted to share a few thoughts in response to a few issues that have come up. I have delineated them as a series of

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-16 Thread Ana Valdés
Teddy, wonderful post, thank you for it! It made me think hard and to try to back to myself. Yesterday on a military base, a human body was recovered. Bones and clothes, nothing more. Today the remains are being examinated by doctors and judges. It's not CSI, it's reality for the whole South