Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Ana Valdés
Hi Alan and good luck in your month here! Interesting in reading about Monika's work, I was very concerned with these topics when I wrote my book about torture and violence and history. As maybe many or you know since my earlier participation in -empyre I was a political prisoner in Uruguay when I

Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Ana, Is your book available, and has it been translated? Would very much like to see it. I remember working through Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, and Ernst Friedrich's War Against War (KKrieg dem Kriege), among other texts, while at Eyebeam. I also read a number of Buddhist texts on

Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

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Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Ana, I read both below and have a practical question - is the original post, from which the excerpt is taken, available in archives anywhere? The second piece is beautiful and dark and poetic, and oddly undercut, visually, by one of the symptoms of power and how it's deployed online - I

Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
Thank you for this as well, it's helpful of course and something that surely forms part of the background of this month's topic. Monika will post later tonight, and I think we can also put up part of the pain text Sandy and I wrote. Hopefully others will begin to participate as well! -

Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Peter ciccariello
Already fascinating and thought provoking Alan, I am looking forward to this conversation. - Peter Ciccariello On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Thank you for this as well, it's helpful of course and something that surely forms part of the background

Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Lauren Berlant
one more, hannah gold... Lauren Berlant George M. Pullman Professor Department of English University of Chicago Walker Museum 413 1115 East 58th Street Chicago IL 60637 773-493-6202 (ph) 773-702-2495 (fax) Sent from my iPad. Please excuse autocomplete infelicities. On Oct 2, 2012, at 11:04