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

[-empyre-] from rural upstate NY: Re: on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-17 Thread Renate Ferro
Dear Teddy, Ana and all, I have been lurking silently this month overwhelmed with the bureaucracy of university teaching and the admissions process. I was so moved by your post Teddy that I sent it to my graduate students who are very interested in bringing everyday life back to their practices

Re: [-empyre-] from rural upstate NY: Re: on re-thinking our practices

2012-03-17 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Renate, many thanks for your warm words! You should know in my nomadic life and heart (Uruguay, Sweden, Palestine and many other places) -empyre and Netbehaviour, hosted by our wonderful Furtherfield friends, has always been home to me. I am so happy I could gather this month people I admire

Re: [-empyre-] eje Sur-Norte

2012-03-17 Thread Krosrods Moarquech
Estimados/ Dear All, I like to share this project by Pedro Lasch that comments on the topic that is being discussed http://www.latinoaamerica.com/en Saludos Raul De: pedro pedru...@gmail.com Para: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Enviado:

Re: [-empyre-] Benjamin, Peter Weiss, the city as performative?

2012-03-17 Thread Lucio Agra
Great subject... Monuments of victory and defeat... best Lucio 2012/3/13 Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com Thank you Lucio to make the movement from the axis Paris-Modernity to Berlin-Modernity as well. And thank you Alicia for putting Benjamin and the flaneur on the board. Interesting how we

[-empyre-] network critical: immanent effects

2012-03-17 Thread simon
Dear empyreans, Ana Valdés, Teddy Cruz, Aristide Antonas, I am inspired by the discussion to add these speculations, on the theme of crisis and continuity as much as resilience and resistance. It occurs to me that time is at issue here and I have in the following assayed a way of addressing

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