[-empyre-] Diego Hernandez post, in Spanish now, translation to Spanish soon!

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
Oí por primera vez el término resiliencia de parte de unos biólogos que investigaban desde una perspectiva paleoambiental los bañados y humedales de la costa oceánica uruguaya. Lo usaban para referirse a la capacidad de estos delicados ecosistemas para adaptarse a cambios en el nivel del mar (que

[-empyre-] first part of the translation of Diego's post

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
Sorry for the delay but translate into English is a tough job, guys and gals! :) It took me twenty minutes to find the crossreferences to Deleuze and Guattari in English :( I read them in French Spanish and Swedish, never in English, the Wikipedia was not helping this time :) I heard for first

Re: [-empyre-] urbanismo crítico, intervención bioregional y especies emergentes / soziale Plastik

2012-03-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear Alejandro muchas gracías por la explicacíon. thanks much for your explanation (Instituto Hemisférico), and reference. Lovely trailer on http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/mision, nice beat to the music. (i looked for spanish and portuguese translations of the initiatives but

[-empyre-] Diego Hernandez post, now translated in full

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
I heard for first time the term resilience from some biologists investigating from a paleoenvironmental prospective the sanks and humid zones from the Uruguayan oceanic coasts. They used it to describe the capacity of those sensible ecosystems to adapt to changes in the sealevel (the sea went

[-empyre-] today starts the last week of my moderation

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
And I am not sure how many of my guests are still on schedule for this week. Depending of different things many of them has not being able to participate actively in the discussion, Pablo is moving to Brazil to make a PhD, Diego moved to Brazil to continue his PhD (Brazil is hot in academia, seems

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / molecular revolution in process ?

2012-03-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear soft-skinned city or country dwellers, and – following Diego Hernandez's archaeo-logical position on cities as evolutionary sedentary resilient organisms (!) – one might add: dear farmers and villagers (Los aldeanos) in Nueva York, Montevideo (a clear example of

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / molecular revolution in process ?

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Johannes, I am so thrilled by your brilliant exposition and synthesis of the whole month's conversation! But I react a bit about your comment I know nothing about exhumation. I read your book some years ago (Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture) and I found very interesting

[-empyre-] the city and the network

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
New community functions will be necessary in order to prescribe a protocol or to install it temporarily. The Internet can provide the grouping system in order that concrete communities of inhabitants decide to introduce and test a protocol. The municipalities may act as the legalizing power that

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

2012-03-26 Thread Ana Valdés
Hola Leandro and Diego and thank you for interesting and original posts! Regarding the animal life and biopower last year I translated from French to Spanish some texts produced by the artist collective Bureau d'Etudes, where Brian Holmes has been involved. The texts were used by the Spanish