wisdom and aesthetic languages of the past? (of institutional
critique or arte povera?), artistic civil disobedience always has a somewhat
bad taste attached, no?
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Kamen schreibt:
Ah, indeed, retreat as recession (= to recede).
This is actually slightly off
a completely imaginary
homogeneous European community that I doubt existed in any way you wish to
state or propose here.
Europe or the Euro-Zone never existed as a homogenous community.
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PS: and the messianic side of Benjamin was probably destroyed for good in
1939
, and how to you denote revolution?
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I owe you Zizek's Sparta, and will deliver soon today, I hope, now having
forgotten what Zizek meant and thus having to do my own Marco Polo bit of
constructivism.
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of power has not changed. We
shall have
to see what will have changed in Egypt and Libya.
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Eduardo Navas schreibt
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic
practices
If you click on the link I
, and with apologies if i misrepresented Zizek's political thinking.
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dear Ana
thanks for what you are doing this month, translating, moderating, and
encouraging
and the wide-ranging discussion, I believe, due to its international
dimensions, just needs its own time (no need for you to feel pressured at all)
and we call can make the effort to read
-- did Sabela not challenge precisely, ask to get rid of precisely, the kind
of nostalgia you evoke in your responses, Ana?
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Ana schreibt
My city is Benjamins flaneur appropiating all cities and all flavours and all
smells of all the cities of the world.
My
of redistribution
should be modified and perfected.
This was the point that Zizek also tried to make when he argued that the OCCUPY
movement can only occupy public space for a transient time, not knowing what
it is occupying for.
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Part 2 (of Sabela de Tezanos's post, March 15, apologies for this very modest
attempt at translation)
Simultaneously, individuals are increasingly owners of their actions, their
interactive tools enabling the ability to respond immediately, accept or not
those stimuli they receive: change
level than camping somewhere in order to protest.
Your emphasis on protocols I find quite fascinating, please tell us more if you
get a moment.
On the matter of the peripheral languages, i will come back to that.
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Aristide schreibt
The public space
dear all
thanks for the other responses, from Simon, Sabela, Ana, Alicia, Teddy,
Aristide and others,
and I am trying to think whether our languages (other languages we write, not
our own) also
reflect problems and dilemmas rarely addressed [here] or reflected upon, and
yet the translations
muchas gracías, Alejandro,
por estos ensayos
Por gavor: ¿Podría explicar un poco más el contexto del Instituto hemisférico
de Performance
y Política?
saludos
Johannes Birringer
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-
Alejandro schreibt
Estoy fascinado de asistir a esta conversación Ingles - Español, Español
of community: who represents who during this period of transformation)
indeed.
greetings
Johannes Birringer
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La frontera es lo único que compartimos(old proverb from Chicano warriors
and artists, quoted by Guillermo Gómez-Peñay otros)
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Alejandro scheibt:
El Instituto Hemisférico reúne a instituciones, artistas, académicos y
activistas dedicados a explorar la relación entre el comportamiento
expresivo (ampliamente definido como 'performance') y la vida social y
política en las
evoke a post-network civility -
what kind of different society are you imagining, after the network, where you
and her and me are making our own protocols? for what? what do independent
autonomous communal structures do to survive?
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Kluitenberg's
.
And exhumation is the big star of all our popular television culture, CSI,
Bones, Silent Witness, the forensic physicians are as popular as latino lovers
:)
Ana
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johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.ukmailto:johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote:
dear
/Kunst-Damien-Hirst), a puzzling assessment on
easter weekend. So much for, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind
of Someone Living.
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, but i can tell you when
you come to my dance performances, we need
a long time to set up our laptops, projectors, sensors, cameras, and prepare
the system design for an interactive piece... no minimalism anymore i am
afraid.
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attachment
or
paramedial dimensions can emerge without a curator or director but in
solidarity with the idea for the project. I am quite intrigued by this. And
by Kafka's Wound.
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are not
arguing that globalized/international curatorial voices should/could introduce
globalized/international art scene art? When you say More international
curatorial voices (outside New York), whom do you have in mind?
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motoba naboko schreibt
I have
or so. After that time I will be
introducing our next guest Anne Balsamo.
Renate
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johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote:
thank you, Motoba Naboko, for this very interesting posting.
In regard to your example of Welcome to Paradise, I'd
PS.
I think i was not entirely evocative enough in the street dialectics i wanted
to bring in,
away from the hi-tech concepts floated here on design of public interactives,
or the
metropolitan spectacle of BIG SCREENS.
Jon Winet thinks of these screens as collective and individually
on that, also.
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Hi all
(and thanks Tim for your reply)
I don't think there is an idiom of the world.
nor do taxonomies define you or me or this stone or that glass, of or in
[this] moment.
i think the artist Jimmie Durham has worked rather effectively with stones, and
stoning, e.g. 'Der Verführer und der
alone.
LB
Lauren Berlant
..
On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Johannes Birringer
johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote:
Hi all
(and thanks Tim for your reply)
I don't think there is an idiom of the world.
nor do taxonomies define you or me or this stone or that glass, of or in
[this] moment
.
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dear all
interesting that a historical look back [Christian's fascinating reference to
O.Winter's Ain't It Lifelike!, and the comments on the cinematograph and
X-ray machines, and the borderlands of cinema and other screens] can allow
us to reflect, in several ways, on the phenomena of
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Scott Mcquire schreibt:
Yes, play, like participation, is a term that is much used in the present,
probably too much. And of course the conditions of play have been
significantly transformed by its pervasive commodification
to politics in
your view?
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dates, for the Olympics, and maybe
that only showed up on the german screen (since it was already past midnight
when the erotic hotlines keep arriving).
can someone provide, perhaps, a better critical synopsis of the London opening?
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oh, no one was willing to take on the screening of the olympic opening show,
and respond?
I saw that Ai Wei Wei liked it, so he says in The Guardian.
He thought that (at Beijing) the Chinese ceremony had so much less information
and it wasn't even real.
He then says: In London there were
in every possible way. Lovely irony that the first gold medal went to
Aleksander Winokurow.
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Baruch schreibt:
The olympic opening crowd-screen would be interesting to discuss The
bodies of the spectators become part of the screen hardware in a way
, beauty industry production, social media
revolution,
the problematisations of academic art, etc), but you are probably right in
arguing there's nothing wrong
with them under given economic and cultural conditions.
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Simon schreibt
I've enjoyed this month
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Monika schreibt
, and pondered it.
If you like to read it: http://shaunbest.tripod.com/id11.html
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[Alan schreibt]
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Johannes Birringer wrote:
[strangely I am trying to re-read them while watching Alan's machinima
on Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste, now that is a very
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[Monika schreibt]
There was a question earlier in a post, I think from Johannes, which is an
important one and has many implications. The problem of the projected and
cinematic environments' capability to induce any emotions or intellectual
epiphanies worthy of the space
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of Diane Gramola's body.
Is it actually a body or what is it one immerses oneself in?
I ask this also in reference to some of the immersive and sensual VR work that
is much known and respected, just like Diane's work, for example: Char Davies's
OSMOSE.
more tomorrow
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dear Deena,
thanks for these careful answers, the dialogue, and for the challenges you
articulate through telling us about Chronic, your writing, your memoir and
your personal experience.
And it would be wrong of me to say that i don't agree to some extent, that of
course you can write about
, no? perhaps it is not inexpressible at all.
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can really be connected with the fields of
energy around you.
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in a game world;
and none of the few avatars (the dancers) we created for UKIYO [ Moveable
Worlds]
(in 2009-10) suffered, except perhaps muscle ache.
How is death experienced in animé? by the manga characters?
i have no real idea, but some of you may have looked into the matter?
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utterly weak one might be in front
of power, even though instinct would say, well, the group would protect the
scapegoat?
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+
[Alan schreibt]
Pain in the virtual isn't pain of course, any more than pain in a
photograph is. So
being remembered,
they want to be recalled, witnessed.
so somehow the loss of control can only be also a gain here, a calculated gain,
Abramovic's night sea crossings.
(Ulay lost out, in history, it seems)
but how, evoke history?
Johannes Birringer
*[i am less familiar with live art having
nur ein Arzt.«
Take his clothes off, then he’ll heal,
and if he doesn’t cure, then kill him.
It’s only a doctor; it’s only a doctor
i just wanted to share with you the story of a consultation with my Kafka
doctor.
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it (the door
to inside), if not, then despair.
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needed reporting for our daily fix, we live in?
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[Simon schreibt]
Antonio Damasio (e.g. Looking for Spinoza) shows, to simplify, the material
neuronal causes of such feelings as empathy in the brain. Catherine Malabou
goes further. She invents in The New Wounded, self
with our fathers, mothers, or
grandparents not any longer recognizing themselves or their own absence. And
yet we do.
I am leaving now, wanting to thank everybody for what you shared here,
and for having invited me.
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in Georgia. Well done, Athens-Clarke
County, well done.
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rather worried about dawns, naturally, and dusks,
and the birds that fly at dusk time.
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had heard this term, positive money?
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highly recommended: the New Left Review interview with Richard Duncan
http://newleftreview.org/II/77/richard-duncan-a-new-global-depression
Geert
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exhibition Light from the Middle East
at the VA in London?
I am not sure how to defend these works.
best wishes for the New Year
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artists who responded, had much to say
about knowledge production, but their production is not defensible, if I
understand Adrian Miles correctly.
That was my whole point. What are you defending, then?
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Kirk Woolford schreibt:
I've just caught up with Johannes comments about defending practice. Initially,
as I suspected, he did intend the comments as a provocation. Of course, Kathryn
Bigelow needed to defend Zero
and sanctuaries, race
tracks, health spas, fine dining, places for children to play, a full world
under grey wintry skies
(still wondering what Shu's oblique angle on Riefenstahl was).
This debate this month surely will exhaust, no?
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. The Phd project and Viva
need a good curator, though.
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[Phi Sju schreibt]
I'm not sure it's the best place to go into such issues : )
[Simon schreibt]
...whilst the origins of IAE might be in some of the pseudo-intellectual back
channels of second rate academia its
is the player constructed and how, in Boal's rehearsals, can she step out
or not step in?
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, the process of changing behaviors is not an easy task..
and I am not talking about hacking.
How do other feel about games and revolt? games of the revolution, games of
rebellion?
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, also asked: how does the anti-industry stance of
videogame activists intersect with other movements in the awake of Occupy and
the Arab Spring?
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dear all
thanks for the replies, and Paolo probably will forgive further excursions into
rehearsals ( from point of view of theatre or choreography, in relation to a
politics of (games)design, particularly since I am not a Boalologist
about games, that they have been blamed for
violence, apathy and disintegration, and social autism one might add, which
they have introduced, and I have not seen this addressed here yet, nor the
consumption issue that was raised in the first week.
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[Joseph
. This was not a game.
*
Rabih Mroué, The Pixelated Revolution, TDR: The Drama Review: Volume 56,
Issue 3 Fall 2012 cf. also http://vimeo.com/44123255
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is located, urban space?
or adjacent space (non institutional) and how did the action-environment you
recounted made for next steps -
providing us with a diagram for entering the space the next day? ? which is
the second space?
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the fabrication of simulated space. But who is this space for? in
relation to what?).
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?),
let me know and i send you the Kostanic essay other links if you like,
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:: Peer to Platform: Artist Collective vs. Social Network :::
1 May 2013
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?),
let me know and i send you the Kostanic essay other links if you like,
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aesthetic to the
street. The translation
and reinterpretation of the Ifá is gathering pace. This is bearing fruit in
that each verse in the Odùs reveals a poetic formula related to that Odù.
(04/14/2013)
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[ Nathaniel schreibt]
I have
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[Johannes writes]
I don't love it at all but find it rather silly, from a political point of view;
and Beuys's joke about it doesn't help, as the conditions for everyone to
be an artist don't exist objectively;
but then again, as Mayra
mode
you meant to introduce?
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sense picked up on this, when he
asks us here why we are not collaborating. Why everyone is so self-affirming.
Please expand on What has happened is an evaporation of critical object
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and there, and someone will possibly do
it yesterday at the Venetian thing,
or in Tacuarembó.
but we are not in fact at a place where rivers meet.
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[Simon schreibt]
It is necessary to collaborate. It is expedient to collaborate. You
can't escape the future
? No puedo creer. creo que
los artistas no son una invención de la modernidad. ¿narcisismo es natural, al
igual que la competitividad, no?
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not agree with the way the stories were asked by the facilitator to be
told, as a kind of rite of spring, and we hold our hands
and feel empathy, catharsis.
Oh, the discussion on false (?) catharsis, Simon, would need to be expansive.
best
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[Simon schreibt]
Unlike Zach, I
' introductions).
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Bio
Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and artistic director of AlienNation Co
(www.aliennationcompany.com), an independent arts ensemble based in Houston,
Texas. He is also co-founder of a telematic performance collective (ADaPT) and
has explored
the
group of shared activity, face to face, physically close, a good old paradigm.
I am also of course thinking of remembering information through the body here.
The stories we tell each other return to body.
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images and the choreographic unconscious, but tell me more...)
tell us where the mountain rises
so I can begin the long descent
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[simon schreibt]
so much of this seems bad abstraction, yet I'm drawn in by Johannes's
image to say, the stories we tell make up
-as-a-social-ontology/]
Well, this is a good question, but the myths may be changing.
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way yet either, they are
still obligatory, no?
so are the streets on which we walk home.
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Ausstellung „Heimsuchung:
Wer hat Angst vor seinem eigenen Haus?
(Who is afraid of their own house).
I am .
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is not a
way out of the catch 22 either, it is too late. We shall have been defined by
the control systems we created (Yossarian said), and what happens now,
Carol-Ann, to our individual or community living management?
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, appealed to Stelarc
when I last
heard him address his own process for growing/implanting a third ear.
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[Adam Z schreibt]
The use of biomedia for
aesthetic projection is the ethico-political stake we wield. The blood on
the hands is part
think of
the work of Sarah Jane Pell, do you see?
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[Oron schreibt]
So yes, if bioart would exist, as in if artists working with life and
attempting to impose some kind of wants onto living systems - the ethics of
care is undoubtedly, implicitly or explicitly embedded
, and be recognized in the
dancer (interestingly
the dancer wore full face make up, green and black if I remember.) and in
that secular moment of repairing the people's free expression on the park.
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, near the desert, so signal available, thus no social media either),
and am enjoying a few days having escaped the virtuality you posit, Alan, which
has little currency here. Up where you are, the ice storms?
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[Alan Sondheim schreibt]
... I want
to talk a bit
, and what sorts
of gestural repertoire emerge out of them. There are infinite games! To
the extent that the body is substance, analogic, met/flesh...
You believe in infinity (online), then? and I hesitate.
.
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was
wonderful; it is to keep the cattle out.
Bob thinks he will die in the not so far future, and then the sculptures will
be left to live there as they are too heavy to move.
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[Alan Sondheim schreibt]
Should this go first to the body-Johannes-Birringer
maker Christina McPhee, Dana Jessen, Theresa Wong, Charith
Premawardhana, and Suki O'Kane. //
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performance (and the other ways, name
when folks do not perform).
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sensually and sensorily, and what you communicate to those close
by, who also perceive or feel (in terms of the haptic or tactile sonority of
the sounding garments Michèle Danjoux creates) particular resonances of the
worn, and its spatial and auditory externalization
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carrying them [invisibly or partially hidden], carrying the
design in motion out; they were movers and porters);
what you now practice practicing wearables, well, let's talk more about it,
in today's contexts or art or action in social (public) spaces.
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bank) in the library at my Houston studio,
thus also now part of a design
I like for my creating-environment or thinking environment, probably not so
much possible with online
platform hybridity and small tablets.
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downloadabled, and I will probably never catch up, nor do the files bear much
physical attraction to me.
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thanks for the link to the new movement video on book, Domenico
- very enjoyable performance!, and of course I would agree with what you
said in your reply.
I was less interested in worrying about oppositions and the old and the new,
others to join your sect?
Just wondering.
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[Geert schreibt]
Subject: [-empyre-] effusion and essence
Dear all,
thanks for the opportunity to discuss my essay here. The 'spirit' of the text
is in particular directed by the great public response
must have gone on to search out
the old (radio) archives in New York or Chicago, maybe like Douglas did ---
where do you go for these layers of older sound and (no longer existing
voices)?
And how to measure them?
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http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap
environment and feedback of that environment.
The vibrational, as I tried to suggest yesterday, is not unpresentable, but
part of the energetic exchanges in the theatre that Artaud imagined to be
necessary, thus vibrations move us very effectively, they ha
rdly model the sublime?
regards
Johannes
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