Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 52, Issue 15

2009-03-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
-- ___ empyre mailing list empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre End of empyre Digest, Vol 52, Issue 15 ** | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | To access the Odyssey

[-empyre-] abstract gestures / digital virtuality

2009-05-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - I've been following this discussion and thought the best way I might participate is to describe the work that I've done with Foofwa d'Imobilite and others over the past decade or so. We went from using video and audio tracks accompanying choreography, to work in Blender and Poser. The

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 54, Issue 7

2009-05-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 09:34:03 +0100 From: Sally Jane Norman s.j.nor...@newcastle.ac.uk Subject: Re: [-empyre-] abstract gestures / digital virtuality To: soft_skinned_space emp...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au Message-ID: 38aca5ee9bb2474e8b3ecb1a38c5fb2c1bca8da...@exsan02.campus.ncl.ac.uk

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
I was fascinated by the link Paul Brown sent in, http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/04/new-augmented-reality-app-unle.html - because of the creativity unleashed; the iphone, whatever, becomes an active tool instead of a receiver. I have two questions, occasioned in part by my

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 77, Issue 9

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - I just want to thank people for their responses. There are so many channels available! The aural seems relatively simple to use and is a great leveller. And it can be incredibly powerful; years ago I wrote about Vito Acconci's performances - they almost always were second person,

[-empyre-] Augmented reality as public art, mobile location based monuments and virtual memorials

2011-04-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - I'm not sure how to reply to this; I've been thinking about it. One thing about locative art is its oddly inert quality - it's _there_ and remains there, is fixed there. It's _there_ in the sense of geographic location, and _there_ in the sense of specific technology needed to reveal

[-empyre-] various to empyre Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, empyre-requ...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:44:40 +0200 From: xDxD.vs.xDxD xdxd.vs.x...@gmail.com As the next steps of the REFF project (and its AR drug, and its youth program on the methodological reinvention of reality) we are planning two

[-empyre-] Avataric -

2011-04-20 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - This is my last post, since my time is more than up here in empyre, so I'll keep things short. I do agree for the most part with John, but I think his (your) post is overly optimistic; you say In the twenty-first century, not only is identity not fixed or inherited, it is absolutely

[-empyre-] Augmented reality as public art, mobile location based monuments and virtual memorials

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
[This may not have gone through; apologies, if it did. - Alan] Is there the possibility of live AR? - or using bvh files - similar to their Second Life application? So that AR can be real-time interactive? I'm naive here, but it occurs to me that placement of virtual objects is similar to a

[-empyre-] AR musings in Leonardo Electronic Almanac

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
[the same for this - apologies if duplicated - Alan] Hi - The Leonardo article is excellent; the reason SL faded, however, is that it didn't fulfill the dream of virtual life - most people are used to games, and SL has no teleology at all. I've thought of it as reverse AR, since the porosity

Re: [-empyre-] AR musings in Leonardo Electronic Almanac

2011-04-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
not suburbia but its sexual underbelly that drives a lot. But there's an enormous amount of creative energy beyond Odyssey. - Alan On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 25/04/11 08:13, Alan Sondheim wrote: Hi - The Leonardo article is excellent; the reason SL faded

Re: [-empyre-] Tamiko Thiel on cyber-animism

2011-04-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
One way I deal with this is through the notions of culture and inscription - that culture is culture per se 'all the way down' in relation to species, and that inscription is the fundamental characteristic of the world, the human body - beyond which lies only the threshold of pain and death,

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 77, Issue 22

2011-04-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
Did anyone get my reply to Mathias Fuchs? I can't find it; I tried to go to archives - list as Pandora and Cornell - but the latter came up with no archives at all and the former ended years ago. I'm on digest; last time, when I sent the reply out again, it appeared twice. Apologies for

Re: [-empyre-] is AR objects?

2011-05-01 Thread Alan Sondheim
This is fascinating, below; I think that such anxiety is always the anxiety procured of and/or by our perception of the world in general - our realization at times that meaning is *only* construct, that there may well be no fundamental grounding, no primordial. For us, reality haunts itself in

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 88, Issue 5 / resilience

2012-03-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
Apologies for posting here (have a bad history w/ Empyre)- a few thoughts - Asking if resilence is the new resistance is already buying into corporate sloganeerig; I worry about that. Is X the new Y is a kind of Wired mag slogan-op and perhaps tends to derail things. I also wonder about

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

2012-03-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
There's a lot of material on Weimar performance which tallies with this; I'm thinking particularly of performers like Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, both of whom have had a large influence on my work. Interestingly, much of the best performance work, much of the legacy, is the work of women. Gert

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

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
things I had deleted or forgotten. To be able to write the book I read many books written about pain and evil, body and memory, Judith Butler, Susan Sontag, etc etc. I am sad I was not aware about Monika's work at that time! Ana On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com

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

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
years ago by Serpent's Tail, called the Garden of the Alphabet, we were ten or twelve storytellers, one from each country, I was Sweden's chosen contribution). Cheers Ana On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Hi Ana, Is your book available, and has it been

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

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
. This is the original post, quoted in other context but the original is there: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=10411 Ana On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Hi Ana, I read both below and have a practical question - is the original post, from which the excerpt

Re: [-empyre-] Sustenazo - Part II

2012-10-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - some questions occasioned by what I've been reading here, and also thinking about torture, living through torture. Lamentation seems to imply an other, often disappeared or disappearing, that one mourns for, after, or almost within; torture applies to the self to the depths that there

Re: [-empyre-] Sustenazo - Part II

2012-10-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
I think torture has always been with us; there are signs dating well back into prehistory, and there have been books written, for example, about the Assyrian murals and what they depict. The Central American ball-games weren't innocent either of course. I think it was Lorenz who postulated

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
Re - weeds - terms like 'weeds' and 'pests' and 'vermin' are very problematic - they reflect only the speaker, not the spoken-for who often is placed in the position of a Lyotardian differend, unable to speak, blotted out. Whenever I hear them, I cringe... == blog:

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote: Is there then (I'm sort of assuming the answer is yes, but asking anyway in order to make it part of the fabric of the conversation) a way in which lamentation is also critique as well as community self-constitution, as in Lamentations? Maria, I

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
which Lamentations are you refering to? (not Martha Graham's Lamentation?) Book of Lamentations in English All Sandy and I are/were on about, I think, is the silence and the obdurate that occurs in relaton to severe pain; I'm thinking for example of my mother shortly before her death,

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Oct 4, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: which Lamentations are you refering to? (not Martha Graham's Lamentation?) Book of Lamentations in English All Sandy and I are/were on about, I think, is the silence and the obdurate that occurs in relaton to severe pain; I'm thinking

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
In the total mourning people were silent and the silence were heavier than any shouting... Ana On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: mourning, lament, are acts, they're intended, they're cultural expressions - as long as one can mourn... but what happens when mourning

[-empyre-] Control Anita Berber Sebastian Droste

2012-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
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Re: [-empyre-] On (severe) Pain Part 3 (dialog between Sandy Baldwin and Alan Sondheim)

2012-10-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
For the person in abject and insufferable pain, pain becomes the universe; thinking through pain otherwise, as in these writings, is thinking through the entire universe itself in terms of suffering. We assume that in general when one 'does' philosophy or science, one speaks from a position

Re: [-empyre-] regarding grief and mourning

2012-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Johannes Birringer wrote: Ana's references (and the discussion between Alan and Sandy) seem to be to the Real (and yet I sense so much slippage to the virtual in Alan's and Sandy's discussion, surely intended, and if we follow through the idea of the virtualization (opera,

Re: [-empyre-] II (

2012-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
, the collapse of the signifier, inconceivable suffering, etc., within the body itself. - Alan On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Alan Sondheim wrote: Hi Jon, I think some of these myths are true, that we're too much online and too close to the 'virtual' to see that. You say In either case the virtual world

Re: [-empyre-] II (

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: Let's just assume that i don't know what the virtual is, anymore than i know what the real is To me, they look like two (distorting?) views of the same events. Just because momentum and position might be ill defined and entangling doesn't

Re: [-empyre-] II (

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: No, but neither does it mean that every ill defined binary is useful everywhere... I don't think these terms are as ill-defined as you think and obviously most people find them useful. What i would like is some bigger idea of what the 'virtual'

Re: [-empyre-] II (

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: Where we disagree I think might be the degree of suffering, or accounting for the ease with which, for example, animal torture might be acceptable online, the ease that slaughter can become a meme, viral, as in the beheading videos of a few years

Re: [-empyre-] II (

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: Alan writes: I don't think these terms are as ill-defined as you think and obviously most people find them useful. but that does not help define them... :) The whole point is they're not subject to the kinds of def. you want; they're much

Re: [-empyre-] VI feud and passion

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
Mike, I agree with you; most of what went on with Cybermind was and still is fairly heart-warming; there was pain when there was death, but there were also marriages that came out of the list, relationships of all sorts, and the Cybermind conference in Perth, which set the tone of the list

[-empyre-] [Air-L] Mark Poster, in memoriam

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
I think this is apropos on Empyre, Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:23:56 From: jeremy hunsinger jh...@vt.edu To: Cultural Studies cultstu...@lists.comm.umn.edu, ai...@listserv.aoir.org ai...@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Mark Poster, in memoriam

Re: [-empyre-] VII: free speech and its ends

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
The situation is an aporia; there are no short-cuts but decisions have to be made. When there was hate speech or trolling, the list became unweildy and furious; while I as co-moderator might side with subscribers who wanted completely freedom, the fact was that - out of pain and anger -

Re: [-empyre-] VII: free speech and its ends

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
philosphy is dead. And let's not forget: everybody has the right to be stupid, and the non-stupid ones have the responsibility to show how stupid the stupis is. Laszlo G Meszaros Quoting Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com: The situation is an aporia; there are no short-cuts but decisions have

Re: [-empyre-] VII: free speech and its ends

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
in both cases, people feel their areas are their 'homes,' and that implies one might do what one wants. Fb is a corporate state; email lists are TAZ (temporary autonomous zones), very different, but people feel comfortable in both - Alan On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Rob Myers wrote: The state

Re: [-empyre-] performing in virtual

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
In our culture, at least in the US, frontal male nudity is constantly censored; it's overdetermined in far too many directions. The aggression is definitely there, but actually, I've had more experience of kindness than anywhere else - from you, Liz, Jo, Garrett, Patrick, for example. It's

Re: [-empyre-] performing in virtual, links

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
I think that the three videos address some of the issues raised here; the first two seem to deal directly with pain and repressed memories - perhaps others might have some comments? - Alan On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Peter ciccariello wrote: Fascinating! On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Yael G

Re: [-empyre-] Writing and viewing and living our pain

2012-10-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Deena, It seems to me this is a delicate balancing act. My mother before she died was in such agony, she couldn't speak, much less express anything. There is also clinical depression, which is chemistry and often unresponsive to anything. One has to have the capacity to express, and

Re: [-empyre-] more trolling

2012-10-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=vOHXGNx-E7E http://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/173764121.html - she died. On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Ana Vald?s wrote: I was a bit provoked when I read the text Jon published when a troll saw her trolling as a piece of art, Now I find these

Re: [-empyre-] week three: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Johannes, very briefly, not to interrupt the discussion, I've noticed on almost all mailing lists, including empyre, say, or nettime, or Cybermind for that matter - there are usually very few posters around a particular topic. Empyre works through guests of course and just for the month,

Re: [-empyre-] Introduction--Deena

2012-10-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Deena Larsen wrote: Thus the work is a complex and subtle exploration of pain--and uses links, navigation, etc. to explore the unsaid and unsayable. In MS 3.0, I also used tags to show how pain and suffering can be connected.  But I tried to balance pain with light--as

Re: [-empyre-] Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
It makes sense that you wouldn't want to talk about personal pain or for that matter anything personal here. Everyone makes his or her decision, everywhere and everywhen, about revelation. I need at times to speak 'somewhat' out of pain, because it comes from trauma, and trauma, at least

[-empyre-] the subject of this month

2012-10-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi, I've been thinking about this month's subject, repeatedly, and find myself running into difficulty when I try to relate it to the moderated and rationalized discourse one finds on an email list, especially a list which is text-oriented, and oddly self-contained in that regard - one

[-empyre-] week four: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-22 Thread Alan Sondheim
The fourth week of October's -empyre- discussion will start tomorrow, continuing with the topic of Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Real and Virtual. The guest will be Maria Damon. Her biographical information is below. I've followed Maria's work for a long time, and it has always amazed

[-empyre-] comment relating to Johannes' night sea crossing 4

2012-10-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
-gender change. they passed it down farther. Who were they? Who's haunting us? text by Alan Sondheim ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] week four: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
Thank you, Maria! I wonder, remembering Amanda Todd's video, if remose in the sense of biting might also be connected to cutting? I remember teaching a class at an artschool at one point; the course was about contemporary art, the body, etc. - and almost everyone in the class was a cutter.

Re: [-empyre-] week four: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote: Dear all, Alan, Peter, thanks for your comments. I'm in a slightly awkward position of being in MLA-DAOC meetings through Friday, so my ability to really post with an appropriate fullness of attention is somewhat compromised right now. Peter, this is

Re: [-empyre-] control and cutting, photographing

2012-10-25 Thread Alan Sondheim
Johannes, How do you read these artists/works in the West, and not only in the West of course, how are they related to the self-immolations of Tibetan monks, there have been many over the years? I've known Stelarc as well and feel disturbed at the repeated hookings, but it makes no

Re: [-empyre-] control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-25 Thread Alan Sondheim
Just want to point out this story bears an uncanny resemblance to the current conviction of the Italian seismologists, in relation to te response by the scientific community; I've been following this closely online but also in Science magazine, which goes into amazing detail. So it's not

[-empyre-] of interest below

2012-10-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi - I wanted to post this to the list; it applies to this month's topic. Dehumanization is a common technique in the military of course; it places within the abstract and virtual, that which is abject and concrete. Songs like this can tunnel through. I'd like to all the guests this month

Re: [-empyre-] of interest below

2012-10-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi Jon, let me answer you in pieces here - On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: I'm not quite sure i can say this correctly, but seeing we seem to have shifted a bit from the role of pain in virtual life, or 'the virtual' (if you like suspended nouns), to pain in art, let me try -

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
There's also the other Goffman book, Stigma, which is relevant and excellent. I remember one oddity during the Vietnam war - there was an oddly apolitical stance, I think, among performance artists in the US; one could watch an Acconci piece, for example, and read political action into it,

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
are weighed in consideration of a just penalty... this idea of paying with emotion, how does it tie in with empathy? On 10/27/12 4:45 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: There's also the other Goffman book, Stigma, which is relevant and excellent. I remember one oddity during the Vietnam

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
that. Kristine On Oct 27, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: There's also the other Goffman book, Stigma, which is relevant and excellent. I remember one oddity during the Vietnam war - there was an oddly apolitical stance, I think, among performance artists

Re: [-empyre-] of pain and others

2012-10-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: Hi Alan, I'm still not sure here. For example, to use some other easily referenced points can we really describe ecstacy? even a moderate 'real' orgasm? then there is the often remarked failure of the mystics to convey the 'union with god', the

Re: [-empyre-] of pain and others

2012-10-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Jonathan Marshall wrote: All i'm trying to do here is suggest that pain, misery depression etc are not the only inexpressable states of being My point (and examples) where to suggest that other states also cannot be expressed. and while we are at it, lets not forget

[-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
Everyone I know is documenting the storm and putting it up online. The reality as such is troubling; listening to the police radio gives an idea of the degree people are in trouble. At the moment the situatio is more severe, small explosions, more fires, flooding everywhere. So far we're

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi, thanks Renate, we're ok, have been out numerous times in the hurricane. NYC and NJ and coastal Connecticut are epitomes of suffering at the moment - a real mess here, no one was expecting this. But our roof and our repairs held! Thanks to everyone who wrote in as well. love, Alan and

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Johannes Birringer wrote: is this not amazing. having lived through numerous hurricanes in Texas and the Gulf bay area, I can sympathize with your excitement, the thrill, the rush, the relief? i also, when in Houston during these events, felt the impending disaster

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
was talking about yesterday. hoping its moving out now. jon From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Alan Sondheim [sondh...@panix.com] Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:15 AM

Re: [-empyre-] the end of the month

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
to thank everyone who participated in this months discussion, including invited guest discussants Monika Weiss, Deena Larsen, Johannes Birringer, Jonathan Marshall, Fau Ferdinand, and Maria Damon. In addition, I particularly want to thank my co-moderator Alan Sondheim. - Sandy

[-empyre-] in lieu of last month's topic

2012-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
(since the discussion hasn't started yet, on RISK, I thought I'd post the following short text on death, which might have been relevant and relates to risk as well - Alan) Death Cull The new reality is watching, walking death, repeatedly, until things finally come to an end. Everyone goes

Re: [-empyre-] Practice in Research odd methods, rude mechanics

2013-01-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
I'll second what mez has to say here; it's always a situation of bricolage for people I know outside institutions; it's even difficult to get to conferences, to get published with academic presses, etc. Universities and art schools still provide communality after graduation for creative workers,

[-empyre-] Alan Sondheim bio and thanks

2013-06-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
with biological extinctions as well. Apologies for the formality of the following, I love the idea of these bios - Alan) Alan Sondheim was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; he lives with his partner, Azure Carter in Brooklyn NY. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University in English. A new-media

[-empyre-] Alan Sondheim, opening comments

2014-01-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
, and even the particulation of the body - does not this reflect something beyond or behind us? And what selves are there, and are there shelves, not selves? Thank you greatly, Alan === Here is a slightly updated bio - Alan Sondheim was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; he

Re: [-empyre-] setting fire to avatars, collapsing realities

2014-01-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Johannes Birringer wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- happy new year to you all. Alan posted an interesting series of opening comments, and if it were possible and if we had time to

Re: [-empyre-] The Self and Post-Reality

2014-01-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- - Hi Kevin, I wanted to quote you, but in the linux terminal I'm using, your text disappears! I'll do my best. Apologies for my terminal condition... Kevin writes: Alan, your response gives us much to consider, and I agree that

[-empyre-] setting fire to avatars, collapsing realities

2014-01-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
to beginning - regards, Johannes Birringer [Alan Sondheim schreibt] Should this go first to the body-Johannes-Birringer and then to the listserv (if such be the software), a form of indirect addressing? Is the body of Johannes Birringer receiving these words smoothly? I ask only because

Re: [-empyre-] setting fire to avatars, collapsing realities

2014-01-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
activity in NYC recently. Reneactment I find a bit frightening in the face of current slaughter/ extinction and I wonder if someone might re-enact those rare earth mines in SL? Alan Sondheim sent a series of fascinating missives and at one point argued that setting fire to an avatar

Re: [-empyre-] Some Thoughts on Interactivity and Art From Bibbe

2014-01-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi - could you explain It's been proposed that everything existing has a dichotomy as evidence of its reality. That material reality is a product of the frisson resonating between this duality. Interactivity might thus be woven into

[-empyre-] interactivity and flow

2014-01-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi - I feel my week or so is up, of course, but I do want to give one example of an early interactive work of mine; I was trying to think back to early virtual space investigations. In 1970-71, I created a piece, 4320, using a

Re: [-empyre-] setting fire to avatars, collapsing realities

2014-01-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- One thing I'm missing in the discussion, which relates to Johannes' comment about dancers w/ mirror - the as if for me relates on one hand to Vaihingers, and on the other, to what one might call a phenomenology of the interior - I'm

Re: [-empyre-] wearable technology

2014-02-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Just want to mention, in passing (wrote Johannes about this), but I don't think there's a digital look at all, any more than an analog look or flesh look - whatever. The days of either sheen/metallic/glass surfaces on one hand, and

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems window weather [gluggaveðri]

2014-07-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, I'm writing in answer to Johannes' invitation, and will be somewhat short here. I've dealt with issues of sexuality, pain, death, and mourning in the virtual, and in the virtual in relation to the real. The points I'd make are as

[-empyre-] Subject: Re: whose our systems body weather

2014-07-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi Johannes, You say, I tend not to believe we are always already virtual (as Alan Sondheim suggests), -- but one problem I have with the discussion is that it doesn't include a critique of the corporate. Take the distinction (which

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems body weather

2014-07-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- You might be interested in Merlin Donald who argues much the same thing; even here, however, I'd ask where is the Borg? In ISIS/ISIL? In the US prison system? Right away class enters - violently - into all of this, and class media,

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-20 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space--that's not what quantum mechanics says. On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:31 PM, John Hopkins jhopk...@neoscenes.net wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- What is the scope or meaning of 'interaction' when Quantum

[-empyre-] Introductory post (Alan Sondheim)

2014-11-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
the subject up here, on Empyre (given the subject, an ironic title!) - please contribute! Thanks to Renate and everyone - - Alan Sondheim ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

[-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn

2014-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I'd like to introduce Erik Ehn, whose plays are often concerned with issues of genocide and torture (he travels regularly to Rwanda and other troubled locations), and is head of theater at Brown University. I've asked him and the

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn

2014-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- (for some reason, I can't quote directly here) The technocrats of light, I keep thinking of scorched, of scorching, of the annihilation

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn (from Erik Ehn))

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [picking up from yesterday... Forcing a chaos to force a telos-precipitate -] This power survives as long as light remains in anticipation, and the public is controlled by anticipation. This is advertising as an end in itself ? all

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Yes, I think, it can be lost, erased, this is the heart of anguish - BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants have executed 85 more members of the AlbuNimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week in retaliation for

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- There are times this 'slow terror' speeds up, times it slows down; it seems to me it might be problematic to inflate it with ISIS and the like; there are two - and more - destructive orders of the world and worlding. I began reading

Re: [-empyre-] first intervention from my part

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Pia Holenstein wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- */again text unquotable, apologies/* Perhaps there is only the wall of death, up against the border of Lyotard's differend? To

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Erik writes, [...] 9/11, as an act of terror, was recognizable because it was a clich? ? we had already seen it. Looking at the live broadcast: ?This must be a movie; this is just like a movie? but really ? ?This is just like a movie

[-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

2014-11-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- (I sent this to nettime when I started thinking about the history of the region; I have a number of texts and books from the late Armand Schwerner, who worked with the material. I've also been interested in semitic languages and the

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

2014-11-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
, versus the stillness of what strejilevich calls the single, numberless death. On Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:52 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- (I sent this to nettime when I started thinking about the history

Re: [-empyre-] either the victim or the killer but never the image

2014-11-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, a few things. First, on the surface, 'biopower' to me is an odd term, connected with 'biofuel' and so forth - it skitters and deflects. Perhaps I am wrong. The images you speak of slide from the indexical to the ikonic, or both

Re: [-empyre-] virtually true

2014-11-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi, two comments, Could you elaborate on Ethical concerns: I was very insecure dealing with the most controversial issue, best exemplified by the title of book by american psychologist James Hillman A terrible Love of War (2004)

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

2014-11-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote: (not quotable :-( Could you say something about the staging? And is there a relationship with noh? (I've always felt that tragedy, violence, underlies the surface of noh.) And finally, Raven, is

[-empyre-] speed of the list

2014-11-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi - Just want to say that I think the 'speed of the list' is just right; I had someone complain that it was too slow. I see it more of a conversation or seminar, than a series of texts, although it can be that too. My own feeling is

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence, and more Antigone's bones

2014-11-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Sat, 8 Nov 2014, Johannes Birringer wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- is there any grappling that could answer Alan's statement of dissolution? -- And I want to answer this in so

Re: [-empyre-] concerning Ayotzinapa, and more Antigone's bones

2014-11-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- oh God, Johannes, how can anyone really 'deal' with this? how could the students, Mexico, anyone? I'm sitting here in tears and we're talking analytically online and we have to, I just don't always have the resources. humans do

[-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I want to thank Johannes for all the work he's done here, and all the guests current and future; it's an amazing and intense month. and from my current Google newsfeed (space and time displacements) - Suicide bombing at Nigerian

Re: [-empyre-] I feel today a bit patriotic :)

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi - I agree with you here, however I do not watch beheading or other torture videos; I know no one personally who does. They're not shown on the new here. At one point I did see the beheading of Daniel Pearl; I felt connected to the

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- What I cut and pasted from was the headline page only, which breaks things down in categories; there's a lot of news, but one massacre seems to supercede another. The headline page also depends on categories the user assigns; for

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