many of your associations are phonetic, not really actual, or relational. This sounds a little like a take off on someone pretending to do a brain mash-up. Try on R.D. Laing for some poetic, but actually useful phenomenology. Chris.
Quoting Talan Memmott <[email protected]>: > what is 'State' here, as differentiated from 'state'? all states perform > State, in one way or another, but what State is any state? even no borders is > a state that performs as a 'State'-less 'state' performing as 'State'... > Heidegger says much of this that I won't 'state' here because I differ from > him on the concept of 'State'... > this 'state'ment is 'state'less... however you view 'State'... > Me.and.[h]er (I lead the way) -- > an other, other than I is impossible @body. > All becomes me always, in all ways. > Every which way - > I am absorbed as I absorb -- > the compressor and capacitor of my own radiance. > Over full, and flooding Dionysian -- > to reinVent - > Glom-to-glom: twilight > I RE:peat[sod], criss-cross previous crossing, previous pro[gress|cess]ions > and sessions. Our attachment and remembrance is given dimension, as is the > infra-ultrastructure through the conjoining of separate micro-reasoned > 'gen'Networks. Meaning (what emerges from the montage) in the (t)here and now > is constructed through receptive encodings of intent, mitigating the > potential for unfamiliarity at the terminal. The faciality of the interface > is reduced to facilitator ~ de.vice without being… I, we become this > vacancy, the mark and membrane between the included and the excluded. > > > > Talan > [email protected] wrote: ----- > To: soft_skinned_space <[email protected]> > From: Geert Lovink > Sent by: [email protected] > Date: 2010-04-12 16:09 > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Tactical Media, Research, and the University > > Dear all, > > thanks to all for kicking this off. > > In this first posting I would like to frame the Trans Migration Tool > from an activist perspective. One of the many strategies to show > solidarity would be to put the Trans Migration Tool in comparison with > similar (tactical) media strategies, tools and fights. The strategy to > frame it within the university, academic freedom and so one is another > one. I will would like to write about that later. > > I plunged in this topic in the eighties when I got involved in a West- > Berlin group that married East-Berlin activists to get them out of > communist East-Germany. After 1989 the emphasis changed from > solidarity with (Central and Latin-American) refugees to support > campagnes of illegalized immigrants. It is important to notice the > shift from refugees to immigrants. I am not sure if I agree with it > but I can see that it is a longterm political reality. There are less > and less refugees that make it into Western countries, and they are > more and more isolated from society, hidden in camps and detention > centres. Only a tiny amount of them reach a legal status. These days > most of the refugees are 'contained' in their own region of conflict. > For activists this meant a slow move towards the issue of border > regimes and more work and income related issues of the 'sans papiers'. > This means that we have to face a shift in society from political > solidarity with those who suffered from war and dictatorship, towards > a much more complex economic globalization and social justice. > > As far as I can see this shift happened in the 1990s. I got involved > in the No Borders/No One is Illegal movement in 1997. Interesting to > mention here is the fact that even amongst radical activists the No > Borders demand was and remained controversial. We can also find this > in the work of Ricardo Dominguez and his friends. It is truely utopian > work. Realize the utopian, in action and the arts, and sooner or > later, society will follow. Or not. And then it will remain utopian. > Who knows. Europe has got a lot less borders in comparison to 20 years > ago. True, there are new ones. And they are worth fighting against. > > Some projects: > > http://www.noborder.org/. The European network of migrants and asylum > seekers support campaigns, founded in 2000. Next day of action: June > 6th. > > Please also pay attention to the anti-Frontex campaign, the EU agency > for 'external border security' that organizes the flight to deport > migrants. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex and > http://www.allincluded.nl/index.php/actie/23/211 > > Some migration maps: http://www.allincluded.nl/index.php/maps-migration. > > An art project similar to the Trans Migration Tool by German > sculpturer and radio maker Ralf Homann and friends called Schleuser.net. > http://schleuser.net/en/main.html. > > Even if you cannot read Dutch, this is worth looking at. A book by the > Dutch journalist Kees Broere who wrote the following sequel for De > Volkskrant: http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/article1187549.ece. He > travelled with a group of Africans from Accra (Ghana) to Amsterdam > (NL), a dangerous journey that ends quite sadly in the outskirts of > Amsterdam where life of illegal Africans is tough. > > In solidarity, > > Geert Lovink > > > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > [email protected] > http://www.subtle.net/empyre > Christopher Sullivan Dept. of Film/Video/New Media School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 so michigan Chicago Ill 60603 [email protected] 312-345-3802 _______________________________________________ empyre forum [email protected] http://www.subtle.net/empyre
