In our jet-lagged state Tim and I spent a day and a half in the Making Sense Colloquium held at the Georges Pompidou Center and the Institut Telecom. Paris is in the middle of a social crisis prompted by a major labor strike against the government due to its potential plan to change the age of retirement from 60 years to 62 years of age. French philosopher Bernard Steigler the Director of the Institute of Recherche and Innnovaion at the Pompidou Center addressed the Colloquium the first morning citing the twentieth century as the century of the Proletariat. Steigler also cited the work of Duchamp and Beuys as figures to consider in the discussion about Making Sense, Faire Sense. His talk entitled Art, Territory, Epoque Individuation of Post consumerism and Post Modernism made no mention of the strikes outside in the streets of Paris. For Steigler criticality is a faculty of the sensing process and at the core of the creative process, but was blatantly absent from also was absent in many of many of the disparate presentations.
We have had very limited access to the internet but will post more later today and also introduce to you three more presenters who will hopefully give the empyre subscribers a clearer idea of what the Colloquium is attempting to do. Renate
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