I think this link makes sense: http://www.leprogres.fr/fr/article/4015328/La-place-Bellecour-coupee-du-monde.html
all my best Frédéric Neyrat 2010/10/22 Patricia R. Zimmermann <pa...@ithaca.edu>: > > Renate: > > Thank you for this report. > > I have been thinking of all the Making Sense participants and you and Tim > Murray in Paris and Empyre these last few days. The strikes have been on the > front pages of the NYT, and on many listservs and aggregated websites. They > have hit a nerve back here in the States, people are discussing the strikes, > and the transportation stoppages. > > What are you seeing and experiencing on the ground there? > > Are there art actions in the streets? > > Are the presenters at the colloquium making sense of protests about the > proposed changes in the retirement age as an event that is attempting to make > sense of the GEC (global economic collapse)? > > Not to tunnel too much into a mise en abyme, but is making sense making sense > of making sense? > > Patty Zimmermann > > ------- > Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D. > Professor, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts > Roy H. Park School of Communications > Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival > Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies > 953 Danby Road > Ithaca College > Ithaca, New York 14850 USA > Office: +1 (607) 274 3431 > FAX: +1 (607) 274 7078 > http://faculty.ithaca.edu/patty/ > http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff > BLOG: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff10/blogs/open_spaces/ > pa...@ithaca.edu > > > ---- Original message ---- >>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:16:49 -0400 >>From: empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au (on behalf of Renate Ferro >><r...@cornell.edu>) >>Subject: [-empyre-] prolitariat >>To: soft_skinned_space <emp...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au> >> >> 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 >>________________ >>_______________________________________________ >>empyre forum >>empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >>http://www.subtle.net/empyre > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre > _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
