[NetBehaviour] fire-colored beetle larva

[Alan Sondheim]

fire-colored beetle larva

http://www.alansondheim.org/cairnfield42.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/cairnfield.mp4

w/ jon woodson, azure carter

in the latter. just have to get away from hatred
towards what will remain later on, later on for me
there's hatred, fires burning everywhere, there's
the task at hand, there's retribution, recompense,
later on there's there optical-molecular,
dependent sinking, later on there's cosmography
and the reading of signs, for others, for you,
there's always later on, later on is just around
the corner, take me away from all of this, turn
the corner, turn around



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Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[Ana Valdés]

Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan Palestine
India Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo was specially
strong since we are all a bit complice in their wars they are the world
first provider of coltan and tantalum minerals needed to make drones and
computers and mobile phones.
Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black UK and
active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO selling itself
as the saviour of the civilized world.
Write more tomorrow nice to share with you
Ana
They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced ppl in
millions
Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" <
he...@creative-catalyst.com>:

> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black
> encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
>
> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>
> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" :
>
>> Ana, this sounds so very good!
>> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>>
>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés  wrote:
>>
>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message in
>> the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am going
>> to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international network of
>> women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of war and
>> occupation.
>> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we
>> denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran and
>> Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer
>> activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca
>> Jonsson one of the most outspoken critics of Natos expansion.
>> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and Palestine
>> fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian women
>> protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers.
>> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with
>> women searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of the US supported
>> right wing militia.
>> Cheers
>> Ana
>> Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer" <
>> johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>:
>>
>>>
>>> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim and I
>>> moderated an online discussion on ISIS and terror & performance,
>>> (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or you were of
>>> course aware of the worsening of the situation in Syria and Iraq.
>>> The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to home when we
>>> ponder what terror means to us, or how we think it and what our
>>> histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been.
>>>
>>> I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried to find a
>>> publisher to see whether the raw, emotional, intense yet diversely
>>> positioned and often poetic articulations of the participants
>>> could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I tried to
>>> write again about terror, ISIS, masks,  and also confront what may be my
>>> own phantasms or prejudices towards militant Islam and also towards
>>> Western states and their necropolitics, and I grappled  to understand a
>>> little bit better what state formation might mean for those fighting on the
>>> ground in the middle east.
>>>
>>> Driving on the motorway today, listening to BBC2, i was baffled when a
>>> fundraiser for "Children in Need" was interrupted by the DJ who brought
>>> news from US killing, by drone, of presumably
>>> one of the men on the videos released by ISIS, the presumed "Jihadi
>>> John"; the person assumed to be this man pulverized by the drone rocket
>>> (including all those in the car). Strangely, I then had to listen
>>> to the british prime minister praising the US commando strike and also
>>> saying - referring to the Islamic State as an “evil terrorist death cult" –
>>> that "Mr Emwazi is a barbaric murderer. This "will be a strike at the heart
>>> of ISIL,
>>> and it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and
>>> our allies harm we have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and
>>> we never forget about our citizens.”
>>>
>>> After returning to Children in Need, then the radio host comes back with
>>> a brief interview with a fellow worker and friend of one of the kidnapped
>>> victims of ISIS, who argued that he would have prefered the british
>>> government to help when they could've sought to press for the hostage's
>>> release, as other countries had done; that the prime minister's hypocrisy
>>> is repulsive, and that he also would "have prefered Mr Emwazi to have been
>>> brought to justice."
>>> I was relieved to hear a worker bring up this idea of justice, and the
>>> political processes of negotiations that may precede drone strikes. In any
>>> case, I was feel

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[Johannes Birringer]

I just found your response, Alan, and it is Monday and the shock has not 
subsided, 
but I also realize what point is there to speak or mention one's shockedness or 
anguish 
and yet one perhaps must.

I appreciate what you write here so clearly, and strongly, and I went home 
Friday evening after I had posted
my anger at what I considered a pointless act of aggression against aggressors 
before
the terror in Paris broke,  and I didn't see that coming but of course knew 
something was coming but then
as you say yourself, where do we turn or where do they they turn, pointing to 
other witnessings -
everywhere now selves are at stake, everywhere potential bodies blown apart in 
evidence of
deathly politics and absolutisms. 

A friend, who also took part in our exchanges last November
just sent a message from the Ukraine and told me she fears it's wiser sometimes 
to be 
silent, but that is not (and I admire Ana and her women co-activists's 
insistence a great deal and
and am aware that is a tremendous exhausting effort) what she meant of course, 
what she meant is
"I was thinking to join an international independent journalist platform. There 
is no point to publish 
anything in here as I would be immediately attacked by nationalists.It is also 
dangerous for the people 
in the Eastern Ukraine to speak up against army or government. The local 
population is divided in its 
loyalties to Ukraine and Russia and they report on each other to the fighting 
authorities. 
The best protective strategy in the war zone is to be silent about everything."
And there is also such a thing as silent witnessing? but what if we were hiding 
behind our safe zones
and maillists, and yes, we can forget publishers and we can write and exchange 
...
and so to reply to you, I am all for it, let us continue to write as one form 
of screaming.

I thought, for those who were interested, Alan, we could mention your piece that
you published, after our November series, in VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the 
Arts, 5 (2015), 
"Annihilation to the Limit", pp. 239-47.Do you have a link:?

Mine was the one before, pp. 226-36, “Absolute Terror, or What Do You See 
Behind the Masks?”
VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts, 5 (2015),
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/AbsoluteTerror.pdf

Johannes Birringer  



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[netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] on behalf of Alan Sondheim 
[sondh...@panix.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 6:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

I don't think drones are wonderful; I think they're a horror. And I also
think that ISIS is a horror, that negotiations fail with them, that
brutality is impossible to contain when brutalizers also go willingly to
their death. Absolutist religion is a disease aid dis/ease to others; the
result is rectification on one side, the torsion of anguish on the other;
we shouldn't forget that anguish is always of the differend, lives within
it. What we dealt with last November (and what we continue to deal with in
our own work) has only increasingly hardened, corroded, and spread as a
holy subaltern whose speech is noise and subterranean communiques. So at
least for me, this work goes on, work which is always already an
impediment and remains an impediment; the core of the work is impediment
as if there were, literally no tomorrow. That's what emerged, at least for
me, from the empyre discussion, and continues to in-form me. Johannes and
I talked about doing another but very related book, asking for empyre
participants and others to write as they wrote on or around the list, and
gathering this material - for me it would be a necessary phenomenology of
anguish (I'm thinking of the anguish underlying, say, Adorno among others
which forms almost a contamination of the philosophical). So there it is,
and after Johannes wrote the below, Paris happened again - as if stating
that a city "happens" somehow is already and brutally understood. I'm
curious to know if anyone would be interested in working on such a book,
now, forgetting even publishers, thinking of a gathering, of what happens
at a certain and very problematic/brutal limit - not in terms of the
politics themselves (but none of this can be separated or disassociated
from the politics), but of the interiority of being human, cultural, the
interiority of belonging as well. I'm not being clear here, but anyone
contributing of course could contradict this, point to other witnessings -
everywhere now selves are at stake, as they have always been.

This is an comment in relation to what Johannes below wrote, and perhaps
something would come out of what might be seen as our good wishes.

- Alan


On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Johannes Birringer wrote:

>
> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim and I moderated 
> an online discussion on ISIS and terror & perf

[NetBehaviour] Berlin 19.11: Mark Fell and CM von Hausswolff at KW

[Manuela Benetton]

With apologies for cross-posting

Thursday, 19 November 2015
Doors: 7pm, Concert: 8pm

FEED at KW, Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin
*Facebook Event*

  MARK FELL AND CM VON HAUSSWOLFF Artists and composers Mark Fell and Carl
Michael von Hausswolff present their first collaborative project featuring
a piece for live electronics played through a seven channel surround
system. Each speaker transmits a design-specific hardware oscillator,
producing complex wave shapes and responding to preset parameters different
for each unit. The parameters are then modulated and controlled constantly
and in real time, at both distinctive and random intervals during the live
performance. The aim is to create a unique, immersive, site specific and
unrepeatable sound environment.

In cooperation with STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Image and Sound
,
*FEED
*
and *KW, Institute for Contemporary Art
*.
Instruments designed by *Derek Holzer
/macumbista.net
*
.



MARK FELL

Mark Fell is widely known for combining popular music styles, such as
electronica and club music, with more academic approaches to computer-based
composition with a particular emphasis on algorithmic and mathematical
systems. Since his early electronic music pieces Fell’s practice has
expanded to include moving image works, sound and light installation,
choreography, critical texts and educational projects. The diversity and
importance of Fell's practice is reflected in the range and scale of
international institutions that have presented his work which include -
Hong Kong National Film archive, MACBA, La Casa Encendida, LABoral, The
Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Serpentine, The Australian
Centre For Moving Image, ZKM and others. www.markfell.com

CM VON HAUSSWOLFFSince the end of the 1970s, Carl Michael von Hausswolff
has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument,
further aids are the sine-wave generators, oscillators and radar
transmitters. His audio compositions are pure, intuitive studies of
electricity, frequency functions and tonal autism within the framework of a
conceptual stringent cryption. Lately he has also developed a more
conceptual form of audio art overlooking subjects such as architecture and
urbanism, rats and maggots. Collaborators include Graham Lewis, Jean-Louis
Huhta, Pan sonic, Russell Haswell, Zbigniew Karkowski, Erik Pauser, The
Hafler Trio and John Duncan. His music is published by *Touch Music
*,
London.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[AG Forever]

Yes please report back.., if just links is fine,,, I try follow on Twitter!


*
AGF: @poemproducer / .com
in order: antyegreie.com


> On 16 Nov 2015, at 20:48, helen varley jamieson  
> wrote:
> 
> ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black 
> encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
> 
>> On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
>> 
>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" :
>>> Ana, this sounds so very good!
>>> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>>> 
 On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés  wrote:
 
 Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message in 
 the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am 
 going to participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international 
 network of women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of 
 war and occupation. 
 We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we 
 denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran and 
 Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer 
 activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca 
 Jonsson one of the most outspoken critics of Natos expansion. 
 We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and Palestine 
 fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian women 
 protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers. 
 >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with women 
 >searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of the US supported 
 >right wing militia.
 Cheers
 Ana
 
 Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer" 
 :
> 
> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim and I 
> moderated an online discussion on ISIS and terror & performance,
> (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or you were of 
> course aware of the worsening of the situation in Syria and Iraq.
> The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to home when we 
> ponder what terror means to us, or how we think it and what our
> histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been.
> 
> I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried to find a 
> publisher to see whether the raw, emotional, intense yet diversely 
> positioned and often poetic articulations of the participants
> could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I tried to 
> write again about terror, ISIS, masks,  and also confront what may be my 
> own phantasms or prejudices towards militant Islam and also towards
> Western states and their necropolitics, and I grappled  to understand a 
> little bit better what state formation might mean for those fighting on 
> the ground in the middle east.
> 
> Driving on the motorway today, listening to BBC2, i was baffled when a 
> fundraiser for "Children in Need" was interrupted by the DJ who brought 
> news from US killing, by drone, of presumably
> one of the men on the videos released by ISIS, the presumed "Jihadi 
> John"; the person assumed to be this man pulverized by the drone rocket 
> (including all those in the car). Strangely, I then had to listen
> to the british prime minister praising the US commando strike and also 
> saying - referring to the Islamic State as an “evil terrorist death cult" 
> – that "Mr Emwazi is a barbaric murderer. This "will be a strike at the 
> heart of ISIL,
> and it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our 
> allies harm we have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we 
> never forget about our citizens.”
> 
> After returning to Children in Need, then the radio host comes back with 
> a brief interview with a fellow worker and friend of one of the kidnapped 
> victims of ISIS, who argued that he would have prefered the british
> government to help when they could've sought to press for the hostage's 
> release, as other countries had done; that the prime minister's hypocrisy 
> is repulsive, and that he also would "have prefered Mr Emwazi to have 
> been brought to justice."
> I was relieved to hear a worker bring up this idea of justice, and the 
> political processes of negotiations that may precede drone strikes. In 
> any case, I was feeling sick when all this surfaced on the radio. I 
> wonder how this
> played out in the US or in the Middle East, in Raqqa, or other towns in 
> the region. (A commentator on the radio, and there always are 'experts' 
> to be found quickly, it seems, claimed to be a professor at the 
> "Institute of Radicalization
> &  Political Vi

Re: [NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

[helen varley jamieson]

ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black
encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)

On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>
> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
> 
>
> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer"  >:
>
> Ana, this sounds so very good!
> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>
>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés > > wrote:
>>
>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your
>> message in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in
>> India where I am going to participate in a gathering of Women in
>> Black an international network of women committed to peace and
>> dialogue and against all kind of war and occupation.
>> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as
>> much we denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war
>> between Iran and Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from
>> Cynthia Cocknurn old timer activist in Greenham Common and
>> professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca Jonsson one of the
>> most outspoken critics of Natos expansion.
>> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and
>> Palestine fighting their own male models we are going to have
>> Armenian women protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and
>> Tjetenien mothers of soldiers.
>> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect
>> with women searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of
>> the US supported right wing militia.
>> Cheers
>> Ana
>>
>> Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer"
>> > >:
>>
>>
>> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim
>> and I moderated an online discussion on ISIS and terror &
>> performance,
>> (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or
>> you were of course aware of the worsening of the situation in
>> Syria and Iraq.
>> The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to
>> home when we ponder what terror means to us, or how we think
>> it and what our
>> histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been.
>>
>> I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried
>> to find a publisher to see whether the raw, emotional,
>> intense yet diversely positioned and often poetic
>> articulations of the participants
>> could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I
>> tried to write again about terror, ISIS, masks,  and also
>> confront what may be my own phantasms or prejudices towards
>> militant Islam and also towards
>> Western states and their necropolitics, and I grappled  to
>> understand a little bit better what state formation might
>> mean for those fighting on the ground in the middle east.
>>
>> Driving on the motorway today, listening to BBC2, i was
>> baffled when a fundraiser for "Children in Need" was
>> interrupted by the DJ who brought news from US killing, by
>> drone, of presumably
>> one of the men on the videos released by ISIS, the presumed
>> "Jihadi John"; the person assumed to be this man pulverized
>> by the drone rocket (including all those in the car).
>> Strangely, I then had to listen
>> to the british prime minister praising the US commando strike
>> and also saying - referring to the Islamic State as an “evil
>> terrorist death cult" – that "Mr Emwazi is a barbaric
>> murderer. This "will be a strike at the heart of ISIL,
>> and it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our
>> people and our allies harm we have a long reach, we have
>> unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens.”
>>
>> After returning to Children in Need, then the radio host
>> comes back with a brief interview with a fellow worker and
>> friend of one of the kidnapped victims of ISIS, who argued
>> that he would have prefered the british
>> government to help when they could've sought to press for the
>> hostage's release, as other countries had done; that the
>> prime minister's hypocrisy is repulsive, and that he also
>> would "have prefered Mr Emwazi to have been brought to justice."
>> I was relieved to hear a worker bring up this idea of
>> justice, and the political processes of negotiations that may
>> precede drone strikes. In any case, I was feeling sick when
>> all this surfaced on the radio. I wonder how this
>> played out in the US or in the Middle East, in Raqqa, or
>>