Re: [-empyre-] invasive species

2018-06-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I think you're referring to Lorenz possibly? But the answer begs the question in a sense; I'd rather start from an in-depth knowledge of a landscape/biome, rather than aryan purity. - Alan On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, John Jordan wrote:

[-empyre-] Mushrooms and Ruins

2018-06-12 Thread Frederic Neyrat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear John Jordan, Thanks for having clearly formulated the alternative that we need to confront. To your last sentence, I would add: are we condemned to live in the ruins of capitalism? Another mushroom(-at-the-end-of-the-world) question

Re: [-empyre-] invasive species

2018-06-12 Thread John Jordan
--empyre- soft-skinned space--we must never forget that the first use of the concept of arian purity by the german national socialists (NAZI”S) was in an essay by an ecologist which used invasive species as a metaphor… !! Its a dangerous and meaningless term…and we

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]

2018-06-12 Thread John Jordan
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you for your honest and fascinating story /// Makes me think a lot about the fabulous chapter on cybernetics and management in the Invisible Comitee’s TO OUR FRIENDS 

Re: [-empyre-] invasive species

2018-06-12 Thread margaretha haughwout
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Yes, thank you Alan for this question. It does require and prolonged attention to observe how species interact, and under what contexts our companions are thriving. I agree strongly with FRAUD. The category "invasive" operates far too

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]

2018-06-12 Thread Ricardo Rene Dominguez
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hola Tod@xs, I have been learning a great deal from the gestures and conversations this month. And thanks Shulea for inviting me to participate. Rehearsing Networks of E-contagion (the Shrooms Next Door), or from Cold War

Re: [-empyre-] invasive species

2018-06-12 Thread Shu Lea Cheang
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Alan Surely your post has kept me and all artists working in the field thinking... i organize these thread under your subject invasive species...and do hope we all come back to this thread..meanwhile, i try to get week2 topics

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]

2018-06-12 Thread Aviva Rahmani
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks you for this moving testimony. I have just been writing about ecocide in relation to my own project, The Blued Trees Symphony, which asserted a new definition of public good and art to assert copyright law in resistance to

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]

2018-06-12 Thread John Jordan
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hey everyone sorry for late reply … The transition between mycelium and performing acts within a network of activism is wonderful. For us at the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, we try to break all separations, especially that