Re: [-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Thinking and Tinkering

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Stefanie was a participant as well of our workshop in Damascus Syria together with Palestinian girls using games as narrative of the diaspora and trying to empower them to play a more active role in the society. Syria was at that time a

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 3 on -empyre: Welcome Ana and Simon and a few thoughts on boredom

: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I am really honored to introduce our next two guests, long-time participants on -empyre. Ana Valdés (UR) was a participant on the -empyre list serve in the very early days I recall her telling me just this past February! A long-time member and guest

Re: [-empyre-] All call: subscribers interested in Boredom: Labor, Use and Time

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Subject: boredom as a feeling of emtpiness... To continue adding new nuances to the discussion about boredom I wonder if boredom is not as well a feeling of emptiness. We try to fill the vaccum of our lives adding things to entertain us.

Re: [-empyre-] All call: subscribers interested in Boredom: Labor, Use and Time

--empyre- soft-skinned space--I am a writer and as a writer we are used to boredom we feed on it as vampyrs. Alain Robbe-Grillet one of the most known writers from the French nouvelle vague and nouveau roman wrote pages about how a fly walks on a wall. His romans lack

Re: [-empyre-] Happy New Year -empyre. An open call to all of our subscribers.

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear -emp...@cornell.edu and Renate Tim Johannes Allan Patrick and all a great 2016 for all! We should care about -empyre one of the few places where research and exchange and sharing is still free from academic political or commercial

Re: [-empyre-] detention vs movement violence

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes it was not only me, the great majority of the Latinamerican refugees coming to Europe during the 70:s are today relatively integrated in Europe and many of them come back to South America and are today's ministers in different

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February 2016: Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee? The Numbers Now and The Number Then

3/03/animLogo.gif> >> Isabelle Arvers >> Curator and art critic >> +33 661 998 386 >> http://www.isabellearvers.com >> Director of Kareron >> www.kareron.com >> twitter: @zabarvers >> youtube.com/zabarvers >> Skype ID: zabarvers >> >

Re: [-empyre-] detention vs movement violence (kinopolitics and Femicide)

ck your favourite oil companies of this world, who simply, >>> primarily, react to opportunity (see Cockburn's The Rise of the >>> Islamic State, >>> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25407471-the-rise-of-islamic-state), >>> it's the political

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February 2016: Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee? The Numbers Now and The Number Then

--empyre- soft-skinned space--In all my visits to Palestine Damascus Jordan and Baghdad I met both Muslims Christians and secularized ppl, "freelance muslims" as much I am a "freelance catholic". In Damascus I interviewed Khaled Meshal Hamas political leader at that

[-empyre-] relevant exhibition

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Interesting for our discussion about identities, citizenship, decolonizing the archives. http://www.internationaleonline.org/ Ana -- https://anavaldes.wordpress.com/ www.twitter.com/caravia158 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/

Re: [-empyre-] hi from dallas texas

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Nice to see your name in -empyre Roger! Good luck! Ana Den 19 jan 2016 21:14 skrev "roger malina" : > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > hi empyre > > this is roger malina lurking into the

Re: [-empyre-] : Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee?

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Babak i am not discussing technicalities here who ever said that quote had a point and the comment was relevant and my question about the thousands anonymous drowning in the shores of Europe is still on the table. Ana Den 16 feb 2016 23:43

Re: [-empyre-] the mouth of Duck river

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes as usual you are a seasoned traveler in the seas of knowledge and poetry and your writings always make me happy :) I always feel challenged and comforted at the same time :) To walk has always been people's way to move and

Re: [-empyre-] Liquid Blackness, Matter & Flesh

--empyre- soft-skinned space--The poet Aimé Cesaire was born in the French Antilles and wrote a powerful work, "L' éloge de la Negritude". It was before "The Black Atlantic". He made an excellent analysis about how much the Civilization was born in Africa and how much

Re: [-empyre-] Week 1: ART/TECH/FOOD with Amanda McDonald Crowley

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you Renate and guests to a exciting topic. That's the strength in empyre we go from refugees to food and tech and it's a red thread here. An interesting link to a Catalan startup making printer machines for food

Re: [-empyre-] All Call: May discussion Social Practice and Social Reproduction: the politics of participatory art

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Maybe my experience in Palestine should be interesting to share. It was both Art and activism linking together the suffering of the Occupation with the need of emotional and psychological growing. "Our minds are occupied", said one of my

Re: [-empyre-] Recent work on 'semiotic splatter' / introduction

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Beautiful and scary Murat! And horrible true...Trump had the charisma of à boa constrictor mesmerizing its prey. Hillary is clever but no charisma at all. Skickat från min iPad > 9 nov. 2016 kl. 13:58 skrev Murat Nemet-Nejat

Re: [-empyre-] Recent work on 'semiotic splatter' / introduction

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear ones an Peruvian poet one of the best Latinamerican writers, Cesar Vallejo, who lived in Paris in the 30, write once "a man pasa by my side carrying a loaf a bread how I am supposed to write about psychoanalysis?" Today as Alan wrote

Re: [-empyre-] Starting the Third Week: Michael Boghn and Jerome Sala

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Sorry I don't understand your question. Skickat från min iPad > 19 nov. 2016 kl. 21:53 skrev Ana Valdés <agora...@gmail.com>: > > I am an old fan of science fiction and I am still in love with masters as > Phil

Re: [-empyre-] Starting the Third Week: Michael Boghn and Jerome Sala

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I am an old fan of science fiction and I am still in love with masters as Philip K Dick Sturgeon and Ursula Le Guin. They wrote about dystopian realities not far from ours. Sturgeon wrote about a gestalt a kind of complex unity composed

[-empyre-] Fake news or news as goods and commodities?

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear fellows I was thinking about how to start this week. It has been a lot of interesting things discussed here and I remembered the time I spent in jail four years in the 70. During the four years I was in prison we were feed with fake

Re: [-empyre-] Fake News, Propaganda, cinema, and more

fessor > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Department of Art > Tjaden Hall 306 > rfe...@cornell.edu > > > > > > > >> On 6/28/17, 10:00 PM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf >> of Ana Valdés" <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu

[-empyre-] Sorry private to Renate

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Renate your Cornell address is being rejected by Gmail. Please can you write to me from an alternative address? Cheers Ana Enviado desde mi iPhone ___ empyre forum

Re: [-empyre-] bibliography- please add to it

--empyre- soft-skinned space--I wrote three books but sadly only available in Swedish. Jag älskar dataspel (I love videogames), 1992 Kvinnor@Internet (Women@Internet), 1997 Internet för Humanister (Internet for Humanists), 2005 Ana sön 6 maj 2018 kl. 16:51 skrev

Re: [-empyre-] In memory of Marilouise Kroker 1943-2018

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Very sad news indeed. She and her husband were pioneers and in love with the work and research they were engaged with. In the time of fast IT money they kept their integrity and their independence. I have all their books, important

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

--empyre- soft-skinned space--And I miss the role of Howard Rheingold the creator among others of Wired and the Well and the author of the book Virtual Community. He built the discussions forum Electric Minds a great gathering of scholars and activists. I interviewed

Re: [-empyre-] digital tools

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Renate I am thankful and delighted engaging in a conversation within -empyre, one of the most valuable fora I am in. Two of the most interesting people I know in the digital field are Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow the founders of

Re: [-empyre-] digital tools

en Hall 306 > rfe...@cornell.edu > > On 2/11/18, 10:35 AM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on > behalf of Ana Valdés" <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on > behalf of agora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > --empyre-

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all I didn’t want to seem blasé or disappointed when I posted about my deception or disappointing for the lack of answers. As an old -empyrean :) I do remember months of intense exchange and months of silence or tiredness. But it’s as

Re: [-empyre-] digital tools

CCA Biennial > http://cca.cornell.edu > Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art > http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu <http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/> > Professor of Comparative Literature and English > > B-1 West Sibley Hall > Cornell University > Ithaca, New York 14853 > &

Re: [-empyre-] Beyond the listserv: Welcome Ana Valdes

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Renate and thanks för the presentation. As my biography tells I am a old timer digital activist and deeply regretted the death of John Perry Barlow one of the most legendary web activists. He wrote a leader in Wired about the digital gap

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

14 feb. 2018 kl. 19:29 skrev Murat Nemet-Nejat <mura...@gmail.com>: > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Ana, I had posted a response t your post of a few days ago. I wonder if it > got lost with your own post. > > Ciao, > Murat > > On Tue,

Re: [-empyre-] Refiguring the Future, Week 4: Collectivity and World-building

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi and Thank you for an inspiring discussion! Greta Thunberg is having worldwide support for her school strike. She was in Davos and confronted the worlds elite politicians and industrial leaders and demanded from them big changes and

Re: [-empyre-] Agnes Varda and Angela Davis

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Renate and dear Tim I am always struck about how we ppl connect to each other in which intricate ways we meet, interact and merge in a kind of invisible pattern, a kind of vital weaving where stitches and threads are put together in a

[-empyre-] guest this week

--empyre- soft-skinned space--First of all thanks to Renate and Tim for inviting me as guest under April. I am always inspired and challenged when I participate in -empyre's always interesting and exciting discussions! I am a writer and an Art curator and try to use my

Re: [-empyre-] Agnes Varda and Angela Davis

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Murat I am always on Enpyre but lurking a lot :) Thanks fot your kind words Ana tors 11 apr. 2019 kl. 11:43 skrev Murat Nemet-Nejat : > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > Ana, nice to see you on Empyre again.

[-empyre-] memory and chatarsis and struggle

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Some years ago I translated a book written by a Swedish journalist and writer, Monica Zak. She spoke good Spanish and wanted make interviews with refugees from Guatemala living in Mexico. The struggle and the poverty for Central American

Re: [-empyre-] #SpeedyTimes #SpeedySigns #SevenNewCaracoles #TacticsYStrategies

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Amazing the Zapatistas still resist! Thats for me the accomplished TAZ, Temporary Autonomous Zone, as Hakim Bey called it. Ricardo nice to hear your voice here! Un abrazo Ana mån 2 sep. 2019 kl. 14:14 skrev Dominguez, Ricardo : >

Re: [-empyre-] AMAZON IS BURNING

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi folks as living in Uruguay a few hours below the Amazon we are deeply concerned, last weeks we saw the smoke coming from Amazon fires and we could not see our Rio de la Plata river for it. We are too changing our agricultural matrix

Re: [-empyre-] Hi

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Sandy so nice to see you around! I hope you remember me, we translated your book to Swedish and I wrote the foreword. Never forget the Cyber meeting in Budapest and our talks in Stockholm! You were a pioneer and many of us were

Re: [-empyre-] proposal proposal +++ art and games world tour

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Isabelle and others. Thank you for your interesting work about games and postcolonial narrative. I started to review computer games at the very start, when the computers were Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari, long before PC and consoles

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to week 2 of February 2020 discussion: Thinking differently in scholarship and curation

--empyre- soft-skinned space--The other day died Tzvetan Todorov a Bulgarian linguist specialised in language and the politics of language. He lived and worked in France where he published the most of his books. The Fear of Barbarians, On Human Diversity, Torture and

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February 2020 discussion: Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East?

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Dale and -empire. I am very happy and grateful for the choice of topic. Middle East is a symbolic loaded place and a no place, using Marc Auges definition. I look forward to this month discussion. As an intellectual and activist deep

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February 2020 discussion: Why Are We Still Talking about the Middle East?

at Sean and > Beth are discussing. > > > On Feb 2, 2020, at 11:28, Ana Valdés wrote: > > Dear Dale and -empire. I am very happy and grateful for the choice of > topic. Middle East is a symbolic loaded place and a no place, using Marc > Auges definition. > I look forward to this month

Re: [-empyre-] OPEN CALL: an encouraging word to send your bio and reading lists (Benton C Bainbridge)

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi I am a late bloomer in this call :) was busy with many things at the same time :) I am reading sci-fi too, the Chinese Cixin Liu The Third Body. Reading again Virginia Woolfs wonderful mrs Dalloway. And Judith Butlers superb essay about

[-empyre-] Some thoughts

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all I feel as always very happy and honored to be a guest in such a generous and welcoming environment as _empyre. I was thinking about the war in the Balkans and the horrible predicament of the people in Sarajevo, besieged by the

[-empyre-] Next level the Zapatistas

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Continuing with my examples of how technology cam be used for the good I remember how the Zapatistas and his leader Comandante Zero used the digital space to crate a really liberated zone, a zone as the ones described by Hakim Bey in his

[-empyre-] Fwd: Next level the Zapatistas

wanted so many as possible to participate in the discussions I wanted to be able to post more than one message! Cheers Ana -- Forwarded message - From: Ana Valdés Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 18:24 Subject: Next level the Zapatistas To: soft_skinned_space Continuing with my examples