Re: [-empyre-] View Recent Changes (Daniel Lichtman)

2020-11-24 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Daniel and Sophia, I just wanted briefly to say that the whole VRCproject won my attention from the very beginning.As my background is in pre-New Media literarycriticism and visual art and poetry I'm unable toadd much to the

Re: [-empyre-] Towards a drift in values? (part 3/3) QUESTIONS

2020-04-23 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Many thanks, Maurice, for your extensive discussion.In briefanswer to your two questions—in all their complexity—I begin byexpressing gratitude for the link to ‘The neuronal gene *Arc* encodes…’. Themechanics explained in that article I

Re: [-empyre-] waving?

2020-04-06 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Wanting toexpress my gratitude to Gary and Simon for the link to Levi Bryant’s articleand their discussion. I’m additionally glad to have the reference to themagazine, especially as it also contains work on the Coronavirus per se.

Re: [-empyre-] Contagion

2020-04-04 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyreans,Hoping (as always, especially under the c-19circumstances) all are well. Reading Melinda'stext brings home again the history of so manymissed opportunities to improve the way weuse our resources, the bungled forestry

Re: [-empyre-] Thinking differently in scholarship and curation

2020-02-13 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- DearEmpyre, Thankingyou all as usual for the important discussion. I just wanted to comment brieflyon Ana Valdes’ menttion of alterity as something that links our presentunderstanding of ‘The Middle East [that] occupies the place where

Re: [-empyre-] Belated hellos

2019-10-14 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyreans, Awkwardly, having lurked on so many previousoccasions, but I hope playfully as well, Maria, inthe senses you've set out, may I add a few ideas.For your hello has inspired me, so let me at leastnote that. Then your

Re: [-empyre-] FW: Welcome Byron Rich to the September discussion (Stirling Newberry)

2018-09-30 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello Stirlingand Everyone, I wanted to express agreement onwhat you say about th complexity of borders. Your closing sentence about being careful‘what or who cannot be crossed’ bringshome a lot of the difficulties involved

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network – [week 2] (Dominguez)

2018-06-15 Thread William Bain
/environment/2017/mar/23/moores-law-carbon-would-defeat-global-warming/ Thanks to all for the rousingdiscussion. Best wishes, William Bain (Barcelona) ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

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

2018-02-04 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello List, Many hanks to Empyre for all the hard work! Specifically atthe moment thanks to Teresa and Therese for the commentson keeping up and options for doing so. I think the archivesare a very important tool. The amount of

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol154, Issue 4 (Joline Blais)

2017-10-15 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyre, I just wanted to pick up on Margaretha's mention ofpermaculture, which I see as relating to the conceptof sustainability and, as Randall commented in relationto that, to regenerativity. I read the link Joline sentand feel

Re: [-empyre-] Beginning Week 1: Radical Aesthetics, EcoAesthetic Systems and Entanglements

2017-10-05 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre,Thanks for the new information. The month's theme seems very interesting and especially apt. I  find the usage of terroir particularlyinteresting, finding it rather close to Derridean differAnce. One kind ofnonsameness of

Re: [-empyre-] closing out Fake News

2017-07-15 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyre, Thanks to all for the discussions on this topic.I agree that it is important to keep analyzingand discussing these phenomena in relationto reporting, representation, and aestheticsin general. A link was recently posted on

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

2017-06-30 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Greetings Empyreans. The complications of reportingand understanding again brought home this morningreading Empyre current posts. The UK paper *The Guardian* in fact carries a piece on Poitras' movieon Assange that interestingly adds to

[-empyre-] 1. Re: Week 3: Science, Technology, Art and Fakeness

2017-06-27 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyreans. The far ranging discussioncontinues to enthuse.. I just wanted to pick upon Renate's comment on "Humor" in relation tothe Open Source Estrogen project. I may beback in Week 2, actually, things are moving sofast here.

Re: [-empyre-] Warhol legacy -- how real is real?

2017-06-09 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Empyreans. Anna's commentary on Warhol regarding fakes and Mark's that (snip)/a very powerful kind of fake [is] The fake that quietly troubles the truthclaims/. I re-read *doubles* for troubles but it obviously goes much further,and I

Re: [-empyre-] A poem is a small (or large) machine

2017-05-31 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyeans,This discussion is growing so fast it’s noteasy to keep up! But I’d like briefly to respond to Margaret and Stirling re: the Williams quote. While enjoying the headyfeeling of having correctly identified 5/6 human or

Re: [-empyre-] A poem is a small (or large) machine

2017-05-07 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Empyreans. I’m greatly enjoying thediscussion, all its various themes. What struck me today in regard to theWilliam Carlos Williams quote & comments was Davin’s opposition of unplannedversus ple-planned texts (not only poems). I

Re: [-empyre-] forwarding from David Byrne

2017-04-06 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I've kept the subject line though my main topicjust now is about Trump admin deletion of scientificdata from govt sites. The info comes with a leadarticle in today's The Guardian. (Front page) Thedeletion down from that is at

Re: [-empyre-] a week to go on the trump effect

2017-04-02 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--PersonallyI’ve learned a great deal from this discussion, not least from the way itstarted somewhat sakily and then grew out along different paths. Right now Ijust wanted to mention again the well known idea that the voting system

Re: [-empyre-] ethicopoetics of sight, in the fog (Johannes Birringer)

2017-03-30 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--DearJohannes and List,Asyou say there is or was a project for a microtheater in Barcelona created by Miguel Alcantud. Whetherthis is the same as the Microteatre (note spelling) on carrer Bailen is anotherquestion. The Bailen Streetgroup

Re: [-empyre-] dealing with the present tides in affairs of listed states & company (Alan Sondheim)

2017-03-27 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--No, we can't opt out, obviously. A quick searchon /asthma fossil fuels/ without the slashes makesthis clear. At the same time Alan's mention of Chinaand the militarization of Pacific atolls emphasizesthe wider extension of the problem. I

Re: [-empyre-] Shadows in the Dawn

2017-03-20 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Johannes and everyone, Thisthread is very informative and thought provoking. I’ve also just viewed MicroTheatre’s *The Other Side* which has left me very pensive, sadly hopeful if Ican express it that way, that what Alan refers to as

Re: [-empyre-] Conceptual medium, visceral materiality, aesthetic formality

2017-03-06 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Margherita and List, Iwould like briefly to address Margherita’s post referring to a red thread thatconnects. I have follwed the bio-art posts with great interest, includingvisits to Semina Aeternitatis which, again briefly, I

Re: [-empyre-] CAA between Biology and Art

2017-02-21 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Renate wrote of RoundTable discussion “It was a delight to feel the energy of all things Biology andArt and my sense is that the short discussion that followed could have gone onfor quite some time.” Forgive my brevity here but I just

Re: [-empyre-] A New Year's Resolution

2017-02-07 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I think that Empyre addresses two things whichare important and essential to societies today, knowledge and informationprocessing. These are obviously also two of the fields at risk of beingobscured by the crisismongering that’s come

Re: [-empyre-] reply to Murat (Funkhouser, Christopher T.)

2016-11-26 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--It’s really good, Chris, to getthese links to your work. When I met you at the 2011 edition of the biennialE-poetry Festival (Barcelona),I admired the way your poetry used music in conjunction with the spoken (maybeeven chanted) word.

[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 143, Issue 8

2016-11-12 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--In case of misinterpretation I want to clarify thatIam also concerned about recent events, mycandidate also was not elected, either. This couldI suppose take us to 1776 considerations. Butthat in my view would be at a later date.

Re: [-empyre-] Starting the Second Week / Adeena Karasick and Alan Sondheim (Adeena Karasick)

2016-11-11 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I  hat to say this but Adeena in Victoria (on Vispo)is, Adeena, spellbinding. Whether this is scatter orsplatter or things-all-at-once, well, choose your view points... When I saw that reference *Kant* comeup I thought of what Kristeva

Re: [-empyre-] Camera Obscura

2016-07-29 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi and thanks to all for the discussion and thevery welcome reading suggestions.This is all much food for thought. Beatriz's com-ment on surveillance (and past mention of it on- list) started me reconsidering ideas on how artincludes such

Re: [-empyre-] On the limits of critique (d'Ignacio) and the limits of representation (Barad) (Murat Nemet-Nejat) (William Bain)

2016-07-11 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello. Simply to follow up briefly on the section ofIan McEwan's novel, Atonement mentioned lastweek. As the Empyre topic changes, this will perhapsbe of less interest. But as I brought up the novel--and as ideas on what is "written on

Re: [-empyre-] On the limits of critique (d'Ignacio) and the limits of representation (Barad) (Murat Nemet-Nejat)

2016-07-09 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Christina and List. Briefly, thanks for the Cixousreference. I would say yes, on that, definitely whatI was talking about relates to ecriture along withother sorts of noticing of intertexts. I'd be happyto share a snippet from

[-empyre-] On the limits of critique (d'Ignacio) and the limits of representation (Barad) (Murat Nemet-Nejat)

2016-07-08 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello List. Just wanted to say I find this discussion really thought provoking & full of fascinating turns. In relation to the concept of textual personas--we especially in poetry--it seems to me that the continuum body/mind is central.

Re: [-empyre-] old media cycles to new: Signal Culture and Jason Bernagozzi

2015-02-12 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Empyreans, Loving this great discussion! Iwanted to say onsomething Renate posted--quoting:You [Ben] alludedto the same inbetweeness in one of your earlier posts I think. The critical process forme also works that way.  Where there