Re: [-empyre-] What We Talk About When We Talk About (Media) Aesthetics

2012-09-20 Thread Clough, Patricia
Thank you Michael, I like your comments very much for the connections they make to what has been brewing in philosophy and elsewhere about aesthetics And then how these are being debated among so called media theorists. So New Aesthetics is not only new; it is not newly discussed. And

Re: [-empyre-] split screens

2012-08-04 Thread Clough, Patricia
thank you Tim and Renata and SimonI have enjoyed both months on empyre Patricia From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Timothy Conway Murray [t...@cornell.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 01,

Re: [-empyre-] stepping out of the frame to play around

2012-07-28 Thread Clough, Patricia
Again wonderful discussions of screen. I was wondering where to find Laplanche's treatment of traumatophilia?Also affect on a grid might be thought of as affect-itself or something abstracted like labor power. The question is by what mathematics or technology of computation is

Re: [-empyre-] Matter

2012-07-10 Thread Clough, Patricia
Yes in this definition of the screen which I very much like we move away from screen being about representation of the visual. I also think this brings me back to debates around the object. I think of Whitehead's notion of the subject as that specific point or angle to realize an

Re: [-empyre-] July on empyre: Screens

2012-07-09 Thread Clough, Patricia
Thanks for these sites They are greatPatricia From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of xDxD.vs.xDxD [xdxd.vs.x...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 2:56 PM To: soft_skinned_space

Re: [-empyre-] konnecting airlines

2012-07-07 Thread Clough, Patricia
I agree with Martin. I am really enjoying the conversation this week. Patricia From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Martin Rieser [martin.rie...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 4:50

Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms - the transperversal aesthetic of Texas grasshoppers

2012-06-28 Thread Clough, Patricia
to perceive the nano as a separate measurable scale. I am interested in the way in which plastic, as a medium, connects to a politics of imperceptibility. heather. On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Clough, Patricia pclo...@gc.cuny.edumailto:pclo...@gc.cuny.edu wrote: Thanks to all who engaged during

Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-27 Thread Clough, Patricia
Thanks for this Rob. It makes a lot of senseWhat is coming with art after philosophy but again will be interesting. What do you think of the queer stuff we have been viewing and discussing int his regard? Patricia From:

Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-25 Thread Clough, Patricia
Dear All I agree with Ian that reading is helpful and interesting Just finishing Democracy of Objects by Levi Bryant I can say there is quite a bit of exposition there. Difference between him and Graham (and much that is similar) Differences between him and Deleuze (also some

Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms

2012-06-25 Thread Clough, Patricia
at a nanoscale, and are able to perceive the nano as a separate measurable scale. I am interested in the way in which plastic, as a medium, connects to a politics of imperceptibility. heather. On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Clough, Patricia pclo...@gc.cuny.edumailto:pclo...@gc.cuny.edu wrote

Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms

2012-06-24 Thread Clough, Patricia
Thanks to all who engaged during week 3 and welcome week 4Patricia From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Elle Mehrmand [ellemehrm...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:43 PM To:

Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture

2012-06-23 Thread Clough, Patricia
untranslatable. Yours, Tim On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Clough, Patricia pclo...@gc.cuny.edumailto:pclo...@gc.cuny.edu wrote: Yes I do think that this is a great question: are we in anyone else's moment? Never mind one's own While I do appreciate your point about

Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture

2012-06-21 Thread Clough, Patricia
Oh this (2) below is one that grabs me. I often ask students especially when I get tired of asking myself how close to the crisis do we need to get to figure a way around, through away from---change it. How do we theorize or approach that which is blinding us called the present

Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture

2012-06-21 Thread Clough, Patricia
, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Clough, Patricia pclo...@gc.cuny.edu wrote: Oh this (2) below is one that grabs me. I often ask students especially when I get tired of asking myself how close to the crisis do we need to get to figure a way around, through away from---change it. How do we theorize

Re: [-empyre-] Smelly Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Clough, Patricia
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Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture

2012-06-19 Thread Clough, Patricia
Hi allI want first to say I have seen Jennifer Montgomery's video Its very affective. Thanks Lauren and Jack for the commentI want to move on to Zach's good questionsbut before I do I also had a thought about affect and digital and object oriented/SR. I do think that what

Re: [-empyre-] Hello Object, I destroy you, I love you.

2012-06-18 Thread Clough, Patricia
Message- From: Clough, Patricia pclo...@gc.cuny.edu To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Sent: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 1:15 pm Subject: Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P I have just finished reading a piece by Latour on big data for a paper I

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-17 Thread Clough, Patricia
can put a patent. Maybe - as Muriel Combes says in La vie inséparée - a living being cannot be separated from its form. Maybe we need absolutely another ontology to fight this one. Best, Frederic Neyrat 2012/6/17 Clough, Patricia pclo...@gc.cuny.edu: I am not sure this got throughsince I am

Re: [-empyre-] OOO, the Grumbling Smurf and Outside-Oriented Philosophy

2012-06-17 Thread Clough, Patricia
Hi Frederic aka grumbling smurf There is outside in object orientedthe question is the nature of relations. For Harman nothing is connectedand the outside is in the difference between the object and its sensual qualities (also its real qualities ) for Deleuzians however the

Re: [-empyre-] Meillassoux / Harman

2012-06-16 Thread Clough, Patricia
Well starting off in the last week is difficult. So much going on over the last three weeks. Thanks to Zach and Micha for the invite and to everyone else offering some great thoughts to ponder. As for discussion around feminism, queer and OOO/ SR There are (still/even more) worrisome

Re: [-empyre-] the real and reality in speculative realism and OOO/P

2012-06-16 Thread Clough, Patricia
I am not sure this got throughsince I am also missing some of Tim's I think but I will put it here below but first. Just to say that objects in OOO are not objectifications or mere things or commodities. A turn to ontology (whether OOO or feminist queer ones) is to give us a sense