Re: [-empyre-] design become unrecognizable to itself

2014-09-17 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- A couple of days ago Johannes asked me: Thus, my question to Susan would be – what kind of architectures of interaction (not consumption) are imagined when you teach or practice your work, how do they relate to past-times/future-times

Re: [-empyre-] Neo-eco-liberalism

2014-09-09 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello And I'm delighted by this framing of a topic 'neo-eco-liberalism' for several reasons. I'm currently based in at Malmö University in Sweden, I teach mainly for the Interaction Design programme but my own background is in

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems

2014-07-06 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Diving in once again, after missing a day and then being tossed by the maelstrom of ideas for another day or so. First, looking back to Tim Morton’s post, a question: What aspects of Irigaray’s thought were you channeling unconsciously?

Re: [-empyre-] whose our systems body weather

2014-07-06 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- What this might imply for embodiment or subjectivity? Klee's expression in the Pedagogical Notebooks: 'taking a line for a walk', and Hogarth's in the Line of Beauty, 'leading the eye a wanton chase' . Where bitmap maps, vector

Re: [-empyre-] virtual embodiment - some thoughts on resonances of the virtual in 2014

2014-07-03 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Good to be reminded to slow down and perhaps breathe: I have a few responses queued up but will start with two. When I read Sue's words around 'ersatz' movement and the price of movement freedom in virtual systems I felt that sort of

Re: [-empyre-] virtual embodiment - some thoughts on resonances of the virtual in 2014

2014-07-02 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks Johannes – much to follow up on. And at the risk of making this a conversation between Johannes and myself, I will add one more thought. Yesterday I tried to open up and problematize the ‘virtual’ and today Johannes did the same

[-empyre-] virtual embodiment - some thoughts on resonances of the virtual in 2014

2014-07-01 Thread Susan Kozel
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello - it is good to be back on Empyre. Thanks to Sue and Simon for luring me back and for drawing together a good range of hosts for this discussion. It seems we are following on from a particularly vibrant month of discussions around