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

2012-06-29 Thread Christina Spiesel
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms - the transperversal aesthetic of Texas grasshoppers Thank you Heather, Your question how do we think of the human reaching beyond the human? is of great importance to me. I want to quote Elizabeth Grosz here , who is a big influence for me

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

2012-06-29 Thread rrdominguez2
On 6/29/12 5:56 AM, Christina Spiesel wrote: I have been enjoying episodically lurking in this fine conversation. Just a quick comment -- just because old hierarchies have to be abandoned (like humans not being at the apex of some evolutionary pyramid) and have to learn they live in ecologies

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

2012-06-29 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/29/2012 06:43 PM, rrdominguez2 wrote: Particle Capitalism! Particle Capitalism! Doing whatever particle capitalism can. Bits and atoms. And pennies... - Rob. ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

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

2012-06-29 Thread Timothy Morton
: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms - the transperversal aesthetic of Texas grasshoppers Thank you Heather, Your question how do we think of the human reaching beyond the human? is of great importance to me. I want to quote Elizabeth Grosz here , who is a big influence for me and my

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

2012-06-28 Thread Clough, Patricia
] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:36 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms - the transperversal aesthetic of Texas grasshoppers Thank you Heather, Your question how do we think of the human reaching beyond the human? is of great importance to me. I

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

2012-06-28 Thread Timothy Morton
[empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of pinar yoldas [p...@duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:36 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 - Bio/Nano/Materialisms - the transperversal aesthetic of Texas grasshoppers Thank you Heather, Your question how do

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

2012-06-27 Thread Heather Davis
The no-future future is definitely something that lays heavy on me, as a person and as a thinker, especially as it relates to what you call the 'nanocaust' with its differential racial/class distributions over this earth. it seems precisely at the level of the nano that these struggles are being

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

2012-06-27 Thread pinar yoldas
Thank you Heather, Your question how do we think of the human reaching beyond the human? is of great importance to me. I want to quote Elizabeth Grosz here , who is a big influence for me and my project . What is distinctively human in the humanities if man is again, in the light of Darwin's