Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Johanna Drucker
: [-empyre-] art and ethics hardly ... the art stuff is rather easy ... a pleasure, actually, comparatively speaking. Somehow there was a rupture in this cocoon - at least for some of us here in the States. Well then, a suggestion - perhaps you could re-frame the conceit of complicity

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
, 2010 8:44 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics Dear Empyreans, Having just picked up a copy of Philosophy in the Present (Polity, 2009), from its pages Alain Badiou announces incommensurability as constitutive of the philosophical situation, the situation in which

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Nicholas Ruiz III
, then, as what you mean by the shared ground upon which complicity, of all kinds, eventuates... nick From: simon s...@clear.net.nz To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 8:44:32 PM Subject: Re: [-empyre-] art

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
[empyre-boun...@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Nicholas Ruiz III [edi...@intertheory.org] Sent: January 25, 2010 11:23 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: [-empyre-] art and ethics Perhaps, not, but as for comparative studies, I suppose Charles Saatchi is to the art world, what Arianna

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Gerry Coulter
] On Behalf Of Johanna Drucker [druc...@gseis.ucla.edu] Sent: January 25, 2010 1:31 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics Yes! Let's hear it for Eli Broad indeed. And other serious philanthropists. Patrons. We could also think about how state support works and doesn't

[-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-25 Thread Nicholas Ruiz III
on the curious intersection of the philosophical arts and ethics... http://vodpod.com/watch/2907756-bbc-news-world-news-america-cornel-wests-note-to-obama nick___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

[-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-22 Thread Nicholas Ruiz III
...but how to de-link these states seems impenetrable - like the recent Supreme Court ruling that will certainly unleash a whole new genre of freely circulating corporatist art, no? nick From: Johanna Drucker druc...@gseis.ucla.edu To:

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-22 Thread Timothy Murray
Nick, could you explain your reference to the recent Supreme Court ruling to our -empyre- community, since a major proportion of our -empyreans- live outside the US? I'm also wondering why you think that a ruling regarding political lobbying (if this is what you're referencing) would unleash

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-22 Thread Gerry Coulter
: January 22, 2010 12:20 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics Actually, I find the unleashing of corporatist art to be among the very least of worries as a result of yesterday's ruling. I'm certain that others can offer a far more delineated and informed accounting

Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics

2010-01-22 Thread Christiane Robbins
: Re: [-empyre-] art and ethics Actually, I find the unleashing of corporatist art to be among the very least of worries as a result of yesterday's ruling. I'm certain that others can offer a far more delineated and informed accounting. However, in the interim, for those of you unfamiliar