Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-06 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--[an important array of inquiries, ana. looking forward. to earlier question about the position of the performer/re-performer in the art of testimony... the act of re-presenting, including first person, autobiographical accounts, is to

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Erik writes, [...] 9/11, as an act of terror, was recognizable because it was a clich? ? we had already seen it. Looking at the live broadcast: ?This must be a movie; this is just like a movie? but really ? ?This is just like a movie

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-06 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--yes, you're right... the terroristic act caused real terror... i'm wondering why i said what i said. perhaps - my mind raced to relate it to cliches - part of the design of terror (banality?) - built at such an extreme that we will not