: Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture
Hello Everyone,
My first reaction to Hotel is that the first few seconds are as it were without
people, like that chapter Time Passes in To the Lighthouse. The wet skin is
also without a person, in particular, just the light of the bathroom reflected
Hi there -
In hopes of being able to cogently contribute to this week's discussion, some
of you may find a clip from one of my earlier video pieces to be of interest -
Leave little to be Desired. It was my MFA thesis piece ( 1989 ! ) that
functioned as both a single channel and installation
Hi all! I just thought I'd float a few thoughts.
1. The juxtaposition of Jordan's Hotel to Montgomery's Transitional
Objects does raise lots of questions about what kinds of refusal to produce a
narrow-veined kinship cluster of likenesses and samenesses do to the general
queer project of
But a hotel is also a way for the nomadic to rest for a while to interact with
others to listen to gossip to drink to eat to sleep in a bed made by some other
than oneself.
The hotel is always transitional a non-place as an airport or a motorway if we
follow the anthropologist Marc Auge's
I don't disagree with that--the Auge is great--but maybe we could push a bit
harder on the relation of the transitional to the transformational here, and on
the relation of class to sexuality. In the hotel, the customer is getting to
suspend who she was when not on vacation from herself in the
I am not sure about that I saw the Servants by Genet when I was very young and
I saw it again recently. It struck me how eternal and wise the play was, how
the negotiation with power, sexuality and identity was so well done with all
those small protocols dealing with small details of great
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
I meant here to cite Fatima El-Tayeb's concept of the translocal, from
her book European Others, which she describes through international
hip-hop communities and muslim feminists, which I found hugely
relevant to my own experience as a second generation immigrant in a
world of global media
I absolutely agree that place persists as a major determinant of life
possibilities, as much or more than class, despite the ongoing
pounding of the rhetoric of digital globality and neoliberal
plentitude. I find it hard to support any claim that there is a
zeitgeist or taxonomy of the moment,
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[empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of micha cárdenas
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture
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I absolutely agree that place persists as a major determinant of life
possibilities, as much or more than class, despite the ongoing
pounding of the rhetoric of digital globality and neoliberal
plentitude. I find it hard to support any claim
I saw in the city of Umeå in the North of Sweden a very interesting
exhibition, Lost and Found Queerying the Archive. The curators Jane
Rowley and Louise Wolthers built the show around some central and
pivotal questions: identity, love and sexuality. Many of the voices
presented are anonymous,
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
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