Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I was in Buenos Aires last year. I think there were still family members demonstrating at the plaza de Mayo. On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Ana Valdes agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Ana Valdes

2014-11-23 Thread Rustom Bharucha
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Many thanks to Johannes for introducing me to the group. I've been following the exchanges with a strange sense of bonding not least because I've recently published a book on *Terror and Performance *(Routledge, 2014), which is

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz, was geschehen ist

2014-11-23 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I wanted to reply briefly to thank people for the extensive hardworking contributions. I think those per se are good starts toanswering that question that lingers, what is to be done. Bythis I mean the destructive context around us is

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--My awareness of the history of Argentina is so much in clash with my direct experience of the country when I visited it last year. To every single person, the people I encountered were gentle, absolutely lovely. In fact that gentleness, in

[-empyre-] a brief comment to Rustom

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you so much, Rustom; I do have a comment and questions. On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Rustom Bharucha wrote: For whom are they a 'performance', or, more specifically, 'theatre'? Does this apply only to those who 'believe in the religious

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Murat you ask the same question I has been asking myself since I was first tortured for 42 years ago. I was tortured by lovely normal people Catholics as my family, going to mass every Sunday. All the people disappeared tortured to death

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Monika Weiss
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ana, When I was preparing the project in Santiago, Chile, one of the women who worked at the Museo told me she was very happy on that one particular day, because they found, she told me, a little finger bone that belonged to her

Re: [-empyre-] The Market from Here

2014-11-23 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all: Rustom's deeply considered and intricate post was, and offered, a moment to relish, in a sense -- if one were permitted to say so, a moment to hold dear, amongst all our round table participants, that is your deeply felt and

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Ana Valdes
--empyre- soft-skinned space--The people resisted the military in both Chile Argentina and Uruguay. But the military were strong they were supported by the US by Kissinger and Reagan paranoid struggle against the communists. It was called the Plan Condor an alliance

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Ana Valdes
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I had yesterday for lunch a jail comrade she is an Anarchist and spent 13 years in prison, the whole dictatorship. Her husband her sister and her brother in law were murdered in Argentina, disappeared until now. She has been called as a

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- J: But you do not think of the farewell as a loss and denial, do you? I: In no way. J: But? I: As the coming of what has been. J: But what is past, goes, has gone - how can it come? I: The passing of the past is something else than what

Re: [-empyre-] The Market from Here

2014-11-23 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Following up, with very small steps, on a few observations, if you allow. -- limits of performance, limits of performance (used for political terror and atrocities). Rustom does offer, at one point, the strong suggestion that we