Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
Dear Patty, Sadly almost noone at making sense acknowledged the crisis, not even Stiegler who clelebrated 'amateur' art. I think the traditional humanism of the 2 left them incapable of reflecting on the ideology of 'constructing' sense in the midst of social chaos. Aside from roaming

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Timothy Conway Murray
One more quick thought. Although many 'making sensors' referenced Deleuzian reterritorialization, no one situated it in relation to it's roots in May 68; a bizarre disavowal of both Deleuze's political context, and our fraught social moment.mTim From:

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread frederic neyrat
I think this link makes sense: http://www.leprogres.fr/fr/article/4015328/La-place-Bellecour-coupee-du-monde.html all my best Frédéric Neyrat 2010/10/22 Patricia R. Zimmermann pa...@ithaca.edu: Renate: Thank you for this report. I have been thinking of all the Making Sense participants

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Biggs
There are the beginnings of stirrings here in the UK. This weekend there will be large demo's across the country against the government's economic proclamations this week. Sadly though, till now, the resignation of Wayne Rooney from Man U has generated more headlines and civil unrest than the

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Stephanie Donald
Simon Can you pull out the key changes to the social contract and the actual percentage of spending cuts? Is the attack on funded education in the Humanities in the outcome as some are suggesting from the Brown report? What is the spending benchmark against which the cuts are occurring? I cant

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Biggs
Hi Stephanie In respect of the funding settlement for HE I can only go on the contents of the Browne report and statements in the press and at HE conferences by Cable and Willetts (the relevant government ministers). Also, what applies in England only applies partly in Scotland. That is to say,

Re: [-empyre-] prolitariat

2010-10-22 Thread frederic neyrat
Dear Tim, I'm just thinking and writing a little text concerning the situation, I will send it to Empyre list when it will be done. For sure french intellectuals are mute, as they are'nt able to make the link (and make the sense) between social chaos and what is /could be new. They don't