[-empyre-] Seeking new moderators for our moderating team at -empyre soft-skinned space

2014-09-08 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- The -empyre moderating team is looking for energetic new media theorists, practitioners, curators, programmers or others with interests in new media and other emergent forms who represent perspectives that are not already represented on

[-empyre-] Welcome Adam AJ Nocek, September 2014: Design That Matters

2014-09-08 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- We welcome Adam A.J. Nocek once again as our guest moderator for September. A.J. Nocek is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department and instructor in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington.

[-empyre-] Fwd: empyre

2014-09-08 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear empyreans, Welcome to September. We have had a break from -empyre soft-skin discussions this past August and are ready to introduce the September discussion but before we do I would like to take the opportunity to announce changes to

[-empyre-] Neo-eco-liberalism

2014-09-08 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, I'd like to welcome Ross Exo Adams and Adrian Parr to the first week at -empyre! This week's topic addresses what I'm calling, Neo-eco-liberalism. The title references the complicated way that ecological catastrophe dominates so

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Adam AJ Nocek, September 2014: Design That Matters

2014-09-08 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks for the kind introduction, Renate. I'm very happy to be back moderating another month at -empyre! We invite our network of –empyre subscribers to post with our invited guests, Ross Exo Adams (US), Adrian Parr (US/AU), Luciana