--empyre- soft-skinned space--Renate, I don't know that David or Johan were saying that social media is
evil as much as they were pointing out the tendency for people to soften
judgment of tools like Twitter because they have proven useful in this
instance or that
--empyre- soft-skinned space--This is a great thread here. I think it is important, as David notes, we
conflate the efficacy of specific instances of use (this campaign or that
campaign) with the fact that it is really just a blank kind of power. What
I see more
--empyre- soft-skinned space--
I can think of many differences between digital objects and the sorts
of things we can carry in our hands, but one that matters to me quite
a bit is how is the object handled and in what way does this
handling situate it within a world.
(occasionally
dipping into the world of deep coding to intervene in the deeper
structures of codes like law and theology and record).
In a way, it is a reflection of the new power dynamic in which we
place machines and their reading practices in a central role.
Davin Heckman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4
into this.
Each entity times in the way Heidegger reserves for Da-sein and Derrida
reserves to the trace.
Time and space are not neutral containers but are emergent properties of
beings.
Tim
http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:15 PM, davin heckman
mean?
I hate to say it, but it's maybe not possible to make further progress
without reading some of this material in depth…
Ian
On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:13 AM, davin heckman wrote:
Ian and Tim,
Do the differences with which we treat objects syncs up with
ontological difference, and thus
.
But this is not the same as saying that these entities are ontologically
different.
Yours, Tim
http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com
On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:51 AM, davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Ian, for these thoughts. My initial encounter with this
work came via a brief
rapidly.
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On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:11 AM, davin
I participated in a roundtable that originated in a conversation a
while back on Empyre It ended up as a panel entitled: E-Ject: On
the Ephemeral Nature, Mechanisms, and Implications of Electronic
Objects. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2xv6b6n0#page-1
I find that the discussion of the
I am very interested in the way that people make do. Certainly, guerrilla
actions what the weak use, out of necessity. Apart from mortal conflicts,
I think this tends to be where people live their lives.
On the other hand, I am troubled by how quickly institutional powers have
latched on to
the best
Ana
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:08 AM, davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ana, I wonder if the reason for this lack of sustained critical mass
has to do with some of our deeper structures of belief and motivation.
I think the 20th century is committed to technique
I think we need another word for the opposite of gamification, maybe there
already is one, and a pedagogy and ethos that can contribute to the
formation of solidarity, critical awareness, and life-sustaining activity.
Gamification tries to turn play into a productive activity what about
Having worked in a field of criticism where a lot of the theory originates
with artists/programmers, I'd have to say that there is some value in being
committed to a sort of naive pluralism. I agree with Simon that literacy
requires more than a mere superficial grasp of language, I would also
I think it is a good point to think about trendy theory and the
problems with hype.
I am almost always seduced by hype. It tricks me into seeing
something concrete to wrap my head around, while making me realize I
am a fool for mistaking currency with solidity. But the logic of hype
or its
Marc, you are right to clarify the definition of elitism. Often,
especially in the American context, it gets treated rather roughly,
deployed as a very specific kind of class critique, which taps into
deep American fears about European culture. But in a fundamental way,
elitism is a theory of
Joss,
You raise some very good points, points which highlight the truly
profound nature of digital communication technologies.
Such a policing is indeed necessary to justify the very
existence of pubic life as a distinct arena that ‘represents’ us, and in
that sense is the essence of the
You wrote: We don't need to 'change the world', we have to change
ourselves. do things differently. make something work and then, as
soon as you have it, spread and communicate o other people. a TAZ with
legs, a 1-meter revolution, and an intense communication phase after
it. and this is exactly
Hello Cynthia!
I am not an artist, but I have noticed that I am gripped by two
aesthetic (maybe spiritual?) impulses when I am travelling. The first
is that I sometimes want to be swallowed up by the place that I'm in.
On first arrival, I want to walk until I am exhausted, I want to get
lost,
On a more mundane level, my friends and I went to dinner at a kebap
house, the first one in Istanbul. And, as we enjoyed the meal, they
mentioned that there was a downside to kebap restaurants, and that was
that they were delicious, inexpensive, and hearty but that they
were crowding out the
Simon,
In a way, isn't some sort of pyramid model inevitable when critical
methods and institutions are under stress. I mean, there might have
been a time when fields of critical and aesthetic activity could
either be narrowed by disciplinary strictures or could be selective
based on some
I was grateful for the overall messiness of the event. I was staying
with Turkish friends, and was pleased to hear that they heard about
the gallery shows through radio ads for the Biennale, and though they
are not artists or academics they wanted to come with me to see what
it was all about. I
Thinking on this point of being products of the Google and their
famously banal motto, Don't be evil, I wonder if some of what we are
experiencing a flattening out of ethics. Don't be evil sounds like
a fine corporate motto, but I think it really speaks to an absence of
what it is that we should
Marc,
I'll try to tuck some comments into the message:
An interesting read, consisting of thoughts reflecting social anxieties of
our troubling age. Everything you mention includes the spectre of social
engineering, and the most troubling aspect of all this, is how deeply
'comfort' is linked
The question is how to short circuit that process? Vandalism might be part
of that - to take away more than you put in, to ensure whatever it is you do
its destructive tendency is greater than its creative. However, until now, I
cannot think of a single strategy that has worked. That doesn't
Melinda (and everyone else),
I am sorry to have let my participation lapse... between grading and
a lot of other obligations, I have dropped out for a while. BUT, I am
really interested in this month's topic and have been quite fascinated
by what I have read so far.
I want to respond to
Alan,
For me, inequality in access is a recurring concern. I think that AR
is appealing because it formalizes folk practices. I think the poor
man's (or woman's) AR can be seen in virtually any bathroom stall, bus
stop, high school desktop, etc.: graffiti. But even graffiti is a
material
Simon, Aristide, Cara,
I apologize for only partly following the conversation this month but
your comments inspired me to jump in.
I have a friend from graduate school, Patrick Vrooman, who used to talk
about acquiescence every time the conversation turned to resistance. And
I wonder if
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I would like to thank everybody who contributed to the discussion; our
guest
discussants Joseph Delappe, Marc Garrett, Davin Heckman, Patrick Lichty,
Heidi May, Christina Spiesel, Jon Thompson and Alison Craighead, all of
whom
gave generously of their time to post
I also think that the various strategies of resistance, the more I
think about them, are not without their own problems. In reflecting
on Simon's discussion of anonymous in a parallel thread.. it is
interesting to think about how anonymity works as an appropriate
response to ubiquitous
Marc,
I think you hit the nail on the head: Perhaps It would be more
appropriate to introduce small, human-scale initiatives which include
individuals and groups, according to their own needs and shared
resources, and then build from there. As far as I am concerned
(personally with others), this
Jon and Alison,
how far can the metaphor of the Panopticon go and still seem intact
as it travels towards to the surface of the many-layered onion that is
our collective understanding of things? In the Netopticon, is it the
browser? or internet protocols? In our culture, is language our
Dear Johannes,
I believe that I should probably offer some clarifications in response
to your thoughtful reply. Most importantly, I don't want to suggest
that all art accomplishes the same end (I am talking about the larger
conception of art as techne, where, perhaps, a subset of techne would
be
In some ways, I think the question of games as art can be enriched by
looking back to poiesis and techne.
On the one hand, we are trying to describe formal questions of how
someone creates a representation of something (a sculpture, a text, a
game, a painting, an utterance) which is expressed
Maybe this is not exactly what you are thinking about, but one
historical analogue might be the published lecture notes of various
teaching philosophers. What you see, in the form of the published
manuscript is something akin to what you might find in a natural
history museum.
The discussion is
I really enjoy certain tabletop games (Settlers of Catan,
Caracassonne, and Illuminati) and rarely play video games (I would, I
suppose, if I owned some). But a large part of the gaming experience
is intensely social. There is a circle of people that get together,
students and faculty, that play
I have been scanning the emails the last couple weeks and am sorry I
haven't had time to jump in. But I think this month's theme is
explored in an interesting way in the film, Inception (which is in
theaters, now).
Scott writes, In general, I agree with the idea that creativity, or
creative
Simon and Eugenio, there is always Hatebook http://www.hatebook.org/.
But, really, I think that this thread touches upon the general spirit
of depression that seems so pervasive these days (as well as the
counterinsurgency techniques that have been deployed to neutralize
it). For a period of
In reference Simon's comment, I suppose I should have offered clarity
as to what I meant rather than the sloppy generalization I offered
previously. I meant to associate the term with an expression of ego.
Not so much that it is the first word. But it is a word that seems to
require extensive
Simon,
I think this is a valid question if we don't let it insist on a firm
resolution. At times, it certainly does seem like people want to go
somewhere. At other times it seems as though we can be quite content
where we are. This points back to Eugenio Tisselli's comments
regarding the
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, katherine hayles nk_hay...@yahoo.com wrote:
two books was of entering a different world, a world in which I was in
passionate and deep conversation with the authors. The experience refreshed
me in a way that no Web reading has, notwithstanding the huge
I really like this idea, Antoine: Like Philip Galanter said somewhere
some time, 'In medieval times painting was about God. With the
Enlightenment painting was about man. In Modern times painting was
about paint. And now in Postmodern times painting is about painting.'
I don't know where we stand
I have been far too busy to really get into the discussion that's
taking place, but I like it. I used to, on the one hand, seeing a
computer as a tool. I also like seeing the activity of processing as
something with value as content. I also like the idea of the computer
as an environment.
Thank you, everyone.
I have been doing nothing but lurking this past month, due to a
combination of circumstances. But I HAVE been reading and I will
spend the first weeks of summer re-reading more carefully.
Davin
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I ran
into the case of the disposable diaper and the result it has had in
increasing by an average of several years now how long it takes for children
to be potty
trained. On the surface it is valuable to eliminate children's discomfort by
optimizing the diaper.
In fact current diapers
I think, at some level, we are always engaged in some level of
prototyping the self. Certainly, this is the gist of Foucault's
Technologies of the Self and the larger theory of discourse, where
competing ideas about how to understand and fabricate the self compete
for ascendancy. There are also
I know that this is far away from the original point that Richard
Wright was getting at in terms of memory and animation. But I do
think that there are aspects of animation that do get tied up in
questions of memory and production, which are expressed not through
formal experiments, but through
Having seen Lev Manovich's presentation at DAC, I am dazzled by the
strong potential of cultural analytics. I have been doing the
pauper's version of this for years, telling some of my more dedicated
visual culture students: head to the library, grab a stack of bound
periodicals (or one of the
I just had a chance to look at Patrick Crogan's excellent article THE
NINTENDO Wii, VIRTUALISATION AND GESTURAL ANALOGICS:
http://culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/374/397
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Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13
This is shaping up to be an interesting week on Empyre. Thank you, everyone
This is shaping up to be an interesting week on Empyre. Thank you, everyone.
Sometimes, I think it is good to think about art, politics, criticism,
theory, morality, etc. from a naive perspective, a sort of psychic
backtracking, so that we follow the paths that we have avoided in the
past, and
You are right, Gerry, in a sense. Artists, like anyone else, should
not simply carry water for causes or movements that are defined by
others with no room for reflection, inspiration, interpretation,
criticism, etc. I think most people would agree, that say, a whole of
of commercial art and
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John, apologies for the generalization. I didn't mean to refer to your
ability to figure out what was right and wrong...only lamenting what I see
as a deficiency in the public sphere where I live (the United States). And,
I have to admit that my ability to act and think of justice is severely
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From: davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:13:43 -0600
To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] poets patrons and the word
Maybe bad art is art that does a bad thing. There is art which
tries to make a moral evil look like a moral good (take, for instance,
nature photography that is used to give a notorious polluter a
positive reputation or, say, propaganda which seeks to convince
people that a human rights
I know there are lots of strands of media and communication
documenting these events. But I would like to invite people to post
relevant comments and citations on the following site:
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/The+Post-Corporate+University
I think it would be great, even if someone wants to
, davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
wrote:
I was reading Agamben's State of Exception, and then stumbled across
Robert's post. It strikes me that Agamben's discussion of Benjamin's
pure violence might be useful here. Also useful here might be
Agamben's discussion of anomie (lawlessness
distinct from the violence,
either physical or let's say ideological, of the dominant. does that make
sense?
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:44 PM, davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
wrote:
Virginia,
I wouldn't necessarily say that my comments were meant to condemn
ontological violence
Norah, thanks for the provocative questions, and I will try my best to
give them the attention that they deserve (in spite of my ignorance
about dance).
First, in relation to the idea of a trace, in our work we've been interested
in the idea of a generative trace (meaning that the trace
I enjoy reading Virilio's works, so maybe this is the result of some
congenital defect on my part, or maybe it is something that I caught
through reading, but i really think the question here is one of a
human scale. Clock time is not the same thing as human scale,
rather it is a rationalization
When I think about failures and breakdowns
I think about my favorite poem:
Pablo Neruda's Ode to Broken Things:
Let's put all our treasures together
-- the clocks, plates, cups cracked by the cold --
into a sack and carry them
to the sea
and let our possessions sink
into one alarming
Thank you, Jeff.
I agree with much of what you are writing. Big, if it equals
militarism, is horrible. Wars require that level of coordination, and
once you fire up the machine, it does perpetuate itself.
But, following Steve's comments, I do think that beyond the question
of size, there is
of the big online universities out of
necessity... but she really tries her best to teach well regardless).
Davin
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:22 PM, davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com wrote:
My little school is called Siena Heights University. We're sponsored
by Dominican nuns. We have about
My little school is called Siena Heights University. We're sponsored
by Dominican nuns. We have about 750 full time undergrads on our main
campus. I think it isn't all that uncommon for some of the smaller
liberal arts colleges to be this way. Because the so much of the
administrative work is
Steve,
I do think that there is some good sense in maintaining at least
significant portions of Lyotard's understanding.
For instance, I am working on curriculum revisions at my home
institution which could change the very nature of the education we are
providing at my little school. In the 80s
I have a problem with some of Haraway's arguments in When Species Meet
(but I must confess, I am not finished reading it, so I am open to
corrected).
The main problem that I have with Haraway is that a denial of human
exceptionalism is a two way street. On the one hand, it does offer
plenty of
to be the
real...many physicists revel in the work of elucidation of such a 'cognitive'
dissonance... :-)
Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org
- Original Message
From: davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
I'd like to reply quickly to Anna's point, which is certainly valid,
when you talk about various artistic endeavors which are actively
opposed to ideological capitalism and its associated phenomena. On
the other hand, Nick has a point, if we are speaking from strictly
theoretical ground:
was the way we
were...'here'...I'm just curious to know... :-)
NRIII
Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org
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From: davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Sent: Monday
From: davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 6:33:50 PM
Subject: [-empyre-] A strange bit of luck
I was reading a book today and stumbled across a reference to Arjun
Appadurai's Grassroots Globalization
to me...
nick
Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org
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From: davin heckman davinheck...@gmail.com
To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 6:33:50 PM
Subject: [-empyre-] A strange bit of luck
I
I will also take the time to introduce myself here, too. (Although I
was a pretty excited participant last month, too).
I am Davin Heckman and I teach in an English department at a small
Catholic liberal arts college called Siena Heights University in
Adrian, Michigan. My teaching duties
What I understand poetry to be is dependent on a certain type of subject.
I think this subject needs to have some sense of literacy-- that
they are conscious of communication forms and are aware that the use
and reception of these forms can be developed along certain lines. So
that you can move
Personally, I prefer detailed replies. It's exactly what I need to
open up my thinking.
I do wonder if a canon is such a horrible thing. In a sense, things
get canonized anyways. Right now, Amazon is building a canon. The
New York Times bestseller list is building a canon. Google is
building
In response to Alan and Juan's exchange:
Criticism does accomplish a number of things...
1) For artists, the work of critics can provide challenges to work
against or models to strive for. Whether or not they are valid,
some of these strange critical flourishes are useful, especially if
treated
which is ruled by numbers... it's impressive.
Especially if they can make the language of the machine into the
language of the human. (And, those two languages are a bit different
in their theory, origin, evolution, and daily use).
Peace!
Davin Heckman
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Simon
time
around, because the event is no longer there, we are only looking at a
snapshot of a happy moment.)
Peace!
Davin Heckman
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With no personal relationship to Laura or her University, it's hard
for me to say anything substantial about the situation beyond my gut
response:
1) She's a scholar who is obviously a leader in her field. Without
ever having any personal interaction with her, I am still very
familiar with who
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