Re: [-empyre-] more and the question about performance

2014-11-15 Thread Maria Damon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- and of course there's a news blackout, or so it would appear, on the Ferguson verdict. and yes, your Brooklyn performance was sublime. On 11/15/14 6:07 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-11 Thread Maria Damon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Peter Lamborn Wilson sorry to be pedantic :-) On 11/11/14 5:28 PM, Ana Valdes wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I read Hakim Bey (William Lambert Wilson) at the beginning of the net when Autonomedia

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-11 Thread Maria Damon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Maria Damon damon...@umn.edu wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Peter Lamborn Wilson sorry to be pedantic :-) On 11/11/14 5:28 PM, Ana Valdes wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I read Hakim Bey (William

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence, and more Antigone's bones

2014-11-09 Thread Maria Damon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- i have been following with great curiosity and emotion, but have not yet felt that i had anything to add. i live in a very densely populated area (Brooklyn NY) and while I love the vibrancy of the street life, i can also see it being

Re: [-empyre-] empyre: engagement is all

2013-07-10 Thread Maria Damon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- i've resisted and kisted. On 7/10/13 1:53 AM, Johannes Birringer wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- hello soft_skinned place so have you resisted today? have you kissed someone today? all kinds of

Re: [-empyre-] thank you -empyre: it was great to get to know more of you!

2013-07-01 Thread Maria Damon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- maria damon: right now involved in text/textile nexus at an extremely low-tech register: cross-stitching visual poetry cotton on linen. interested in poetics, poetry and cultural studies

Re: [-empyre-] Research in Practice, week two, January 14-20

2013-01-15 Thread Maria Damon
Talan: What is a dissertation opponent? That is a role that has not been part of my experience in the States, either as a PhD candidate or as a professor in a doctoral degree-granting program. bests, md On 1/15/13 9:55 AM, t.memm...@underacademy.org wrote: Hello - IĆ¢EUR^(TM)ve never really

Re: [-empyre-] Art, Representation, Communication

2012-11-27 Thread Maria Damon
I would be very interested to know if people have references to a subject one could loosely call the poetics of debt-- a colleague and I are trying to assemble a panel for a conf next year. On 11/26/12 11:59 PM, paulina aroch wrote: _Art, Representation, Communication_ For this week's

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Debt Culture--types of debt

2012-11-24 Thread Maria Damon
There will be a panel on student debt at MLA sponsored by the MLA's DAOC (Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee) at the upcoming MLA conference; I will give you all the details later. It'd be great if those of you who plan to attend the MLA could attend the panel b/c your collective insights

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-31 Thread Maria Damon
have a backup propane generator because we tend to get hit with high winds that known out power up here. I always thought of this place as a refuge and it appears to be becoming more so. On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Maria Damon wrote: wow~ chicago! On 10/30/12 8:03 PM, Lichty, Patrick wrote

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-31 Thread Maria Damon
this is a lovely full-circle conclusion for the month, though we've got some hours to go. Sandy Storm (hi Sandy Baldwin) gives us a chance to consider the past month with a certain vividness. On 10/31/12 11:07 AM, Johannes Birringer wrote: dear all Is memory also such a thing? Can it outlive

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-31 Thread Maria Damon
Oh, say hi to Jen Karmin. What are you talking about? On 10/31/12 6:53 AM, Martin Glaz Serup wrote: Re. Chicago; wow, actually I just checked with my airline - all traffic from Copenhagen to Chicago is normal; I hope that goes for tomorrow aswell, since I'm going that way... And actually,

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-31 Thread Maria Damon
and live on working; it's a Heideggarian in-dwelling, in-habiting. I think that's the crux, crossroads, center, center-post of the matter, at least for me, and I'd think for others who _stay put._ - Alan On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote: Yes, I was going to ask, Where to people

Re: [-empyre-] the end of the month

2012-10-31 Thread Maria Damon
Birringer, Jonathan Marshall, Fau Ferdinand, and Maria Damon. In addition, I particularly want to thank my co-moderator Alan Sondheim. - Sandy ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-30 Thread Maria Damon
wow~ chicago! On 10/30/12 8:03 PM, Lichty, Patrick wrote: In Chicago, we're having 40 MPH winds and 20 foot waves out near Lakeshore Drive (LSD) Patrick Lichty Assistant Professor, Interactive Arts Media Columbia College Chicago 916/1000 S. Wabash Ave #104 Chicago, IL USA 60605 Some

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-29 Thread Maria Damon
what is the roaring inside your building? you write as if from inside a sinking ship, as in Edgar Allen Poe's short story... On 10/29/12 8:04 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: Everyone I know is documenting the storm and putting it up online. The reality as such is troubling; listening to the police

Re: [-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

2012-10-29 Thread Maria Damon
elsewhere in the area, already deaths, flooding tunnels, etc. We've been lucky so far. - Alan On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote: what is the roaring inside your building? you write as if from inside a sinking ship, as in Edgar Allen Poe's short story... On 10/29/12 8:04 PM, Alan Sondheim

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-28 Thread Maria Damon
I wonder if, in order to accommodate a possible trauma-caused new me, one could pre-emptively expand ones empathic or non-ego-based capacities through various practices: meditation, etc. Of course it's the ego-identified self that's setting this goal-oriented non-egocentricity in motion, and

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-27 Thread Maria Damon
pain, n. late 13c., punishment, especially for a crime; also condition one feels when hurt, opposite of pleasure, from O.Fr. peine difficulty, woe, suffering, punishment, Hell's torments (11c.), from L. poena punishment, penalty, retribution, indemnification (in Late Latin also torment,

Re: [-empyre-] Before the Law / control and cutting, stripped naked

2012-10-27 Thread Maria Damon
between PIE and penis? Certainly in the confused male world of psychoanalytics, the penis figures heavily in pain; one only has to think of Bob Flanagan (and others) again. - - Alan On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote: pain, n. late 13c., punishment, especially for a crime; also

Re: [-empyre-] week four: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-24 Thread Maria Damon
surplus of meaning - On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote: Dear all, I've been very moved by the range, quality, and seriousness of the inquiries and revelations here in these past weeks. The intensity of the participants' commitment to exploring these questions posed by Sandy, Alan and us

Re: [-empyre-] week four: Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Virtual

2012-10-23 Thread Maria Damon
with the topic of Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Real and Virtual. The guest will be Maria Damon. Her biographical information is below. I've followed Maria's work for a long time, and it has always amazed me; it has a poetics all its own, brilliant and surprising. - Alan Week 4 - Maria

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Maria Damon
it for those who are suffering, who can no longer hear the name, who are no longer with us, coffin or not - when my father died, there were issues at the cemetary about the burial of ashes. - Alan Alan schreibt: public lament and gardening On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote