Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-11 Thread Richard A Grusin
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Doing premediation research on the fly and on the cheap sounds right to me. I tried to address this (without direct reference) in my post about Occupy as premediation, but as Ricardo notes, resources are distributed very unevenly. It

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Ricardo Dominguez
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hola Tod@s, Thanks for inviting me to participate and meditate on local/global platforms of care, resistance, and activation. Especially in terms of the back and forth quality of activist real-bodies in the streets and data-bodies

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Ricardo Dominguez
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hola Diana and Tod@s, I am in agreement about the strategic nature of the politics of the answer and that it should be pursued and connected to the local answer as well. And I do think that multiple communities on the ground and on-line

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Diana Taylor
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Ricardo-- thanks for this. I would add that the violence produced by neoliberalisms also works in this networked fashion. The disappearances in Colombia, the expulsion of minoritarian communities in Honduras and Guatemala, or the massacre

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Diana Taylor
--empyre- soft-skinned space--agreed!! abrazos, Diana On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ricardo Dominguez rrdoming...@ucsd.edu wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hola Diana and Tod@s, I am in agreement about the strategic nature of

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hola Ricardo, One thing Putin did in response to the sanctions by the United States is to force MacDonald places to shut down for health violations in Russia, or ISIL wants to shut down all western institutions, or someone blowing

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Ricardo Dominguez
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hola Murat, These gestures can of course be used by any entity at any level of global/local scale. That why it is important, as you do in you analysis, is to consider the uniqueness of different actions, different community responses, and

Re: [-empyre-] Lobal Gestures

2014-12-10 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Since the historical importance of the electronic media in its various incarnations derives from a tripod, communication, information, control, an analysis of ideas (as parts of communication and information) is essential. I may be in the