Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-17 Thread James Leach
-performance-media-arts From: James Leach james.le...@abdn.ac.uk Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:02:33 +0100 To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-17 Thread Simon Biggs
@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:01:41 +0100 To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim? On 15 Jul 2010, at 10:47, Simon Biggs wrote: As I suggested in my

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-17 Thread Christina Spiesel
-departments/film-performance-media-arts From: James Leach james.le...@abdn.ac.uk Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:01:41 +0100 To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Julian Oliver
Hi, ..on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:33:12AM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote: I am using agency in a sense that some might find contentious as I am considering it as an ontological phenomena in a context where individuals, whether human or animal, alive or inert, physical or virtual, are not where

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
Jul 2010 11:46:58 +0200 To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim? Hi, ..on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:33:12AM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote: I am using agency

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Sean Cubitt
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim? I am not so sure that experience is agency ? but you probably mean something other than what the new left means when you say this. Also we are not arguing for the will as James

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread j.martin.pedersen
... On 15/07/10 09:33, Simon Biggs wrote: I am using agency in a sense that some might find contentious as I am considering it as an ontological phenomena in a context where individuals, whether human or animal, alive or inert, physical or virtual, are not where agency is located. Rather, I

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
...@lancaster.ac.uk Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:40:56 +0100 To: empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim? ... On 15/07/10 09

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread Simon Biggs
empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:57:10 +1000 To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim? Absolutely so Simon: and more power to you

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-15 Thread christopher sullivan
@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim? Absolutely so Simon: and more power to you for having the bottle to go ontological. The axiom can be -- should be -- further reduced: what

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10 / is there a will to create / the social beyond the mechanisim?

2010-07-14 Thread Kriss Ravetto
Hi All, Thanks for all the comments. I wanted to ask a couple questions to Simon, James, and Eugenio (if you are still there) about agency (Simon's term) and James's question regarding creativity that defines us as human (Eugenio's term). Simon, I am not so sure that experience is