Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--[about hesychios: see his written for theoduolos in v.1 of the philokalia: https://archive.org/stream/Philokalia-TheCompleteText/Philokalia-Complete-Text#page/n109/mode/2up/search/Hesychios] [continuing from yesterday - performance and

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--The theater director and theorist Brenda Laurel was early engaged in videogames. She worked at the legendary Atari Lab and was envolved in many games with a pristine narrative. Her work with videogames for girls took her to Interval

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [Alan schreibt] Nearly a thousand years old the first of its kind in Iraq, according to Archnet, and one of the last six standing, according to Iraq Heritage the distinctive muqarnas-domed mausoleum is now a statistic. The tomb of Shia

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Jon McKenzie
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks for an engaging discussion. I feel that we’re not only witnessing a vast image of terror but also sensing shock waves from a tortuous infrastructure that runs right through us. The cultural accession—and culture as cultivation,

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--approx: the greatest calamity that the human race can experience is the destruction of a city (simone weil on the iliad). city as a cloud of ideas or better a coherence and intensity of meaning-making - an instanciation of the human at

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- There are times this 'slow terror' speeds up, times it slows down; it seems to me it might be problematic to inflate it with ISIS and the like; there are two - and more - destructive orders of the world and worlding. I began reading

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--scarry's book on beauty (as justice) also alluring. On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:31 AM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- There are times this 'slow terror'

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Yes, I think, it can be lost, erased, this is the heart of anguish - BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants have executed 85 more members of the AlbuNimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week in retaliation for

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-04 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--When I came back to Uruguay from an exile of 32 years in Sweden I was eager to recover my network or to find another one, to embed myself in the cultural scene of Montevideo, a rather melancholic city similar to San Sebastian or to Biarritz

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-03 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all as our first week gets under way, may I follow up my welcome with the question of language, the medium of the ground, the poetry of the wall and proximity to the daily potentials or protocols of humiliation? I had a longer