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Dear Melinda,
Thanks ever so much for your tremendously thoughtful, provocative, and
passionate posts. What a delight for us to enjoy your voice this month
back on your cherished -empyre-. Your post made me cherish anew the first
time I
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Hi, everyone, thank you for an enlivening discussion in the heat of summer.
I am interested in Murat's suggestion that we turn our attention to
Leibniz, "Solipsism, as well, is present in the philosophy of Liebnitz
becoming more
and more i
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Dear Ileana,
It's been so great to enjoy your moderated discussion this month (which I
have been reading when not sleeping!). Congratulations on the launch of
your and Calin's work this week. I'M very interested to hear even more
about C
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Hi, all,
I'M sorry to break protocol by referring to last month's discussion topic,
but this just came across my screen, and I can't resist sharing it with
you:
http://www.wisecrack.co/shows/8-bit-philosophy/is-boredom-worse-than-death/
:
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello, -Empyreans-,
Now that the US holidays have passed and the heat of the summer has finally
settled into Upstate New York, it's time to look to the fall startup of the
2015-16 season of -empyre–. We look forward to a a wide-ranging d
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Hi, Sherry,
Sarah Watson and I have just completed preparing the videos for exhibition
in the ETC show that will open on September 24 at Hunter College. As I
was reviewing the screening list, I remembered my early days of viewing
experime
the cultural institutions seemed
>engaged. So some of held on to our collections. Those of us Upstate
>often had the luxury of more space than our colleagues in the city.
>And some of us filled it.
>
>And now many are involved with trying to find homes for these
>collections
im,Maureen Cheryn" wrote:
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>Is the list available, Tim?
>
>From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> on behalf of Timothy Conway
>Murray
>Sent: Thursday, September
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Hi, Isak and Kathy,
It's so interesting to recall the critical empowerment of the 'glitch' in
video aesthetics, as you both have termed it. While the glitch is
frequently discussed in sound studies in relation to an "aesthetic of
failure"
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi, everyone,
We would like to thank our pionneering and thoughtful guests of week one,
Sherry Miller Hocking, John Conomos, Kathy High, Carolyn Tennant, and Isak
Berbic, Megan Roberts who have gotten this month's discussion of "Video:
Behi
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Thanks, Renate. I recall vividly my amazement at the walls of videotapes
framing the synthesizers in the ETC space. Little did we imagine moving
them all to the Goldsen Archive within less than a decade. We are now so
happy to share so m
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Renate and I want to thank Lynn Sachs and Alan Sondheim for stimulating a
provocative discussion of the toggles between analogue and digital. Their
own work has been at the forefront of conceptual and narrative
experimentations with mixed m
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Hi, how much of these tapes are still readable, does anyone know?
Ciao,
Murat
All of the ETC tapes are very readable.
Tim
Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Taylor Family Director, Society for the Humanitie
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Thanks for your post, Maureen. So sorry for the delay. We have been in
New York meeting with the ETC artists in the Hunter College exhibition,
and enjoyed a very successful opening. We'll be sharing photos of the
opening on the -empyre-
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Thanks so much for your informative post, Benton. It was great to spend
some time with you at the ETC opening on Thursday night. It's so
interesting to hear how the ETC tape library, a small portion of which is
being screened at the ETC s
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Jason,
It was so great to see you and Deborah at the Hunter College exhibit.
Yesterday while Renate and I were meeting with Peer Bode in the gallery,
we admired the striking figure of the greats of Signal Culture, you,
Deborah and David Jo
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi, again, everyone,
Thanks so much to Maureen Turim, Jason Bernagozzi, and Benton Bainbridge
for sharing their thoughts in-between the ETC opening and the Jewish
holidays over the past week.
We are rounding out September's discussion of "
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Hi, everyone, I am forwarding this posting from Peer Bode:
The ETC allowed many of we next generation young artists to participate in
the adventures of electronic video thinking and making. When I think of
making work at the ETC, I come b
easure for
>him.
>____________
>From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> on behalf of Timothy Conway
>Murray
>Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 7:23 PM
>To: soft_skinned_space
>Subject: [-empyre-] from Peer Bode: bold electronic experiment
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As I am running out to work on other new and evolving media arts studios
here in Upstate New York, I pause and I would suggest we reflect on the
design and building of tools and software that took place connected to the
ETC and directed to
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>The ETC move in 1979 was to a three story brick building downtown in the
>village of Owego, directly on the river. When we were not looking at
>oscillator waves and camera based modulations in the studio we could look
>out the windows and
his afternoon I had the chance to chat with Mona Jimenez, who brought
>some of her students to see the show and with Alan Sondheim, Azure Carter
>and Murat Nemet-Nejat.
>
>
>
>On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Timothy Conway Murray wrote:
>
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Happy 2016, empyreans. To enter in the New Year, we hope that as many of
you as possible will join us in celebrating our community by posting brief
summaries of your current projects and/or bios this month. We would very
much like to ener
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So very glad to see you back publishing with Ctheory, Ricardo. The
Transborder Immigrant Tool is an incredibly inventive project whose
graceful and watery poetry deserves very wide dissemination. Indeed we
might consider electronic publis
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Welcome to September,2016 on empyre- soft-skinned space:
Through the NET: Net Art Then and Now moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and
Tim Murray (US) with featured discussants:
September 6 - 12: Craig Saper (US)
September 13 - 18th: Anna
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Welcome back everyone from summer or winter, depending on your location.
Renate and I have enjoyed the quiet of Cayuga Lake in Ithaca after
returning from Shanghai where we opened a new Summer School in Theory
between Cornell University and
works that have transformed lives for
>everybody on this planet whether they like it or not) or the anarchist
>rhizomatic hacktivists' web. Not in the same ways, but deeply still.
>Instead of it's meaning, what are it's moods, textures, poetics,
>amateur-hack-artist function,
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Thanks, Craig, for sharing your insightful and provocative instructions
with us this week. Yesterday, on the 15th anniversary of 9/11, I found
myself wondering about the relation of net.art and 'address' in terms of
the net.art project tha
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Thanks ever so much Craig for your final instruction on Rhizomatic time,
in which net time always seems to travel in the future perfect of the new
instruction as the repetition of what (might) has been. We appreciate
your opening the our S
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks so much for joining us, Anna, and for focusing our attention on net.art
focusing on the finances of the web. While not directly in with Heath
Bunting's piece, which I'm very pleased to see recalled, you have me thinking
fondly of
ire people who devote their entire time to
>>>keeping up with these changes. To me these constant changes are
>>>uninteresting complexity. I'd rather learn and work with other things,
>>>other complex systems, things that change at a time scale or rhythm
>>>
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It is so fitting that end the week featuring Anna Munster with her
important recollection of the feminist roots of Melindha Rackham's
founding of -empyre-. Thanks so much, Anna, for your helpful focusing of
the week's discussion of net.art
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Muntadas 1979: this is great. Thanks, Simon.
Our exchange so far has me thinking of some of the idealistic, direct
interventions of projects brought up last week, efforts that are engaged
with rewriting the terms of corporate power.
I¹
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks ever so much, Simon and Madeleine, for sharing your probing thoughts
with us on -empyre-. It has been such a gift for us to be challenged
conceptually by both of you again.
I'm sorry that a diversion yesterday has delayed my intro
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Thank you, Renate. Yes, isn't the US being threatened as we speak with a
potential President who assumes that all women make themselves sexually
available to him? Don't images, especially sexual ones, have complex
discursive structures th
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- -empyre- STRIKES BACK, January 2017
Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and Timothy Murray (US)
Rather than feature weekly guests throughout the month of January, we urge all
2,000 members of -empyre- to crank up the noise of the net by submit
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Hello, -empyreans-,
Given the general paralysis wrought internationally by the Trumpocalypse
(and Chinese New Year), we'll be extending our call for -empyre- STRIKES
BACK through the first week of February.
Please post your political, soc
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As a partner with Renate in her tireless toil to schedule monthly
discussions on -empyre- and to keep the moderating team robust, I find
myself worried more and more about the future of online dialogical
listservs. When -empyre- was founde
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Hi, everyone,
Just want to thank all of you who have called us to critical attention
with your New Year's resolutions on the eve of new global fascism. We're
now moving into the February discussion, which Reante will introduce in a
bit.
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Hi, everyone,
The posts of the past 2 weeks have me thinking about artistic performances of
the fakery of news. One of my favorites is the well-known 1975 San Francisco
performance, “Media Burn,” by Ant Farm. Chip Lord and Doug Michel
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Thank you all for such a stimulating first week of contamination on –empyre-.
While keeping on the screen the contaminations of foodstuffs, I would like to
shift the discourse a bit, as if something of a palimpsest, to follow Bishnu’s
t
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Thanks, Renate, for reflecting on the commonalities of our thoughts on
contamination and toxic assets. It’s great to be back in dialogue with
Christina who steered the –empyre- platform for many years and with whom Renate
and I enjoyed
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Thanks, Rahul and Andrea, for describing such compelling medial reflections on
contaminations. I posted earlier on the “Wired Ruins” issue of CTHEORY
Multimedia that Arthur & Marilouise Kroker and I edited on ethnic paranoia.
Your post
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Hi, everyone,
You probably received a denial of access message if you tried
to post something in the past day.
Here's the explanation:
The -empyre- list has two hosts. Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York,
hosts the homepage and fron
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Thanks for your patience everyone. I sent Murat's brief message through
and am now replying the normal way to make sure that all systems are now
go. No need to reply to this since I'Ll receive it also. Sorry to clog
your box with meaning
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Hello, everyone,
We are winding down the month of December a little early so that Renate
and I can enjoy our family who will be visiting for the holiday week.
We have decided to take a bit of a rest, so we will not be hosting a
discussi
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Hi, all, it’s very interesting to think about the duration of –empyre- and the
particular intervention of the listserv. Next fall, I’ll be moderating a month
on “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival” in conjunction with the Biennial
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Hi, Ana,
I’m sorry that your post got cycled into my “clutter” box and I’ve just located
it. It’s so interesting and important that you flag the significance of early
listservs for their activism. Thanks ever so much for calling attent
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Hi, Christina,
Johannes’ post helped me discover that your post too was cycled into my
‘clutter’ by dear Microsoft. Yeah, one of the coolest experiments you launched
was letting non-English speakers publish in their home languages – I r
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Thank you for your introductory post, Junting, and for organizing this fabulous
month around the topic of Noise. I am so looking forward to profiting over the
month from your incredible international list of guests.
Your introductory ri
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Ps. Just saw your –empyre- post. Funny, I was once a student of Serres when he
was writing his book on Lucretius – fond memories of wild dancing parties in my
grad student apartment.
Timothy Murray
Director, Cornell Council for the Arts
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What a shock it was to learn of Marilouise Kroker’s death on Tuesday after an
extremely short illness. Renate and I have so valued our years of friendship
and collaboration with Marilouise. As Renate mentioned, it was very much the
inf
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Forwarded from Ashley Ferro-Murray
Good afternoon everyone from Festival TransAmeriques in Montreal — funny that
I’ve just arrived in Canada where I am catching up on this sad news.
As my parents, Tim and Renate, have said, Arthur and Ma
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We want to extend our warmest gratitude to -empyre- Editorial Board member,
Tarsh Bates, for moderating the October discussion "This Mess We're In." It's
almost hard to believe that the "mess" seems to have gotten worse throughout
the m
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-empyre- soft_skinned space, November 2018
Topic: Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival
Moderator: Timothy Murray (US)
Our guests range from international curators, theorists, and artists whose work
touches on the complexities of Durat
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Welcome to the end of fall, everyone. The last of the leaves are falling in
Upstate New York and we are on the edges of our seats awaiting the US election
results tomorrow night after an election cycle of harrowing, racist attacks on
th
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kate.brettke...@gmail.com> wrote: "But looking more critically at this artistic
interest in deep time, I have
wondered whether it risks the presumption of an absolute, universal frame
of reference. Does it presuppose a primordial time that
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Elizabeth Wijaya wrote "On Kate's point on deep time and the danger of
obscuring/forgetting
historical subjugation and social inequality, maybe there is also such a
thing as mountain time that's inhabited and experienced differently by
p
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Thanks so much, Liz, for pointing us toward the varying approaches to duration
that crop up in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. It will be interesting to hear how
this notion of something of an enfolded duration of past/future in the extend
p
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We follow this past week's broad reflections on art and duration by introducing
a wide-ranging group of featured guests who will address during Week 2.
For this week, I am joined a number of curators and artists whose international
exhib
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Thank you for joining us, Jolene. It is so fantastic to share your voice and
work with the -empyre- community.
What you term as the 'resurgence' of Cayuga culture and art provides a
crucially poignant resonance to the notions of "passag
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Thanks, Tim, for inviting me to join the discussion on "Duration" in November.
It's such a coincidence that the theme of the China Art Exhibition in 11th
Florence Biennale which I curated in 2017 is also "Duration". So when I first
met T
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For her posts, Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon is generously sharing with us poems
from her Cornell Biennial performance with Emily Stark-Menneg, "Measured/The
Clover Project." For today, we share her poem,
"Measured."
Measured
If space makes
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For her posts, Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon is generously sharing with us poems
from her Cornell Biennial performance with Emily Stark-Menneg, "Measured/The
Clover Project." For today, we share her poem,
"Measured."
Measured
If space makes
f those who planted the
land before me.
Can you tell our –empyre- subscribers a bit more about the artists and the
work that you refer to? Would love to hear a bit more.
Best. Renate
On 11/14/18, 10:04 AM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.ed
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Jolene's post got rendered into digital non-sense by our softward, so we are
forwarding it directly here:
Apologies that this is overlapping with week 3, as it relates to my earlier
posts for CCA Duration week 2.
Like Renate, the early s
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Hi, all, I've been asked by Ruby Chisti to send this along:
My lifelong fascination with the tenacious and fragile nature of existence has
inspired me to reinvent sculptural forms through a variety of materials that
forge an intrinsic im
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Hi, Brian,
Thanks so much for entering into this dialogue with Hans on settler
colonialism. In case you missed Jolene Rickard's comments on the Cayuga's
response, I'm copying it again here.
Jolene Rickard wrote:
Apologies that this
--empyre- soft-skinned space--It’s hard to believe that we’re entering into week four of our discussion of
Duration. Thanks ever so much to this past week’s featured guests, Ruby
Chishti, Annie Lewandowski, Denise Green, and Hans Baumann, and a special
thanks as well
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Hi, everyone, before I share some thoughts about Grace later tonight, I'd like
to open by thanking you all for sharing your admiration for Barbara Hammer.
My last contact with Barbara, was already three years ago when she attended the
op
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Hi, everyone,
This week, I plan to make a number of different posts in honor my dear friend,
Grace Quintanilla, and it's great to be able to do so in dialogue with Ana
Valdés.
To begin with, some background about our budding friendship
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Ana,
It's amazing that Angela Davis frames your memory of Agnes Varda. I was active
in the Vietnam resistance movement in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time of
Angela's arrest. One of my most vivid memories was the shock across th
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As I mentioned in my last post, my first encounter with Grace was when she I
received her submission to my 1999 exhibition, Contact Zones: The Art of
CD-Rom. Her inventive and playful CD-Rom, Vice-Versa: Presenting the Past, the
Present
1 West Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
On 4/8/19, 5:35 PM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of
Timothy Conway Murray" wrote:
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Hi, everyone, before I share some thoughts about Gr
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For those of you who happen to be in the Central New York area today, I invite
you to join us today, Thursday, at 4:30 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall for an
event to pay homage to the late filmmaker Agnès Varda. A free screening of
Varda'
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Hi Patrick,
Many congratulations on your recent news!
Well, when are close friend, Grace Quintanilla, died at 52 within the same two
weeks at Barbara, Carolee, and Agnès, Renate and I thought it would be
important to spend a month on -e
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Dear McKenzie,
I don't know how this happened with the automated moderating software, but
Renate and I corrected this manually. Please feel free to continue your
welcome participation.
All the best,
Tim
Timothy Murray
Director, Corne
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello everyone. It’s strange to watch the sun shining on the bucolic setting
in which we are sheltering at home while health and economic darkness looms
over the world. In planning this -empyre- month on “Interfacing COVID-19: the
techn
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Hi everyone,
As we pass through the first week of April on -empyre-, it's been amazing to
have Melinda remind us how intricately engrained her founding of -empyre- was
in response to medical challenge and isolation, just as the vast majo
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Thank you, Arthur, for your elegant and cutting analysis of the rise of
bio-fascism. Just today, Renate and I were witnessing news accounts of
demonstrations in the US by Trump supporters encouraged by their
fascist-in-chief to protest
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Hi Premesh and Johannes,
So great to see you both in dialogue regarding this broad challenge of what
Bishnu so aptly terms "epidemic mediation" and what Soo Yon queries as "finding
the invisible."One of the fascinating results so far
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Hi Kathy,
Your proposal to create a "death tool kit" brings so clearly to mind the final
projects on which Beatriz da Costa labored at the end of her iife (many of our
participants might not realize that Beatriz -- a pioneering bio and t
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Happy 2021 empyreans. It's been quite a ride through the past year, no?. I
join Renate in hoping that our sharing of reading lists will empower us through
the months to come.
Here are some titles that have gotten me through the challen
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Thanks so much for your fascinating posts, Ben, and Geert for your post
in-between (it's been such a very long time). I'm fascinated by Ben's strategy
of "tactical obfuscation." I'm in the midst of putting last touches on a book
for Mi
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As we close out the first week of this discussion, I am prompted by Domenico to
think about bitcoin, culture, and obfuscation.
I don't have that much to say, not being much involved in discussions around
bitcoin but Dominico jogs my memo
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Age of Aquarius! Writing on this topic brings me back to the days of my life
as a young hippie anti-war activist in the San Francisco Bay Area when I
attended the uplifting and utopian San Francisco run of the new musical,
“Hair,” whose
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Renate, for asking me to elaborate on Jean-François Lyotard’s concerns
about the technological “pull of the future.” Before we transition into the
second week of our discussion, I might just clarify that Lyotard was concerned
abo
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Hi all,
In thinking about Patrick's theme for the month, "Flow, Impulse and Affect in
Real Time," I hadn't contemplated thinking about RFTs, but more about the
"flow" or "impulse" of 2021 media culture. In my world of media theory, "flo
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