Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-12 Thread Simon 
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Dear Renate, <>,

I am confused about your introduction to my post: I am verbose? I am 
also to the point. I am incomprehensible? I am also direct. I am 
powerfully political. I am nonsensical. Poetic.


... I write to you as a recent PhD. in the job market, transcendent uber 
alles. (Perhaps there is a market for the qualities you list? Please let 
me know.)


(Apropos of existential contradiction on the left, I would like to point 
the list to this: 
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/what-happens-next-british-left/)


Best,
Simon

http://squarewhiteworld.com/ (PS: see Sol or /Puertopia /(sic) for the 
actuation of the cyberpositivism of the early 2000s.)




On 05/02/18 17:32, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:

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Thanks Simon from New Zealand,
Your verbose nonsensical yet poetic and powerfully political rants threaded 
together, to the point, never dull but always provocative, sometimes 
incomprehensible, yet direct, welcomed today from Ithaca, cold, blustery, 
freezing, icy, gray upon gray mist.
Renate

(it's cold and snowy but beautifully sunny in Ithaca, New York, today)
cicadas & humid grey skies Waiheke Island, New Zealand, today. 2 boys killed in 
flashflooding in the Waitakere ranges, Auckland cityside: the persistent promise of 
disruptive events that is now our weather, now our environment.

<> ... I think of Altavista, the cathode ray tube monitor and 
clicketty-clack keyboard, of the public computer at Brazil cafe before I opened the doors 
most mornings dialing in to engage with the textvoices coming down the wire early in the 
2000s when I discovered the listserv, starting a blog as clearinghouse, again public, 
winging it, butterflies waiting for the next installment, about the same time: 
squarewhiteworld.com ... halcyon days / mornings of digital connectivity, when it seemed to 
involve and devolve on actual and sometimes anxious connections, rather than recognitions, 
reassurances and reaffirmations of the lugubriously sincere (like-able if not amiable) 
variety. When the wire ran hot with debate rains of actual and sometimes burning 
butterflies. More popping bubbles than cognitive ones. And I hazard that that's why I like 
the listserv format still ... the possibility of an unforeseen intervention upstarting, 
derailing more sanguine settled and yes conser
  vative (recuperative) discussion ... The risk of going too far, the highwire, not 
preempted by the provision of safetynetting. As for expertise and theoretical enterprise, 
was more like a fleamarket, with barrackers, professional and simulacral, in the 
softskinned space of egalitarian exchange, each equally un-niched and in a context the 
construct of all--permitting that is words of other unknown because unknowable provenance 
(owing to textonly format): who does  think she is? who will  be? before 
personological recidivism and identitarian backlash of social online presence. There it 
is: a virtual I have misspelt as "possibility"!

...there would also be something to say about professional overinvestment more recently 
actively soliciting recognition, remediation, affirmations; rather than an increasing reign 
of expert opinion, the soft sentimental professionally bleeding heart's thin skin: so, 
rather than its lateral level and smooth openness to both professional and expert, invited 
or lurking, <> might be lauded for the potential to engage in ... risk. 
It could be a more dangerous place, this smooth one. Reputations might, at least locally, 
be on line ... the long hidden but fragile threads of glass that link us serving in 
listserv the needling of consistency and consensus ... crawling back into the cave of the 
screen after the fall ... grace

taking a certain time to reflect in private vacuole of that's not what I meant 
at all ...

Best,
Simon




Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu

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Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro 
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Thanks Simon from New Zealand, 
Your verbose nonsensical yet poetic and powerfully political rants threaded 
together, to the point, never dull but always provocative, sometimes 
incomprehensible, yet direct, welcomed today from Ithaca, cold, blustery, 
freezing, icy, gray upon gray mist.  
Renate

(it's cold and snowy but beautifully sunny in Ithaca, New York, today)
cicadas & humid grey skies Waiheke Island, New Zealand, today. 2 boys killed in 
flashflooding in the Waitakere ranges, Auckland cityside: the persistent 
promise of disruptive events that is now our weather, now our environment. 

<> ... I think of Altavista, the cathode ray tube monitor and 
clicketty-clack keyboard, of the public computer at Brazil cafe before I opened 
the doors most mornings dialing in to engage with the textvoices coming down 
the wire early in the 2000s when I discovered the listserv, starting a blog as 
clearinghouse, again public, winging it, butterflies waiting for the next 
installment, about the same time: squarewhiteworld.com ... halcyon days / 
mornings of digital connectivity, when it seemed to involve and devolve on 
actual and sometimes anxious connections, rather than recognitions, 
reassurances and reaffirmations of the lugubriously sincere (like-able if not 
amiable) variety. When the wire ran hot with debate rains of actual and 
sometimes burning butterflies. More popping bubbles than cognitive ones. And I 
hazard that that's why I like the listserv format still ... the possibility of 
an unforeseen intervention upstarting, derailing more sanguine settled and yes 
conser
 vative (recuperative) discussion ... The risk of going too far, the highwire, 
not preempted by the provision of safetynetting. As for expertise and 
theoretical enterprise, was more like a fleamarket, with barrackers, 
professional and simulacral, in the softskinned space of egalitarian exchange, 
each equally un-niched and in a context the construct of all--permitting that 
is words of other unknown because unknowable provenance (owing to textonly 
format): who does  think she is? who will  be? before personological 
recidivism and identitarian backlash of social online presence. There it is: a 
virtual I have misspelt as "possibility"! 

...there would also be something to say about professional overinvestment more 
recently actively soliciting recognition, remediation, affirmations; rather 
than an increasing reign of expert opinion, the soft sentimental professionally 
bleeding heart's thin skin: so, rather than its lateral level and smooth 
openness to both professional and expert, invited or lurking, <> might 
be lauded for the potential to engage in ... risk. It could be a more dangerous 
place, this smooth one. Reputations might, at least locally, be on line ... the 
long hidden but fragile threads of glass that link us serving in listserv the 
needling of consistency and consensus ... crawling back into the cave of the 
screen after the fall ... grace

taking a certain time to reflect in private vacuole of that's not what I meant 
at all ...

Best,
Simon




Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu

On 2/4/18, 11:19 PM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of 
Simon"  wrote:

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Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Renate Terese Ferro 
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Dear Therea, 
For sure –empyre- will not be slowing down.  We will be announcing our 
international Editorial Board in just a few weeks and are working on an updated 
and more usable website.  Looking forward to more certainly.  Renate


Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu

On 2/4/18, 11:19 PM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of 
Theresa Ramseyer"  wrote:

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Morning,

I have been thinking. I should have added that I don't want -empyre-
to slow down.

Have a good day.
Theresa
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Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Simon 
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On 04/02/18 07:08, Timothy Conway Murray wrote:

(it's cold and snowy but beautifully sunny in Ithaca, New York, today)
cicadas & humid grey skies Waiheke Island, New Zealand, today. 2 boys 
killed in flashflooding in the Waitakere ranges, Auckland cityside: the 
persistent promise of disruptive events that is now our weather, now our 
environment.


<> ... I think of Altavista, the cathode ray tube monitor and 
clicketty-clack keyboard, of the public computer at Brazil cafe before I 
opened the doors most mornings dialing in to engage with the textvoices 
coming down the wire early in the 2000s when I discovered the listserv, 
starting a blog as clearinghouse, again public, winging it, butterflies 
waiting for the next installment, about the same time: 
squarewhiteworld.com ... halcyon days / mornings of digital 
connectivity, when it seemed to involve and devolve on actual and 
sometimes anxious connections, rather than recognitions, reassurances 
and reaffirmations of the lugubriously sincere (like-able if not 
amiable) variety. When the wire ran hot with debate rains of actual and 
sometimes burning butterflies. More popping bubbles than cognitive ones. 
And I hazard that that's why I like the listserv format still ... the 
possibility of an unforeseen intervention upstarting, derailing more 
sanguine settled and yes conservative (recuperative) discussion ... The 
risk of going too far, the highwire, not preempted by the provision of 
safetynetting. As for expertise and theoretical enterprise, was more 
like a fleamarket, with barrackers, professional and simulacral, in the 
softskinned space of egalitarian exchange, each equally un-niched and in 
a context the construct of all--permitting that is words of other 
unknown because unknowable provenance (owing to textonly format): who 
does  think she is? who will  be? before personological 
recidivism and identitarian backlash of social online /presence/. There 
it is: a virtual I have misspelt as "possibility"!


...there would also be something to say about professional 
overinvestment more recently actively soliciting recognition, 
remediation, affirmations; rather than an increasing reign of expert 
opinion, the soft sentimental professionally bleeding heart's thin skin: 
so, rather than its lateral level and /smooth /openness to both 
professional and expert, invited or lurking, <> might be lauded 
for the potential to engage in ... risk. It could be a more dangerous 
place, this smooth one. Reputations might, at least locally, be on line 
... the long hidden but fragile threads of glass that link us serving in 
listserv the needling of consistency and consensus ... crawling back 
into the cave of the screen after the fall ... grace


taking a certain time to reflect in private vacuole of /that's not what 
I meant at all /.../


/Best,
Simon


/

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Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?

2018-02-04 Thread Theresa Ramseyer 
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Morning,

I have been thinking. I should have added that I don't want -empyre-
to slow down.

Have a good day.
Theresa
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