[-empyre-] MATTER, mysticism and modes of existence

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Robert Leegte
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear list, Thanks for inviting me to add to this discussion. I enjoyed reading the posts from the previous week and found the perfect bridge in the final paragraph by Sally Jane, and would like to post a “mode of existence” I commonly

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Nicholas O'Brien
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello empyre: Thanks so much to Ashley and the other moderators for inviting me to be a discussant this month. I’ve been following the conversation and am definitely excited to contribute! As a way of getting started I wanted to pick up

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Daniel Rourke
--empyre- soft-skinned space--More echoed thanks to Ashley for bringing us all here and each of the previous occupants of the conversation for kicking things off... Reading Nicolas's thoughts on interruption I was reminded of a text very much* not *about digital

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Robert Leegte
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Nicholas! Thanks for the great ride. Very nice writing. Some feedback. I’m a bit confused how reflecting on an experience is the same as matter or becoming objectified. Could you try and explain from an practical point of view, how

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER - introduction

2014-10-13 Thread Baruch Gottlieb
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Everybody, I am actually working with Yuk on many of these themes and have been trying to feel out the problem of the material in fact we have a monthly meeting here in Berlin, and we are organizing a quarterly conference

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Dragan Espenschied
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Welcome Nicholas! On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Nicholas O'Brien nicholaso...@gmail.com wrote: More recently, whenever I make long car trips (in that ever-so-quintessential Americana way), I rarely remember the mile marker, or the

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Yuk Hui
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank Ashley of bringing us together for this discussion. I just came to the list so I may repeat some of the points that others have discussed. In case, I excuse myself for this. I have written a PhD thesis titled On the Existence of

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-13 Thread dragan.espenschied
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Now, with this being said - As Chun (2008) has discussed, and as Kristie and Dragan commented in their closing remarks (I think), despite the cascading complexity of the digital, and the dispersed apparatus that props it up, digital

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Nicholas O'Brien
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks for the lovely responses and questions Daniel and Jan! I wanted to first attend to something that Daniel says: I don't experience interruption as the choice I make to drive off the road, to knowingly halt the journey. I think