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dear all
allow me to join Alan Sondheim in welcoming all our guests and all our readers
and list members to this month's discussion - our round table on
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ISIS, Absolute Terror, Performance
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The theme was introduced this morning
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I'd like to introduce Erik Ehn, whose plays are often concerned with
issues of genocide and torture (he travels regularly to Rwanda and other
troubled locations), and is head of theater at Brown University. I've
asked him and the
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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
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Hello Alan,
I am looking foward to your month of curation at empyre.
I chime in early as an uninvited contributor.
The reaction to ISIS, with such speculation, as you put it, on How does one
live within the knowledge of annihilation?
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St. Hesychios talks about a pathway of contemplation that moves from torch, to
moon, to sun. [I get this from Martin Laird’s nice, small book: A Sunlit
Absence.] We
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote:
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(for some reason, I can't quote directly here)
The technocrats of light, I keep thinking of scorched, of scorching, of
the annihilation
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Among the tragic-prop scenes I hope to entertain in the daze ahead—
the society of the spectacle of the scaffold
hypergraphé across jagged scales
homo sacre data bodies
global feeling
pictografs
Jon
