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

[-empyre-] post from Olga Danylyuk

2014-11-05 Thread O Danylyuk
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear friends, I would like to share some ideas from my research project about the cultural imagination of war that was part of my thesis *' Virtually* *True'. Intermedial Strategies in Staging of War Conflict*. I was concerned that our

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/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- thank you Jon, for already joining in and for your comments! allow me thus to welcome Jon McKenzie to the table, he is amongst the guests we had invited for this month. * [bio] Jon McKenzie is Director of DesignLab, a digital

Re: [-empyre-] first intervention from my part

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Pia Holenstein wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- */again text unquotable, apologies/* Perhaps there is only the wall of death, up against the border of Lyotard's differend? To

Re: [-empyre-] language/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all, one can only thank those who have joined so far, and welcome Olga and Pia, and those who like Ana write through their memory pain and evoke the death of hope for human civilization; the destructive character seems to favor

Re: [-empyre-] language/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes, only a short remark, when I am writing about my pain and my memories I am also using literary tools, the body remembers but the language or the brain don't. I read Butler's Frames of War, Agamben's Homo Sacer and The remnants of

[-empyre-] rejected message, trying again :(

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes you are raised in Germany I assume you are familiar with Heinrich Böll s writing. For me his best book is 8.30 biljard, a very powerful novel about an elderly architect who builds a church (maybe a cathedral, I don't exactly

Re: [-empyre-] language/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread John Hopkins
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 05/Nov/14 15:17, Johannes Birringer wrote: regards Johannes Birringer -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes

[-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello, I am Alicia Migdal, Uruguayan writer and film critic. Yesterday night I attended the worldwide premiere of the Italian film by Ermanno Olmi Torneranno i prati (The grass will be back). It was showed at the Italian Cultural Institute