Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I want to echo Ana's post below; one statistic that came out two days ago - in the United States, one out of every thirty children will be homeless sometime in his or her life. In a country with such enormous wealth, there is so

Re: [-empyre-] from a distance

--empyre- soft-skinned space--In my previous post I introduced the speculative thought which suggests wrestling with the 'hard' religious text of Islam. It seams we have been there before, nevertheless the ideological vacuum of contemporary world gives way to the new

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

--empyre- soft-skinned space--I don’t really know American poetry, by which I mean not know it the way I know Paul Celan. the way I know Szymborska. Through the fibers of my skin, through postmemory. Language that is composed of words that bear a thousands victims

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- ps (to last night) I just wanted to acknowledge, in addition, some of the contributions to our discussions over the past days, from John Hopkins, Erik Ehn, and Christina Spiesel; and I found it interesting, in the contexts of human

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

--empyre- soft-skinned space--... The impossible language, that of our oppressor —and I was forbidden to learn German as a child yet I read Goethe and Schiller in translation. I work with Goethe because it is the forever stained text which no longer can be read without

[-empyre-] is there a global horror just around the corner?

--empyre- soft-skinned space--the discussion wants to open its eyes and ears to the truth of terror and violence and insists or in some cases concedes - in very general terms, forgive me - that the vicious circle of perpetration-victimisation-witnessing expresses or