Re: [-empyre-] most influential, most dangerous, most courageous women

Dear Christina, allow me to dissent a little bit :) At the Intifada the women had a very crucial role, I met Leila Khaled some years ago in Amman and her tale of her hitchjacking of two planes in the Eighties: is really atonishing. And I come myself from a generation of women engaged in gerilla war

Re: [-empyre-] most influential, most dangerous, most courageous women

ally divested of rights and > representation. They resist definition and are difficult to organize because > of their illegibility-at a scale that is global, and radically local. > > > > On Mar 6, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Ana Valdés < > agora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear C

Re: [-empyre-] The maze of Istanbul.

Patrick, I have been in Istanbul recently attending a literary conference and met some young Turkish writers and artists. They were very concerned with the lack of State funding and the issues of censorship and control. Famous writers as the Nobelprize Pamuk are often in trial because zealous civil

[-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

I am bit curious about how did the people who travelled to Istanbul for the first time experienced the city itself, Turkey and all the contradictions and the multiple layers of meaning residing in this old city where all the remnants of it's past are crumbling away. As you know many Turks want to b

Re: [-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

poralities, etc ... very unlike > western europe, where only the buildings remain ... extented families and > village cooperative solidarity also remain realities, as far as I could > ascertain from speaking with Turkish friends (I gave a lecture to an > all-turkish audience yesterday)

Re: [-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote: > thanks Ana! > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > >> I was there a week only but all ppl I met (Turks everyone) told me they >> felt the "turkization" and the erasing of the Byzantine pa

Re: [-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

> Davin > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > > I was there a week only but all ppl I met (Turks everyone) told me they > felt > > the "turkization" and the erasing of the Byzantine past, very well > related > > in the book "From

Re: [-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

hybridization, reflecting the general uneasiness of change, modernity, > > and cosmopolitanism. It was a regionally specific version of the > > debates about fast food culture (convenience, taste, expense), but one > > that I could very easily relate to, but never would have even n

[-empyre-] more about Istanbul

A very interesting movie about Istanbul's gentryfication and urbanization http://thecityfix.com/blog/ecumenopolis-film-explores-challenges-to-urbanization-in-istanbul/ Ana -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15853 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia

Re: [-empyre-] who owns the city? (Istanbul)

where, plus a few photos. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/2429190328 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/2428374595 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/2428375105 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/istanbuloldcity > > > > On 21 September 2

Re: [-empyre-] By way of distraction and lateral connection

Beautiful, Simon, thanks for sharing it! Ana On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:41 PM, simon wrote: > Dear empyreans > > , here is a clip I made with > my brother featuring a butoh performance (Gabrielle New) - the artist, SJD, > had insisted > that whatever else we do there were to be no booty girls! >

Re: [-empyre-] practice, research, curating, common, deconstruction

Sorry to come so late into the discussion but I have been really busy gathering the guests to the next month's topic in -empyre. I am a bit concerned about the relation between the reproduction of knowledge and the ability to generate changes in the paradigms ruling our quotidianity. Using the conc

Re: [-empyre-] Search, privacy, data

I think we are going to see more of this model in the future and I don't see real differences between the databases kept by our governments and the databases kept by Google or Facebook. The difference is maybe the aim, the goals. The governments collect data about us to control us and our movements

Re: [-empyre-] Search, privacy, data

om/history and deleted it, I don't really know if it's going to help but it made me feel good :) Ana On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Lasse Scherffig wrote: > Thanks, Tero, for starting this interesting debate. I just want to jump in > on one point Ana Valdés raised: > >

[-empyre-] dear -empyre, let me introduce the topic of March

Ana Valdés 1:01 AM (20 minutes ago) to soft_skinned_s. Hello fellow -empyrians! It's a honor an a pleasure to be again the moderator of a discussion on -empyre. I did it in December 2006, it was about the Crusades and the Middle East. Now, six years later, my interests and approach are focus

[-empyre-] now the guests in March

I am impressed and feel me humble and grateful to all the friends joining me in this discussion. So much knowledge, so much expertise, so much joy of sharing and exchanging! I lived for 34 years up in the North, Sweden, I am back in the deep South, Uruguay, and try to make bridges to connect the vo

Re: [-empyre-] "Urban resilience"

Hi Ethel and I am so happy you introduced yourself in such a flamboyant way :) I am not familiar with the Occupy Movement (the two cities I live between, Stockholm and Montevideo, are very lawful cities :) nobody occupies :) But I know a bit of the Arab Spring, I have been in the Middle East ten or

Re: [-empyre-] "Urban resilience"

athered I have some serious reservation about >>> the proliferation of the term "resilience". But I think there is a >>> good reason for this phenomenon. We're all struggling to grasp the >>> real implications of current social movements and their acts of &

Re: [-empyre-] "Urban resilience"

Let me tell about Nablus, one of the oldest cities in the world, with one of the oldest souks in the world, protected by the Unesco as one of the world's heritage. The Israel army had the city besieged almost one year with curfews every day and often the whole day. When the curfew was lifted, rando

Re: [-empyre-] Resilience and Resistance

Dear Leo, as someone been living in Stockholm since 1978 and relocating to Montevideo last year, 2011, I am quite familiar with the situation in Stockholm and in the rest of Sweden. I was myself a part of Sweden's small but active anarchist movement. It was some small occupations and squatting but

Re: [-empyre-] "Urban resilience"

That's the spirit, Ethel! To pose questions is often more creative than tell answers :) He or she who answers have a tendence to interpret facts and believe there are answers. I think creative questions are far more complex than give answers, I think this is -empyre's and other forum's role in the

Re: [-empyre-] "Urban resilience"

e conceptual frame of an > occupation. Occupation could be a common device if it interprets and > proposes interesting common structures. > > Aristide Antonas > University of Thessaly, Greece > > Sent from antonas iPhone > > On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:12, Ana Valdés wrot

Re: [-empyre-] "Urban resilience"

of sustainability > could offer interesting clues about urban resilience. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > >> Thank you Antonas and all for so interesting views! I want go back to the >> concept of commons, which is one of the

Re: [-empyre-] (hegemonic) Urban resilience. A view from from Fukushima

Dear Pablo, thank you for joining us! Your perspective and insights are very welcome here! To my fellow empyre comrades I want tell you Pablo is a very dear friend to me and we have been following each other since 2004, when Pablo, Hackitectura and Klein.org organized the Fadaiat meeting in Tarifa.

[-empyre-] more about Fukushima

I wanted to share a link related to Pablo's work in Fukushima http://www.scoop.it/t/cartas-desde-fukushima Ana -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15859 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/ http://www.scoop.it/

[-empyre-] speaking about recalcitrance

There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen and his research at Mejan, Kungliga Högskolan i Stockholm, the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, here comes the invitation for a seminar about it. A pity I am not in Stockholm now. Ana Welcome to *Performing Recalcitrance,* a week-long public programme

Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming

ssica-davies/2010/02/zapatistas-reclaim-mother-earth > > http://reclaimucsd.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/statement-of-intentions/ > > Thousands of students and activists marched on the state Capitol on Monday > http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest-20120306,0,718441.story > >

Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming

/notebook/jessica-davies/2010/02/zapatistas-reclaim-mother-earth >> >> http://reclaimucsd.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/statement-of-intentions/ >> >> Thousands of students and activists marched on the state Capitol on Monday >> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest-20120

Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming

> Ethel > --- > Ethel Baraona Pohl | dpr-barcelona <http://www.dpr-barcelona.com/> > twitter @ethel_baraona <https://twitter.com/ethel_baraona>47 | > about.me<http://about.me/ethel_baraona> > ethel.bara...@gmail.com > (+34) 626 048 684 > > *Before you

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

Thanks Johannes for a very inclusive post where you pinpointed some of the most relevant things we posted these days. I am as you concerned with the concept of "networking". I think for the big capital has never haft problems with networking issues. Rome had soldiers and administrators taking to Ro

Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming

same that the resilient city? > What do you think? > > Ethel > --- > Ethel Baraona Pohl | dpr-barcelona <http://www.dpr-barcelona.com/> > twitter @ethel_baraona <https://twitter.com/ethel_baraona>47 | > about.me<http://about.me/ethel_baraona> > > e

Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming

Hi friends, first welcome to my good friend Alicia Migdal, a writer and literary critic, who is going to be one of our guests next week. She posted now as part of the conversation and I tried a translation for all our non-Spanish speaking subscribers. Please bear with me, I am not a native English

Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming

ago: > > http://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/secret-tunneling/ > > Best, > Ethel > _ > Ethel Baraona Pohl > dpr-barcelona > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 8, 2012, at 16:00, Ana Valdés wrote: > > Dear Ether, I think you pinpointed it clear, the relational city

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

Dear all, I am very happy about the broad range of our discussion! Next week we are going to have two writers and I am delighted to see some of them (Leandro, Alicia) already participating... The examples raised by Alicia, the publisher house Eloisa Cartonera and their Uruguayan syster, La propia c

[-empyre-] Walter Benjamin Passagenwerk or the Arcades Project

My favorite bookshopowner called me today and he told me the copies of Benjamin's book I bought from him will arrive on Monday. It made me incredible happy. I think few intellectuals of this century thought so broad and so deep about the homo urbanus, the persons inhabitating the houses strolling t

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

resilience may > often be redefined for each generation. I think people (we) do have the > tendency to reference these terms as though they are stable forms, but are > they? > > Best, > > Eduardo > > > > > On 3/8/12 7:45 PM, "Ana Valdés" wrote: > >

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

r trick of signification, a way of talking about life > through material metaphors. That Chan reference on this thread, > really illustrates this idea quite nicely. > > Peace! > > Davin > > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > > Thanks Joh

[-empyre-] Istanbul, Jerusalem, Damascus, resilients cities?

I knit an imaginary thread between Damascus, Jerusalem and Istanbul, three cities dear to me. They share a complex past, they have been capitals of mighty empires streaching itselves far from their territories. Istanbul was Byzantium and Constatinople before and the populations became a hybrid, mer

Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices

Dear Johannes, I was struck the same way as you after the description of Athens as a trruly European city. I have been in almost the whole European continent and never found two cities similar to each other, not either the Scandinavian capitals, in the perifery of Europe, almost like the Romans "li

[-empyre-] the polis blog

The Polis Blog is one of my favorite readings, combining urbanism, art and activism. Here they write about informal settlements and how to work to make them sustainable. http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/03/can-co-production-bring-infrastructure.html I am sure when Teddy Cruz join us we are going

[-empyre-] thank you for this week

On Sunday/Monday (depending of which continent we are and our calendars and watches :) are we finishing our first week of discussion in -empyre. I am deeply grateful to every one who participated with enthusiasm and generosity and I want thank specially to Ethel Baraona and to Pablo de Soto, our fi

[-empyre-] new week, new guests, some reminders

March 2011 on –empyre soft-skinned space moderated by Ana Valdes (UR) with Brian Holmes (US), Alicia Migdal, (UR) Ethel Baraona Pohl (SP), Pablo de Soto (SP), Carlos Urzola (US), Sabela de Tezanos (UR), Diego Hernández Nilson (UR), Leandro Delgado (UR), Eduardo Navas (US), Ricardo Dominguez (US), a

[-empyre-] translation of Alicia Migdal's text

Please friends I am swimming in deep waters here :(, translating by myself (a Non-Native English speaker) texts written by two writers I admire for their language skills :( It means my English is not going to make their texts justice but it's only a way to facilitate for those of you who can't rea

[-empyre-] my translation of Sabelas post

Please friends I am swimming in deep waters here :(, translating by myself (a Non-Native English speaker) texts written by two writers I admire for their language skills :( It means my English is not going to make their texts justice but it's only a way to facilitate for those of you who can't rea

[-empyre-] Benjamin, Cortázar, tatto

This week I feel the discussion is changing tone and adding new voices new registers new shades of knowledge and feelings. We are having emotions here, too seldom discussed on electronic exchanges or in cyberculture. I am one of the few of my generation familiar with videogames, as a woman and as a

[-empyre-] time and space and movement

I am an urban dweller, it means I only enjoy the cities, any city, the feeling of many people moving around busy with their own lives. Last year I worked at the Swedish National Direction of Travelling Exhibitions, an institution with 40 employees and a beautiful new building in the city of Visby,

[-empyre-] Benjamin, Peter Weiss, the city as performative?

I am reading again Peter Weiss "The Aesthetics of Resistance", the best description of Berlin together with Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz. The city is described as a hub of energy, as the place where all converge, where utopian thoughts and political work blends and interact. Curiously I don't find

Re: [-empyre-] Benjamin, Peter Weiss, the city as performative?

st > curious - did Weiss reference any of this? > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: > >> I am reading again Peter Weiss "The Aesthetics of Resistance", the best >> description of Berlin together with Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz. The city >&g

Re: [-empyre-] Benjamin, Peter Weiss, the city as performative?

should write something about > this case of Barber and Gert, Alan! It is a great oportunity of thinking > about the neglected origins of performance art.. > best > Lucio BR > > 2012/3/13 Ana Valdés > >> Interesting references, Alan! The Living Theatre is an important part of &

[-empyre-] Fwd: tango lyrics and the evolution of the city

Sending it again, I guess it was stucked in the interface, sorry if you get two copies! Ana -- Forwarded message -- From: Alicia Migdal Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:13 PM Subject: tango lyrics and the evolution of the city To: soft_skinned_space Tango lyrics are an excellent

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots

Dear all, I am so impressed and happy for the great input and the quality of the discussion we carry on here! As someone coming back to my homecity after 34 years of abscense living abroad (Stockholm) it's vital to me understand the codes and the networks working here in Montevideo, a city still ha

[-empyre-] translation of Alicia Migdal's post

Dear all: I wish introduce in this conversation a reference to the axis North-South or since I write from the South, the axis South-North. The Spanish-Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres García has a famous work from the 30:s where the map of America i(both North and South) is reversed, pointing ou

[-empyre-] a request

Dear -empyrians, I has been working hard this week making translations of the wonderful wellwritten and inspirating posts made by my friends Alicia Migdal and Sabela de Tezanos, two of the most lucid intellectuals I know and extraordinary writers. I had already difficulties with Sabelas first texts

Re: [-empyre-] Sur-Norte

Thank you dear Johannes for your generous words! I feel exactly what you say, I moved some months ago from the North-North (Stockholm) and I am now living in the deep South. It's challenge and I agree with you, as an intelectual belonging to the North and to the South I think my duty and my pleasur

Re: [-empyre-] a request

Thank you Pedro, gracias! Ana On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM, pedro wrote: > hi ana > > i can help you with the translation if you like, send me offlist. > > thanks to everybody by the way, really enjoying the list > > best > > pedro > > > On Thu, Mar 15,

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

Teddy, wonderful post, thank you for it! It made me think hard and to try to back to myself. Yesterday on a military base, a human body was recovered. Bones and clothes, nothing more. Today the remains are being examinated by doctors and judges. It's not CSI, it's reality for the whole South Americ

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

o it. Ana On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, ARISTIDE ANTONAS wrote: > Dear Teddy Cruz, dear Ana Valdés, > > Strategy is the topic to discuss, because the phenomena we are into can > only keep a continuity to the past through the inertness that you described > as the last importan

Re: [-empyre-] from rural upstate NY: Re: on re-thinking our practices

Dear Renate, many thanks for your warm words! You should know in my nomadic life and heart (Uruguay, Sweden, Palestine and many other places) -empyre and Netbehaviour, hosted by our wonderful Furtherfield friends, has always been "home" to me. I am so happy I could gather this month people I admire

Re: [-empyre-] on re-thinking our practices

Thank you Lucio, Brian, Teddy and all participating in the discussion in the last two days! I feel very inspired and very challenged here, because we are discussing things at the macro level and at micro level. How can we change things in the suprastructure and in the everyday life? How can we deal

Re: [-empyre-] network critical: immanent effects

tion that will be important will be analogous to the one concerning the > Internet; will the market prescribe the protocols of connectivity in the > city or can we think other possible systems of civility, within this given > frame? Who will be the subject who would fight for what urban pro

Re: [-empyre-] de Sabela

Dear all. I am really grateful for being participating in this forum. Through this week I felt empowered and much richer, a constant instance of reflexion. I am sorry for not having so much time to answer to all your appreciations, links and contributions. Thanks to all and more specially to Ana. I

[-empyre-] change of the order of the guests

Dear empyreans: I got a message today from Leandro Delgado warning me about his problems this week with deadlines and work. And Diego moved this week from Montevideo to Florianapolis in Brazil to continue his phd. Conclusion: we change the order of the guests and I asked Teddy Cruz and Brian Holmes

Re: [-empyre-] time and space and movement

d the act > of reinvention (one could argue a more distanced form of regentrification) > in both Visby and Montevideo, and in this sense I think that cities are > amazing social organisms that reflect the diversity and complexity of the > people who dwell in them. > > Eduardo > >

Re: [-empyre-] eje Sur-Norte

Hi Brian and Johannes! Johannes, thank you for your magnificent translation of Sabela's post and thank you to Brian to write and answer to Alicia's great post in Spanish! It's really a necessity to be able to write and read in other languages than English if we really want to reach deeper. I think

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin

Dear Teddy, Spanish should be spoken as widely as English to equilibrate the North-South relationships! :) I change often during the day between my three languages, Swedish, Spanish and English, a very exotic mixture of languages, I agree :) and I am always happy to be able to change skin (to quote

Re: [-empyre-] eje Sur-Norte

Yes because I respect people's difficulties of reading good Spanish (as much I respect Sabela's and Alicia's difficulties to read and write in English). I mean we addopt as convention using English as linguafranca, as the Ancient adopted Latin as common languag who made people born in Germany, Gree

Re: [-empyre-] eje Sur-Norte - translation of BH by BH

Dear Lucio, dictatorships are never clear to understand or can control the whole spectrum of social life. I was in Baghdad last year attending a journalist conference, in the middle of the Green Zone, and the most Iraqui people we met, translators, high educated people, many of them had spent some

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / retrofitting -- not

Thanks Simon to add another South to the discussion! I agree full that nobody can demand from the Occupy movement other things than the movement already does, create an emotion, a feeling. Of course all the movements have their own agenda but it's not, as you said, an unified agenda. "We no longer

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / retrofitting -- not

I think again we are speaking about a notion of State, a notion of society. Since Modernity we are applying a model based on "universal values". But as the German sociologist Dietmar Kamper wrote in a heated polemic with Jurgen Habermas, Modernity gave us concentrations camps and nuclear warfare as

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / retrofitting -- not

Yes dear Ethel, the wonderful concept of glocality! Ana On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ethel Baraona Pohl wrote: > "Act Glocal?" > --- > Ethel Baraona Pohl | dpr-barcelona > twitter @ethel_baraona | > about.me

[-empyre-] translation of Sabela's text

The actual extended practice of the tattoing has their roots of the emergency of the urban tribes, associated with the movements around rock music and punk in the 70:s and 80:s. A selfinflicted sign of identity, traditionally the different uses of tattoin has been linked with rites de passage, ini

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / retrofitting -- not

Hi Nicholas, Salvatore, Michele, Simon and all, I am so happy this discussion is so rich and reach so many levels! I loved your Maps of Babel, Salvatore, I tweeted it today when I got it through the Spectre list! I think it's a red thread knitting the different points where the discussion has gone

[-empyre-] text from Alicia Migdal and translation

El término resiliencia, en español, como me pregunta Johannes, es utilizado sobre todo en el psicoanálisis, como capacidad de superar adversidades extremas. Hace dos años se estrenó en Montevideo una obra teatral de Marianella Morena con ese título, que escenificaba el texto de Carlos Liscano *El

Re: [-empyre-] Extension on Sabela's text (translation by Ana of Sabela's text)

orm in which the fashioned body is made visible, give > the wearer a public identity while fostering the construction of the self.” > > > > Kind Regards, > Michele > > > -Original Message- > From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Ana Valdés > Sent:

Re: [-empyre-] The city as an old skin -- retrofitting

As always Johannes you make my skin crawl :) (and I say that in a really good sense, flattering your capacity of provoking new readings and deeper discussions :). I spent a few hours with Sabela today and we laughed heartily off the different levels and "skins" the discussion is navigating through

[-empyre-] Diego Hernandez post, in Spanish now, translation to Spanish soon!

Oí por primera vez el término resiliencia de parte de unos biólogos que investigaban desde una perspectiva paleoambiental los bañados y humedales de la costa oceánica uruguaya. Lo usaban para referirse a la capacidad de estos delicados ecosistemas para adaptarse a cambios en el nivel del mar (que a

[-empyre-] first part of the translation of Diego's post

Sorry for the delay but translate into English is a tough job, guys and gals! :) It took me twenty minutes to find the crossreferences to Deleuze and Guattari in English :( I read them in French Spanish and Swedish, never in English, the Wikipedia was not helping this time :) I heard for first tim

[-empyre-] Diego Hernandez post, now translated in full

I heard for first time the term resilience from some biologists investigating from a paleoenvironmental prospective the sanks and humid zones from the Uruguayan oceanic coasts. They used it to describe the capacity of those sensible ecosystems to adapt to changes in the sealevel (the sea went forw

[-empyre-] today starts the last week of my moderation

And I am not sure how many of my guests are still on schedule for this week. Depending of different things many of them has not being able to participate actively in the discussion, Pablo is moving to Brazil to make a PhD, Diego moved to Brazil to continue his PhD (Brazil is hot in academia, seems

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / molecular revolution in process ?

Dear Johannes, I am so thrilled by your brilliant exposition and synthesis of the whole month's conversation! But I react a bit about your comment "I know nothing about exhumation". I read your book some years ago (Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture) and I found very interesting yo

[-empyre-] the city and the network

"New community functions will be necessary in order to prescribe a protocol or to install it temporarily. The Internet can provide the grouping system in order that concrete communities of inhabitants decide to introduce and test a protocol. The municipalities may act as the legalizing power that c

Re: [-empyre-] the city and the network

d I would like to > know how (and which of) these forms of painful resistance actually works > out without the control of biopower (if it does) and how animality in all > these examples shows and allows a relationship with humanity (if it does) > different from all we can know and und

Re: [-empyre-] the city and the network

have to consider too in societies that operate > through it. > > Aristide Antonas > > Sent from antonas iPhone > > On Mar 27, 2012, at 4:15, Ana Valdés wrote: > > > "New community functions will be necessary in order to prescribe a > protocol or to install it t

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / molecular revolution in process ?

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Johannes Birringer < johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > > dear Ana > > i can assure you I know nothing about exhumations > and would not want to be an expert or lover in forensics. > > respectfully > Johannes > > I am not sure if I grasp the sense of your st

[-empyre-] to Teddy

Teddy, thank you for a great posting, sadly my own city, the city of Montevideo, lacks the kind of insight the mayors you named had. The city is in verge of becoming a chaos with gated communities and red zones, where people has been living for several generations. In despite of a Leftist administr

Re: [-empyre-] Resilient Latin America: Reconnecting Urban Policyand the Collective's Imagination

Thank you Alejandro for an interesting text! And Brian and Teddy! After reading all those posts regarding the city and it's possibilities and challenges I was thinking about the origin of the cities. Who made the cities and for whom the cities were built? I think I need to go to Diegos rich text to

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin -- Sparta and the helots / molecular revolution in process ?

Dear Johannes, I apologize if I went too hard on you :( But I and my fellows and friends here are a bit too sensitive with the issue exhumations. I feel that death and mourning are related and if you deny someone the mourning you are denying this person the grief, the reconciliation with the death

Re: [-empyre-] The city as a skin - and griefscapes as social sculptures

Dear Johannes, I wish I had had the ability of reading you entirely :) When I was writing about mourning I was not writing "against" you but "with" you, I mean trying to add some personal reflections on the subject/topic exhumation/death/mourning/performance And by the way I feel this month's discu

[-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

Hola a todos, ha sido importante para mí leer las últimas intervenciones de Johannes, porque toca la médula de un tema social e individualmente muy delicado. Cómo exhumar el trauma y cómo revalorizar los rituales sin que éstos pierdan su trascendencia es un interrogante doble que nos toca a todos

[-empyre-] last message from your March mnoderator :)

Dear friends, today is the last day of the month and it's the last day of the moderation of -empyre I took at the beginning of the month. It has been a awesome month with great exchanges and an exciting and inspiring discussion in English and Spanish, I feel a curious mixtiure of relief and longui

[-empyre-] last message from my moderation

Ana Valdés 11:58 PM (33 minutes ago) to soft_skinned_s. Dear friends, today is the last day of the month and it's the last day of the moderation of -empyre I took at the beginning of the month. It has been a awesome month with great exchanges and an exciting and inspiring discussion in En

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

Pedro no pude bajar el pdf, hay un problema, lo puedes revisar? Pedro, I was not able to download the pdf, it was a format problem, can you check it? And Brian I was very excited about your use of Foucault. For me Discipline and Punish has been a pivotal book, teaching me about powergames and coh

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

I am going a bit skeptical here, I was also involved in the Moderna Museets discussion about the institution's own role and Museum Futures was a part of it. I arranged two seminars at the Museum, one about gender and one about postcoloniality. But the Museum was not able to use the conclusions coll

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

Dear -empyre fellows and dear Brian: I think this is the biggest challenge today for all of us thinking radical but needing all the time compromises and agreements with the System to keep us afloat economically and socially. Can we generate and reproduce radical thoughts and radical actions within

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

Brian, Pedro, Jennifer, all. I think, again, we are writing or reading us in a loop, where thoughts and facts and opinions emerge from a deep feeling of insatisfaction. We are all writing/thinking from the privilege, we have the skills of the language, we can formulate our thoughts, we publish our

[-empyre-] collective curatorship?

My friend the architect Marcus Novak coined used often the concept "liquid architecture". Within the concept were a broad array of elements and forms adapted both from Boals "Theater of the Opressed" to Gayatri Spivak subaltern theory, a continuation itself from Gramsci's theories. In Novak's terms

Re: [-empyre-] collective curatorship?

ge - bill burroughs, > gloria anzaldúa,monique wittig, jodi and the marvellous mary daly > (gyn/ecology, the wickedary) - cut the control lines - but its so > pervasive, the control, we're guerilla aware, like saying "nosotras" > because we feel that way. > > Maybe we

Re: [-empyre-] collective curatorship?

and that an exhibition should be like a > spatial text. > > What do you all think about this ? Can an exhibition be like a text ? > Should it be ? > > best > > p/ > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > > Pedro, of cou

Re: [-empyre-] curating the faith that can move mountains

Haha, Johannes! Sorry if my bad formulation made you (and others :) to believe it was Alfredo's installation which is now safeguarded for eternity (I think the Mormons have a claim that the Lord is going to keep them, their chosen relatives and Salt Lake City as preserved remnants of Humanity, whe

Re: [-empyre-] re- Death of the Curator?

One of the best curators I had the priviledge to work with is Sarat Maharaj, one of the most modest and low key curators I know. Born in South Africa of Indian ancestors Maharaj was the co-curator of Documenta XI. He is a researcher at Goldsmith and a professor in Lund, Sweden at the Art Academy. S

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