Re: [-empyre-] Virtual embodiment made of meat As Time Goes By

2014-07-27 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--dear empyre: so sorry - finding your posts fascinating and unique, but - my inbox is a little overwhelmed? possible to unsubscribe, at least for now? e On Sunday, July 27, 2014 10:28 AM, Johannes Birringer

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Erik Ehn

2014-11-03 Thread Erik Ehn
belongs to those who insist on their facility as technocrats of light. On Monday, November 3, 2014 12:08 PM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I'd like to introduce Erik Ehn, whose plays are often concerned with issues

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

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 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-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-06 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--[an important array of inquiries, ana. looking forward. to earlier question about the position of the performer/re-performer in the art of testimony... the act of re-presenting, including first person, autobiographical accounts, is to

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

2014-11-06 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--museveni is known for exerting crowd control by just killing one or two people as a ugandan friend pointed out to me. wade into a crowd, kill a couple of folks, and everybody quiets down or disperses. this doesn't always work, but seems

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-06 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--yes, you're right... the terroristic act caused real terror... i'm wondering why i said what i said. perhaps - my mind raced to relate it to cliches - part of the design of terror (banality?) - built at such an extreme that we will not

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

2014-11-07 Thread Erik Ehn
. The fish, the gerilla, could not survive without water, the indigenous acted as the water to the fish, from it the gerilla took their nutrients. It was called the massacre It happened in the nineties, far more recently than in Sargon's time. Ana On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Erik Ehn shadowtac

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence

2014-11-08 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--excellent. in the perpetrator, victim, witness triad - the witness is shocked/severed out of the equation, specifically in order to collapse imaginative and expressive space for the victim. the witness still exists, but to demonstrate

Re: [-empyre-] more and the question about performance

2014-11-15 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--a thing, to be art, must represent a thing by other means. so, the life in a flower (a feature of time) is re-presented in arrangement (a feature of space). [barba, dictionary of theatre anthropology] to represent killing by killing is

Re: [-empyre-] more and the question about performance

2014-11-15 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--represented by other means in the sense that the floor didn't need to be swept or if it did that wasn't the point - what was being represented was the labor, above the activity, or specifically spectatorship... so the work of sweeping

Re: [-empyre-] more and the question about performance

2014-11-15 Thread Erik Ehn
--empyre- soft-skinned space--and - many overlaps, but also looking at the difference between destruction and decreation. On Saturday, November 15, 2014 12:33 PM, Erik Ehn shadowtac...@sbcglobal.net wrote: represented by other means in the sense that the floor