[-empyre-] the ethics of the semi-living

to deal with these fragments of life? If we name them semi-living would that change anything? We spend the last seventeen years trying to figure that out. Oron Oron Catts Director SymbioticA| The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts | School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology

Re: [-empyre-] the ethics of the semi-living

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Rich, Tyler and Lynn First - Lynn asked: What are the degrees to which Semi-Living cells exist? And how did you come to that term? The cells are not semi-living, the cells are alive like cells are alive... it is the assembly

Re: [-empyre-] ah, aesthetics

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Nell, Interestingly enough- in 2002 we organised a conference titled the Aesthetics of Care, there also was very little reference to the heavyweights of aesthetic philosophy. What we had instead was lots of discussion about the

Re: [-empyre-] Mediated Matters

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all - it is good to be here again and thanks Adam for inviting me back. Unfortunately I didn't follow all of the conversation last week, as I was in China, experiencing first hand some of the extremes of urban spatial

Re: [-empyre-] Mediated Matters

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Adam and Johannes Yes, this silence of the ear, a symbolic object. An ear that is made for the eye; whether it is on a back of a mouse or on Stelarc's arm when the sleeve is rolled over. In both cases the ears call us to imagine