Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network

2012-01-12 Thread adam
of the list, that shoot down the idea of open book production. adam looking forward to the rest of the discussion tiziana terranova Il 09/01/12 12.07, Simon Biggs ha scritto: Welcome to all empyre subscribers and, especially, this months moderators and discussants, Penny Travlou, Smita

Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network

2012-01-13 Thread adam
) that demonstrate a model we can all participate in as cultural workers. Kickstarter approaches have their issues, but I think there are many people, orgs, and companies that want books produced and have the $ and motivation to pay for them to be produced. adam On 01/12/2012 06:40 PM, Dmytri

[-empyre-] a comment on reuse

2012-01-19 Thread adam
differently. We need living books and under copyright we have to fight very hard to keep them alive. 1. Daniel James^ 2. http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/ ^ 3. http://benfry.com/traces/^ 4. http://vimeo.com/10750350^ -- -- Adam Hyde Founder, FLOSS Manuals Project Manager, Booki Book

Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network

2012-01-24 Thread adam
for me in this scenario doesn't hold much of what it was (so much so that I think it would need another name) but is tremendously exciting. adam On 01/24/2012 02:42 PM, marc garrett wrote: I agree with Snelting's comment. For if we are to get some kind of grip on what publishing is, we need

Re: [-empyre-] comments welcome

2012-01-26 Thread adam
On 01/26/2012 02:22 PM, Simon Biggs wrote: Adam cited the Sharism statement: The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring

Re: [-empyre-] comments welcome

2012-01-27 Thread adam
editable sources. Rob - you would know this better than I - what free licenses are there suitable for books that require the source to be available? adam On 26/01/12 17:17, Simon Biggs wrote: I'm all for free culture - of course. But I am also pragmatic, seeking to understand the legal side

Re: [-empyre-] comments welcome

2012-01-28 Thread adam
is interested get involved. maybe we need to create a free book manifesto, something similar to the four freedoms of the free software movement. a manifesto that requires access to the source in an easily editable and transferable form amongst other requirements. adam - Rob

Re: [-empyre-] license

2012-01-30 Thread adam
and producing free software and free content. adam On 01/29/2012 06:51 PM, h w wrote: Adam wrote: = We need to get rid of these fears, stop hiding behind licenses, upholding old values and processes of closed culture within free culture and embrace

Re: [-empyre-] The New Aesthetic - questions and conclusions

2012-09-28 Thread adam
read the archives for this conversation in detail. adam On 09/28/2012 03:25 PM, Lichty, Patrick wrote: Since my last received post was on the 13th (and I apologize for not driving the conversation harder), I am a little dismayed at the dead air. Therefore i would like to aks a few questions

Re: [-empyre-] about Brooke's post

2013-05-27 Thread adam
a moment it would be very interesting to hear a little more about what you think the students dont understand about the process and any strategies to get them to appreciate more what they are gaining from it... adam On 05/23/2013 10:22 AM, Gabriela VargasCetina wrote: --empyre- soft

[-empyre-] question about online writing

2009-10-28 Thread adam hyde
is it? adam On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 12:49 +1100, Anna Munster wrote: I don't want to sound like a fascist here...but as moderator I am supposed to keep people on topic on the empyre list as it is a list devoted to particular topics by the month. The question has been raised about whether

Re: [-empyre-] question about online writing

2009-10-29 Thread adam hyde
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:56 -0400, Marco Deseriis wrote: Hi Adam, :-) Hey Marco :) So I want to ask you a question. In your experience with the Floss Manuals Foundation, how many times have you noticed that the workshops you run are actually driven by a shared project? In other words, do

Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network

2012-01-13 Thread Adam Parker
development. Cheers, Adam -- Adam Parker Campus Academic Coordinator Qantm Melbourne Qantm College Melbourne Campus 235 Normanby Rd South Melbourne VIC 3205 Australia +61 (0) 3 8632 3400 | Phone +61 (0) 3 8632 3401 | Fax www.sae.edu | Web www.qantm.com.au | Web www.saeshortcourses.com | Web SAE

Re: [-empyre-] benefits of practice to conventional research / could gamification save academia?

2012-02-22 Thread Adam Parker
that could provide real opportunities for renewal (e.g. challenging the rhetoric of efficiency in interaction design) are things that gamification does not presently explore. Cheers, Adam -- Adam Parker Campus Academic Coordinator Qantm Melbourne Qantm College Melbourne Campus 235 Normanby Rd

Re: [-empyre-] screens

2012-07-07 Thread Adam Parker
Frame buffer invented by Richard Shoup, working on Alan Kay's Xerox PARC Alto project, in 1972. First recorded bitmap picture = Shoup, excited, holding a small placard reading it works. ES commercialized the device. ~Adam Sent from my iPhone On 07/07/2012, at 3:18, Rob Myers r

Re: [-empyre-] Bioart and the Vital Politics of Populations

2013-09-02 Thread Adam Nocek
that Esposito misses); and in this perspective, bioart becomes an essential site for this biopolitical work. I'm wondering if you could comment on this, perhaps by spelling out how you see bioart functioning in this biopolitical landscape. Thanks, Rob! Best, Adam On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM

[-empyre-] First Postings

2013-09-04 Thread Adam Zaretsky
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks Adam N. for having a mind meld on these topics. Good crew! Off the top, Bioart is living-materials-first in my addled brain. No offense to the object oriented animism of listmania but tinkers and tailors of life feel the experience

Re: [-empyre-] First Postings

2013-09-05 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Adam, for these helpful reflections. I'd like to try to tie together some threads in order to encourage some discussion. It seems to me that Rob's concern over death and affirmation-- or at least as he's expressed it so far-- can

[-empyre-] Ethics of the Semi-Living

2013-09-09 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, First, I'd like to thank our two guests, Rob Mitchell and Cary Wolfe, for an excellent conversation this past week! I think that their insightful comments were able bring bioart and biopolitcs into new proximity. While there were

[-empyre-] Redistributing the material world¹s diverse accents

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Zaretsky
--empyre- soft-skinned space--This is a response to Chris Robbins: I am answering a request for Œmore definitive notion of art goals.¹ Beyond what I had said about bioart offering a reading of science and art in the difficult land of luxurious, useless, process based,

[-empyre-] Living Experiments

2013-09-16 Thread Adam Nocek
! This week I'd like to welcome four new guests into the fold: Adam Zaretsky (who is no stranger!), Phillip Thurtle, Maja Kuzmanovic, and Nik Gaffney. Here is a bit of bio for each of our guests: Phillip Thurtle is director of the Comparative History of Ideas program and associate professor

[-empyre-] Does Cloned Animal Safety take into account the effect of Aesthetics on the long-term Ecological effects of Food Chain Design?, Eye of the Storm, Arts Catalyst, Tate Museum, London UK, 2009

2013-09-22 Thread Adam Zaretsky
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Adam Zaretsky Submitted a Response to the United States Food and Drug Administration call for comments on the Use of Edible Products from Animal Clones or their Progeny for Human Food or Animal Feed as follows: http://www.fda.gov/ohrms

[-empyre-] Animal Interlude, Letter to Alba Guestbook, 2001

2013-09-22 Thread Adam Zaretsky
transparent or forthcoming When you review the modern breeding procedures That went into the formation of Alba? They surely did cause some harm. Signing out until next time, A difficult fan, Adam Zaretsky Research Affiliate, MFA Arnold Demain Fermentation and Industrial Microbiology Laboratory

[-empyre-] AnthropoDecentering and the Hack of the Human Germline

2013-09-23 Thread Adam Zaretsky
and the livestock aesthetics of well bred Cloned Animal meat might help mete out the home on the wide range that the diversity collage shuffle\d into this millenium? In any case, you can read into the issues of Human IGM Œbetween the blinds¹ of the animal model concepts in the two letters. Adam

[-empyre-] New Scales of Living

2013-09-23 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, Once again, a terrific discussion this week. I'd like to extend a big thanks to Adam Z, Phillip, Nik and Maja for their contributions. I know there are still a lot of loose ends -- especially, on the nature of experiment, process

Re: [-empyre-] New Scales of Living

2013-09-24 Thread Adam Nocek
. Thanks, Adam On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Adam Nocek ano...@uw.edu wrote: Hi all, Once again, a terrific discussion this week. I'd like to extend a big thanks to Adam Z, Phillip, Nik and Maja for their contributions. I know there are still a lot of loose ends -- especially, on the nature

[-empyre-] Thanks

2013-09-30 Thread Adam Nocek
to participate in the discussion on bioart and its related themes. I think we covered a truly exceptional amount of ground... so thanks. It was a lot of fun. I look forward to the discussion next month! My best, Adam ___ empyre forum empyre

Re: [-empyre-] New Scales of Living

2013-09-30 Thread Adam Nocek
find our aesthetics. Thanks, Adam On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Phillip S Thurtle thur...@uw.edu wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Interesting points, Adam. I see some interesting synergies with earlier posts as well. We've been using the analytic

[-empyre-] Neo-eco-liberalism

2014-09-08 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, I'd like to welcome Ross Exo Adams and Adrian Parr to the first week at -empyre! This week's topic addresses what I'm calling, Neo-eco-liberalism. The title references the complicated way that ecological catastrophe dominates so

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Adam AJ Nocek, September 2014: Design That Matters

2014-09-08 Thread Adam Nocek
: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- We welcome Adam A.J. Nocek once again as our guest moderator for September. A.J. Nocek is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department and instructor in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington. His

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 118, Issue 1

2014-09-12 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, Thanks, Ross, Adrian, and others for your great comments. I'm particularly encouraged and intrigued by Adrian's hope that we may be able to subvert neoliberalism via design in the public interest, and so on. I also want to draw

[-empyre-] Mediated Matters

2014-09-15 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, I'd like to thank our invited guests, Ross and Adrian, for participating this past week, as well as all those who joined in the discussion! I'm really encouraged by what has been developing over the past week, especially in

Re: [-empyre-] Mediated Matters

2014-09-18 Thread Adam Nocek
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 organisation... seeing the out of control urbanisation (read: forests of high rising apartment blocks) in what

[-empyre-] Urban Data Politics

2014-09-22 Thread Adam Nocek
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello all, Thanks so much Oron and Johannes for your compelling comments. What's intriguing to me is how much the conversation is an elaboration of last week's developing discussion on urbanization. That is, we seem to be running into the

Re: [-empyre-] Mediated Matters and design abjections

2014-09-23 Thread Adam Nocek
, that was merely a plea to think about life as somehow existing simultaneously within the register of neoliberal expansion and within the register of the geologic time of the planet… to the extent that this is at all possible… Hope this clarifies. Thoughts?? Best, Adam On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11

Re: [-empyre-] Mediated matters and design abjections

2014-10-02 Thread Adam Nocek
, to jump into this discussion! Thanks, Adam On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Johannes Birringer johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- thanks for your very interesting reply, Davide, to some of the comments. And your reply, if we