Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-18 Thread Hannah Turner
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Sorry just to be popping in occasionally... but this was just so interesting and wanted to ask a question. Ashley, the metaphors of touch used by your respondents, or of some kind of haptic experience with screen technologies are, I

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-17 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Much of our conversation thus far has been bound up with digital objects/quasi-objects/objectiles. Before we wrap the week up, I’d like to look a little more closely at (a slight reformulation of) Daniel’s last question, namely: *Where

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-16 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Spheres 1-20 // Sara Ludy http://www.saraludy.com/spheres120.html In both of their emails, Phil and John called attention to the role of hardware and software, as structural means through which “data files” are attributed a

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-14 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--hi all intriguing examples - I enjoyed the Flann O'Brien bicycle, am wondering whether Deleuzian objectiles might have a place in this discussion, and also wonder how tuned non-francophones might be to Serres' example - the furet being a

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-14 Thread Daniel Rourke
--empyre- soft-skinned space--The problem Phil outlines with Groys's conception of digital things is crucial. In Groys's sense, the digital is neither a flowing circuitry, nor a poor image of an originary world. Auras abound, everywhere we turn, indeed, Groys's digital

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Nicholas O'Brien
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello empyre: Thanks so much to Ashley and the other moderators for inviting me to be a discussant this month. I’ve been following the conversation and am definitely excited to contribute! As a way of getting started I wanted to pick up

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Daniel Rourke
--empyre- soft-skinned space--More echoed thanks to Ashley for bringing us all here and each of the previous occupants of the conversation for kicking things off... Reading Nicolas's thoughts on interruption I was reminded of a text very much* not *about digital

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Robert Leegte
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Nicholas! Thanks for the great ride. Very nice writing. Some feedback. I’m a bit confused how reflecting on an experience is the same as matter or becoming objectified. Could you try and explain from an practical point of view, how

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER - introduction

2014-10-13 Thread Baruch Gottlieb
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Everybody, I am actually working with Yuk on many of these themes and have been trying to feel out the problem of the material in fact we have a monthly meeting here in Berlin, and we are organizing a quarterly conference

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Dragan Espenschied
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Welcome Nicholas! On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Nicholas O'Brien nicholaso...@gmail.com wrote: More recently, whenever I make long car trips (in that ever-so-quintessential Americana way), I rarely remember the mile marker, or the

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Yuk Hui
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank Ashley of bringing us together for this discussion. I just came to the list so I may repeat some of the points that others have discussed. In case, I excuse myself for this. I have written a PhD thesis titled On the Existence of

Re: [-empyre-] week two - MATTER

2014-10-13 Thread Nicholas O'Brien
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks for the lovely responses and questions Daniel and Jan! I wanted to first attend to something that Daniel says: I don't experience interruption as the choice I make to drive off the road, to knowingly halt the journey. I think