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<div class="moz-forward-container"> Dear <<empyreans>>,
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">We seem to be between two weather
systems tonight on the island of Waiheke in the Hauraki Gulf.
The American contender for the America's Cup (aka the Prada)
under the helm of Dean Barker (don't ask me why) has just
decided to attempt a mid-air somersault and ended up capsizing.
(Both interesting words.) <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hoping for a summer thunderstorm with
those huge drops of rain. The heat settling and the high air in
rapid movement between two walls of black cloud.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I find myself an independent art |
theatre researcher. Involuntary. I would rather be working for
an affiliation. But from what I hear about the level of digital
autoveillance required by teaching institutions, and
self-management, performance assessments, perhaps I should count
myself lucky.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">These past several years I have been
working on an extended essay addressing art research, artistic
research--artistic practice as academic research, and it is in
view of this work that I answer the open call: what has been
influencing my research and production?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">-- Raymond Ruyer's neoformalism<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">-- Bernard Stiegler's technological
protention(ism)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">-- Alphonso Lingis's elemental
imperative<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">-- Gilles Deleuze's problem of the
formulation of the problem, as an edge to navigate--somersault,
capsize, often.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">--<span> Félix Guattari's ecological
thinking after psycho-social-eco-individuation of Gilbert
Simondon</span></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span>-- (Blanchot, Bataille,
Levinas, these friends of the outside)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span>... and novelists from Curzio
Malaparte, Virginie Despentes to Julianna Baggott and Samantha
Schweblin, Vila-Matas, Barba, Gamboa...</span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span>for their navigation of the <i>novel</i>
problem: Kundera writes: to forge new existential knowledge.
(His argument in <i>Testaments Betrayed</i> about why we
cannot afford to censor readinglists is exemplary considering
what we will lose from this existential knowledge which comes
out of the historical experience of the individual: we need
neither judge nor suspend judgement on </span><span>Céline,
neither apologise nor excuse him, to learn from him. The
danger is <i>if we do not</i>.)</span></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have also been trying to reconcile
through the experiment of writing the communication of the
medical with the political and the loss of distinct languages in
favour of data.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In 2021 I will be reading Edward
Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Simon</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/21 2:56 pm, Renate Ferro
wrote:<br>
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For the last two weeks of January, 2021 we launch an open call to our members. "What’s on your bookshelf in 2021?" Share a list of the books, online publications and other resources (digital or otherwise) that are on your bookshelf this year. If you are a writer, artist, curator or technologist what has been influencing your own research and production? Do you have a new publication? Please share these titles, publication information and links as well.
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We've all come to marvel at the diverse nature of our monthly topics. What has been most fascinating for us is to consider the power of
this online forum and how the rhizomatic flow between our subscribers¹
research and projects directly imprint upon the ebb and flow of our global
identity. That flow can be reviewed through our ¬empyre archive generously hosted by
the University of New South Wales since 2002.
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Over the next few months our website will be updated.
We also extend a general invitation to any of our subscribers who would like to host a discussion topic over the months of 2021. We can assist your through the process of hosting a monthly topic. Please contact Renate Ferro at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">rferro@cornell.edu</a>.
Happy New Year and please stay safe.
Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
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