Re: [-empyre-] matter and meaning

[Cristiano Bianchi <cristianobianchi@yahoo.com>]

Lachlan,

first things first. You being a curator and/or artist
(or a combination of the two) should pay more
attention to details. Do not let your preconceptions
overwhelm you. You spelt my name wrong :-)

I was referring to your initial comment:

> What does this mean in the empires of narrative,
> drama, and ways of understanding the consumption of
> images and texts in hypermedia?

And I can only answer with another question. What does
the Beeothoven 9th mean? What do Antonello da Messina
painting mean? What do Canova's statues mean? Meaning
(the one you can narrate in an email/text message) is
not the point. I do not have to tell you that art is a
synthesis of idea and form (this is elementary school
in my country). Separate the one from the other and
they both MEAN absolutely nothing. You cannot say that
Emily Dickinson talk about solitude. She does it in a
unique form. If I or you do it, it'll be different
(and can it possibly MEAN the same?)

As for body as text, oh come on. What is that? What
does THAT mean? Possibly some 'post-something'
'avant-apeshit' secret code?

FInally, I was not introducing any matter and memory
theme. Just replying to a message titled Samba and
scopophilia, wathever that means. Living in London, I
sometimes come to terms with a couple of things I most
of the time can take, but in some moments I have to
fight. One is the universal apologising without really
meaning it or being sorry. Another one are places full
of intellectuals. "Into what?" a friend of mine used
to joke...

But I'm probably too think for this?

Again, nothing personal :-) It's meaning that matters
here.

Ciao, Cristiano



 --- Lachlan Brown <lachlan@london.com> wrote: > 
> 
> My God, its a discussion group of Curators and
> Artists!
> 
> I was warned several months ago when I began my
> cultural anthropology
> of 'Internet' and its fauna that I would come across
> beliefs incompatible
> with my own, but 'It means 'nothing'. Body
> is not text. Meaning is totally unimportant.' in the
> context of
> video online and interpersonal relationships takes
> the biscuit.
> 
> What a great way to introduce the 'matter and
> memory' theme, Christiano.
> 
> I'll be quiet and I'll listen.
> 
> 
> Lachlan
> 
> 
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