Re: [-empyre-] old discussion, and pieces of history

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Hi - My remark wasn't made in relation to your post; I tend strongly to
believe in multiculturalisms as generators of meaning and media. I'm not
sure I understand you below, however, for which I apologize - Alan

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Aliette Guibert wrote:

> Dear Alan, just to answer on a possible misunderstanding.
>
> If the multiculturalism that you have noticed was on my disconnected/
> connected way to take place in the list, I understand that so far it could
> appear in a zoom of a local content, same time it could be a problem for all
> ? and specially you who help for the best communication on the list. So I
> apologize.
>
> This way was not an aggressive nor a stupid one, but a risk coming from a
> poetic rupture, to design any enigmatic realities on which we cannot decide
> anything in the global world ; the part of strange, the part of the fool in
> a strange percept from the mail.
>
> In any case, it is my own way of course... I could not do in another mode in
> the global and unified consensual universe or in a phenomenological approach
> telling from my own experience, direct and indirect experience, a
> proposition to reflect another image of the questions online. As a research
> on difference and singular multitude as tribute to relative decisions.
>
> I remember that telling multitudes with "s" one mean plural as masses of
> classes, while telling multitude without "s" one mean singular in several
> occurrences of the largest mass, a global move of differences with a
> sensitive and cognitive consensus but not rationalist nor an adhesion to a
> special theory or cause. I mean on feelings that can appear and disappear so
> fast than a critical mass effects in physics or epidemics.
>
> Or it would be impossible to imagine that contradictory masses walking in
> unity against the Iraqi war through the world, while they stay from several
> positions that could not be consensual on religions, nor politics for there.
>
> That is cultural or multicultural in fact appears far from the question of
> decision. It is an event happening or not happening and then we have to
> memory as a crib.
>
> Here I re-approach the thematic in discussion that I have infiltrated. And I
> apologize again front of the interlocutors of this curse if they would take
> shade of my last mail.
>
> Aliette G.
>
>
> > De : Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
> > Répondre à : soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> > Date : Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:18:49 -0500 (EST)
> > À : soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> > Objet : Re: [-empyre-] old discussion,  and pieces of history
> >
> >
> >
> > Just want to add here that all of this discussion of works and histories
> > only points to the problematic of new media as a category once again -
> > people come from avant-garde or experimental music, electronics,
> > electrics, performance, film, video, writing, and so forth - and these
> > elements may or may not be combined, programmed, etc.
> >
> > We're not even considering multiculturalisms here - which are often
> > content- and not media-driven.
> >
> > - Alan
> >
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