Re: [-empyre-] topic on topics

["James Barrett" <jim.barrett@humlab.umu.se>]

I have just read a very good essay (thanks to Rhizome.org) by Remedios Zafra;
INVISIBLE WRITING, THE BLIND EYE AND OTHER (FRAGMENTED) FORMS OF POWER AND
GENDER VIOLENCE ON THE INTERNET (Violencia Sin Cuerpos)
http://www.carceldeamor.net/vsc/textos/textorze.html
and one passage from it contradicts very well I think with something I
supposed yesterday in my post (me being lost in a moment of unthinking
enthusiasm):

"While it may be true that in the early years of its existence, most
female users saw in the Internet an opportunity for effective political
action (its dehierarchized structure seemed ideal for this), the Net has
not resisted the invisible writing and blind eye of patriarchal power.
Instead, it continues to reiterate models of domination, oftentimes
protected by the bravery that comes with anonymity and the self-regulatory
processes of those who see that historically strong identities and the
situations of domination and reactionary powers that maintain them are
falling apart. The horizontal nature of the medium, which is constantly
invoked as a suitable habitat for deconstruction and dehierarchization of
who we are, does not only suggest the materialization of individuals'
creative energies in new forms of emancipation, but in many cases merely
acts as a disguise for the repetition and sublimation of the collapse of
androcentric power."

> To see the earth after the earthquake...
>
> James has taken part just I have finished this mail so I post mine just
> before I know of James'content.
> Sorry.
>
> A cultural transgression: I do not know if Dada quote by Patrick could
> regard my strange way to be placed in the
> debate by the game of my dissonances and English-speaking faults;
> although my thought in French is also moved, as each can imagine it.
> Nevertheless I have some claim to think that my points of view lack
> neither
> a logic nor a relevance; so I pursue... Or did you talk of our missing
> tropicalist artists?
>
> Oswaldo de Andrade who signed the anthropophagique manifesto (1928) was a
> inspired by Marcel Duchamp... he was just after Dada (1915-1925); he
> worked
> with the composer Villa Lobos. He is so important of a Bresilian influence
> exceeding the art world that Derrida could have found his deconstruction
> in
> a post-structural creative interpretation of poetical influence from
> Andrade
> (it is my own fiction of Derrida) and recent works of Baudrillard too (his
> part as a real cannibalism of post-media shape of the communication).
>
> Oswaldo de Andrade is still a reference in the actual art and theater in
> Brazil.
>
> I mean of all transgressive acts of art as it could be announced by this
> theory in actual tropicalist theories in move. From another part I think
> of
> the The Creole theory as extensive culture at Edouard Glissant's.
>
> How and what of this fabulous and diverse arts today? What of it online?
> what of it live? What on real anthropophagical pop art?
>
> And my tribute as a question by the way -waiting Brazil and Tropics to
> topic: where are they?
>     Montreal in big fallow land. Nobody had imagined that an earthquake
> was
> able to take place here. The reheating of the icecap was more dreaded.
> Fragments by fragments, in ends of their history the city had grown, at
> the
> edge of the Saint Laurent. One meteorite them exploded so that we do not
> speak about it any more. The city become sanctuary never was not able to
> be
> reconstructed and besides, we built no more cities, when legally one could
> been able to make it... Finally, the last key put in burst collapsed of
> cast
> iron; that of the ice in cornet - no mystic snow. Just the mirror.
>     More lawn to be cropped; it was not more than iron and stony recumbent
> effigies to push opened doors.
>     " SORNETTE! " She said.
>       Following the example of the time of the Prohibition, which had
> prospered just before the institution Architecture, henceforth, still it
> made not enough warmly, for wood lice. How he, who did not know any more
> if
> he was not the last one, was still alive?
>     As for her, cig-zig-fag madness of the Port Cheese Hello, it did not
> have more than to get himself his cigs by boat. The virtual town on the
> other side of the border had it.
>     Nevertheless, excepted the tobacconist in the big bosoms (Fellini
> dreading the breathlessness, during its given an ovation passage, had left
> him with the losses and the profits of the community starving for material
> failing), nothing over there was insured.
>      Now thus she did not like the Sapphic love. He devoted itself.
>      On the way back, he had contracted a hay fever. It was in full
> summer,
> in the field of the knowledge.
>
>
>
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