Re: [-empyre-] Mobile territory

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

Simon

You are better now that you would be just before:) So you need any hard
treatment to reveal your best? (without any seductive provocation from my
part because being myself too much old for playing sadism, but this singular
position giving me the possibility to know and tell that the real name of
activist of Constant Nieuwenhuis as critical architect and theorist in his
time was properly lonely Constant ? when accompanying any friends more a
special one being my proper companion in a thesis of urbanism, going to meet
Constant in Amsterdam for rediscovering the Unitary Urbanism in 1968 ? from
an action in relative criticism of the exhaustive "Société du spectacle"
supplanting all the move in the consciousness).

Encyclopaedia not being  my mode of knowledge. Sorry, I have learnt from the
life and the strange circumstances of meeting other life not from the
studies. But the studies of my friends having surrounded my proper bare life
and having at home any original texts in remind;-)

With extracts, whatever global sense of a work can be adapted to whatever
other sense and objects. It could not be a proof, just a testimony of the
feeling from which the quotation is actualized.

But for may part never speaking in the name of the truth just testimony or
critical reflexion as a personal tribute. Power is not my attention nor my
project.

What I think is the absolute necessity of integrating all forms of
experiments under another discriminating regime than academic, even academic
being a notorious inescapable experiment. There will not be relevant re
borning politics from the theory but emergent theory from the living
mutating by the peoples who realize and integrate it from their cognitive
traditions.

Just any jokes.

Best

A.


On 29/09/06 10:40, "Simon Taylor" <swht@clear.net.nz> probably wrote:

> I have trouble with your English, Aliette, but - to pardon - my French would
> give you more trouble. Your post, handling as it does of 'condiments'
> offered in mine, requires an answer from me equally as generous as yours.
> 
> Yes, I am making sauce - without atttribution of sources - and to cook a
> goose I have not yet caught. But I've seen it in the wild: we _are_
> phenomenologists as witnesses of emergent and fugitive actual 'ingredients'.
> 
> The spice I added, the space of a New Babylon - Constant Nieuwenhuis - I
> imagined, I thought usefully, as a turning inside-out , as the result of
> dromospheric pressure, of a decisively urban field of media mobility - which
> Constant prefigures in these terms: "Distance covered, speed, are no longer
> the yardsticks of movement; and space, lived more intensely, seems to
> dilate. But this intensification of space is only possible due to the
> creative use of technical means." (Constant: 1974) Perhaps this is a nasty
> admixture - Constant read through Virilio - but the latter has been
> available - as I think a critically piquant addition - in an earlier post -
> on my shelf.
> 
> My point is simply that the intensified relation to space ought not to be
> denied the temporal implications of an accelerated realtime such as that
> presented by mobile media as _the_ "technical means" referred to by
> Constant. Virilio shows very well - while talking up intercession in the
> (digital) code but depending on the essayistic and pictorial force of the
> analogon - the timeliness, the (strategic) priority of an accelerated
> reality over a reality _augmented_ by technical means. But I take your
> point: separate code from culture.
> 
> Culture, however, I understand, without at all wanting to underwrite;
> whereas code I don't. But when I say 'understand', I mean in the fugitive
> form of a colonial promised the dish but denied the taste - which is in
> theory delivered by postcolonialism - which divorces exactly the code from
> the culture by the intervention of globalisation/endocolonial
> experimentation.
> 
> The coincidence of moves towards privatisation - proprietary 'bubbles' - of
> the internet with increased mobilisation - in the military sense as well -
> of mediatech, is this the defining moment of mobile telephony? its
> distinction? and the banner and tribune to point to as evidence of its
> allegiance, to whom it owes tribute?
> 
> I ask this not out of facetiousness but to admit to misgivings - and these
> possibly only about the answers I am giving - about serving the discussion
> by pursuing further issues which I nonetheless regard as important and would
> like to think I could enjoy time to contemplate.
> 
> It seems tonight you have offered a far more tantalising dish than I can
> offer in return. Indeed, I've served sauce sans gander or goose.
> 
> Yours,
> Simon Taylor
> 
> 
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