Re: [-empyre-] a book, dna and code

[timothy murray <tcm1@cornell.edu>]

Hi, everyone, sorry that a long and packed trip to Asia has kept me 
from contributing to this fascinating discusison of dna poetics.  I'm 
particularly stimuated by the recent exchanges over poesis, 
relationality, and representation.  Eugene will remember 
participating in a special issue of CTHEORY that Arthur and Marilouse 
Kroker edited on "Tech Flesh: The Promise and Perils of the Human 
Genome Project."    At that time, Arthur, Marilouise, and I also 
produced a special issue of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA 
(http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu), which includes some 15 
creative net.art pieces whose artistic interventions exemplify the 
kind of cross between aesthetics and relation that Eugene and Judity 
have been arguing to be constitutive of the discourse, if not 
practice, of genomics.  I meant to call your attention to this issue 
a bit earlier in the month, and hope it's not too late for you to 
enjoy it now.

Thanks again for the fabulous discussion this month.

Tim

> Quoting dean wilson <deanwilson9@gmail.com>:
>
>  Judith wrote in a previous post:
>
>  "... maybe all critique is ethics, but it is precisely this
>  collapse that I resist at least by pointing it out."
>
>  We could start with that and then add to it, perhaps. Dean
>
>
>
> ...how about:
>
> Critique, like ethics, presupposes relation (or, perhaps, relationality).
>
> But the disjunction between them relies on the quality of relation. For
> instance, is 'relation' for critique a relation of opposition, distancing,
> sublimation, etc.? Likewise, is 'relation' for ethics a relation of alterity,
> 'facing,' standing aside, acting against or acting with, etc.?
>
> Relation is this sense is really correlation (that is, two terms that are
> distinct but inseparable).
>
> Relation, as presupposed by critique and ethics, is also the 
> conjunction between
> critique and ethics.
>
> (add something here about James Watson as Zeus wielding a double helix...)
>
> (...con't...)
>
> -Eugene
>
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