[-empyre-] Critical Dromology - and Inertia

[Renate Ferro]

To Ricardo and Frederic and all other empyreans,

I wanted to pick up on the conceptual thread of  FLOW that ran  though
both of your recent responses.
First, Ricardo you mention the work "FLOODNET" created by Brett Stalbaum
and Carmin Karasic that literally flooded error messages that performed
networked social actions (and in your words) spilled out into the world.

And speaking of environmental global flow you both  mention the polar ice
caps as ecological catastrophe spilling out into global flow and function.

Frederic you mention Virilio's concept of inertia presenting both fear and
desire...
And if I'm understanding my rudimentary translating skills "since the
industrial revolution inertia has had a bad reputation, one that has never
ceased to de-valorize the solid and the static to the benefit of the
dynamic..." or the "fluid"

Realizing that Virilio was not a fan of cyborg feminism, I wonder what he
would say to his French Feminist counterparts who also often wrote of
fluid, dynamic written interventions?  I remember the writing of Chantal
Chawarf who wrote referencing the disruption of male patriarchy via
women's writing (in her essay ""Linguistic Flesh") "I feel the political
fecundity of mucus, milk, sperm, secretions which gush out to liberate
energies and give them back to the world.   Feminine Language must, by its
very nature work on life passionately scientifically, poetically,
politically in order to make it invulnerable. "

Verena Conley will be joining the discussion at the end of the month who I
know has written about Virilio and feminism but I'm wondering what either
of you or anyone  else lurking on empyre imagined what Virilio's response
might be?

In the flow in Ithaca, NY,  Renate Ferro



Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fine Arts, Inter-media
Cornell University, Tjaden Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853

Website:  http://www.renateferro.net
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>

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