[-empyre-] Critical Dromology - and Inertia(s)

[rrdominguez at ucsd.edu]

Hola all floods and flows,

The somatic architecture of speed(s), inertia(s) and flow(s) that
spill out from/and through the bunkers, containers and catastrophes
would seem to me to be one of the primary trajectories for critical
dromology.
Which would not only to frame the "politics of the worst" but the
Dis_integration(s)
of that even horizon(s) - an offer the glacial condition(s) and its
"liquidity paradoxes" new flows/new inertia(s) that integrate the speed of
dreams, the Zapatistas like say, (where two impossible conditions create a
"accident" of positivity flows/spillages that call on fem(in)ventio(s)
rather than the catastrophes of static_flows and its counter-inertias via
the industrial revolution(s) that now bind so much of the earth.

It also echo's another important trajectory for a  critical dromology -
the call to create "minor simulations" of "new earths" that impart other
holo-speeds and (w)hole inertias - that are materializing a (lo)bal
flood(s) of with the"...fecundity of mucus, milk, sperm, secretions which
gush out to liberate energies and give them back to the world." These
flows can function as the dis_cordinates for the Demos to Demoi to build
the Agora(s)-of-the-other(s) (from Greek αλλος,
allos, "other", and
αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to
speak in public") - this other Agora allows the (lo)bal earth(s) to speak
and make as notes from the future.

“In our dreams we have seen another world....And this new, true world was
not a dream from the past; it was not something that came from our
ancestors. It came to us from the future; it was the next step that we had
to take.” - subcomandante Marcos (1994)

The (lo)balization movements are not anti-globalization (as inertia) but
are instead seeking to invent another type of globalization, (lo)bal
movements are not centered or de-centered social formations, instead they
spread out across the arcs of the realities as distributed networks
flow(s) that seek to link with all those who are left-out of the
neoliberal globe, they are peer-to-peer networks that were and are more
about the humans on the ground than about those who had or have access to
the network – the networks became networks for the network-less:“The
temporal fractalization of dead capital has allowed a spasm of
micro-invention to emerge and flicker in the liminal-space of the
Lacandona jungle; occurring somewhere between the imaginary borders of the
American hologram and the real Taco Bell power of neo-liberalism's NAFTA:
the Zapatistas. In the Lacandona, a jungle in delirium, floats a temporary
construction of plant, flesh, and circuits that is attempting to play out
a rhizomatic disturbance, an "ante-chamber" of a "revolution that will
make revolution possible..." The Zapatistas are not the first postmodern
revolution, but the last; they are a vanishing mediation between the
breaking mirror of production (dead capital) and the shattering of the
crystal of (de)materialization (virtual capital).”  The “tipping point”
was now steaming and ready to shout out as a full spectrum force of
(lo)bal movement(s) who were flung into the 21st century by avant-garde of
the indigenous future(s).

My very best in dream flows,
Ricardo

On Tue, November 11, 2008 7:10 pm, Renate Ferro wrote:
> 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
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>
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-- 
Ricardo Dominguez
Assistant Professor
Hellman Fellow

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