[-empyre-] Critical Dromology - and Inertia

[S.C.Redhead at brighton.ac.uk]

To all who are contributing to the already interesting Virilio thread
this month, started by Ricardo and Frederic.

I am posting more extensively later in the month but will try to keep up
with the fascinating debates before then...

Agree with Renate about Virilio's stance on feminism - he says in
interviews, though, that Luce Irigaray is a personal friend. There is
not much evidence in any of his written texts that the friendship helped
him to engage with French feminism more widely although his 'poetics'
would have benefited from Cixous, Irigaray and others'linguistic
innovations. So many of Virilio's lasting influences stem from early
1960s French phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others who taught
him at the Sorbonne at that time) as well as his 'spiritual' reading
that there often seems little room for 'new' influences.

All the best and keep the conversations flowing

Steve Redhead, LL.B, LL.M (Manchester) Ph.D (Warwick)
Professor of Sport and Media Cultures
University of Brighton
United Kingdom
http://www.steveredhead.com
author of 14 books including The Jean Baudrillard Reader (Columbia
University Press, European Perspectives series, 2008), The Paul Virilio
Reader (Columbia University Press, European Perspectives series,
2004)and Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture (University
of Toronto Press, 2004). 



-----Original Message-----
From: empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
[mailto:empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Renate Ferro
Sent: 12 November 2008 03:10
To: soft_skinned_space
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Critical Dromology - and Inertia

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

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