[-empyre-] from beginnings to set theory

[naxsmash]

Micha,  i like how you describe
>
>
> the move by artists to create new spaces to reimagine relationality  
> can be
> seen as a move outside of the heteronormative structures of biopower.
>
> Here I am reminded of a quote from Myron Kreuger that "the only  
> aesthetic
> concern should be the quality of the interaction." My own work has  
> been in
> the new media trajectory, which can be seen as in a trajectory with  
> the
> interactive environments of Myron Kreuger. In Becoming Dragon, I  
> sought to
> explore the subject in transition, in a way creating a space of  
> relation
> between the audience and a subject who's state of being-in- 
> transition or
> becoming is foregrounded. The performance coincided with the  
> beginning of
> my hormone therapy, so it was also a meditation on the resonances  
> between
> a physical becoming or transformation and a digital becoming avatar,..


>
> becoming mythopoetic and becoming the body-in-transmission. I  
> definitely
> can see this as a queer relational piece, between genders as well as
> between spaces, the physical space and the space of second life.

you are performing between genders , in this confluence
>
>
> Which brings me back to an opening the question of queer. I  
> appreciated
> the quote from Foucault about homosexuality, but do we see queer in  
> this
> discussion as an active blurring of binaries,

as an active < intentional - setting aside of the known definititions  
of who is a subject  and how does s(he) act.

hot as a boundary.  Queer if a boundary loses queerness

it always is floating or falling into the abyss (l'abyme, Derrida0


you somehow have to instantiate a place of x (an impossible place   
that you don 't know and yet live in) inside the performance of
the work

whether it is drawing or photography or performance

then it's possible that something new might come into being, not  
necessarily 'positive'

but definitely new, generative,


much as Robert is 'undone' by Julie's performance, this leads to new  
insights in his writing.


In connection with this kind of indeterminate, not-necessarily- 
positive generative force that seems to bring in something new,
i like how Marc is describiing Badiou's description of this  a kind of  
operation of set theory.

Marc writes,

"Relating this to mathematics and set theory, he states that the set  
is contained in the actuality of its own determination and is  
indifferent to the duality of open and closed, finite and infinite.   
Today's effort to save qualitative singularity and vital power  
produces its opposite.  An event, which Badiou describes as a way of  
exiting the condition of animal wretchedness, represents multiplicity  
wrested from inclusion, and act that subtracts from the void of being,  
where these is disappearance of the undecidable and where the event  
releases its power of anticipation in the field of enlightened  
knowledge.


> or of boundaries and
> categories themselves? My own conception of queer began with my  
> experience
> in the alter-globalization and No Borders movements, in which I  
> regularly
> organized and struggled with people who had notions of creating  
> their own
> gender outside of male/female binary restrictions, and these notions
> energized and were energized by anarchist and world-building political
> strategies.



>
>
> Ok, that's enough for now. I just wanted to get out some of what I was
> thinking about...
>
>  micha
>
>
>
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