[-empyre-] slippery synaptic summaries and rolling ronellian resonances

[naxsmash]

  slipp!!

so how petroleum /silicon are these drugged environments plasticizing/ 
forming new projections through postnatural biospheres--
so are you saying or wishfully dreaming of priori deep type or life- 
type forms linguistically tucked
  inside the assemblages of ecosystems  (laced with the drugs we have
// petrol, cinema, silicon, psyllicibin //  and these
blow out into community-spaces via
punctuation (exclamation point?!)


-christina




On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:40 PM, dj lotu5 wrote:

> in the spirit of tweeting, i'm going to pop in again quickly now that
> i'm mostly caught up... looking fwd to virginia and emily's posts...
>
> seems like we're off to an expansive start, getting to good questions,
> like can we use the notion of Relational Aesthetic, add to it,  
> parasite
> it, exploit it for our own ends?
>
> i'm still interested in hearing more from folks about their notions of
> queer...
>
> its also good to see derrida's spectre being raised and my friend and
> advisor avital ronell. i always thought she was an amazing at making
> connections, thinking the call of Dasein through technology and
> schizophrenia, through AGB's first words to watson and their latent
> homosexuality "Watson, come here! I want you!" reading the desire in  
> the
> exclamation point!
>
> yet still one of the most important works of Ronell's for me was her
> book Crack Wars, in which she wrote
>
> "Much like the paradigms installed by the discovery of endorphins,
> Being-on-drugs indicates that a structure is already in place, prior  
> to
> the production of that materiality we call drugs, including virtual
> reality or cyberprojections."
>
> which for me recalls the question of biopower being heteronormative,  
> if
> we can consider, weigh and differentiate those two structures from  
> those
> of our own biology... surely if we think of Foucault's definition of
> biopower as control over populations through bioinformational  
> practices,
> then we can think at a basic level, is biopower heteronormative, and  
> if
> the census options of male/female and married/single and the medical
> forms i fill out when i visit the doctor which have no checkbox for my
> gender ( [genderfucked/transgender/fluid/dragon/moonlight on dark  
> miami
> waters would] be an exciting checkbox to stumble across) are an
> expression of biopower, then perhaps biopower can be heteronormative,
> but in our expansive alter-globalization optimism perhaps there is  
> also
> a biopower of the multitude, if we step back a level and think of
> biopower as a quasi-cause, or as a virtual structure, not a specific
> instance. and in agamben's formulation surely the oikos of oikonimia
> pointing to the managing of the house as the root of economics surely
> shows a patriarchical root to even neoliberal economics, but lets be
> clear and keep our patriarchy separate from our heteronormativity.
>
> Again returning to Ronell, and Crack Wars again she writes “You
> understood so little about the chemical prosthesis which was the real,
> insubstantial vehicle constituting the virtual... The age of the
> chemical prosthesis has already begun.” Bourriard's formulation of
> altermodern seems curiously centered around travel to me, and  
> perhaps in
> that forumlation the checmical prosthesis is not simply caffeine or
> cocaine but petroleum or silicone, as in both chips and implants.
>
> And considering the virtual in Bourriard's Altermodern, if you'll
> indulge me for one more messy gooey moment, another quote from Crack
> Wars may be of use to consider the broader implications of our
> discussion so far:
>
> “If the literature of electronic culture can be located in the works  
> of
> Philip K. Dick or William Gibson, in the imaginings of a cyberpunk
> projection, or a reserve for virtual reality, then it is probable that
> electronic culture shares a crucial project with drug culture. This
> project should be understood in Jean-Luc Nancy's
> and Blanchot's sense of désoeuvrement—a project without an end or
> program, an unworking that nonetheless occurs, and whose contours we  
> can
> begin to read.”
>
> Ronell's writing may be of use here in dissolving or disarming the
> binary of critique/creation, in that perhaps we can imagine a
> world-building project such as queer theory, alter-globalization,
> virtual worlds and/or science fiction/meta fiction/magical
> realism/transreal, which is simultaneously an unworking, which is both
> rigorous and leisurely, both militant and pleasurable, both ethical  
> and
> acknowledging our fault, our finitude, our failings, aesthetically and
> theoretically... Perhaps this kind of unfolding serpent full of  
> shifting
> intensities is more akin to a dark precursor or line of flight than a
> set diagram? ( Really my objection to Badiou is the void. How can  
> there
> be an ontology based on the void? How can anything be created from the
> void? What is the "real world" expression of the void? Or perhaps  
> years
> of studying set theory in my compsci days makes me more jaded to the
> idea of a set diagram for love. )
>
> oops, looks like my desire to tweet morphed into a longer post, hooray
> for stealing time from the neoliberal system of art/academic  
> employment
> for quasi-professional/artistic but more pleasurable networked
> theoretical environments! perhaps a discussion of how this space is
> itself a queer relational space is in order, or how it can be, how we
> can make it such...
>
>
> -- 
>
> micha cárdenas
>
> Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net
> Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net
>
> blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tts
>
>
>
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