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

[mez breeze]

dubble slipp!

[ mentioning plastic + denial of the postnatural:
gah! @ "Permanent Panties For Second Life Avatars?":
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2009/07/permanent-panties-for-second-life-avatars.html
]

chunks,
a horrifically-busy-would-luv-2-jump-in2-the-discussion-but-can't mez
:)


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, naxsmash<naxsmash at mac.com> wrote:
>  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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