[-empyre-] [SpamLevel 05] Re: Tactical Media, Research, and the University
christopher sullivan
csulli at saic.edu
Wed Apr 14 02:52:22 EST 2010
Hello Talan, I do like that word play, I am the sometimes loose cannon,
that is willing to be caught in the crosshairs, or
the crabby uncle on the couch. But I truly was not sure what the
bottom line was on the passage below. could you clarify? for this second wave
enthusiast. I have also been bashed for not liking Beckett, but liking Pinter.
"is constructed through receptive encodings of intent, mitigating the potential
for unfamiliarity at the terminal. The faciality of the interface is reduced to
facilitator ~ de.vice without being I, we become this vacancy, the mark and
membrane between the included and the excluded."
Quoting Talan Memmott <talan.memmott at bth.se>:
> That writing is about 12 years old.
> I tried on R.D. Laing... it wasn't available in my size.
> 'state' and 'State' are not just phonetic associations.
>
> Talan Memmott
>
> -----christopher sullivan <csulli at saic.edu> wrote: -----
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>, Talan Memmott
> <talan.memmott at bth.se>
> From: christopher sullivan <csulli at saic.edu>
> Date: 2010-04-13 07:26
> Cc: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: [SpamLevel 05] Re: [-empyre-] Tactical Media, Research, and the
> University
>
> many of your associations are phonetic, not really actual, or relational.
> This sounds a little like a take off on someone pretending to
> do a brain mash-up. Try on R.D. Laing for some poetic, but actually useful
> phenomenology. Chris.
>
>
> Quoting Talan Memmott <talan.memmott at bth.se>:
>
> > what is 'State' here, as differentiated from 'state'? all states perform
> > State, in one way or another, but what State is any state? even no borders
> is
> > a state that performs as a 'State'-less 'state' performing as 'State'...
> > Heidegger says much of this that I won't 'state' here because I differ
> from
> > him on the concept of 'State'...
> > this 'state'ment is 'state'less... however you view 'State'...
> > Me.and.[h]er (I lead the way) --
> > an other, other than I is impossible @body.
> > All becomes me always, in all ways.
> > Every which way -
> > I am absorbed as I absorb --
> > the compressor and capacitor of my own radiance.
> > Over full, and flooding Dionysian --
> > to reinVent -
> > Glom-to-glom: twilight
> > I RE:peat[sod], criss-cross previous crossing, previous
> pro[gress|cess]ions
> > and sessions. Our attachment and remembrance is given dimension, as is the
> > infra-ultrastructure through the conjoining of separate micro-reasoned
> > 'gen'Networks. Meaning (what emerges from the montage) in the (t)here and
> now
> > is constructed through receptive encodings of intent, mitigating the
> > potential for unfamiliarity at the terminal. The faciality of the
> interface
> > is reduced to facilitator ~ de.vice without being… I, we become this
> > vacancy, the mark and membrane between the included and the excluded.
> >
> >
> >
> > Talan
> > -----empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote: -----
> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> > From: Geert Lovink
> > Sent by: empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> > Date: 2010-04-12 16:09
> > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Tactical Media, Research, and the University
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > thanks to all for kicking this off.
> >
> > In this first posting I would like to frame the Trans Migration Tool
> > from an activist perspective. One of the many strategies to show
> > solidarity would be to put the Trans Migration Tool in comparison with
> > similar (tactical) media strategies, tools and fights. The strategy to
> > frame it within the university, academic freedom and so one is another
> > one. I will would like to write about that later.
> >
> > I plunged in this topic in the eighties when I got involved in a West-
> > Berlin group that married East-Berlin activists to get them out of
> > communist East-Germany. After 1989 the emphasis changed from
> > solidarity with (Central and Latin-American) refugees to support
> > campagnes of illegalized immigrants. It is important to notice the
> > shift from refugees to immigrants. I am not sure if I agree with it
> > but I can see that it is a longterm political reality. There are less
> > and less refugees that make it into Western countries, and they are
> > more and more isolated from society, hidden in camps and detention
> > centres. Only a tiny amount of them reach a legal status. These days
> > most of the refugees are 'contained' in their own region of conflict.
> > For activists this meant a slow move towards the issue of border
> > regimes and more work and income related issues of the 'sans papiers'.
> > This means that we have to face a shift in society from political
> > solidarity with those who suffered from war and dictatorship, towards
> > a much more complex economic globalization and social justice.
> >
> > As far as I can see this shift happened in the 1990s. I got involved
> > in the No Borders/No One is Illegal movement in 1997. Interesting to
> > mention here is the fact that even amongst radical activists the No
> > Borders demand was and remained controversial. We can also find this
> > in the work of Ricardo Dominguez and his friends. It is truely utopian
> > work. Realize the utopian, in action and the arts, and sooner or
> > later, society will follow. Or not. And then it will remain utopian.
> > Who knows. Europe has got a lot less borders in comparison to 20 years
> > ago. True, there are new ones. And they are worth fighting against.
> >
> > Some projects:
> >
> > http://www.noborder.org/. The European network of migrants and asylum
> > seekers support campaigns, founded in 2000. Next day of action: June
> > 6th.
> >
> > Please also pay attention to the anti-Frontex campaign, the EU agency
> > for 'external border security' that organizes the flight to deport
> > migrants. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex and
> > http://www.allincluded.nl/index.php/actie/23/211
> >
> > Some migration maps: http://www.allincluded.nl/index.php/maps-migration.
> >
> > An art project similar to the Trans Migration Tool by German
> > sculpturer and radio maker Ralf Homann and friends called Schleuser.net.
> > http://schleuser.net/en/main.html.
> >
> > Even if you cannot read Dutch, this is worth looking at. A book by the
> > Dutch journalist Kees Broere who wrote the following sequel for De
> > Volkskrant: http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/article1187549.ece. He
> > travelled with a group of Africans from Accra (Ghana) to Amsterdam
> > (NL), a dangerous journey that ends quite sadly in the outskirts of
> > Amsterdam where life of illegal Africans is tough.
> >
> > In solidarity,
> >
> > Geert Lovink
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Christopher Sullivan
> Dept. of Film/Video/New Media
> School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> 112 so michigan
> Chicago Ill 60603
> csulli at saic.edu
> 312-345-3802
>
Christopher Sullivan
Dept. of Film/Video/New Media
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 so michigan
Chicago Ill 60603
csulli at saic.edu
312-345-3802
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