[-empyre-] Fwd: the act of forgetting

[christina]

Chris, thanks,  surely these are well known citations. But, let's  
think.  How can a field become visible, when..... it's no longer  
enough to point it out?

Aristide notes,



"The work of resisting governments handouts, unregulated corporations,  
scandalous injustice will more and more be similar to providing  
information about them,.."


and he also makes an comment about iteration-- iteration, propelling  
repetiton---- beyond providing information..

" Resistance will be the information about someone or many of us  
resisting."


and he sadly concludes,

" In this condition knowing about things and acting against them are  
condemned to be included in the same pool. .."

must this be the end, or,

an endless end?

or not? is there some way else?


this is where I want the list to think,



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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Christiane Robbins <cpr at mindspring.com>
> Date: March 12, 2011 8:34:33 AM PST (CA)
> To: Simon Biggs <s.biggs at ECA.AC.UK>
> Cc: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] the act of forgetting
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>
> There is an impressive lineage of critical inquiry into these  
> histories of Los Angeles that marks the past 20 years.  These range  
> from not only cinematic narrative ( feature, independent,  
> experimental) but to authors such as Mike Davis ( City of Quartz,  
> Ecology of Fear, etc.) and Norman Klein ( The History of  
> Forgetting ), the public art practice of CLUI ( Center for Land Use  
> Interpretation) and to the photographic practices of artists such as  
> Alan Sekula - to mention only but four.
>
> Best,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2011, at 2:39 AM, Simon Biggs wrote:
>
>> Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" portrays the kind of events you  
>> mention in your
>> earlier post about trains and water, how people take control and  
>> the affects
>> of that upon those caught up in events. His most recent film,  
>> "Ghost Writer"
>> updates the theme. It's part of the role of artists to ensure we  
>> don't
>> forget.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On 12/03/2011 05:56, "Joel Tauber" <joeltauber at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of  
>>> imagery and
>>> “news”, I am convinced that we are also all suffering from  
>>> information
>>> deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways.  While media  
>>> conglomerates and
>>> government powers shield information from us continually – and  
>>> spin the
>>> information that we are being fed – I think we are also all guilty  
>>> of
>>> collectively forgetting our histories.  Information is ignored  
>>> even when we
>>> have access to it.   Certain things are just too difficult to face.
>>> Government
>>> handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the  
>>> media and of
>>> the government, industry’s devastation of the environmentS  These  
>>> are very
>>> old stories.  Why should we be surprised by these things when they  
>>> continue
>>> to happen?  How can we continue to allow them to occur?
>>
>>
>> Simon Biggs
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