[-empyre-] Wearable Technologies, or dances with horse

[Janis Jefferies]

Thanks for this post. You are following my line of thinking.

I wanted to add a comment to Johannes' series of questions from earlier
this morning. he wanted clarification as to whether or not I was citing a
particular fashion show. Indeed I was and apologies of not being accurate.
It was in Thallin as part of ISEA 2004.

In addition, some further comments on skin which might lead further to a
discussion around touch. The German sociologist Georg Simmel once called
touch 'the confirmatory sense' that collects information and confirms data
received by the other senses and therefore would be our actual sense of
reality".

'Re-thinking Touch' at 'Sk-interfaces' edited by Jens Hauser. (2008)

connected to  'Sk-interfaces' at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative
Technology), Liverpool in 2008. 'Sk-interfaces' is edited by Jens Hauser,
graphic designer: Alan Ward. Publisher: Liverpool University Press and
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, 2008.

Janis


On Sat, May 7, 2011 10:56 am, Simon Biggs wrote:
> I take the performative to mean an enactment intended to change the
> environment in which it happens. That is the classic Austin definition but
>  extended beyond the linguistic to allow for other forms of action and
> sources of agency. My understanding of Janis's comments are thus in line
> with Austin's thinking but informed by Latour's work on science as
> praxis.
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> Best
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> Simon
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> On 06/05/2011 20:31, "Johannes Birringer"
> <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk>
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>> Janis argues (or uses Barad) that "science performs" or that " science,
>> as a knowledge-based endeavour, is inherently ³performative² ...  hmmm,
>> what is it that is performed?  The term performativity tends to be used
>> these days quite a lot and I often wonder how it is used, for what end
>> and in regard to what situation.
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