[-empyre-] "(E)MOTION FREQUENCY deceleration" ends Tuesday Nov. 1

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all -- thanks much for these many dense and fascinating contributions over the weekend,
and we can go on with our on-line debate until Tuesday evening of November 1,  

so please if you wish to make any further comments and replies, feel free to send them in; I was grateful for Elisita for beginning some interesting condensations
and refractions of the many views coming together here and bouncing off each other, which of course will not be resolved nor
need to be....

One the questions in the Choreolab was of course whether "deceleration" is a generalizable
concept at all, quite apart from a group of performers engaging a conscious exploration of slowed down
movement/awareness, stilling, distilling, emptying, sensing non-dualities......., 

and whether it is culturally/politically or ethically desirable and in what contexts/locations and with what implications, and under what circumstances....

One of the speakers at Choreolab, media theorist Soenke Zehle,  in fact said that deceleration was conceptually
unattractive (and he was not listening to the body in the way Sondra implies) compared to other politics (of "exodus", as
he called it) and resistances, and he went on to argue for "exodus-defection" and withdrawal as a mode of (social) innovation.*


Thanks Scott for returning with "the Society of Deficiency,"  I am catching up, I am catching up...


You all have given us much this month
best wishes
Johannes

* cf.  Soenke Zehle,  (The EXODUS talk Soenke gave at Choreolab is not published), but see: "Technologies of the Common: Toward an Ethics of Collaborative Constitution" 
 http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/25457/11909033651Zehle-Soenke.pdf/Zehle-Soenke.pdf

see also Ned Rossiter (co-author with Zehle), "The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of Labour,"
on a site called DARK MATTER in the ruins of imperial culture 
// http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2010/03/11/the-informational-university-the-uneven-distribution-of-expertise-and-the-racialization-of-labour/
& Logistics, Labour and New Regimes of Knowledge Production //http://www.transeuropeennes.eu/en/articles/317 // [in french and english]

** Sondra observes:  "No one has mentioned race in the posts, or maybe I just missed it....Perhaps it doesn't exist if we don't have bodies - are not embodied."  

It exists, Sondra, and often it is not mentioned of course in the informational universe-ity;  I cited Ananya Chatterjea's "Butting Out" partly for that reason. 

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