[-empyre-] empyre: engagement was all

[simon]

two brief notes elicited by Johannes's avowal of "control society" 
hypocrisy and entanglement and his disavowal of 'interactivity' for 
resulting in only the recognisable, while the performance is elsewhere - 
as it was Grotowski, I think, who gave as his reason for ceasing to 
direct theatre any more the fact that everybody has got so good at 
acting in their everyday lives there is no use for theatre, so theatre 
and performance lose their supplement of unpredictability becoming all 
too recognisably theatrical and performative - and boring - while for 
the spectacle of technoculture, likewise?

1) Paul Goodman's epigraph to Neil Postman's /Technopoly: //The 
Surrender of Culture/ /to Technology/ reads: "Whether or not it draws on 
new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not 
of science."

2) George Monbiot's /Feral/: /Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers 
of Rewilding/ uses the verb "to rewild" - not to evoke a vision of 
hoards of occupiers reappropriating "wilding" as a tactic in Central 
Park or anywhere at all - but to indicate another kind of activity, 
engagement or activism: restoring the wilderness to wildness. I think he 
does mean to advocate for a reciprocal becoming - /I/ rewild - the 
romanticism notwithstanding. ... The significance of the term it seems 
to me is to break with both "wired"-ness and "ecology" - the latter 
itself arising from a mechanistic appropriation (and determination) of 
natural processes that gives us without too great a metaphorical leap 
social and cultural, economic and technological ecologies (engaging a 
thoroughgoing and thoroughly entangling ecological determinism).

Best,
Simon Taylor

www.squarewhiteworld.com
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