[-empyre-] whose "our systems"

[Simon Biggs]

Yes - I'm saying we are the dispositif, the system. We are that, we are defined by that - we become what we are through that.

But the dispositif is multi-modal. It is all about how we exist in our relations - our relations with things, systems, technologies, other people, the planet, etc. These are specific to the individual, and of course culturally conditioned (culture is part of the dispositif), but many elements are shared.

If your system is a shambles then it's no surprise that everybody else's is too :)

best

Simon


On 3 Jul 2014, at 22:48, Johannes Birringer <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

> <<embodiment offers another means by which we can address, interrogate and unpack how we become what we are as a dispositif - as a convergence of all our elements, including our attendant (symbolic and material) systems.>>
> 
> are you saying "we" are / become the dispositif?  
> 
> I always assumed I was merely attendant to the technical assemblages, and then, as I attend, yes, then i possibly (not for sure) contaminate, I become compromised, convoluted, i take on characteristics of the machining, my whole life of course already a series of trainings and coachings and at best, I commit or avoid blunders, retrain my body-mind frequently, mind my new techniques, then (naturally) try to save face (when techniques fail and I am not match fit), then mistranslate again, and again, trying to fail better. My dispositif, a shambles. 
> 
> regards
> Johannes Birringer


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