[-empyre-] Ken on Ex-communication and Carol-Ann on the X

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Many thanks Ken for adding this distinction between your own thoughts on
Ex-Communication and that of Alex and Eugene.  The book raises provocative
possibilities for media theory but I feel that I am a bit more confused on
this point that you make:

Ken wrote
I think its time to end the attempts by philosophy to control
xenocommuncation, the communication to the absolute. Rather, i think media
theory is that theory of the reality of media itself, of how media make
sensation, not out of nothing, not totally determined by the social or the
political or the discursive or whatever. But rather the media that are of
interest now are those which render the nonhuman perceptible via an inhuman
apparatus.

What specifically do you mean that media theory is that theory of the
reality of media itself?  How can the sensational not be determined by the
social or the discursive especially in our age of social-media?


Carol-Anne also gives a "performative" example of the X as political.
She writesŠ. 
If each project's "x" becomes every person's responsibility, we have a
crack at political "authority".

Her social practice seems to be in direct opposition to what the three of
you are writing about or perhaps not?

I guess it would be interesting to know if the three of you could cite
artist's that you feel may have helped you formulate Ex-communication?

Renate

On 5/27/14 9:01 PM, "warkk" <warkk at newschool.edu> wrote:

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