[-empyre-] situated body / situated practices: speculative gender disruptor mechanisms
Elæ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson]
lynne at theoperatingsystem.org
Fri Sep 13 08:32:47 AEST 2019
Dear softly skinned humans-in-space:
Thank you, McKenzie, James, Sandy, Isabelle, for your thoughts and
reflections so far. If I wait too much longer to respond with thoughts
it'll become an essay, too long for this medium. and thanks, Shu Lea, for
inviting my response --
hmmmmm -- um, can I begin by requesting please that I be brought along to
the next trans-centric rave in the bowels of Brooklyn. tho now this makes
me consider, immediately, those spaces which have been permissive of my
fluidity, and those which have not -- in body, in interpersonal
acknowledgement, and in other ways. dance spaces have often felt over
sexualized as well as alcohol and drug centric, so unfortunately less safe
than I'd like, but I think part of that for me is my possession of an
overly sexualized, femme body--and perhaps it's age. the younger queer and
trans folks seem to be building more of these safe spaces, and for so many
the relationship to languaging and presenting themselves is so markedly
different, growing up as digital natives with so much more visible content
accessible. certainly not suggesting it's "easy" -- no blanket statements
-- but definitely different... I have college freshmen who started watching
drag race at 9 years old.
recently, my scholarly considerations of my body's positionality have, via
my own experience as an often chronically ill, usually precarious nonbinary
queer person, become inextricably intertwined with questions of the
disabled, mad, and traumatized body in space, and perhaps more broadly the
Othered body: where, per Ahmed, does this body face undue risk and find it
necessary to follow "straight lines," even performatively, in order to
remain even tangentially in receipt of whatever privilege might be
available through passing? where does it feel dangerous vis-a-vis social
capital or other considerations to continually correct others who
repeatedly misgender me? this can be similar to the experience of being
disabled or ill -- how and where and when does it feel dangerous or harmful
to the self to voice needs of the body not considered within architecture /
socio-cultural structures that assume an abled-body? or an otherwise
Othered condition?
the extent to which my degrees of outness as a genderfluid /
gender-expansive person, to different communities and in different spaces,
has been visible or made central to my story has always been in
conversation with these other vectors. I would be curious (and this is on
my mind in particular having just been in the EU) to compare the extent to
which the sort of bioprecarity which is a daily reality for many queer /
trans / nonbinary people here in the US changes the ways in which we
interface with its visibility/risk, especially for those alienated from
family, or otherwise outside of a supportive partnership, without insurance
or underinsured, etc; how might this differ from the ways a less precarious
body experiences the public possibilities for their gender?
for me, the binary has always been troubling and a confusing space. to be
honest, the *body* has always been a troubling and confusing space, since
my relationship to it has always been instinctively and then more deeply
believed / theorized as a vessel/set of materials within which a
transtemporal consciousness experiences itself -- "gender" has always felt
reductive and overly simplistic, a construct of if not a delimited human
imagination then, more accurately, of the direction that patriarchy and
capital has moved our bodies--since indigenous peoples often included
additional gender categories and often considered persons with this
fluidity to be passing more easily between the human and spirit realms --
indeed, to even talk about other cultures as having a 'third gender' is in
itself overly simplistic because it starts with an understanding of gender
as binary, adding on, rather than recognizing that the perception of the
self that an entirely different worldview wherein this isn't a fixed
element offers is entirely unimaginable coming from a binary framework.
it has been through my own processing of trauma and working myself out of
the scarcity programming of my institutional conditions that it has begun
to feel not only safer (usually) as well as necessary and critically
important to hold space for myself as as nonbinary / gender fluid person,
and to center this visibility as part of my creative and scholarly
practice. I've been thinking a lot as someone who built a queer family
outside of legal visibility (my daughter has two gay dads and me, but on
paper I am "not a parent," beaus there is no room for us all, legally) how
for many of us precarity and trauma has been a major driver in the queer
and trans community's move towards prioritizing marriage as a lobby issue
(here in the US in recent decades), away from the more expansive, radical
activism around the establishment of other family and household structures.
instead, commons-centric possibilities for change, a la Haraway's "make kin
not babies," (which to be frank is increasingly something we should be
moving towards in this time of climate crisis and delimited resources, and
underwhelming infrastructures of care) for many seem only available to a
few, something the traumatized queer or trans body often avoids as unsafe
terrain to chance.
recently, as part of further work on how we can hack bodies somatically
under the subconscious control of trauma I've been working on a number of
"disruptor mechanisms," and considering in particular for our purposes the
role of speculative language in rewiring our perceptions of our
possibilities--embodied consciousness ultimately ruling over cognitive
logic, despite our efforts. what might be shifted for us, if in lieu of
immediate availability of infrastructural change, we make a concerted
effort not only as queer, trans, and nonbinary folk to agentively be more
active in our use of language that in all our usage rejects the notion of a
binary entirely?
which means, in our daily practice, working with AFAB or AMAB (assigned F/M
at birth) as a way of talking about even children, considering not
gendering our children in their early years, being careful not to language
reproductive health or menstruation or menopause as "women's" issues, not
to assume that all women or men or anyone has specific body parts, and
moving towards the adoption of a wider range of available language in how
we refer to ourselves and others.
hmm, this is getting long, but it's something I've been working on a lot
the last few years -- in fact, this became the root thinking for my
forthcoming essay for the Transgender Narratives anthology, "Par, Muddy,
Sibter, Nibling, and Sprog : Languaging a Future for Lovepersons", where I
consider explicitly how language reproduces these conditions keeping us
from more expansive kinship structures, but then through speculative
language adoption how working with it on a daily basis might provide a
“soft” opening to facilitating these changes, both on the page and in
practice.
of course, there's nothing soft about how it feels to get misgendered, but
this too is nonbinary: addressing and holding space for the reprogramming
required for the fearful to admit the possibility of there being no gender,
more genders, etc (and what that means for their sense of self), alongside
the desire for our rights to be seen and acknowledged and not endangered
for presenting and verbalizing their identity. both, and.
useful here too is the long history of alternative and speculative language
for queer and nonbinary possibilities in scifi, and the history of other
gender markers being available and normative in virtual spaces even in
their earliest days -- Spivak pronouns making an early appearance, for
instance. what has this facilitated in the imagination? how can we bring
that sort of plasticity to daily experience? it is essential for all of us,
not only the nonbinary and trans among us, to free ourselves of the damage
of the gender-binary in terms of our thinking. within the acknowledgement
and re-languaging of our community, if adopted widely by allies, comes the
possibility for countless repercussions within policy, care, legal rights,
etc.
am I done? I am never done. neither is my gender. do we have time to talk
about Genesis P-Orridge? I leave us with one last thought: how can we, as
those seeking expansive possibilities for life on earth (and beyond) in
whatever time we have here, recognize that the use of gender-free language
can be a critical tool in evolving ourselves? how can we bring this
practice into our curation, our classrooms, and our interactions daily? I
can talk more about how I do this, and strategies for doing so that feel
like a welcome rather than an admonition, but I have written enough for
now, surely.
for others in NY, the wonderful trans poet TC Tolbert is coming to Pratt as
a guest artist all fall, and CA Conrad (nonbinary, doing great somatic work
as well) will be performing tomorrow at the strand. I hold space in the OS
catalog for trans and genderqueer / nonbinary creative practitioners,
through our Kin(d)* series, and can share all sorts of wonderful content
that I use with my students, if folks desire. poetics can be an incredible
disruptor mechanism, as it already refuses the sentence of the sentence....
xxxx
ONWARD.
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ONWARD
in possibility
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ELÆ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson]
*pronouns: they/them*
*Creative Director & Founder*
The Operating System
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Brooklyn and Worldwide
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and
change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one
obsolete.”- R. Buckminster Fuller
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> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 23:08:23 -0400
> From: Jaimes Mayhew <jaimes.mayhew at gmail.com>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Situated body, Situated practices
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> Hi everyone,
> I have been in this listserve since 2008 and I can?t recall ever posting,
> but I was inspired to share that seeing this conversation made my heart
> swell. I am also transgender, and transitioned early in my career.
>
> I?m struck that just 15-20 years ago, seeing this kind of conversation
> about trans* people on a list for art people seemed impossible. I?ve found
> people who are trans* in every city I?ve lived in via social media as a way
> to make friends and find allies. First Friendster, then MySpace and now
> Facebook.
>
> McKenzie, I am a fan of your work, and was so excited to see you present
> at CAA in NYC a couple of years ago. I remember seeing you and wondering if
> you might be family.
>
> What else can I say? I?m grateful for this moment.
>
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or brevity.
>
> > On Sep 10, 2019, at 6:05 AM, warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
> >
> > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >
> >
> > When i came out (on Facebook, natch), Sandy sent me a message which
> said: "Now you know why, when i met you, i made you nervous."
> >
> > True story. I had so much internalized transphobia because i knew i was
> clinging on to masculinity by a thread.
> >
> > "The internet" has a lot to answer for. It turns out media designed for
> extracting surplus information out of us is a great breeding ground for
> Nazis.
> >
> > Then again, it is a space where trans ppl can find each other. I'm
> transitioning with the help of big sisters i know IRL -- but met on
> twitter.
> >
> > Then again again, its a space for ppl who hate us. Its exhausting
> playing whack-a-mole with ppl who think you are not human.
> >
> > The actual German-style Nazis started with queer and trans ppl too. The
> Nazi-book burning pictures you see most often are of the Hirschfeld library.
> >
> > Who was Hirschfield? Who was Harry Benjamin? What was the medicalized
> model of the transsexual? Well for that you'd need to read this:
> > http://www.sterneck.net/gender/stone-posttranssexuel/index.php
> >
> > -- in which Sandy became big sister to us all.
> >
> > Ironically enough, for complicated reasons, i'm among sisters who all
> call ourselves transsexuals again.
> >
> > But then one of themes is change, right?
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:17 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> allucquere.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >> Hi folks, Sandy here. McKenzie and I met in the mythic time of the
> latter part of the XXth Century, when she (then he) met a busful of
> middle-aged theoreticians debarking at a conference venue. McKenzie
> glanced at me and then stared with an expression I interpreted as loathing,
> and which later I realized was something more akin to terror. I thought
> that they might be an F2M afraid of being outed, so out of courtesy I gave
> them a wide berth. In retrospect I wish I hadn?t. Roads not taken, ships
> that pass in the night?
> >>
> >> At any rate, we?re here now, and it?s a great pleasure.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I?ve seen a lot of young transpeople in what at some point in the
> past was a general catchphrase for personal turbulence: going through
> changes. Right. Ch-ch-ch-changes. Who knew.
> >>
> >> Well. The present moment is so chockfull of changes. A close
> relative, an intelligent, perceptive, empathetic and caring person, is a
> Trumpist. J Epstein, an intelligent, perceptive philanthropist, was a
> raging pedophile. Valerie Plame has launched a campaign video that either
> reduces or elevates politics to the level of Hollywood spectacle ?
> literally? all it lacks is Jason Statham and Vin Diesel getting out of the
> car behind her. A woman has given birth to a cow?s head. We?re all busy
> slouching toward our particular Bethlehem. What?s not to like?
> >>
> >> I?ll say something about change that?s more related to this thread
> later. This is just a little introductory blurt until I have more time.
> >>
> >> Sandy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Allucquere Rosanne Stone
> >> Drive-by Theoretician
> >>
> >> Faust: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
> >> Meph: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone. Please enjoy all autocorrects and typos.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> >
> > --
> > McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> > Professor of Media and Culture
> > EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> > 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> > warkk at newschool.edu
> > T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
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> From: warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
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> Thanks Jaimes,
> When i came out, nobody who actually knew me even slightly seemed at
> all surprised. And a lot of ppl who know me well were like -- finally!
>
> I'd be curious to know what the experience was like of finding other trans
> ppl on Friendster and Myspace. I didn't. I started with Tumblr.
>
> I came out on Facebook because it seemed that was where my professional
> identity was, and where ppl who knew me from Australia were.
>
> But in terms of constructing the community i needed, that happened mostly
> via coming out on twitter. Three trans women then reached out to me
> direclty. All three i'd count as friends and one a sigificant big sister to
> me. She connected to to a second who has that role in my transition, via
> twitter dm. A third i found independently, but also via twitter.
>
> I'm also now connected to a skein of networks of trans ppl via twitter, one
> strand is writers, one is academics, another is about tech. Another is more
> specifically New York based and is trans ppl i', friendly with but not (or
> not yet) particularly close to.
>
> I'm interested in this both as a trans woman and as a media scholar, of
> course.
>
> m
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:12 AM Jaimes Mayhew <jaimes.mayhew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> > Hi everyone,
> > I have been in this listserve since 2008 and I can?t recall ever posting,
> > but I was inspired to share that seeing this conversation made my heart
> > swell. I am also transgender, and transitioned early in my career.
> >
> > I?m struck that just 15-20 years ago, seeing this kind of conversation
> > about trans* people on a list for art people seemed impossible. I?ve
> found
> > people who are trans* in every city I?ve lived in via social media as a
> way
> > to make friends and find allies. First Friendster, then MySpace and now
> > Facebook.
> >
> > McKenzie, I am a fan of your work, and was so excited to see you present
> > at CAA in NYC a couple of years ago. I remember seeing you and wondering
> if
> > you might be family.
> >
> > What else can I say? I?m grateful for this moment.
> >
> > Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or brevity.
> >
> > On Sep 10, 2019, at 6:05 AM, warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
> >
> > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > When i came out (on Facebook, natch), Sandy sent me a message which said:
> > "Now you know why, when i met you, i made you nervous."
> >
> > True story. I had so much internalized transphobia because i knew i was
> > clinging on to masculinity by a thread.
> >
> > "The internet" has a lot to answer for. It turns out media designed for
> > extracting surplus information out of us is a great breeding ground for
> > Nazis.
> >
> > Then again, it is a space where trans ppl can find each other. I'm
> > transitioning with the help of big sisters i know IRL -- but met on
> > twitter.
> >
> > Then again again, its a space for ppl who hate us. Its exhausting playing
> > whack-a-mole with ppl who think you are not human.
> >
> > The actual German-style Nazis started with queer and trans ppl too. The
> > Nazi-book burning pictures you see most often are of the Hirschfeld
> library.
> >
> > Who was Hirschfield? Who was Harry Benjamin? What was the medicalized
> > model of the transsexual? Well for that you'd need to read this:
> > http://www.sterneck.net/gender/stone-posttranssexuel/index.php
> >
> > -- in which Sandy became big sister to us all.
> >
> > Ironically enough, for complicated reasons, i'm among sisters who all
> call
> > ourselves transsexuals again.
> >
> > But then one of themes is change, right?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:17 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> > allucquere.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >> Hi folks, Sandy here. McKenzie and I met in the mythic time of the
> >> latter part of the XXth Century, when she (then he) met a busful of
> >> middle-aged theoreticians debarking at a conference venue. McKenzie
> >> glanced at me and then stared with an expression I interpreted as
> loathing,
> >> and which later I realized was something more akin to terror. I thought
> >> that they might be an F2M afraid of being outed, so out of courtesy I
> gave
> >> them a wide berth. In retrospect I wish I hadn?t. Roads not taken,
> ships
> >> that pass in the night?
> >>
> >> At any rate, we?re here now, and it?s a great pleasure.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I?ve seen a lot of young transpeople in what at some point in the
> >> past was a general catchphrase for personal turbulence: going through
> >> changes. Right. Ch-ch-ch-changes. Who knew.
> >>
> >> Well. The present moment is so chockfull of changes. A close relative,
> >> an intelligent, perceptive, empathetic and caring person, is a
> Trumpist. J
> >> Epstein, an intelligent, perceptive philanthropist, was a raging
> >> pedophile. Valerie Plame has launched a campaign video that either
> reduces
> >> or elevates politics to the level of Hollywood spectacle ? literally?
> all
> >> it lacks is Jason Statham and Vin Diesel getting out of the car behind
> >> her. A woman has given birth to a cow?s head. We?re all busy slouching
> >> toward our particular Bethlehem. What?s not to like?
> >>
> >> I?ll say something about change that?s more related to this thread
> >> later. This is just a little introductory blurt until I have more time.
> >>
> >> Sandy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Allucquere Rosanne Stone
> >> Drive-by Theoretician
> >>
> >> Faust: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
> >> Meph: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone. Please enjoy all autocorrects and typos.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> > *Professor of Media and Culture*
> > EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> > 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >
> > warkk at newschool.edu
> > <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> > T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > empyre forum
> > empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > empyre forum
> > empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
>
>
>
> --
>
> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> *Professor of Media and Culture*
> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
>
> warkk at newschool.edu
> <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
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> From: warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu>
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> oh, i wanted to add -- given Sandy's truly extensive background in all
> things audio --
>
> one of the skeins of the network i fell into, via, twitter, is trans women
> who are ravers.
>
> There's something about this extremely relentless, minimal music that has a
> trans following. It works for me, so i get it.
>
> Its so lacking in the narrative or emotional habits of music that you are
> free to project your own feelings and body into it.
>
> In other words its great for dysphoria.
>
> I was taken by the hand by sisters who led me into the bowels of Brooklyn
> for raves at which trans women get in free and are always on the list.
>
> This looped me back to 90s culture, where i discovered European techno
> through its overlap with the digital avant-gardes who did their theory-work
> via listserves like nettime.org and indeed empyre.
>
> m
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:24 AM warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Jaimes,
> > When i came out, nobody who actually knew me even slightly seemed at
> > all surprised. And a lot of ppl who know me well were like -- finally!
> >
> > I'd be curious to know what the experience was like of finding other
> trans
> > ppl on Friendster and Myspace. I didn't. I started with Tumblr.
> >
> > I came out on Facebook because it seemed that was where my professional
> > identity was, and where ppl who knew me from Australia were.
> >
> > But in terms of constructing the community i needed, that happened mostly
> > via coming out on twitter. Three trans women then reached out to me
> > direclty. All three i'd count as friends and one a sigificant big sister
> to
> > me. She connected to to a second who has that role in my transition, via
> > twitter dm. A third i found independently, but also via twitter.
> >
> > I'm also now connected to a skein of networks of trans ppl via twitter,
> > one strand is writers, one is academics, another is about tech. Another
> is
> > more specifically New York based and is trans ppl i', friendly with but
> not
> > (or not yet) particularly close to.
> >
> > I'm interested in this both as a trans woman and as a media scholar, of
> > course.
> >
> > m
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:12 AM Jaimes Mayhew <jaimes.mayhew at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I have been in this listserve since 2008 and I can?t recall ever
> posting,
> >> but I was inspired to share that seeing this conversation made my heart
> >> swell. I am also transgender, and transitioned early in my career.
> >>
> >> I?m struck that just 15-20 years ago, seeing this kind of conversation
> >> about trans* people on a list for art people seemed impossible. I?ve
> found
> >> people who are trans* in every city I?ve lived in via social media as a
> way
> >> to make friends and find allies. First Friendster, then MySpace and now
> >> Facebook.
> >>
> >> McKenzie, I am a fan of your work, and was so excited to see you present
> >> at CAA in NYC a couple of years ago. I remember seeing you and
> wondering if
> >> you might be family.
> >>
> >> What else can I say? I?m grateful for this moment.
> >>
> >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or brevity.
> >>
> >> On Sep 10, 2019, at 6:05 AM, warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> When i came out (on Facebook, natch), Sandy sent me a message which
> said:
> >> "Now you know why, when i met you, i made you nervous."
> >>
> >> True story. I had so much internalized transphobia because i knew i was
> >> clinging on to masculinity by a thread.
> >>
> >> "The internet" has a lot to answer for. It turns out media designed for
> >> extracting surplus information out of us is a great breeding ground for
> >> Nazis.
> >>
> >> Then again, it is a space where trans ppl can find each other. I'm
> >> transitioning with the help of big sisters i know IRL -- but met on
> >> twitter.
> >>
> >> Then again again, its a space for ppl who hate us. Its exhausting
> playing
> >> whack-a-mole with ppl who think you are not human.
> >>
> >> The actual German-style Nazis started with queer and trans ppl too. The
> >> Nazi-book burning pictures you see most often are of the Hirschfeld
> library.
> >>
> >> Who was Hirschfield? Who was Harry Benjamin? What was the medicalized
> >> model of the transsexual? Well for that you'd need to read this:
> >> http://www.sterneck.net/gender/stone-posttranssexuel/index.php
> >>
> >> -- in which Sandy became big sister to us all.
> >>
> >> Ironically enough, for complicated reasons, i'm among sisters who all
> >> call ourselves transsexuals again.
> >>
> >> But then one of themes is change, right?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:17 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> >> allucquere.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>> Hi folks, Sandy here. McKenzie and I met in the mythic time of the
> >>> latter part of the XXth Century, when she (then he) met a busful of
> >>> middle-aged theoreticians debarking at a conference venue. McKenzie
> >>> glanced at me and then stared with an expression I interpreted as
> loathing,
> >>> and which later I realized was something more akin to terror. I
> thought
> >>> that they might be an F2M afraid of being outed, so out of courtesy I
> gave
> >>> them a wide berth. In retrospect I wish I hadn?t. Roads not taken,
> ships
> >>> that pass in the night?
> >>>
> >>> At any rate, we?re here now, and it?s a great pleasure.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, I?ve seen a lot of young transpeople in what at some point in the
> >>> past was a general catchphrase for personal turbulence: going through
> >>> changes. Right. Ch-ch-ch-changes. Who knew.
> >>>
> >>> Well. The present moment is so chockfull of changes. A close
> relative,
> >>> an intelligent, perceptive, empathetic and caring person, is a
> Trumpist. J
> >>> Epstein, an intelligent, perceptive philanthropist, was a raging
> >>> pedophile. Valerie Plame has launched a campaign video that either
> reduces
> >>> or elevates politics to the level of Hollywood spectacle ? literally?
> all
> >>> it lacks is Jason Statham and Vin Diesel getting out of the car behind
> >>> her. A woman has given birth to a cow?s head. We?re all busy
> slouching
> >>> toward our particular Bethlehem. What?s not to like?
> >>>
> >>> I?ll say something about change that?s more related to this thread
> >>> later. This is just a little introductory blurt until I have more
> time.
> >>>
> >>> Sandy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Allucquere Rosanne Stone
> >>> Drive-by Theoretician
> >>>
> >>> Faust: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
> >>> Meph: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone. Please enjoy all autocorrects and typos.
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> empyre forum
> >>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> >> *Professor of Media and Culture*
> >> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> >> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >>
> >> warkk at newschool.edu
> >> <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#
> >
> >> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> > *Professor of Media and Culture*
> > EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> > 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >
> > warkk at newschool.edu
> > <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> > T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> *Professor of Media and Culture*
> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
>
> warkk at newschool.edu
> <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:37:51 +0900
> From: isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Situated body, Situated practices
> Message-ID:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I so much agree with what has just been said;)
> On the subject one of the most beautiful things I have heard so far is in
> Bixa Travesty documentary in which Mc Linn Da Quebrada says that our body
> is our own territory of experimentation;)
> also loved the idea of the documentary Sea Horse about the man who had a
> baby,
> Cheers
>
> Isabelle
>
> [image:
> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
> <http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif>
> Isabelle Arvers
> Curator, art critic and artist
> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
> http://www.isabellearvers.com
> Director of Kareron www.kareron.com
> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
> twitter: @zabarvers
> instagram.com/zabarvers
> youtube.com/zabarvers
> https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
> Skype ID: iarvers
>
>
> Le mer. 11 sept. 2019 ? 13:13, Jaimes Mayhew <jaimes.mayhew at gmail.com> a
> ?crit :
>
> > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> > Hi everyone,
> > I have been in this listserve since 2008 and I can?t recall ever posting,
> > but I was inspired to share that seeing this conversation made my heart
> > swell. I am also transgender, and transitioned early in my career.
> >
> > I?m struck that just 15-20 years ago, seeing this kind of conversation
> > about trans* people on a list for art people seemed impossible. I?ve
> found
> > people who are trans* in every city I?ve lived in via social media as a
> way
> > to make friends and find allies. First Friendster, then MySpace and now
> > Facebook.
> >
> > McKenzie, I am a fan of your work, and was so excited to see you present
> > at CAA in NYC a couple of years ago. I remember seeing you and wondering
> if
> > you might be family.
> >
> > What else can I say? I?m grateful for this moment.
> >
> > Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or brevity.
> >
> > On Sep 10, 2019, at 6:05 AM, warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
> >
> > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > When i came out (on Facebook, natch), Sandy sent me a message which said:
> > "Now you know why, when i met you, i made you nervous."
> >
> > True story. I had so much internalized transphobia because i knew i was
> > clinging on to masculinity by a thread.
> >
> > "The internet" has a lot to answer for. It turns out media designed for
> > extracting surplus information out of us is a great breeding ground for
> > Nazis.
> >
> > Then again, it is a space where trans ppl can find each other. I'm
> > transitioning with the help of big sisters i know IRL -- but met on
> > twitter.
> >
> > Then again again, its a space for ppl who hate us. Its exhausting playing
> > whack-a-mole with ppl who think you are not human.
> >
> > The actual German-style Nazis started with queer and trans ppl too. The
> > Nazi-book burning pictures you see most often are of the Hirschfeld
> library.
> >
> > Who was Hirschfield? Who was Harry Benjamin? What was the medicalized
> > model of the transsexual? Well for that you'd need to read this:
> > http://www.sterneck.net/gender/stone-posttranssexuel/index.php
> >
> > -- in which Sandy became big sister to us all.
> >
> > Ironically enough, for complicated reasons, i'm among sisters who all
> call
> > ourselves transsexuals again.
> >
> > But then one of themes is change, right?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:17 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> > allucquere.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >> Hi folks, Sandy here. McKenzie and I met in the mythic time of the
> >> latter part of the XXth Century, when she (then he) met a busful of
> >> middle-aged theoreticians debarking at a conference venue. McKenzie
> >> glanced at me and then stared with an expression I interpreted as
> loathing,
> >> and which later I realized was something more akin to terror. I thought
> >> that they might be an F2M afraid of being outed, so out of courtesy I
> gave
> >> them a wide berth. In retrospect I wish I hadn?t. Roads not taken,
> ships
> >> that pass in the night?
> >>
> >> At any rate, we?re here now, and it?s a great pleasure.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I?ve seen a lot of young transpeople in what at some point in the
> >> past was a general catchphrase for personal turbulence: going through
> >> changes. Right. Ch-ch-ch-changes. Who knew.
> >>
> >> Well. The present moment is so chockfull of changes. A close relative,
> >> an intelligent, perceptive, empathetic and caring person, is a
> Trumpist. J
> >> Epstein, an intelligent, perceptive philanthropist, was a raging
> >> pedophile. Valerie Plame has launched a campaign video that either
> reduces
> >> or elevates politics to the level of Hollywood spectacle ? literally?
> all
> >> it lacks is Jason Statham and Vin Diesel getting out of the car behind
> >> her. A woman has given birth to a cow?s head. We?re all busy slouching
> >> toward our particular Bethlehem. What?s not to like?
> >>
> >> I?ll say something about change that?s more related to this thread
> >> later. This is just a little introductory blurt until I have more time.
> >>
> >> Sandy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Allucquere Rosanne Stone
> >> Drive-by Theoretician
> >>
> >> Faust: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
> >> Meph: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone. Please enjoy all autocorrects and typos.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> > Professor of Media and Culture
> > EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> > 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >
> > warkk at newschool.edu
> > <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> > T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > empyre forum
> > empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > empyre forum
> > empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:56:00 -0400
> From: warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Situated body, Situated practices
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> Thanks for those references. I don?t know that documentary. In the
> overdeveloped world and perhaps elsewhere, all bodies, cis and trans, are
> experiments held together by both technical experiments and aesthetic
> experiments. Trans ppl don?t necessarily want to be seen as exceptional in
> that regard. Personally we m in the Freak Pride camp, but a lot of
> brothers, sisters and others just think of themselves as ordinary. The
> right to be ordinary is also an important one. M
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 1:38 AM isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I so much agree with what has just been said;)
> > On the subject one of the most beautiful things I have heard so far is in
> > Bixa Travesty documentary in which Mc Linn Da Quebrada says that our body
> > is our own territory of experimentation;)
> > also loved the idea of the documentary Sea Horse about the man who had a
> > baby,
> > Cheers
> >
> > Isabelle
> >
> > [image:
> > http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
> > <http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif>
> > Isabelle Arvers
> > Curator, art critic and artist
> > Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
> > http://www.isabellearvers.com
> > Director of Kareron www.kareron.com
> > https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
> > twitter: @zabarvers
> > instagram.com/zabarvers
> > youtube.com/zabarvers
> > https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
> > Skype ID: iarvers
> >
> >
> > Le mer. 11 sept. 2019 ? 13:13, Jaimes Mayhew <jaimes.mayhew at gmail.com> a
> > ?crit :
> >
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I have been in this listserve since 2008 and I can?t recall ever
> posting,
> >> but I was inspired to share that seeing this conversation made my heart
> >> swell. I am also transgender, and transitioned early in my career.
> >>
> >> I?m struck that just 15-20 years ago, seeing this kind of conversation
> >> about trans* people on a list for art people seemed impossible. I?ve
> found
> >> people who are trans* in every city I?ve lived in via social media as a
> way
> >> to make friends and find allies. First Friendster, then MySpace and now
> >> Facebook.
> >>
> >> McKenzie, I am a fan of your work, and was so excited to see you present
> >> at CAA in NYC a couple of years ago. I remember seeing you and
> wondering if
> >> you might be family.
> >>
> >> What else can I say? I?m grateful for this moment.
> >>
> >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or brevity.
> >>
> >> On Sep 10, 2019, at 6:05 AM, warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> When i came out (on Facebook, natch), Sandy sent me a message which
> said:
> >> "Now you know why, when i met you, i made you nervous."
> >>
> >> True story. I had so much internalized transphobia because i knew i was
> >> clinging on to masculinity by a thread.
> >>
> >> "The internet" has a lot to answer for. It turns out media designed for
> >> extracting surplus information out of us is a great breeding ground for
> >> Nazis.
> >>
> >> Then again, it is a space where trans ppl can find each other. I'm
> >> transitioning with the help of big sisters i know IRL -- but met on
> >> twitter.
> >>
> >> Then again again, its a space for ppl who hate us. Its exhausting
> playing
> >> whack-a-mole with ppl who think you are not human.
> >>
> >> The actual German-style Nazis started with queer and trans ppl too. The
> >> Nazi-book burning pictures you see most often are of the Hirschfeld
> library.
> >>
> >> Who was Hirschfield? Who was Harry Benjamin? What was the medicalized
> >> model of the transsexual? Well for that you'd need to read this:
> >> http://www.sterneck.net/gender/stone-posttranssexuel/index.php
> >>
> >> -- in which Sandy became big sister to us all.
> >>
> >> Ironically enough, for complicated reasons, i'm among sisters who all
> >> call ourselves transsexuals again.
> >>
> >> But then one of themes is change, right?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:17 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> >> allucquere.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>> Hi folks, Sandy here. McKenzie and I met in the mythic time of the
> >>> latter part of the XXth Century, when she (then he) met a busful of
> >>> middle-aged theoreticians debarking at a conference venue. McKenzie
> >>> glanced at me and then stared with an expression I interpreted as
> loathing,
> >>> and which later I realized was something more akin to terror. I
> thought
> >>> that they might be an F2M afraid of being outed, so out of courtesy I
> gave
> >>> them a wide berth. In retrospect I wish I hadn?t. Roads not taken,
> ships
> >>> that pass in the night?
> >>>
> >>> At any rate, we?re here now, and it?s a great pleasure.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, I?ve seen a lot of young transpeople in what at some point in the
> >>> past was a general catchphrase for personal turbulence: going through
> >>> changes. Right. Ch-ch-ch-changes. Who knew.
> >>>
> >>> Well. The present moment is so chockfull of changes. A close
> relative,
> >>> an intelligent, perceptive, empathetic and caring person, is a
> Trumpist. J
> >>> Epstein, an intelligent, perceptive philanthropist, was a raging
> >>> pedophile. Valerie Plame has launched a campaign video that either
> reduces
> >>> or elevates politics to the level of Hollywood spectacle ? literally?
> all
> >>> it lacks is Jason Statham and Vin Diesel getting out of the car behind
> >>> her. A woman has given birth to a cow?s head. We?re all busy
> slouching
> >>> toward our particular Bethlehem. What?s not to like?
> >>>
> >>> I?ll say something about change that?s more related to this thread
> >>> later. This is just a little introductory blurt until I have more
> time.
> >>>
> >>> Sandy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Allucquere Rosanne Stone
> >>> Drive-by Theoretician
> >>>
> >>> Faust: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
> >>> Meph: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone. Please enjoy all autocorrects and typos.
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> empyre forum
> >>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> >> Professor of Media and Culture
> >> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> >> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >> <
> https://www.google.com/maps/search/65+w11th+st,+NEW+YORK,+NY+10011?entry=gmail&source=g
> >
> >>
> >> warkk at newschool.edu
> >> <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#
> >
> >> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > empyre forum
> > empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
>
> --
>
> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> *Professor of Media and Culture*
> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
>
> warkk at newschool.edu
> <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:02:40 -0400
> From: warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Situated body, Situated practices
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> So enough about me.
>
> This is sort of how it works in my trans girl world: i have a big sister
> and she has a big sister
>
> -- but the big sister of us all is Sandy Stone. And i just want to sit at
> her (virtual feet).
>
> So Sandy:
> how has your thinking changed, or not, since The Empire Strikes Back: A
> Posttranssexual Manifesto?
>
> what do you think about the internet-spawned trans culture that sprang up,
> maybe mostly via tumblr?
>
> can you tell me a it about ageing? I just turned 58 and am already a middle
> aged woman...
>
> do you find resonances between the techniques for our bodies and for our
> ears? Sound and body technics?
>
> oh i have so much more, but just for a start...
>
> M
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:56 AM warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for those references. I don?t know that documentary. In the
> > overdeveloped world and perhaps elsewhere, all bodies, cis and trans, are
> > experiments held together by both technical experiments and aesthetic
> > experiments. Trans ppl don?t necessarily want to be seen as exceptional
> in
> > that regard. Personally we m in the Freak Pride camp, but a lot of
> > brothers, sisters and others just think of themselves as ordinary. The
> > right to be ordinary is also an important one. M
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 1:38 AM isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I so much agree with what has just been said;)
> >> On the subject one of the most beautiful things I have heard so far is
> in
> >> Bixa Travesty documentary in which Mc Linn Da Quebrada says that our
> body
> >> is our own territory of experimentation;)
> >> also loved the idea of the documentary Sea Horse about the man who had a
> >> baby,
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Isabelle
> >>
> >> [image:
> >> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
> >> <http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif>
> >> Isabelle Arvers
> >> Curator, art critic and artist
> >> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
> >> http://www.isabellearvers.com
> >> Director of Kareron www.kareron.com
> >> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
> >> twitter: @zabarvers
> >> instagram.com/zabarvers
> >> youtube.com/zabarvers
> >> https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
> >> Skype ID: iarvers
> >>
> >>
> >> Le mer. 11 sept. 2019 ? 13:13, Jaimes Mayhew <jaimes.mayhew at gmail.com>
> a
> >> ?crit :
> >>
> >>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>> I have been in this listserve since 2008 and I can?t recall ever
> >>> posting, but I was inspired to share that seeing this conversation
> made my
> >>> heart swell. I am also transgender, and transitioned early in my
> career.
> >>>
> >>> I?m struck that just 15-20 years ago, seeing this kind of conversation
> >>> about trans* people on a list for art people seemed impossible. I?ve
> found
> >>> people who are trans* in every city I?ve lived in via social media as
> a way
> >>> to make friends and find allies. First Friendster, then MySpace and now
> >>> Facebook.
> >>>
> >>> McKenzie, I am a fan of your work, and was so excited to see you
> present
> >>> at CAA in NYC a couple of years ago. I remember seeing you and
> wondering if
> >>> you might be family.
> >>>
> >>> What else can I say? I?m grateful for this moment.
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or brevity.
> >>>
> >>> On Sep 10, 2019, at 6:05 AM, warkk <WarkK at newschool.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> When i came out (on Facebook, natch), Sandy sent me a message which
> >>> said: "Now you know why, when i met you, i made you nervous."
> >>>
> >>> True story. I had so much internalized transphobia because i knew i was
> >>> clinging on to masculinity by a thread.
> >>>
> >>> "The internet" has a lot to answer for. It turns out media designed for
> >>> extracting surplus information out of us is a great breeding ground for
> >>> Nazis.
> >>>
> >>> Then again, it is a space where trans ppl can find each other. I'm
> >>> transitioning with the help of big sisters i know IRL -- but met on
> >>> twitter.
> >>>
> >>> Then again again, its a space for ppl who hate us. Its exhausting
> >>> playing whack-a-mole with ppl who think you are not human.
> >>>
> >>> The actual German-style Nazis started with queer and trans ppl too. The
> >>> Nazi-book burning pictures you see most often are of the Hirschfeld
> library.
> >>>
> >>> Who was Hirschfield? Who was Harry Benjamin? What was the medicalized
> >>> model of the transsexual? Well for that you'd need to read this:
> >>> http://www.sterneck.net/gender/stone-posttranssexuel/index.php
> >>>
> >>> -- in which Sandy became big sister to us all.
> >>>
> >>> Ironically enough, for complicated reasons, i'm among sisters who all
> >>> call ourselves transsexuals again.
> >>>
> >>> But then one of themes is change, right?
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:17 AM Allucquere Rosanne Stone <
> >>> allucquere.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
> >>>> Hi folks, Sandy here. McKenzie and I met in the mythic time of the
> >>>> latter part of the XXth Century, when she (then he) met a busful of
> >>>> middle-aged theoreticians debarking at a conference venue. McKenzie
> >>>> glanced at me and then stared with an expression I interpreted as
> loathing,
> >>>> and which later I realized was something more akin to terror. I
> thought
> >>>> that they might be an F2M afraid of being outed, so out of courtesy I
> gave
> >>>> them a wide berth. In retrospect I wish I hadn?t. Roads not taken,
> ships
> >>>> that pass in the night?
> >>>>
> >>>> At any rate, we?re here now, and it?s a great pleasure.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah, I?ve seen a lot of young transpeople in what at some point in
> the
> >>>> past was a general catchphrase for personal turbulence: going through
> >>>> changes. Right. Ch-ch-ch-changes. Who knew.
> >>>>
> >>>> Well. The present moment is so chockfull of changes. A close
> >>>> relative, an intelligent, perceptive, empathetic and caring person,
> is a
> >>>> Trumpist. J Epstein, an intelligent, perceptive philanthropist, was a
> >>>> raging pedophile. Valerie Plame has launched a campaign video that
> either
> >>>> reduces or elevates politics to the level of Hollywood spectacle ?
> >>>> literally? all it lacks is Jason Statham and Vin Diesel getting out
> of the
> >>>> car behind her. A woman has given birth to a cow?s head. We?re all
> busy
> >>>> slouching toward our particular Bethlehem. What?s not to like?
> >>>>
> >>>> I?ll say something about change that?s more related to this thread
> >>>> later. This is just a little introductory blurt until I have more
> time.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sandy
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Allucquere Rosanne Stone
> >>>> Drive-by Theoretician
> >>>>
> >>>> Faust: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
> >>>> Meph: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sent from my iPhone. Please enjoy all autocorrects and typos.
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> empyre forum
> >>>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >>>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> >>> Professor of Media and Culture
> >>> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> >>> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >>> <
> https://www.google.com/maps/search/65+w11th+st,+NEW+YORK,+NY+10011?entry=gmail&source=g
> >
> >>>
> >>> warkk at newschool.edu
> >>> <
> http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> >>> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> empyre forum
> >>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> empyre forum
> >>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> empyre forum
> >> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
> >
> > --
> >
> > McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> > *Professor of Media and Culture*
> > EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> > 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
> >
> > warkk at newschool.edu
> > <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> > T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> McKenzie Wark (they/she)
> *Professor of Media and Culture*
> EUGENE LANG COLLEGE
> 65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011
>
> warkk at newschool.edu
> <http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#>
> T 212 229 5100 2241 / M 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456
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