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January 28 2012
January 26 2012
December 23 2011
December 21 2011
on memory
love
offers us
the opportunity
to honour
the event
December 13 2011
November 26 2011
Occupy is a Revolutionary Subject or Still Life
- Balthus, Still Life, 1937
Occupy Wall Street as a Node of Resonance
The node of resonance analysis seems to me flawed because it takes the image from network theory. Receptive as well as resonant nodes imply a mechanical reduction: they are parts of a mechanism, not machines productive of transversal subjects.
Occupy has the power to effect change | Peter Hallward
Peter Hallward’s piece ignores even Judith Butler’s view of a material transformation effected by Occupy – which is at least suggestive – in favour of advocating a conventional protest movement, involving civil disobedience and non-compliance.
The tactics of occupation: Becoming cockroach
This is where the former analysis actually works, since it points out the difference between Occupy and a protest movement: the former does not Move! Here also the strength in the Cockroaches article is stasis. There is no movement.
What doesn’t happen when we stop? is the question. Not the more familiar: What happens? Or: What happens now that we have stopped here?
So: What or who cannot be excluded? Not: How can I be included?
Which points to Occupy as a simulation. There is an indication, several stories, an anecdote or two, that the Zuccotti Occupation began from an artistic reappropriation of the Tahrir Square Occupation. It was recognisable. People knew how to respond. And there was a sort of romance: maybe we are like Egyptians, fighting an overtly oppressive system.
It involved – and involves still, stillness being all – the putting into play of an aesthetic for which no further instructions were required. Simply occupy! It is this aesthetic phenomenon that the above analyses are trying to reduce to discourse, to analyse, to trace the outlines of, the etiology, the teleology, the origins and ends, and curlicuing, ornamenting out of sheer imaginative will, and failing to analyse, failing even to depict. Because such traditional forms of analysis are afraid of simulation, fakes, the hyperreal, or virtual.
Imagine a serious person finding value in the politically fake! There is an art to writing of such things.
What I would like to point out is that not only is Occupy not a movement, because it does not move, not only is Occupy a simulation, or fake, or play politics (!), but that in the bodies it immoblises it puts its own status – and stasis – at risk.
November 24 2011
cultural security
the future of the arts
is history
November 13 2011
Εμπρός – Mavili collective occupation of Embros Theatre Athens begins 11/11/11
- from – and more – from – here
the so-called re-activation of the theatre is temporary.
the question I would ask is how make it permanently temporary?
since the theatre is temporary.
a region of existential refrain. [Guattari]
I suggested a similar re-activation for Downstage theatre Wellington when it was announced it couldn’t afford to stay open after Radar’s one man show.
It has stayed open. But is in poor health. Negotiations were held with City Council. And, since, strategies have been put in place…
strategies…?
put in place…?
I still propose occupying Downstage.
Despite the depredations of prolonged use as a venue with skeletal administration – starvation in other words – and no company and the concomitant deterioration in the state of the building – through economic isolation although not an isolated case of it –
and despite the good intentions of Downstage’s board of governance and the rallying of the supporters’ society
and that of the negotiators
those theatrical healthcare officers
to devise a strategy for treatment [see here]
it is still that lovable bunker, the unfinished concrete interior of which once long ago caused some old ladies I overheard in an interval in the ambulatory to express their pleasure at buying tickets since the money would help pay to finish the building!
and meanwhile its present shameful disuse continues for the St. James theatre in Auckland … better occupy that than that excuse for a civic space, Aotea Square, in the land of the long white out …
November 09 2011
tyranny of light
tyranny of light wherein hallucinations are clearly and distinctly seen, and being seen are recognised, and recognised are understood, and understood are taken as held in common; and in this light all individual consciousness corresponds, as if the clear part of every monad coincided, and to this tyranny each individual consciousness defers and by it is coopted.
November 02 2011
July 28 2011
July 22 2011
to placard: sufficient conditioning; a call to raise expectations of and from conditions considered sufficient
[-with minor alterations, the following was sent to the Listserv Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives-]
Dear Un-Alike,
I’m intrigued by the support here for decentralization as a condition for a desirable network. Decentralization is what the social graph aspires to, lighting up the dark zones of the net, growing virally, accumulating capital from a closed circuit of service – P2P, yes, and emphasising personalization alongside offering software as a service. A network as I understand it leans towards a hub and feeder model before either a centripetally hierarchical, an egalitarian, or a random distribution.
The problem of social media is the many and the one and the various non-processual practices to which we, one, they are submitted. The box/circle/cutter of normalisation and presumptive (profiling) generalisation (based on a consumption-use dictatorship – i.e. what a majority will commit to, with a click – and what the power to sell will prescribe) strikes me, in other words, the constraint of expression of the individual and the reciprocal constraint of articulation of the societies, strike me as being more critical, and more problematic, in existing online social-individual arrangements.
Time, it seems to me, is of the essence in what is at stake for social networks to work: processual, non-presumptive – and non-patronising (!), constructive of both individual and social identities, multiple and whole – by turns, in time -, further, relational in so far as difference enters between and before the one and the many, you, me, one them …us.
I am working in the field of this problematic, this critical milieu, in order to build a poly-lingual dialogical commons, an online social processual and differential simulacrum, and am seeking collaborators in many fields, pre-eminently – where the need is greatest – in code-writing. Please contact me if you are interested. [here]
I feel I should add that I agree neither that entrepreneurial activity has a natural proclivity towards promoting unethical behaviour, nor that the commercial can somehow be separated from the constructive, creative and artistic – and socially responsible – spheres. In fact, it seems to me that a lot of art is exploitative and static, non-progressive, cynical, repressive, however enjoyable it may be; and a lot of commercial activity is affirmative, creative, constructive and ethical – despite erring on the side of lack of imagination, vision… often. I am interested in building an apparatus for online interaction with the support of entrepreneurs and expect this project to be artistically and commercially viable, adequate and effective: in fact, the standards that I am applying are those of both artistic and commercial efficacy – real-world intervention – for this constructivist undertaking.
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…further, you can show your support for this project by signing in here – yes, it’s legit and safe, not a scam, and it is a help.
July 17 2011
July 07 2011
July 05 2011
May 18 2011
May 12 2011
May 01 2011
the redundancy of the world wide web
April 30 2011
unambiguous proof of a significant number in detention and a recent tendency to obstruct access to details surrounding the capture
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