WHIRLING SKIRMISH

Yesterme Yesteryou Yesterday
Stevie Wonder
________

What happened to the world we knew
When we would dream and scheme
And while the time away
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday

Where did it go that yester glow
When we could feel
The wheel of life turn our way
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday

I had a dream so did you life
Was warm and love was true
14 kids who never followed the rules
Yester fools and now
Now it seems those yester dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we used to play
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday

When I recall what we had
I feel lost I feel sad with nothing but
The memory of yester love and now
Now it seems those yester dreams
Were just a cruel
And foolish game we had to play
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday

Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
Sing with me
Yesterme yesteryou yesterday
One more time.....

This looks interesting. As this is the first I have heard of this could I
just ask a couple of questions?

You say 'played back live to the Great Hall'. Do you envisage the playback
to be on a college machine arranged by your dept. as a display, a private
machine to display or via wireless access? Obviously this has a bearing on
the BBG 2 end.

You said that the BBG2 venue cannot be changed, I assume that this due to
room bookings. We would need to know the actual times, as any changes would
have to be installed prior and then restored to the normal teaching
environment afterwards.

We will need written permission from your Head of Department as you are
wanting to set up a webcam in a public place.

If you would like to talk to me I am on 020 **. If I'm not at my
desk it will divert to my mobile.

Regards

Ian B

Ian Biss
Network Officer
ISC 115

Just cleanin' out ye old camera.

Trying to find snippets here and there that maybe useful...

Side note on Agamben and “The Coming Community”

1) as summarized by Michael Hardt (who translated it) in an interview about Multitude:

"(the coming community) not being based on belonging. He was experimenting with the notion of a non-identity way of thinking and making social organization. That too is the project of multitude. In philosophical terms, like Agamben, we are trying to displace the contradictory couple identity/difference and instead work with the common, singularity, and multiplicity.

But our notion of "not-yet" is really very simple. In addition to aluding to Bloch's notion of utopia, we merely want to emphasize that multitude is a project, a political project, that must be brought into existence through collective struggle."

2)From a philosophy website overview of Agamben (cant remember which one maybe princeton's??)

The Coming Community
-he develops the notion of “whatever singularities.”
- In taking up the problem of community, Agamben enters into a broader engagement with this concept by others such as Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy, and in the Anglo-American scene, Alphonso Lingis.
-broad aim of the engagement is to develop a conception of community that does not presuppose commonality or identity as a condition of belonging.
-Agamben’s conception of “whatever singularity” indicates a form of being that rejects any manifestation of identity or belonging and wholly appropriates being to itself, that is, in its own “being-in-language.” Whatever singularity allows for the formation of community without the affirmation of identity or “representable condition of belonging,” in nothing other than the “co-belonging” of singularities itself. Importantly though, this entails neither a mystical communion nor a nostalgic return to a Gemeinschaft that has been lost; instead, the coming community has never yet been. Interestingly, Agamben argues in this elliptical text that the community and politics of whatever singularity are heralded in the event of Tianenmen square, which he. He takes this event to indicate that the coming politics will not be a struggle between states, but, instead, a struggle between the state and humanity as such, insofar as it exists in itself without expropriation in identity.. Correlatively, the coming politics do not entail a sacralization of humanity, for the existence of whatever singularity is always irreparably abandoned to itself; as Agamben writes, ‘“The Irreparable is that things are just as they are, in this or that mode, consigned without remedy to their way of being. States of things are irreparable, whatever they may be: sad or happy, atrocious or blessed. How you are, how the world is—this is the irreparable....”(CC 90)

WHATEVER (singularity)
-amal

are we moving towards the "unworking" of the community to a degree that it ceases to be a "workable" concept altogether…..???

Fragments from the last meeting with Taru:

- The Inpoerative Community=
Less target led
Not based on an identity
Moving away from the core essence

-Interesting thing about failure is when omething comes out of it in a constructive way

-Agamben on community:
Doing away with ideas of the essential community and rethinking all other terms

-Negative Vibes
-Idea of fake utopia
-Circles etc undermining a hippy ideology
-calling squatting fake etc

-moving things fast (our community)
-microwaving intimacy

-the group has been testing out different modes of the intimate community
…following methods of intimacy, tracking methods/methodologies for creating community/intimacy
…exploring what comes out of these practices, whether they are forced, real, effective

-INOPERATIVE COMMUNITY concept can be a loose hook for us to frame and push our research further…
… should continue with our highly practical work method “EXPRESSION GIVES US A METHOD”
a “stammering” practice
stuttering, cut ups

- at the presentation we NEED TO DEMONSTRATE A CRITICAL ARMATURE
-statement
-presentation
-discussion
(the discussion is a vital part of the overall presentation and requires us to back up our presentation with ideas, concepts, methodologies)

q. Taru asked us:
How do you describe this work as a research?
What is the relationship between our practice and theory?
How can you describe your practice as a research method?

In order for us to answer her questions we will do a divination ritual/a mapping/a rearrangement, arrangement of our ideas, research, ephemera….

Her final words were: Keep on doing stuff, keep on reflecting

See you all tomorrow
BRING LOTS OF STUFF
-amal