<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">Dear list,</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura">The ongoing
discussion on the question of digital in comparison to traditional knowledge or
information and libraries, as well as pedagogy related to epistemology like
Anya Kamenetz, John Sobol or Elizabeth Losh, but also Tania Pérez-Bustos discuss
in relation to gendered epistemologies etc. and all the others seems to show
that there is a lot of differences coming up. Our daily life has already
completely changed and we are still competing with the ghosts of hierarchic
modernist thinking––was Postmodernism just a dream? We have to continue
thinking and practicing in an institution, which is still the old one. Better:
in Europe the so called Bolgna-process fosters a new old pedagogical system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura">Interesting that
just right now in germany we face the crash of a young minister, who was the
embodiment of the new poltical dynamics: a combination of good looking, smart
rhetorics and an aristocratical AND titled old family-tree. Mr. zu Guttenberg,
the former minister of defense, had compiled his PhD-thesis from hundreds of
texts. Well, this hasn’t any newness, but that it was possible to decode his
fake with an act of commons through an internet search engine –– this is quite
a novelty. And that was not the only case. But isn’t this an interesting case
for the list discussion relating to new epistemologies?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">With great
interest I read Trebor’s invitation for MobilityShifts; some reminiscences of
the Free Cooperation conference in Buffalo, where I had the pleasure to
participate, are still fresh. Asked from Trebor to introduce myself, I am an
artist, activist, photographer and filmmaker intervening with kinds of
De-Conceptual art, critique of the <s>public</s> sphere, image- and
textrelations, new media and transcultural theory. After a six years contract
as professor for practice and theory of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts
in Munich now I teach as a Visiting-professor for Creative Writing at the
University of Arts in Berlin.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">Since a long
time involved in research and reflexions on genealogies of artistic thinking––trough
and with different media––my recent Wiki-project on conceptual art,
"Conceptual Paradise", could be interesting for you:</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://weblab.uni-lueneburg.de/socialsoftware/paradise/index.php/Hauptseite"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium;color:#000090;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none">http://weblab.uni-lueneburg.de/socialsoftware/paradise/index.php/Hauptseite</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">I worked for
four years on the documentary film »Conceptual Pradigms« (2006) on and as
conceptual art, which prepared the footage basis for the wiki; and in the
following we worked together with students and a transdisciplinary group of
theorists Kathrin Busch (philosophy), Eva Birkenstock (arthistory), Ulf
Wuggenig (soziology) sowie Martin Warnke (informatics) to built up the wiki
(2007-2010). 2010 our wiki received the "Lehrpreis"/teaching award of
the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. The urge was to find a actual form of
accessable archive. No doubt this is much more appropriate than a library, even
if it functions as a librarysystem.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">My main focus
in the field of conceptual art is epistemology because I am searching to link
its epistemolgies to practices like this list and conference in and on the
internet––publishing, discussing and formulating forms of knowledge through
forms of information. For this it seems to be necessary to think into the
genealogies of philosophy: The issue of "interst" touches a wide
cultural and scientific field: from learning to the library as archive to
episteme, cognition and knowledge. To take an epistemological perspective from
the arts seems to be unconventional, and I'd like to favor "interest"
in contrary to the term "competence". For this consideration also the
term "perception" is important, which I link with contemporary
transnational (global) conceptualisms in the sense of transcultural and transmedial
conceptual art. This I consider as contemporary forms of De-conceptual art
(detached from a deconstruction of the ideology of conceptual art).</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">In his book
"Suspension of Perception. Attention, Spectacle, Modern Culture"
Jonathan Crary (1999) traced the genealogy of the term perception in the 19.
Century as a dissolution from the Kantian transcendental philosophy. Since that
time the question polarises, if a gain of insights works through convergence or
through dispersion of perception.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">George Franck
examines the shift in the knowledge society in his "The Economics of
attention" (1998) from money to a "donated attention". From this
he concludes consequences for the subject, which strives increasingly for a
public, as well as for labour, which favors intellectual in relation to manual
labor. This new "immaterial labour" (Virno, 2005) operates with
control to the self entrepreneur (Bröcklin, 2007), whereby criticism in
relation to the model of participation is back-pushed at the same time. These
forms of labour were valid before only for artistic production. This all well
discussed, but did we decode the terms we use fort his discussion?</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">Since Humanities
are––with many relations––interwoven with the latin conception "inter
esse" over the last fifteen years became a notorious manifestation for
working, thinking and beeing online. The state of beeing––intellectual,
physical and medial––in-between became the favorite contrary to the stable and
rigid forms of earlier knowledge and the self.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">I want to foster
the discussion on "interest" in its various relations to the
passions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">My project
points first hand on a fundamental new assumption of episteme/knowledge in
relation (in-between) to social new media as well as thinking and the self with
and in the arts. In a second step it will ask for transdisciplinary and
multifacetted research.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">Please all
comments</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Futura-Medium">Stefan Römer</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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