Amy Ireland Darkside Empathy Shanghai Frequencies

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• 00:00:51

  Speaking of unanticipated interruptions before, this is the second time that I'm going to try and do this, but hopefully it's working, let me know if something's going wrong. So I began basically thanking Mikkel for starting this whole thing. It took me in a completely different direction to where I thought I would…

• 00:07:06

  Parkside Empathy is neither virtuous nor weak. Rather, it provides a kind of fortification that allows one to weather the ontological pressure we are subjected to by time. So, I'm going to read a few excerpts from my section of Shanghai Frequencies. Together they deal with the notion of unanticipated trajectories with…

• 00:12:48

  When Mikkel locates his own internal limit the blinding white spot replaces the memory of our parting. All of the above coincides for me. That's my limit as well. An encounter with intensity which close to what Mikkel implies when he's writing about anesthetics as anesthetics turn cold is not just about pleasure…

• 00:17:46

  Coupled with abstraction it becomes a weapon. This is one of the things it's working through rather than its simple abandonment or repression forges a chilling talent for leverage. Extract empathy from the usual connotative swamp of emotional and irrational affectivity that's all too often associated with women…

• 00:22:52

  Empathetic mimicry, tactically wielded, attuned to a goal of deception, also involves a temporal dimension that the vulnerability of the simulator necessitates. Strategic advantage in time is afforded by the indispensability of delaying detection until the moment in which retaliation is already too late. Asymmetry…

• 00:28:14

  So to close, there is no metaphorical level to this that the book will suggest to me in any manner. It could be further from the rhetorical conceit that productive but ultimately substitutable and preferable in its substitutability to a gesture. This is precisely where the horror lies. In terms of the problem…

• 00:37:45

  He says, abstractions contain two components, one part that is given in representation and the other part which isn't. So this idea of intensity being an abstraction is perfectly encapsulated in that. It's got one part inside the transcendental or is the transcendental and the other part is this expressed…

• 00:44:10

  Thank you, everyone. Okay, goodbye, everyone. Thanks to all of the organizers, too. To Andre and Andre, Marco, to Miroslav for doing the moderating at the last minute. And everyone who was involved in setting up and thanks, everyone. I wish I could see you all. Bye.