Dear skawennati

In response to your question:
>I am quite interested in knowing how you (Kate & all) have 
>acknowledged the "existing logic" in other projects. 

I would say that in the work that I make with Patrick Simons, 
particularly in the two pieces we are currently working on, that we are 
atttempting to understand as well as we can, the dominant logic 
inherent in technological, bureaucratic and administrative systems. 

We try and understand these systems, not from within systems theory, 
which I think has a sort of diminished logic, but prefer instead what I 
perceive to be a much richer understanding of complexity found in the 
dialectical method of Marx and Engels, and which is articulated 
beautifully by Bertell Ollman.
 
As well, we are trying  in a small, gentle way, to suggest 
supplementary kinds of 'protocols' - ones based in a different logic.  
This logic values intimate encounters between people known and 
unknown, and is a logic that attempts not to reject, master, assimilate 
or incorporate ' the other'.

It seems that in your CyberPowWow project, you are also challenging  
dominant, bourgeois logic by proposing a supplementary space that 
exists alongside it.  

best wishes
Kate


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