tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post122783775471750874..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: It's a Love Machine: On Finally Meeting (and Loving) Jeffrey and Karl, and Oh Yes, that Michael Uebel FellowCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-15610049692333127632007-05-18T16:24:00.000-04:002007-05-18T16:24:00.000-04:00Uebel is, well, Uebelian in stature in my book. I...Uebel is, well, Uebelian in stature in my book. I don't know a better read medievalist, and there I talk about him as if he were a medievalist still.<BR/><BR/>I send students to him to work with him via email. He has always been incredibly nurturing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-43905018950648818412007-05-18T16:14:00.000-04:002007-05-18T16:14:00.000-04:00I love Uebel, too... nuff said.I love Uebel, too... nuff said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-67034841953300118942007-05-17T16:56:00.000-04:002007-05-17T16:56:00.000-04:00I've loved Uebel, too ... from way back ... 1999, ...I've loved Uebel, too ... from way back ... 1999, maybe. He is a mighty compossible happy affect ringing sympathetic vibrations in the ethosphere ...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06595799529954257343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-83339220731338753232007-05-17T16:55:00.000-04:002007-05-17T16:55:00.000-04:00I've loved Uebel, too ... from way back ... 1999, ...I've loved Uebel, too ... from way back ... 1999, maybe. He is a mighty compossible happy affect ringing sympathetic vibrations in the ethosphere ...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06595799529954257343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-38758300896628560132007-05-15T13:56:00.000-04:002007-05-15T13:56:00.000-04:00Festshrifter, mon ami, I feel you.Festshrifter, mon ami, I feel you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-24336158299979968282007-05-15T10:16:00.000-04:002007-05-15T10:16:00.000-04:00audience members, instead of asking the typical "b...<I>audience members, instead of asking the typical "but how does what you just said compare to what I think already?" questions, instead more often talked about feeling energized, affirmed, and "found" somehow by what was being discussed.</I><BR/><BR/>I missed the theory panel, but I *totally* felt this after the humanism panel -- that's why all I could do was offer a reading suggestion, rather than ask a question, because I was still processing, and continued to do so all conference long. What a great panel to start off the conference!! And I'm still talking about it. I told Bullock last night about Tim Spence's Book of Hours/iPod paper when I saw one of those iPod ads he referenced. Bullock was fascinated and he's a political theorist. So you guys are definitely speaking to the broader humanist audience. Way to go!<BR/><BR/>And again, sorry I had to miss subsequent panels. Duty called elsewhere.<BR/><BR/>As for the dance -- I danced with Karl earlier in the night, and he is indeed in a category by himself!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-28977242129199676652007-05-15T10:12:00.000-04:002007-05-15T10:12:00.000-04:00"People today seem unable to understand love as a ..."People today seem unable to understand love as a political concept, but a concept of love is just what we need to grasp the constituent power of the multitude...We need a more generous and unrestrained conception of love...Love means precisely that our expansive encounters and continuous collaborations bring us joy" (Hardt and Negri, Multitude).<BR/><BR/>To paraphrase Zizek, Is it possible not to love our PharmaKing Michael Uebel?Michael O'Rourkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03110210128389911666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41038477161436281082007-05-15T07:42:00.000-04:002007-05-15T07:42:00.000-04:00Well, I learned a new word today.I second n50's wi...Well, I learned a new word today.<BR/><BR/>I second n50's wistful comment on the limitations of virtual relationships -- if only it were as easy to lurk in person! The session sounds more inspiring by the second.<BR/><BR/>Following Nicola, my favorite quote at the moment:<BR/>"Love and research -- it's the same movement." (Bruno Latour)Liza Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105726464955172469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-12800284953920858022007-05-15T06:02:00.000-04:002007-05-15T06:02:00.000-04:00The theory panel did indeed rock and Uebel's call ...The theory panel did indeed rock and Uebel's call to unknowing and the real is still ringing in my ears.<BR/><BR/>Some quotes on love that come to mind:<BR/><BR/>"Seeing something simply in its being-thus -- irreparable, but not for that reason necessary; thus, but not for that reason contingent -- is love" (Agamben)<BR/><BR/>"Love is essentially self-communicative; those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. Those who receive love from others cannot be its recipients without giving a response which, in itself, is the nature of love. True love is unconquerable and irresistible. It goes on gathering power and spreading itself until eventually it transforms everyone it touches. Humanity will attain to a new mode of being and life through the free and unhampered interplay of pure love from heart to heart" (Meher Baba)Nicola Masciandarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01279665722551517693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-22841551800320604172007-05-15T02:31:00.000-04:002007-05-15T02:31:00.000-04:00Wow - sounds amazing - esp MU - and to think while...Wow - sounds amazing - esp MU - and to think while you were doing all that we were dancing to the Eurovision song contest. Sometimes virtual relationships are so damn - well - virtual.N50https://www.blogger.com/profile/02927387227571782287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-32412612763157303692007-05-15T00:22:00.000-04:002007-05-15T00:22:00.000-04:00MU has quite an other effect on people, an effect ...MU has quite an other effect on people, an effect coming unpredictably, from elsewhere. Like the pharmakon in Plato's texts, it perhaps remains undecidable in any instance, whether this effect was remedy and/or poison. Or, indeed, whether or not he was a pharmakeus, a kind of magician, a character no logic can confine within a noncontradictory definition. Or a pharmakos, a rascal, a contaminated and contaminating agent, to be expelled in one way or another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com