Sunday, December 31, 2023
Asemic Engagement with Ab-Sen(c/s)e / EZE, 2023
Asemic Engagement with Ab-Sen(c/s)e
Notes on the Aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty
Merleau-Ponty formulates with remarkable precision the primary ontological theme: "What is proper to the visible [le propre du visible] is to have a layer of an invisible in the strict sense, which it renders present as a certain absence." It is this occult, secluded layer of invisibility that painting renders visible, that—in the words of Klee that Merleau-Ponty pieces together—painting annexes to the visible. It is because of painting’s engagement with this invisibility, which, while of the visible, also lies outside the realm of visible things, that Merleau-Ponty is led finally to what he calls the ontological formula of painting. The formula consists of words, written by Klee in 1916, that were inscribed on his tomb. They bespeak painting’s engagement beyond the here and now of visible things. Merleau-Ponty cites them in French translation: "Je suis insaisissable dan l’immanence." In Klee’s German the formula reads, "Diesseitig bin ich gar nicht fassbar" ("I cannot be at all grasped on this side, in the here and now"). [from "Freeing the Line" by John Sallis in Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception]
Asemics opens up the invisible as instantiations of meaning and of unmeaning, this, where the invisible reveals itself as statistical possibilities and as gap between.
Making Science and Engineering Pictures
Saturday, December 30, 2023
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Thursday, December 28, 2023
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Monday, December 25, 2023
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Metamodern Asemics / EZE, 2023
Metamodern Asemics
Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen Discuss Metamodernism
Meaning?
La La La
Getting Metamodernism Closer to Asemics
with Such Terms as Walllessness and Borderlessness
The Future of Theory
Metamodern
Semiotics Guise
Worldview and The Future of Theory
Sunday in the Park with Theory
...
A Note on Time Decay
Doped
Saturday, December 23, 2023
The Words of the Prophets Are Not Words
Friday, December 22, 2023
Kitsch Asemic / EZE, 2023
Erik J. Larson on Kitsch
Asemic at the End of the World
And Other Kitsch
Unintended Consequences
And a Features List of Metamodern Aesthetics
Where
Asemics Is Not (Yet) Included, But ~Pastiche~, a Cousin of Kitsch, Is
~ Under Investigation ~
(Science as Kitsch?)
Saturday, December 16, 2023
The Quus toward an Asemic Condition / EZE, 2023
57 + 68 = 125
57 + 68 = 5
This is just as well art:
57 + 68
So too these statements:
57 + 68 = 125
57 + 68 = 5
There may be a shout for explanation.
There may not.
There may be an auto-correction.
There may not.
Indeed, the semantics of these statements may or may not produce much of any kind of truth.
They could also bring about a bit of confusion, but confusion requires something ... .
And did you notice?
Just confusion?
An attempt to intervene for the sake of clarity.
And there may even be statement denial.
There may not.
But history is another kind of collection, true or not.
As we live in these conditions now, we make our conditions norms, and norms serve as our rules whether our rules call for compliance or call for change or call for definition ... or call for something or other ... but then, what happens next?
Else-wise, the asemic condition often escapes such activity. For meaning in this way, the asemic condition usually lacks.
Soon enough, philosophy engages the asemic condition and blurts out "paradox."
But no paradox is likely here as silence too belongs to music.
Yet the intervention begins, sort of.
And will the intervention allow for the asemic condition? or move to meaning?
What is it?
Kripkenstein Denies an Appeal to Rule-Following for Private Language
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
Postscript
The Ends/End of Greek Rationality
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Asemics contra Platonics / EZE, 2023
Asemics contra Platonics
p ~ a
egg -> true egg; meaning fully known and truly fulfilled (in the idea(l))
() <-> ... ; meaning uncertain or unknown or coming to be, and perhaps, thereby, fulfilled by swimming
a map to a treasure chest
a map that pictures stillness as a tennis stroke
Platonics:
Shadows on the Wall ~ ~ Understanding as Copycat
Asemics:
Z:
On the Possibility of Philosophy
Math Problem:
How Asemics Elides the NULL: Cheryl Penn on the Un / EZE, 2023
How Asemics Elides the NULL: Cheryl Penn on the Un
Notes:
Daniel Harris: Semantics without Semantic Content
