Dec 24 24
What is the mode that follows a scenario where everyone is to blame?
To a significant degree we humans are all apophenic (the condition of finding meaning and pattern where such connections are highly dubious, if not complete fantasy). To be sure, apophenia is not a choice but an involuntary reaction to continually abutting against all manner of aporia (irresolvable conundrums/dilemmas). Aporia then apophenia, aporia then apophenia; forever and anon?
It seems that the existential, mordantly messy end of Modernism/Enlightenment is the corporate superstructure — a kind of greed grid (an involuntary drone construction of the apophenic, idiotic, and phantasmagoric battle of tradition and utopia). A foundation so dumb and so dumb-causing that we now see it as the dawn of a renaissance not a decline — as we refuse to accept the endless industrial, scientific, computational shifting of paradigmas (apophenias) to be yielding to mindless control. This is highly personal and does not feel like an epiphany or anything quixotic — but a reasonable reaction. (It bears saying that we are not interested in anything like religion; as said elsewhere, we feel all religion and confident science to be idolatrous. This is said flatly, without sanctimony).
Precedents...
“The deep truth is imageless; for what
Would it avail to bid the shades that flock
Past it, to endure its light when it
Glimmers beyond them?”
(Shelley, from Prometheus Unbound, 1820)
“After the final no, there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends.”
(Stevens, from Opus Posthumous, published after death in 1957)
“Aporia is not simply a negative moment. It is the experience of the impossible. It is a challenge, a responsibility, a duty to negotiate the nonnegotiable.”
(Derrida, from Aporias, 1993)
We deeply and sincerely accept the duty of pursuing/negotiating the imageless yes.
To a significant degree we humans are all apophenic (the condition of finding meaning and pattern where such connections are highly dubious, if not complete fantasy). To be sure, apophenia is not a choice but an involuntary reaction to continually abutting against all manner of aporia (irresolvable conundrums/dilemmas). Aporia then apophenia, aporia then apophenia; forever and anon?
It seems that the existential, mordantly messy end of Modernism/Enlightenment is the corporate superstructure — a kind of greed grid (an involuntary drone construction of the apophenic, idiotic, and phantasmagoric battle of tradition and utopia). A foundation so dumb and so dumb-causing that we now see it as the dawn of a renaissance not a decline — as we refuse to accept the endless industrial, scientific, computational shifting of paradigmas (apophenias) to be yielding to mindless control. This is highly personal and does not feel like an epiphany or anything quixotic — but a reasonable reaction. (It bears saying that we are not interested in anything like religion; as said elsewhere, we feel all religion and confident science to be idolatrous. This is said flatly, without sanctimony).
Precedents...
“The deep truth is imageless; for what
Would it avail to bid the shades that flock
Past it, to endure its light when it
Glimmers beyond them?”
(Shelley, from Prometheus Unbound, 1820)
“After the final no, there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends.”
(Stevens, from Opus Posthumous, published after death in 1957)
“Aporia is not simply a negative moment. It is the experience of the impossible. It is a challenge, a responsibility, a duty to negotiate the nonnegotiable.”
(Derrida, from Aporias, 1993)
We deeply and sincerely accept the duty of pursuing/negotiating the imageless yes.