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The Aesthetic Dimension Is the Causal Dimension Timothy Morton

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A presentation accompanying a talk at the Royal Academy, London, July 1 2011.

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Page 1: The Aesthetic Dimension is the Causal Dimension

The Aesthetic Dimension Is the Causal Dimension

Timothy Morton

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Spandau Ballet, True

Joni Mitchell, The Boho Dance

Pointer Sisters, Neutron Dance

Wham!, Careless Whisper

A Tribe Called Quest, Bonita Applebum

P.M. Dawn, Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine

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Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire; movie dir. Oliver Hermann

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What constitutes pretense is that, in the end,

you don't know whether it's pretense or not.

Jacques Lacan

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Oukontic nothingnot even nothing

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James Ensor, The Intrigue

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Demonic Force

Magnetic field

Vajra

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Tuning Stimmung

There is no metalanguage

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Bridget Riley, Fall

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Yukultji Napangati, Untitled, 2011

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Chorismos gap χωρισμος

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Dialetheia p p

This sentence is false The Liar

Sorites paradox

ECQ ex contradictione quodlibet

LNC law of noncontradiction

Trivialism

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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell'sBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying, What I do is me: for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Dialetheia p p

This sentence is false The Liar

Sorites paradox

ECQ ex contradictione quodlibet

LNC law of noncontradiction

Trivialism

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Light switch, Taichung City, Taiwan

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Chernobyl

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Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem This sentence cannot be proved

Core shattering Erschütterung (Adorno)

Breaking Glass with Sound

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