the aesthetic dimension is the causal dimension
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A presentation accompanying a talk at the Royal Academy, London, July 1 2011.TRANSCRIPT
The Aesthetic Dimension Is the Causal Dimension
Timothy Morton
PM Dawn, “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”
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
Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire; movie dir. Oliver Hermann
What constitutes pretense is that, in the end,
you don't know whether it's pretense or not.
Jacques Lacan
Oukontic nothingnot even nothing
James Ensor, The Intrigue
Demonic Force
Magnetic field
Vajra
Tuning Stimmung
There is no metalanguage
Bridget Riley, Fall
Yukultji Napangati, Untitled, 2011
Chorismos gap χωρισμος
Dialetheia p p
This sentence is false The Liar
Sorites paradox
ECQ ex contradictione quodlibet
LNC law of noncontradiction
Trivialism
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
Dialetheia p p
This sentence is false The Liar
Sorites paradox
ECQ ex contradictione quodlibet
LNC law of noncontradiction
Trivialism
Light switch, Taichung City, Taiwan
Chernobyl
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem This sentence cannot be proved
Core shattering Erschütterung (Adorno)
Breaking Glass with Sound