historicities

The aesthetics of symbolic formulation may also factor in here, requiring societies where Romantic characters can engage in Romantic plots against Romantic backdrops, leading to even worse nonsense -- idealisation, for example, of the ethical historicities of warrior castes.

Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

The aesthetics of symbolic formulation may also factor in here, requiring societies where Romantic characters can engage in Romantic plots against Romantic backdrops, leading to even worse nonsense -- idealisation, for example, of the ethical historicities of warrior castes.

The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007

Rather, the great or authentic works for Heidegger's aesthetic, like aesthetic systems as such, necessarily includes a normative moment are those whose vocation consists in holding the two incommensurable dimensions apart and in allowing us thereby to glimpse them simultaneously in all their scandalous irreconcilability: to grasp Earth or Matter in all its irreducible materiality, even and particularly there where we have been thinking about it in terms of meaning and human and social events: and to grasp World or History in its most fundamental historicities even where we have been assuming it to be inert nature or nonsocial landscape.

Archive 2008-10-01 enowning 2008

Rather, the great or authentic works for Heidegger's aesthetic, like aesthetic systems as such, necessarily includes a normative moment are those whose vocation consists in holding the two incommensurable dimensions apart and in allowing us thereby to glimpse them simultaneously in all their scandalous irreconcilability: to grasp Earth or Matter in all its irreducible materiality, even and particularly there where we have been thinking about it in terms of meaning and human and social events: and to grasp World or History in its most fundamental historicities even where we have been assuming it to be inert nature or nonsocial landscape.

enowning enowning 2008

i first became aware of fictive historicities when, as a child, i stumbled upon the dictionary of the kazars. i assumed that in it outlandishness the kazars must be an invented people. later, when i discovered they actually existed, i was struck by how fluidly the author of that text had migrated such fantastic elements into our existant world ... thanks for a great post. i look forward to reading more, pol rosenthal

Pataphysics and Fictive Art Heather McDougal 2008