Jabès: Order and disorder? This cannot be. Joining is a form of creating order. Therefore it is destinct from that which is ordered.
Magnes: Separating the force which forms from the object, is already the problem.
Dance floor: Where opposites meet and join in harmonia.
Meeting in harmonia is equivalent to “make Aphrodite” (Kittler).
A blog is…
A blog was …
A blog: a form of becoming
A blog may become
A blog – I would like to conceive as …
A blog: A dance floor
We can turn it. A frame is a form of closure, but also a form of opening. It allows concentration. We may argue that reality is a Grenzidee (an idea of limit (limes)). We may approach reality only by setting up limits, in between which we may perceive.
Instruments for measurement set limits.
A measurement measures measuring means, John Cage thinks (Quote found in: Youngblood, Gene: Expanded Cinema, New York: Dutton, 1970, p. 136).
But what are measuring means? Mankind is conceivable as a means of measuring. It measures the universe as well as mankind itself. In order to function appropriately mankind has to become a measuring means for its own ends. These ends can be achieved by emptying human subjects. How this emptying happens in an aethetic process Marguerite Duras works show (see: Marcus Steinweg and Rosemarie Trockel: Duras. Berlin: Merve, 2008).
* J. adds: Metaphysics are a battlefield. A battefield which Kant conceives as female. He calls metaphysics a battlefield in one phrase. In the following phrase he compares metaphysics with a matron that is left alone.
** Is a hole a form that opens, or a form that closes? It excludes from integrity, or it opens towards an integrity which is open to the other. But a hole cannot be thought as a totally open. Without the framework the hole could not exist.
Today we live in the time of the world picture (according to Heidegger). We live in a time in which the world is reduced to a picture. This is a reduction because a picture has a frame. Time of the world picture is time of framing. Framing is making a border between something in and something out of the frame. Framing is a form of cutting, in which the function of the knife is not discussed.
Framing relates to problems of measurement. For example in the case of continents. It is problematic to measure their coast lines. They change with every wave that reaches the coast. They change also according to the measurement tools.
Cf.: Mark Tansey
* J. asks how we may measure reason. Is our measurement already biased by questions of gender? In German reason is femine, in French, too.
Anmerkung zu etwas über den Bratenwender von Cyrano de Bergerac, das Dieter Roth für Quatsch hält: Je mehr Geräte existieren, desto mehr und desto genauere Vorstellungen sind möglich. Deshalb ist unsere heutige Zeit reicher an Möglichkeiten als frühere Zeiten. Spannend wird es, wenn diverse Vorstellungsgruppen, z.B. westlich-mechanistische mit östlichen, zusammentreffen. Die Vorstellungen vom qi, die nun in Sexualratgebern ebenso wie in Managementratgebern, verbreitet werden, fordern zum Umbau unserer Mechaniken heraus, das heisst aber nicht, dass das mechanistische Paradigma erledigt ist, auch wenn die Magnetosophen (Beuysquatscher) und Elektrowellenmystiker (Duchampwisser) das glauben.
Mechanik ist eine Form, sich Dinge nacheinander vorzustellen;
Kunst ist eine Form, sich Dinge gleichzeitig vorzustellen.
Techniken wie Zählen oder Streichen oder Fotographieren; Materialitäten wie Farbe oder Kerben oder digitale Codes (Zero-One-Materialität) begünstigen unterschiedlich diese unterschiedliche Formen der Vorstellung.
Und Sex? Fordert zu Vorstellungen heraus.
Katja Blomberg schrieb: Louise Bourgeois hat immer rasch entschieden, was sie wollte: Zwischen Gesprächen über den Surrealismus und die neusten Trends der Gegenwartskunst hat sie geheiratet. Statt der Mathematik wählte sie die Kunst. Statt in Paris zu bleiben, ging sie mit ihrem eben angetrauten Mann nach New York. Dies alles war im Herbst 1938.