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.

There is nothing in the data to suggest that the phenomenon we speak of as intuitive thought may not be just such cosmic transmissions … Intuitions could be thoughts from unbelievably long ago and from unbelievably far away. (Buckminster Fuller: “Introduction”. In: Gene Youngblood: Expanded Cinema. New York: Dutton, 1970, p. 30.)

Nichts aus den uns vorliegenden Daten spricht dagegen, dass das Phänomen, das wir als intuitive Gedanken kennen, aus genau solchen kosmischen Übertragungen über weite Entfernungen besteht … Intuitionen könnten Gedanken sein, die vor unglaublich langer Zeit aus unglaublich grosser Entfernung losgeschickt wurden. (Buckminster Fuller;  “Einleitung [zu Gene Youngblood: The Expanded Cinema]”. In: Bice Curiger (Hg.): The Expanded Eye: Sehen – entgrenzt und verflüssigt. Kunsthaus Zürich 16. Juni bis 3. September 2006, Zürich: Hatje Cantz, 2006, S. 154.)

Ingrid Wiener: Dr. Müllers Kabelfrühling, Series of gobelins 2010

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Ingrid Wiener: Detail of Dr. Müllers Kabelfrühling, Gobelin 2010

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Ingrid Wiener: Detail of Dr. Müllers Kabelfrühling, Gobelin 2010

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I guess, that my assumption is regarded as absurd. My assumption is: Concentration on text as text is a way of changing our attitude to the world.

… human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.*

der Mensch
Verträgt nicht sehr viel Wirklichkeit. **

* T.S. Eliot: Burnt Norton (Four Quartets)
**Übersetzt von Norbert Hummelt. In: Schreibheft 66.

Aesthetics  is an individual religion. (Thomas Raab: Nachbrenner). It is a religion of individuals, and it has individual forms. The common denominator of these forms is questionable. The answers depend on the point of view. From the point of view of gouvernementality: aesthetics is compensating and therefore stabilizing the idea of a free individual, which is a necessary function in today’s economy.
From the point of view of realometer: aesthetics is a line of flight which leads to radical changes
From the point of view of D.: aesthetics is a chance to become a pontifex maximus.
From the point of view of J.: aesthetics  is an invitation to subversion.
From the point of view of M.:vaesthetics is approaching the absolute.