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FiftyFive ~ # 10
Yesterday I pondered, did Icarus fall or was he pushed and I had some correspondence in defence of Daedalus which is fine because it is conjecture. For all I know here is Daedalus sending him off gently, or even trying to pull him back as Icarus reaches out in that interminable search for jouissance, but then that is what is so great about storytelling, how the full stop ends the sentence without ending the story itself (as wise Harold Rosen would say). But I was reading up on the Icarus effect and following trails left by Damian Hirst, Slavoj Zizek and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and there are so many twists and turns that it is clear you can't close the shop on the debate, in fact choosing one line is the temptation that is to be resisted. Art and terror collide as our gaze follows the images being offered and the immediate reaction is one of Dialektic im Stillstand - dialectics at a standstill (to paraphrase Walter Benjamin) - because that seems to be what what happens at such an event. At the point of surprise and disbelief we stop and gaze before we react... it is (is it) a brief point before description, before language, which comes after the realisation and then becomes the story and the story of the story and stories... and jouissance well that is part of it and something else and...
Yesterday I pondered, did Icarus fall or was he pushed and I had some correspondence in defence of Daedalus which is fine because it is conjecture. For all I know here is Daedalus sending him off gently, or even trying to pull him back as Icarus reaches out in that interminable search for jouissance, but then that is what is so great about storytelling, how the full stop ends the sentence without ending the story itself (as wise Harold Rosen would say). But I was reading up on the Icarus effect and following trails left by Damian Hirst, Slavoj Zizek and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and there are so many twists and turns that it is clear you can't close the shop on the debate, in fact choosing one line is the temptation that is to be resisted. Art and terror collide as our gaze follows the images being offered and the immediate reaction is one of Dialektic im Stillstand - dialectics at a standstill (to paraphrase Walter Benjamin) - because that seems to be what what happens at such an event. At the point of surprise and disbelief we stop and gaze before we react... it is (is it) a brief point before description, before language, which comes after the realisation and then becomes the story and the story of the story and stories... and jouissance well that is part of it and something else and...
