VI.
The
I am somewhat nervous. I
keep putting out more pieces of an artifact, piecing them together believing I
might state something of worth.
On first reading the notes for the evening, I see that I have
written in my usual scrawling manner. At
times I believe my quick word sketches intentionally obscure from myself my own
thoughts. At other times I see the half
articulate manner of my notes as a method to see beyond the note. I am forced to interpret meaning and less
likely to accept an earlier formulation.
There are certain phrasings I can make out. Let me jot down the ones I see as most
pertinent:
Continue the creation of impossibility
Explore the space between being and
appearance
Art is between being and existence
Consider:
pure multiplicity as such
pure being w/o qualities
being qua being as multiplicity
World is the place of all
multiplicities
Variations of intensity of being
Some appear w/ great intensity
Some w/ no intensity at all
Existence has degree
Quality of existence is its intensity
One point, the feeblest, appears with
minimal degree
Existing minimally is equivalent to
not existing at all. You cannot exist less from inside the world. This is the inexistent.
In the multiplicity of worlds, one
element does not exist (in all worlds).
This element is the inexistent
A demonstration of inexistent:
Marx proposes capital society as
multiplicity
Proletariat is the inexistent in the
world of politics; does not politically exist
(is this not the lumpen?)
Not uncertain in itself but uncertain
in political existence
A work of art is a construction of an
artifice made from material in the multiplicities of the world in such a way as
to make it possible to inscribe the inexistent…
…and to recognize in the work that
this inscription is impossible.
Art is the form of the inscription of
the impossibility.
An example:
Monet’s Flowers on water
-to inscribe the light itself and pure
description of color with
infinities of light artificially
-The failure? It is not really light as a thing. It is the impossibility
of that. That is the glory of painting.
Form of the impossibility- that is the
tension. Failure as a victory. This is the political signification of art-
the act of the impossible
The point of art is what does not
exist. Inexistent does not appear but is.
The work of art creates fiction of the
inscription of the inexistent.
It is a creation where thinking is the
same thing as outside.
Inside and outside are not
discernible.
Art is composed of the external work,
inside and outside, inscribing the impossibility. Thought w/o place