Ethics and Aesthetics

If you stare at the w(hole) you will miss the piece.

I was walking down the street today thinking about a movie that I had recently watched, perhaps you have heard of it: Star Trek: Insurrection. A wonderfully done movie, well written by Mr. Frakes, and it has a good moral. Essentially, "stop and smell the roses".I realized that just as I was literally walking, moving, I was also moving through time I became aware of the speed of time. Indeed this is just a perception, a feeling from my being. This is pure movement, that is now, therefore stationary, still, and moving simultaneousness. Essentially we are feeling the passing of time. Just as velocity is movement of space across time, we too feel this literal passing of time as another Dimension, for us it is truly 4 dimensional. It is other to space, and yet they share in each other. So also, us traveling through time, standing here (Heidegger, Delueze is more Hieddergarrian than most think) and time passing, being varied over time. This is indeed becoming. Heidegger is also right to assert that Hericlitus and parminedes say the same thing. It is just a matter of saying it in two different ways. All is indeed in flux, but in order to operate upon time and through time, we be. We are Being, that is, now. Now is a movement, an area, a sample, a piece, and the moment passes and the now has become different, not older, but younger, newer, fresher, nothing is newer than now. Time is indeed multidimensional and we feel its effects as Beings. This alienates us all.

Nietzsche was right to say the closest we could become was an aesthetic stance.

It is from this aesthetic stance that we have no choice but to be artists of being. (This is the style dDeridda tries to spur, Nietszche's life overlapped his philosophy they were one, this is perhaps his only joy and the reason for the umbrella)

A cypher is made. In order to approach the subject (and here I mean the object) artistically we separate ourself from it in order to truly get as near as we can to it, it is the mating call of Being to the Other, Eros in the very sense that Socrates meant it. The separateness that is as near as it can be. This is also the very thing that makes true situatedness possible. True situatedness is false though, for it must transcend to unsituatedness due to the movement of time, due to the constant otherness of the other, we are different, and so will always be. This difference is what makes beauty possible. It is this that is human angst.

And so we must create concepts as Delueze say, but these concepts must remain real. These concepts must become cyphers if they are to be of any use to us. And Delueze himself does it, without truly saying it plainly, doing entirely as he is says. This is indeed honesty. Success and Failure are both Humiliating, Deleuze himself transcended them both in seeming and Being, and made Art, at last. He left this world not as man to the earth, not through the mouth, the door, but through the window, to the sky, to the clouds, to the stars. In his life he lived as close to Defenestration as possible, trying to pear through a non-existent window in the upper floor of his Baroque house, through the windowless monad, and into the beyond. It was only in the aporetic that he could truly do that, and his death became just as much art as his life was. May he rest forever in peace. At rest while moving.

Just as I could read my moments, I became a cypher reader that writes his ciphers. Historicity I pour into [the] now* in order to create, but these historicity is vague, and old as perhaps the hypothalamus. We have adapted, and in adaptation, we have made art. This was Andy Kaufman's and probably Spike Jonze's idea behind the movie Adaptation, and they literally practiced what they preached as they did it. Andy Kaufman read the cypher of his life in order to create a new cypher that could be shared, a cypher that became a border object, art is the sharing of ourselves in the closest, perhaps, we may come to one another. Or put another way: The closest we can become together is called art.

So the art that we share must remain genuine. What are we being, this effects what we are becoming, and what we are becoming effects who we are.

*[The] Now: this is obviously ambiguous but for purposes of making the sentence more readable. Also: History is added to now to create the future, this is just the dialectic, it is to say the sky is blue or something, it is tautological, what we must realize is that we have grown, and we have real choices and real responsibilities as humans, to ourselves, to the other, to our inside and our outside. This is why art is ethical, and why ethics must remain artistic.