To see the ideal, or infinities of lines

Jerzy Olek

doi:10.5277/arc140106

Abstract

A line happens to be a sign. More frequently, however, it is a promise or an error, sometimes a fragment, a random occurrence, incomplete Beginning, an imprint or defilement. It does not direct to the Source, it only comes out of it. It presages the sense of its own existence, at the same time vio lating it and suggesting that it has an assigned pre-sense, it clothes an expected meaning in beyond-sense. It obstinately expresses the praise of emptiness of a sign. It does not imitate anything because any imitation is strange to it. It perseveres alone, at times even redundant. And yet invaluable – irreplaceable – discretely absent. A line beyond narration, beyond aesthetics, but not unaesthetic in the least. Worthy of examining through the prism of existentialism and psychoanalysis, of being analysed from the point of view of pragmatism and the Frankfurt School, ready for phenomenological and semiotic vivisection, susceptible to findings of the theory of systems, submissive to empirical criteria and prepared for deceptive concepts of anti-art. Each aesthetics which is part of a specific philosophical trend would certainly have its own diagnosis of the state of linism. Anti-aesthetics could also have much to say about it.

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