Dark Pedagogy by Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard & Stefan Bengtsson & Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen

Author:Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard & Stefan Bengtsson & Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030199333
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

According to the outlook on the self we here put forward, a self is made up at its core of non-selves, that is other objects. To put it differently, what we find are “objects wrapped in objects, wrapped in objects” (Harman 2005: 85). To clarify, we do not create a sharp boundary between thoughts, memories and other objects. For us, thoughts and memories are also objects. Hence, the discovery of thoughts and memories are not less real than “real” objects, but are exactly imprints of interactions between objects. Thoughts and memories are in this sense equally dangerous as, for example, an axe or a rifle. This is what we mean, by vulnerability, the possibility of aesthetic experiences of other objects to kill.In order to exist, objects must be fragile. This sounds obvious but when we think the deep ontological reasons why, it becomes quite mysterious. It turns out that objects are dying around us all the time, even as they give birth to other objects. An object’s sensuality is an elegy to its disappearance. What Harman calls allure, the way one being exerts power over another, is a sign of possible death. The aesthetic dimension, in other words, is where death happens. If birth is the sublime, beauty is death, as this chapter shall make clear. To be born is to be thrown into an always-already, to find oneself in a set of relations subtended by some object(s). To be born is for a fresh Rift between appearance and essence to open up. To persist is for a Rift to suspend itself in relation to other riven entities. (Morton 2013: 188)

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