The Terror of Evidence by Steinweg Marcus; DeMarco Amanda; Hirschhorn Thomas

Author:Steinweg, Marcus; DeMarco, Amanda; Hirschhorn, Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thinking; reality; philosophy; art; inconsistency; Thomas Hirschhorn
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

PRECISION

A nearly imperceptible line divides precision from fastidiousness. Maybe precision can exist only—in writing, science, art, politics, and love—under the threat of becoming fastidiousness. Precision makes exact cuts. It proceeds meticulously, not slowly. Those who are precise can do so at high speeds. They almost have to, in order to make clean cuts. You could say that the condition for precision is that it operates at high speed. Those who are fastidious proclaim slowness as the law of precision, and hold to it. Fastidiousness submits to the dictate of the correct. It decelerates all of the subject’s processes, subjecting it to the fear of insufficient precision. Thus, it lapses into punctiliousness and pedantry. Driven by fear to the limit of its capacity to act, the fastidious subject is a passive, narcissistic subject. Precision, on the other hand, demands being carefree at some minimum level, as an affirmation of contingency. Together with Mallarmé, Kafka represents precision in the face of universal coincidence. This makes them absolute poets: that they manage to unite precision and contingency.

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