Special Focus editor: Natasha Lushetich Series editors: Rudiger
Ahrens, Florian Klager, Klaus Stierstorfer Symbolism is cohesive.
It gathers heterogeneity over time, across fields of human endeavor
and systems of communication. Non-sequiturs, paradox and tautology,
appear dissipative. Yet they are highly productive in reticular and
fractal ways. Suffice it to look at the philosophical tautology of
Parmenides's kind, which suggests that being "is"; at the practice
of the koan, which collapses dualistic thinking by way of
incompatible propositions, such as "the Eastern hill keeps running
on the water"; at logical paradoxes in which the operative logic is
sabotaged by its own means, as in Hempel's paradox; at absurdist
dramatic texts in which protagonists record empty time in order to
mark the emptiness of the time they are recording, as in Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape; or at paradoxical games like Maciunas's Prepared
Table Tennis played with paddles that have huge holes in them. In
all of these examples, the existence-apprehending processes occur
via unexpected itineraries, in vacant but nevertheless enunciative
codes, in seemingly futile, yet calibrating performances, and in a
temporality that is the cumulative time's "other." They catapult
the mind into the realm of the extra-linguistic, the para-logical
and the meta-experiential, or they transfigure it through a series
of reticular iterations. Forty years after Varela et al's
groundbreaking work on the embodied, emotional and environmentally
embedded mind - that marked a definitive departure from its former
strictly rational conception - there is a need to re-examine the
territory that lies beyond mind for a different reason: the
proliferation of algorithmic logics that rely on the idea of a
rational agent (human or algorithmic) making logical, self-serving
decisions. This special issue explores
neither-rational-nor-irrational forms of thinking and making. It
sketches a cartography of a-rational processes of meaning- and
knowledge-production that operate across numerous sites, practices,
and disciplines: visual and media art; literature; art history;
music; dance; film; intermedia and photography. Part I
"Ahistoricity, Assemblages and Interpretative Reversals" focuses on
the legacy of the (neo) avant-garde and amodernism. Part II
"Destinerrance, Labyrinths and Folds" investigates the ways in
which the Derridian delays/detours and the Deleuzian folding
function as concrete ways of embodied knowledge-production. Part
III, "Immanent Transcendence", offers a glimpse into the reticular
and iterative structuring of transcendence that does not pre-exist
immanence but is its residue.
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