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What is ø? What is there to say about emptiness? Apparently quite a lot otherwise we would not be posting on this blog. The ø crew is a joint venture that accommodates debates and ideas on several themes. Here in ø you will often come across philosophy, literature, visual arts and film.
Yet, since The Naked Void is about nothing and everything, do not be disappointed if you do not find your way in this mapless world. Do make use of the archive cloud but bare in mind that the weather changes frequently in these parts of the world.
If after going to heaven you realize paradise does not exist, try the request highway and we might be able to write something of your interest in this Naked Void.
...about what a strange creature a "naked void" is...
The void is naked!
How are we to grasp this, standing in the midst of the vertigo of the generic, the pure untolerable subtraction?
Are we witnessing a simple stripping of the void, a theatrical shedding of all its symbolic layers? Or are we encountering Nakedness itself, regardless of any kinship for ontological couture? Is our nude ‘protagonist’ finally revealing itself, blushing whilst peeling off all Parmenidian veils? Or is nudity precisely its mode of hiding, with the stubbornness of the “veil that hides nothing”?
How are we to stand amid this doublure?
In the Origin of the Work of Art (1950), Heidegger introduced the famous opposition between the ‘world’ and the ‘earth’, charting wonderfully the incessant co-presence of these two processes. Namely, is not our existential stripping precisely the encounter with the ontological ‘openness’ of the world? And, in the same manner, isn’t that last veil simply the obstinate ‘closing’ of Being, its stubborn refusal to succumb to any interrogation – to bare all before the gluttonous eyes of the interrogator:
the hum(us)-an.
In the old story The Emperor’s New Clothes, it is the child that glimpses that which everybody else is too oblivious (or servile) to notice – the traumatic nudity of the King. The best way to approach the story is precisely through this duplicity. The adults are not able to ‘see’ the truth not because they cannot perceive the nakedness (the simple fact that the king is wearing nothing), but much more disturbingly – because they cannot perceive the Nakedness that grounds any presence or absense of clothes. Even when nude, the king is still a King, and therefore can never be truly naked – not until this last Garment survives the politico-ethical tailoring. In this sense, the old psychoanalytic joke about the madness of the “king who thinks he is really a king” has to receive an additional twist: the one who is truly sane is the vagrant who wanders the territory naked and anonymous, dressed only with the ontological lucidity of an old man and the political earnestness of a child.
Our nakedness is both a hiding and a revealing, a tireless shedding of representational skin and a mysterious wrapping of garments around an empty core. It is both the vacant place and the surplus occupant, the name of that which is not and the Being that roams the territory nameless, circling untiringly among our fatigued stases.
It is in this sense that the old opposition between the One and the Many should be surpassed. The “naked void” is at the same time the pure unfathomable multiplicity and its “univocal clamour” that echoes every actualization. It is both ‘duration’ and its music, the germ that traverses every situation, continuously re-mapping all names and bodies, all points and events, all beggars and kings…
It is with a child’s solemnity that we dare to approach this “mist over the prairie”, the wondrous impersonal will that we invite you to be a guest of…
Will-Cuma !
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{We love freebies. With all the wonderful resources out there, why not use them? Find out where we got the stuff that made this design work:
- Pattern background – DinPattern (modified)
- Ø logo sticker – iConPack by 7UR (modified)
- Icons – Freehand ColorStroked by mfayaz
- Menu and date font – Sketch Rockwell, Regular
- Menu heart drawing based on Doodles and Sketches by Chris Spooner
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