Excerpts from introduction to Aphorisms: other and Place
…bypass commoditized alienation and/or connectedness in
viewing…
… differentiate from Lacanian terms such as other and Øther. In this study, other refers literally to individual
organisms and/or events in Place; Other refers to each individual’s drive to not-this/here; aother is used when referring to a specific
individual’s mechanisms for the manifestation of Other; and Œther refers to cultural mechanisms for the manifestation of Other. There is no descriptor for the “individual-in-itself” and will henceforth be designated with ¬.
…used drawing on paper and the
modification of the silvering of mirror to explore this theme. What do the drawings and mirrors point to, reflect, whisper toward? Our human desire for unity, our passion for an identity that is whole. We never grasp these except in day dreams and we yearn
to produce ...
… perceived) morphemes, which are the smallest grammatical unit of language, and partial phrases. They are isolated and offered in a way that further separates the viewer from the signified, such as reversed, mirrored, flipped. The separation is never complete, though. In creating language, we define and form boundaries around this amorphous experience
of perception we live. The human drive is to constantly expand our comfort and define experience in symbol systems, containing
as much as possible in its umbrella of Unity. My intent is to give you language in its partial form, at the inchoate place where
our given meaning to the drawn symbol falls between representing an abstract concept or a concrete object. With this, language
is revealed as the slippery ground of narcissistic human vanity, as a drive for a Unity that leaves us less able to be silent and
merely touch.
What do the mirrors whisper to? Our fear is to see
¬ as complicated and contradictory. We yearn to explain and give a solid meaning to our life. Our desire to see ¬ in the
mirror is to be whole, but that desire is not to be ¬. We see other as unified, as articulate and complete, whereas we feel
ourselves as just shifting passionate perceptions. Looking in a mirror makes us Other. We become the person “over there.”
And it makes us whole, if only for a moment. That is the reason for our love of mirrors.
…that humans yearn, are driven, to
be Other, the current work attempts to give reference points for a relation to Place. Place is what is directly in sensory experience,
what immediately surrounds. Place is not what we ultimately experience. Flooded in language, language as all, of the simulation,
where virtual existence is determined to be fundamental rather than a fabrication of our social structure and bypasses the physical
nature of existence for our abstracted …
Place, in fact, is the only stage we exist on.
Space is not used as a descriptor
for experience in this analysis. Space is a construct of aother and codified in Œther.