The Aesthetic Dimension is the Causal Dimension

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A presentation accompanying a talk at the Royal Academy, London, July 1 2011.

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The Aesthetic Dimension Is the Causal Dimension

Timothy Morton

Spandau Ballet, True

Joni Mitchell, The Boho Dance

Pointer Sisters, Neutron Dance

Wham!, Careless Whisper

A Tribe Called Quest, Bonita Applebum

P.M. Dawn, Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine

Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire; movie dir. Oliver Hermann

What constitutes pretense is that, in the end,

you don't know whether it's pretense or not.

Jacques Lacan

Oukontic nothingnot even nothing

James Ensor, The Intrigue

Demonic Force

Magnetic field

Vajra

Tuning Stimmung

There is no metalanguage

Bridget Riley, Fall

Yukultji Napangati, Untitled, 2011

Chorismos gap χωρισμος

Dialetheia p p

This sentence is false The Liar

Sorites paradox

ECQ ex contradictione quodlibet

LNC law of noncontradiction

Trivialism

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell'sBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying, What I do is me: for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Dialetheia p p

This sentence is false The Liar

Sorites paradox

ECQ ex contradictione quodlibet

LNC law of noncontradiction

Trivialism

Light switch, Taichung City, Taiwan

Chernobyl

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem This sentence cannot be proved

Core shattering Erschütterung (Adorno)

Breaking Glass with Sound

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