AGENCE ‘X’

Footnotes to the Sublime: The Time That Remains

THE BEGINNING

(In) The Time That Remains is the time that matters most of all -- a peculiar, prescient (futural) form of time perhaps best denoted as antithetical to time as onto-theological thing/construct, or, as time itself (The Beginning).

Giorgio Agamben’s version of this is illustrated with the interior time of the sestina, a metrical poetical form that takes its own time to completion, closing in upon itself (announcing ‘The End’). Thus, the internal, formal laws of artworks denote this type or tempo of time perhaps formalized in the Kantian critiques as purely atemporal laws, through Reduction (to ur-Time/Space/Event).

Yet the eschatological claims of redemptive time move all arguments closer to ‘X’ (Truth) insofar as The Time That Remains is also an eXplicit de-naturing of world as mere world (world as mere things), apropos of world as Word (Thought Itself).

Here and there, always, internal to works of Art, arrives, as cause, the splendid (slim) figure of ‘X’. Such, too, proves all points collapse/fall, in time, into place -- as such, such works redeem/save the World, or re-create ‘it’.

Not all works of art are works of Art per se. In such a scenario there is, in works of Art, Some-thing Else prefigured, or some-thing not of mere time. Untimely, then, after/for Nietzsche, the creative principle destroys as it creates (circling another time, the ‘futural’). ‘It’ is, utterly, Untimely, and The Time That Remains (is saved) is Redemptive Time (‘X’ as Truth/Event/Art), new-found and otherwise, or, More Time (not-time) …

THE END

GK (DRAFT 05/07/07)

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