FORMAL LAW(S) – MEMO TO MYSELF

The Imaginary/Night

1.0 – Art + Architecture (as complex) is first and foremost about ‘itself’ (in/for itself) … All other concerns concerning Art + Architecture follow …

2.0 – Autonomy is duly troubled as the object (of Art + Architecture), Representation, collides/comes into contact with Contingency (the subject as subject, or phenomena/immanence …) …

3.0 – The Subject as Subject is first invoked in the first-formal gestures, lying in wait, so to speak, to ambush/seize the object …

4.0 – ‘Here’ is the metaphysical-existential core (‘deep heart’s core’) of all that is worthy of the name Art … ‘Here’, too, is the irreducible remainder (ruins) of the Kantian and Hegelian project(s), insofar as such remains remain ‘archaic’ remains (Love and Truth arrive and depart, in vapours) -- viz., the ruins of thought itself (the Sublime, Kantian and otherwise) …

5.0 – Architecture first comes to itself in thought, then follows/strikes all that comes to expression in formal terms (operations): surgical strikes; barbarous conditions (founding murders/crimes); etcetera (an anthropology of affects/effects) -- Art + Architecture turning always, anyway, toward the central mystery of form’s taking place …

6.0 – At the heart of this mystery is the ‘operative critique’ withheld, till the formal laws are put into motion (place), non-place (and non-site) bringing to light (crossing the threshold of the visible) that which hides in Architecture’s Night -- i.e., the Imaginary …

7.0 – The Architectural Imaginary is the Same as all imaginaries (Imagination itself), the ‘Where’ where the Real and the Irreal are One, and place of Platonic forms -- viz., neither of one world nor another, but two worlds as One world, cuing anamnesis (the Immemorial, time unraveled/unparalleled, Spirit …) … Such turning (the Imaginary) turns within a larger turning (Night), turning all things as/to One …

GK (DRAFT 01/02/07)

On the approaching 200th anniversary of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) …
Image (above, left) – Albrecht Dürer, Bat (c.1523), Mélancolie: Génie et Folie en Occident (2005) …

Pantheon / (Cross-) References / Ex- + Appropriations – Hölderlin, A. Dürer, Stendhal, J-J. Rousseau, V. Soloviev, L. Marin, G. Bataille, M. Duchamp (R. Selavy), W. Kentridge, J-L. Marion, M. Henry, M. Cacciari, H. Cartier-Bresson, J. Koudelka, M. Kenna, B. Henson, Caravaggio, Velazquez, J. Ruskin, M. Tafuri, Novalis, I. Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, G. Mahler, M. Blanchot, E. Levinas, W. Benjamin, M. Antonioni, J-L. Godard, A. Tarkovsky, T. Angelopoulos, R. W. Fassbinder, R. Abraham, K. Teige, G. Agamben, R. Smithson, G. Matta-Clark, A. Kiefer, G. Richter, A. Badiou …

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