(on functional and legitimation concepts)
1.1.
a
The promise of a future
For a long time now, the
concepts which we have to understand the world are no longer credible for me.
Everything that surrounds me is fundamentally conveyed to me through a dualistic
view: the world is good or evil, it is day or night, something is new or old.
This binary thinking excludes everything that is possible in between.
So somehow everything
contradicts itself.
One concept in particular stands out to me: The concept
of the new. What exactly do we mean when we talk about
"new"?
1.1. b
Living in a crisis of imagination
It is not the idea or theory of a concept that is
losing its credibility, it is that the structures and mechanisms are becoming
more and more visible that are trying with all their might to impose this idea
and theory as the only true and correct one.
The
interests of power put themselves like a second skin over the attempts to
explain the world. The attempt of explanation turns out to be a tool of
legitimation.
The
category "new" is an instrument of progress rather than a property of matter.
And more important: I do not see the separation between function and aesthetics
any more in my small, daily activities...
(listen
here :Dr. Manuel Clemens on Schiller and the
the aesthetic education of man).
The empty reality:
1.1. c A short history of reason in the age of delusion
Even the game with
fear
is not new. When new is
not new, only a state of a variation. Some thoughts on the power of image.
(on functional and legitimation concepts)
The order of things!
Why was it, we wondered, that the basic ancient myths were based on the idea of mankinds descent from a Primordial Androgyny?
We realized that we needed a whole new vocabulary even to be able to discuss the alchemical connections and roots of all things.
The mystery deepened the more we looked.
...
excerpt: Transhumanism by Dr. Joseph P Farrell and Dr. Scott D. de Hart (c) 2011
