The blur is not optical — it is socially constructed.
A collective protective layer against guilt, disturbance, and the demand to act.
At this moment,
Collective Blur is a silent agreement:
We pretend nothing is there — and in doing so,
we shield ourselves from the discomfort of
seeing.
This chapter opens a path into the central experience of the project: the condition of Collective Blur. It describes those moments in which perception and knowledge drift apart, confronting us with uncertainty and ambiguity.
Collective Blur is not an error or a deficit, but a productive in-between space — a threshold where new forms of understanding and connection can emerge. It is not a failure of perception,
but a state in which radical kinships arise — between people, between humans and machines, between the familiar and the unknown.
Collective Blur, then, is not a technical malfunction.
The blurring is intentional — or at least
permitted. Because Collective Blur can also
begin wherever many choose to close their eyes.
Not out of fatigue, but out of overwhelm, out of
habit, out of silent agreement. When reality
becomes too complex, societies retreat into the
indistinct.
What remains is an atmosphere of simultaneity:
half-knowledge, shared myths, simulated clarity.
Blur becomes a common language.
It is not what we know that connects us —
but what we do not want to see.
Every act of knowing is also an act of decision.
This chapter enters the space before clear thought — what Hegel calls the situation: the moment before the decision, when meaning has not yet taken shape.
For every act of knowing is also an act of decision.
An imposition. A drawing of boundaries. A direction chosen.