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 window onto the central experience of the
project: the state of
Collective Blur. It
describes those moments when perception and
knowledge drift apart, leaving us suspended in
uncertainty and ambiguity.
Collective Blur is
not an error, nor a deficit – it is a productive
in-between, a threshold where new forms of
understanding and connection can emerge. Radical
kinships arise here: between people, between
humans and machines, between the familiar and
the unknown.
Blur is no technical glitch; the
fuzziness is intentional, or at least permitted.
It also emerges wherever many choose to close
their eyes – not from fatigue, but from
overwhelm, habit, or tacit agreement. When
reality grows too complex, societies retreat
into the indistinct.
What remains is an
atmosphere of simultaneous truths:
half-knowledge, shared myths, simulated clarity.
Blur becomes a common language. It is not what
we know that binds us – but what we choose not
to see.
Every act of knowing is also an act of
decision. Before clear thought lies what Hegel
calls the situation: the moment prior to choice,
when meaning has yet to take form. An epistemic
twilight, a tentative becoming, resisting shape
to keep open the possibility of other forms.^1
Every act of knowing is also an act of decision.
Footnote
:
1.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of
Spirit (various editions), discussion of the
concept of the “situation” preceding conscious
thought.
You can’t really read through this article. You can only enter, linger, and leap on – like joining a
conversation with no centre. You are missing the sonic layer – and the chance to choose your own
path through this text.