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Darkness in a Blink of an Eye

Darkness in a Blink of an Eye AbstractEschatologies often associate this world with darkness and the beyond with light, seeking a move from the former to the latter. This article rethinks the importance of darkness through a reading of Heidegger’s concept of Augenblick, a blink of an eye, which exhibits a moment and site of a “beyond” coming to presence. Thus, the article contributes to approaches that seek to explore the ontological and poetic dimensions of politics. An onto-poetics of darkness draws attention to the presence of the concealed in each moment of actualization and it highlights the way in which the beyond created in the Augenblick involves relation both to other beings and to Being itself. The conceptual problematic of a “beyond” is further explicated through an engagement with Marina Abramović’s performance “The Artist Is Present.” Instead of a move from darkness to light, such eschatology implies inhabiting the darkness of the blink of an eye. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

Darkness in a Blink of an Eye

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 21 (2): 15 – Apr 2, 2016
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Darkness in a Blink of an Eye

Abstract

AbstractEschatologies often associate this world with darkness and the beyond with light, seeking a move from the former to the latter. This article rethinks the importance of darkness through a reading of Heidegger’s concept of Augenblick, a blink of an eye, which exhibits a moment and site of a “beyond” coming to presence. Thus, the article contributes to approaches that seek to explore the ontological and poetic dimensions of politics. An onto-poetics of darkness draws...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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1469-2899
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0969-725X
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10.1080/0969725X.2016.1182721
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Abstract

AbstractEschatologies often associate this world with darkness and the beyond with light, seeking a move from the former to the latter. This article rethinks the importance of darkness through a reading of Heidegger’s concept of Augenblick, a blink of an eye, which exhibits a moment and site of a “beyond” coming to presence. Thus, the article contributes to approaches that seek to explore the ontological and poetic dimensions of politics. An onto-poetics of darkness draws attention to the presence of the concealed in each moment of actualization and it highlights the way in which the beyond created in the Augenblick involves relation both to other beings and to Being itself. The conceptual problematic of a “beyond” is further explicated through an engagement with Marina Abramović’s performance “The Artist Is Present.” Instead of a move from darkness to light, such eschatology implies inhabiting the darkness of the blink of an eye.

Journal

Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 2, 2016

Keywords: action; Augenblick; beyond; darkness; ontology; onto-poetics

References

  • Marina Abramović on Performance Art
  • Man muss bereit sein, von der Erde zu fallen
  • Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation
  • Introduction: Do We Need to Transcend Transcendence?
  • Attention Training: Immanence and Ontological Participation in Kaprow, Deleuze and Bergson
  • Performance as Philosophy: Responding to the Problem of ‘Application.’
  • Sitting with Marina
  • Poststructuralism, Complexity and Poetics
  • Heidegger’s Ontology of Art
  • Reconnecting with Darkness: Gloomy Landscapes, Lightless Places
  • The King Is Dead: Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks.’
  • Introduction: Archaeologies of Presence
  • Heidegger in Black
  • Letter on Humanism
  • The Origin of the Work of Art
  • Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe
  • Night Walking: Darkness and Sensory Perception in a Night-Time Landscape Installation
  • Heidegger’s ‘Originary Ethics.’
  • Heidegger and the Ontological Significance of the Work of Art
  • A Paradigm Shift in Heidegger Research
  • Geometry in the Colossal: The Project of Metaphysical Globalization
  • Nearness and Da-sein: The Spatiality of Being and Time
  • Splinters of Hegemony: Ontopoetical Visions in International Relations
  • Art, Power, and Politics: Heidegger on Machenschaft and Poiēsis