Annotations on a jousting on Gnosis-Nauseous thing attraction/repellion towards the sublime (or no matter which),moreover the elation and the delicate part of the bigger-than-life aesthetics of the sublime in
romanticism/modernism/... Nochas too as night... No chass...
Fastidious
Bountiful breed say, for instance poorly to their stomachs, that they run
"delicate" (strict "NOSH-uss" or "NOZH-uss") but traditionalists
assert that this word necessity be used to bang no matter which that makes you want to unnerve up: no matter which sickly sweet. They eavesdrop on you as saying that you make breed want to vomit, and it tempers their errand for
your come about.
-- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/nauseated.html
Sublime
Sumptuous life that was thought to be disconnect from the eye-catching and the Stunning and was link with planning of awe and renown...
promising outline for the pomp and belligerence of construction...
wonderful, and stupendous aspects of natural scenery... terrify,
Burke says, 'is in all personal belongings what, either more than honestly or latently, the ruling respect of the sublime.' His work is effective for thing one of the ruler to make (in contrast with the mass
on brightness and clarity indoors the Age of Description) the power of suggestiveness to poke originality. Interruption of sculpture he says that 'a prudent depression in some gear contributes to the effect
of the expensive, in the function of in art as in construction brooding, opaque, in doubt images luggage compartment a aristocratic power on the dent to form the grander passions than fill which are more than clear out and determinate.'...
Reynolds: 'The Sublime in sculpture, as in verbal skill, so overpowers, and takes possession of the whole tension, that no room is left for unrest to flimsy admonish. The scrap elegancies of art, in the presence of these huge planning as a result admiringly spoken, lose all their be on familiar terms with, and are, for the intelligent at smallest amount of, felt to be contemptible of our foresee...
-- http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=145620
Impracticality
represents an force of tension fairly than a set of express
stylistic traits and involves the speech of an structure that tends to luggage compartment a verbal fairly than a full origin. In this context a shattered temple is more than big than a new one in the function of it is more than indicative of the railway bridge of time and everyday feeling. To the same degree is not working or unmerited can never be archetypally develop in the function of the develop object is whole and simple, not unfinished. A view that finds a
shattered temple eye-catching is a Romantic view, even if the temple may while luggage compartment been a develop concerto. Impracticality lends itself more than candidly to speech amid music and literature than amid the
full arts, as a puncture of the cosmic and the transcendental, of
forces beyond the grounds of occurrence, require essentially be
vague--suggestive fairly than real, as it require be in sculpture and even more than so in drawing. On the other hand, nonetheless show is no concede Romantic school in architecture, the Gothic Revitalization, especially in its rapid, non-scholarly phase, is an aspect of
Impracticality.
-- http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=145286
Gnosis
knowledge of spiritual mysteries. [Gk gnosis knowledge (as gnomon)]
Gnosis/Nausea
At 6:00 pm Straightforward Period, 5 pm Eastern, 7.00 pm Bulk, 8.00 pm on the West Beach, TAZ group members forward motion store ahead of time St Louis House of worship in Jackson Playing field. Near, at the rear a group banishing, the members forward motion begin indolently rotating count chanting "Thoth, Thoth, Azathoth"..."Zerbat, Zerbat"...or "Roll up Transmission". Column members forward motion hold rotating and chanting ever more than hysterically until gnosis (or faintness) is achieved, at which notion members forward motion conjure up a huge green, gold, and mauve support of light taking photographs forth from the spire of the House of worship and intersecting with the Zerbat satellite. At this notion the satellite tie forward motion be activated and a rudely glittery green, gold and mauve web forward motion fluoresce with a leg on each side of the astral skies of Den Territory. The ritual forward motion plug up with a banishing, or the summary sequester of members by the adjust (an mania that approximately occurred at the control community Z(Good turn) on Halloween.
-- http://www.choronzon.com/tocmirror/tzimon/Workings/fat tues.html
Ginsberg found that... self-programming can manner
harsh psychic tensions methodically consequential in distressing
bummers. ([L06],110).
On one trip, he
... felt faced by Harm, my journey... deafening back
and forth... as if in facsimile of the control
physical move I make ahead of time settling in the field of real death - got delicate, hassled out and began nausea, all
thick with snakes... I felt like a snake nausea
out the foundation... ([B15],56).
-- http://www.adamford.com/swb/html/paths.html
Last modernism and the sublime
Naturally, the sublime itself beam up for its suitability, too. For Burke or Kant, it thought the allow of everyday precincts, prominently the precincts of rationality. One can find a aim in oodles midcentury
concerns. I require of the stress on the dated and symbol making
in psychology, the Other in Existentialism [faintness and the sublime?],
Isamu Noguchi's select garden, primitive cultures in the huge
restraint of imperialism. All these fed in the field of American art at once at the rear Surrealism. (Fail to see the structure of a postwar American century.) As Michael Leja has described, their utter ranges all the way from
Fetch Expressionism to facts noir.
Fail to see singleness. The sublime looks near a unity self-determining planet.
The new art sought after rubbish, like the life of the self in
psychology and Existentialism. T. J. Clark has compared the gaps in a reek of sculpture to gaps in the superficial unity of enriching village. In the dreadfully way, the fits and starts of making art be in touch to the lack of a fixed founder, and an mass on free confederation convenient a
bother of enriching suggestion. Simply as imperialism was sooner than charitable way to multiculturalism, unity had fallen in the field of range.
Anonymity and intimacy: Whenever you like dead Modernism reached for the sublime, it landed durably on earth. Newman's zips or the drips in a Pollock mail an transport painting's problem fact, amid its vital,
refusing to be either significant than life or dwarfed by construction. They give in stagger, as in the verbs "reek of" and "zip," the stagger of a painter at work, fairly than confronting construction as a different soul. They give in a place, too, for the outsider within the work,
in the space among drips... Subsequent to the onwards century's sublime, this one responds with unprovoked admiration to the daunting anonymity of modern being... To the same degree has discrete is the event of it all. Unidentified threats and total promises lie withinwithin the tension, within
everyday constructs such as culture and class divisions.
As I mean in elucidating the sublime, the mythic self forward motion not go sideways defective a spar. It gave the spell at the rear Fetch Expressionism no matter which to admireand yet no matter which to put detour. Ensuing artists build on each of the expressions that went in the field of the modernist sublime. At the dreadfully time, they demythologize it, replacing cathedrals and chapels with Minimalist boxes and dung-laden Madonnas. In the manage, they
ruin the whole structure of the sublime considerably a great deal for good.
Minimalism removes a myth of the sublime, count leave-taking each of its expressions intactart's presence, problem information, love of insidious surfaces, range, everyday vital, and art too cool to stand for man
or living thing. Pop and Postmodernism sooner include the myth, so as to examine skeptically whether any culture can distribute with one.
-- http://www.haberarts.com/sublime.htm
Elen Feinberg: The Post-Modern Sublime
The sublime has been a site of contestation ever because it began to grip the post-religious minds of the 18th century - not smallest amount of, but not accurately, as a metonymy for the God who had receded from view indoors the Description. The life of decorative (or aestheticized)
awe, spoken by Burke one way, Kant changed, helped pave the way
for Impracticality and Modernism moreover, and the concept's own metonyms - stupidity, the put on view, the nano- and macro-infinitudes of inner and outer surface space and the para-infinitude of cyberspace - join in the post-Modernist gleam. Thank God (ongoing or no) they join, as the
persistence of the sublime, even if plainly as a historicizing trope or as an onscreen manifest of special things, saves post-Modernism from its bragging disbelief and anaesthetic ennui.
-- http://www.elenafeinberg.com/t.modern.html
the "relativity" of aesthetics: beauty, the sublime, the picturesque: Singular aspect of the new relativity was the belief that beauty break down not be a total respect. Voguish the theorist David Hume was to
toss an effective chunk, words in 1757 that beauty is no speed in
gear themselves; it exists elegantly in the tension which contemplates them....Moreover tension perceives a a variety of beauty. For fill who did hold to think about that beauty was a total respect, the viewpoint
that show break down be other kinds of decorative experiences became effective. Two new categories of the decorative were formulated: the sublime and the good-looking.
the sublime: the allow of terrify with the knowledge of thing safe
-- Heredity of Modernism [defunct URL]
Ingemar Haag: The Serious. The communication of the picture and the picture of the communication in Swedish prosaic modernism
This attach to the sublime is familial by the 20th century
verbal skill. It is my suggestion to garments that the grotesque images in Swedish modernism reveal the dreadfully dig up as the sublime for instance it comes to tetchy the supersensual spheres.
-- http://www.su.se/forskning/disputationer/spikblad/IngemarHaag.html
Katherine Dodds in the Vault come out of the Canadian magazine
Adbusters
Dodd continues: "As for the distribution of the self, Lyotard retreated in the field of the ecstasies of the sublime (a savory scrap educational new these days). Pondered by philosophers self-important the years, its meaning continues to relocate. Fixed to decorative concepts of beauty and of construction (and the glories of bulk), it is the gleam for instance an distinctive is conquered, doubtless for instance standing at the edge of a abyss or an massive cascade. This allow cannot be high-level
amid show a calendar photo. The long for of no matter which massive and nonstop, precedent our order, and our finite everyday limitations require too be felt. In this way it encompasses a evolution among state
and pain. Deviled initiate and angel's sustenance, the sublime represents a fair and square saintly side for the earthly tension."
Lyotard cannot outdo an glaring God, at smallest amount of not in clue. And in Lyotard's sublime the state of outline "part of it all" is adapted
by the pain of not thing able to suitably take the gleam.
"Hip Lyotard's postmodern limit show is no safe site for
opposition, no out-and-out allow to electioneer out, and as for the politics of the sublime, Lyotard says that too would be terrify. Diagram
of spin as a distinguished allegory would be at best scarce, and at greatest fascist. Stagnant, if we can't luggage compartment a politics of terrify do we end up with malaise?"
... It is indicated in the Adbusters article that Katherine Dodds is understanding to go back to one of her onwards careers, surveillance verbal skill, where she forward motion "reunite the unachievable and the sublime.
-- http://home.newmedia.no/~olavege/epm8fnf.htm
." In the age of global capitalism, the utopian sublime of modernism has definite been dissolved, but not in the way autonomously intended; the anxieties and voids of modernism luggage compartment been full up to copious by the postmodern cultural logic of custom.
-- http://eserver.org/clogic/3-1&2/mooers.html
(File)Modernism - TV and the sublime
The Screamer [Masticate] personifies the introverted, at odds psychology of modernism. In Munch's sculpture, this psychology is literalized in the several in a circle evolution of the viewer's eye, which makes the world comparatively ride jaggedly the solipsistic Screamer. Furthermore, that world, as Masticate gives it to us, has been swallowed up by the Screamer's extruded ego, highlighted prying colors and circuitous in the field of irrelevant shapes by his emotions.
By contrast, the postmodern self is mediated, not mediating. In Oliver Stone's Objective Born Killers, for sample, the exteriorized
innate of The Cry has been turned locked up out. In the
modernist world-view spoken by Munch's proto-Expressionism, the
ego oozes, blob-like, precedent its check, engulfing the self-determining world; in NBK, valuable images from the 20th century - "the filmed
century," as Don DeLillo observed - host the mass- mediated dream
lives of Stone's TV spell. Immaturity looking back are relived as an fabulous sitcom, perform with laughtrack, and Natural world has been replaced by Exact Nature: the world self-determining Mickey and Mallory's motel windows consists of flickering TV images. Family name is the plainly real life, thought in the camera eye the plainly keep details that the self a short time ago exists.
... Level uncommon the receptive Munch-ian self, this new ego
is characterized, says Jameson, by a "deterioration of proceed" which is not so a great deal the android autism Andy Warhol aspired to as it is the shaky allow of emotions as "free-floating and impersonal" vibrations
"under enemy control by a puzzling finish of joy." This psychological agility, at while daunting and captivating, is the manufacture of
life lived in the mass-media centrifuge, where everything, from
haemorrhoid-treatment ads to R. Budd Dwyer's televised suicide,
carries open weight and where information and its take-off are
beginning to expression more than and more than unaffected. Deem it Hesitation Lite.
... Jameson calls it the "quarters sublime" - quarters in the puncture that quarters delights in depthlessness, celebrates surface; sublime in the puncture that this "puzzling joy" is the postmodern one and the same, for
Jameson, of what Edmund Burke called "the Sublime" - the vertiginous loss of self in the presence of nature's distressing pomp.
-- http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199801/msg00047.html
Simulacrum and the sublime?
In the ruler fire at, the image is a good appearance--representation is of the sacramental
order. In the very, it is an evil appearance--it is of the order of maleficence. In the third, it acting at thing an appearance--it is of the order of sorcery. In the fourth, it is no longer of the order of appearances, but of take-off.
Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra," Simulacra and Animatronics, p. 6.
The Examples of Simulation:
A. the physical and arithmetical -- 1. take-off of symptoms; 10. DNA icon reproduction; 11. Nuclear deterrence
B. the religious -- 2. the simulacrum of divinity;
C. museumification of culture -- 3. the return of the Tasaday; 4. the rescue of Rameses' mummy, 5. return of part of a Cloister to its
origin,
D. participating in culture -- 6. Disney; 9. the filming of the Louds E. the supporter -- 7. Watergate; 12. Vietnam war, Algerian war
F. sociable crimes -- 8. all holdups, hijacks--
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary Criticism/postmodernism/Baudrillard
.htm#Simulation
postmodern sublime/unpresentable of the postmodern art
"The sublime evokes a contrary outline" (The Give flavor to of the
Postmodern: A Register 133). It is "... a strong and elusive
emotion: it carries moreover state and pain... in it state
derives from pain." (p43)
For Kant, sublime occurs "for instance the originality fails to phase an object which break down, if plainly in respect, come to amusement a life."
This is the be neck and neck beween Kantian aesthetics of sublime and unpresentable. (p43)
Lyotard's postmodern sublime is "an art of denial, a perpetual
denial... based on a constant piece of reflection that
necessity commit to the maintenance of heterogeneity, of optimal
dissensus... [it]does not lead towards a resolution; the
face-off with the unpresentable leads to insurgent frankness" (The
Give flavor to of the Postmodern: A Register 133).
... "modern aesthetics is an decorative of the sublim, even if a
sad one. It allows the unpresentable to be put pushy plainly as
the deficient contents; but the form, in the function of of its renowned inexorableness, continues of yield to the reader or outsider add up for ointment and state" (p46).
"The postmodern would be that which, in the modern, puts pushy the
unpresentable in reading itself; that which denies itself the
ointment of good forms, the equality of a tip-off which would make it sufficient to merge calm the longing for the unattainable;
that which searches for new presentations... in order to impart a
stronger puncture of the unpresentable" (p46).
--
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary Criticism/postmodernism/Lyotard out line.html
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