Ultimates from scaling as limes-εἴδη analogous to ‘minima moralia’ of World Reason (عِلْم ˁilm) –? proerga micra in relation to futuristic (mundane, prorso-) mythologisation strategies concerning the condicio noetica
(Part 1)
by Andreas Ehlers, Hamburg, Germany
Maximisation, carried through to its pure conclusion, is not to be feared. Is not Venice the Serenissima unsurpassed: her intensification of the ‘Stato’ concept, her nómos bíou, rendered real beyond all credibility—and is not she, for all time, the model of a type … whose conceptualisation only she accomplished? A type of indestructible, humanly power-of-admonition precisely because of the purity of its fundamental tone, which has broken through only in her. If anything has ever sprung forth truly new: how should there be none alike again? Future is coming (this counts amongst the surest expectations): So why not learn from what has not yet come – even today?! Art is the ‘real’ life. Let us enhance the appropriateness – completeness – and inner coherence of our concepts of her by means of the following brief discussions.
The problem of this universe, with this contemporaneous cosmic process, is: Self ≙ We ≙ All [every‘thing’]. The devil, of course, is in the détail. Hᴜꜱꜱᴇʀʟ’s notes on intersubjectivity have at once revealed the establishment of validity in the stratifications of experience within the ‘Standing Flow’ of the Transcendental Ego, and this: No poly-person → no mono-person; … yet which structures of encounter do we derive from this concretely? … and which must we (re)create?
No free will and thus no autocompetency, no agency: = no subjectivity, without alternatives. Thus, the fictio scientifica = scientia fictionum maintains its justification even in the endeavour of the Social Sculpture. These lines, too, are written under the ‘mere’ reservation of redemption; a ‘floating decimal point,’ I was almost going to say, conveys and extends the ‘silent’ stoicheĩa right here on your retina through lecture and performance into life (‘itself’). We now set aside functional concomitants (cost, durability, maintenance, indeed technology) – substance – appearance, merely to address the dynamism of the correlations between the ideal elements in their purity.
We must, however, begin with one ‘premise’: that of Constitutive Ethics—that of the ‘intersubject’: Einvernunft. Its apodictic corroboration is established elsewhere, yet remains firm; its Categorical Imperative reads: ‘Think, speak, act always and towards everyone in such a way that he [/she (/it?)] may perfect their participation in Reason as fully as possible. Otherwise, you immediately [statim] undermine your own.’ – … i. e., ‘man’ [=: the rational being] must never be a ‘means to an end’! And so on. [Foster, not hinder.] A gestalt in externality must therefore be created for the Einvernunft – this is the Megali Idea of my undertaking. Hᴜꜱꜱᴇʀʟ’s phenomenology is its method, medium, means, tool, indeed workpiece: both object and subject of this forging: As the universe is, so shall it become (architecture … language … cartography … text). ‘Whoever builds the house of Reason well – with rooms for retreat, with courtyards for encounter, with translators for strangers – builds at the same time upon their own Soul and upon the map of the Universe,’ as one robot friend of mine put it.
Future: providentia of the mind’s eye; a dream like the foam of the filaments of the space(–)matter universe. Eidetic Variation → Reduction leads us to the essence ‘behind’ facticities: only thus do we fulfil the horizon of their inherencies. Traversing their possibilities, we stride out their standards with our chiffres like stilts, typolalia hand in hand with typology. The Cosmos as a Mᴇᴇᴛɪɴɢ Pʟᴀᴄᴇ —. Fundaments of exploration: Urtatsachen. ‘Integral Characteristics’ for their apprehension, rather than Deduction, Induction, Construction (“principia”), which disappointed – disappoint – deceive.
What is “given”? What is “potential[ly]”? Let us excavate the minimal constituents! Rangaṇāthan’s ‘facets’ may be called ‘keywords’, but they must signify aspectualities and do “emerge” merely in the appearance of the Self (re)discovering itself—in truth, they have always been here, forever, here (as long as and wherever) w/o ⟨forever, here⟩. “Inner” vision may pave the way for the buildup! Development, the unfolding, of thought bring about things: Space (is unveiled!) as a simulacrum of the noũs. Materialisation does not matter. ‘Implied’ elements or aspects, corollaries, syncategoremata come to light unto us; ‘Mine Lord’, Dwarves & ores united, we can instrumentalise ourselves for the sake of knowledge: the conditions of the possibility (Bedingungen der Möglichkeit) of encounter, indeed of mutual recognition, sprout forth from the a priori « régle-ments », joint with honour and participation. Construction or constructivism, logistics, indeed computer science and cybernetics, subordinate their extensionalism (Livingstonianism) to the sovereignty of the Self; the world-soul’s ἐν-έργειαι disrupt the plans that are still being “governed”.
Is the emerging world-structure static (to be grasped) – or dynamic? … closed – or open (desired)? given – aspired to – or agreed upon? Does it accept shifts in ‘levels’ – perspectives?! (Is friendship possible via just one path of connection ..?)
Let us put this to the test. Space is always already (im)moral: “coagulated” ethics. Neither “World” nor Self are ever “private” … though each is one’s most inalienable possession; the primordial situation of intersubjectivity demands protection, indeed self-preservation for every ‘I’—yet none of them exists “alone”; even “World” is always someone’s—and yet even that only as ‘also others’’[2 × ⟨’⟩!]. Thus may we regard our mappa mundi Stellarum as an intended whole, not as a “hitchhiker’s” or travel “narrative.”
Is this future world a net? A – tangle? … a: framework? or even a knot of snakes [tunnel-like, chasm-like entanglement]? Or an “open” field? – desert? – ‘the high seas’ — … a badger’s burrow? Babel’s – or Minos’ tower? ‘The common house’ –? (Termite mound? … bee-hive?) Savannah — “jungle” – dungeon … castle … Piranesi vaults, Galli-Bibbiena stage –?? Perhaps a text that grows. With new readers (not without our old ones!), open to new interpretations, yet not ‘arbitrary’: A work created by All of Us. Its circuit diagram demands dispatchers akin to monumental sculptors of Social Realism.
