Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:44:32 -0800 (PST) From: rutger h cornets de groot <cornets-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Re ;-) --- Ostrow/Kaneda <so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu> wrote: > >The art of failure does not pertain to trying to > >achieve the impossible, rather, it is a method. We > >cannot be expected to know everything. Things > unfold > >as we go along and we find new meaning with every > step > >we take. Carefully laid out plans that lead to a > >predefined goal will indeed only accomplish what we > >already know. This is not the way we live life, > make > >art or understand art The art of failure is a > >heuristic method that allows for experimentation > and > >play. > > > > We are in agreement up to the liine:> The end result > is a most intimate > connection > between the subject and the object. Mainly because > having left them these > terms undefined the statement smacks of > metaphysics. What is this intimacy > and when does the subject objectifiued not have this > relation between its > parts? My reference was Adorno -- who was thinking > about sucess and > failure in the context of recuperationa and > redemption -- to discover the > possible while seeking the impossible > I don't know Adorno but I'd hate to be accused of any metaphysics! There is always a discrepancy between a life and the goals one sets out to accomplish in life. Therefore, our imagination can be as bold as the biography of a life allows for. We do not want to calculate the value of this "I", rather, we are interested in the value of what could be called the "more I than I", if you wish. A biography should not lead us to the reality of the I, but take us back to that of the more I than I. Between both oases lies a desert, and the smaller that desert, the greater the *art* of failure. Best, RC ====Rutger H Cornets de Groot, Writer, Translator English-Dutch Freelance Translation Services Essays on Film, Culture, Art, Literature, Philosophy a p r o p o s http://sites.netscape.net/cornets/apropos dxb-AT-casema.net / cornets-AT-yahoo.com "The quality of a good translation can never be captured by the original". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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