File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2000/avant-garde.0003, message 57


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

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