The Age of Asymmetry

Tim Morton

The essence is elsewhere There is no essence

There is an essence right here, yet withdrawn

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Hegels Aesthetics
Symbolic object > spirit

Classical object = spirit Romantic object < spirit

Age of Asymmetry (object = spirit) (object spirit)

Romantic Phase
chromaticism Mahler narrative equal temperament Anthropocene piano

Into Asymmetry
piano John Cage La Monte Young just intonation Anthropocene

Piano as Object

Bridget Riley, Fall

La Monte Young, The WellTuned Piano

The Age of Asymmetry

Object-Oriented Ontology Anthropocene animism irony there is no metalanguage

The Age of Asymmetry

They were going to make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their Army anymore Apocalypse Now

The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass pond Chgyam Trungpa

The Age of Asymmetry

MAD rhapsode Demon weakness the capacity to tune Ion

Weakness
Well, what's your name? you ask him. Odradek, he says. And where do you live? No fixed abode, he says and laughs; but it is only the kind of laughter that has no lungs behind it. It sounds rather like the rustling of fallen leaves. Kafka

Weakness
Some say the word Odradek is of Slavonic origin, and try to account for it on that basis. Others again believe it to be of German origin, only influenced by Slavonic. The uncertainty of both interpretations allows one to assume with justice that neither is accurate, especially as neither of them provides an intelligent meaning of the word. Kafka