Wanderings through events
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Encountering
Karl Jaspers. Friday, June 27, 2014 at 6:05 PM
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Ima's jahrzeit.Notes in my mother's handwriting, performing personal ceremony at the kitchen corner, with my mom's photo. Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 1:59 AM |
Photo: Rivka D. Mayer and
Canon EOS 550D Serial Number 71230993
Couldn't manage the visuality of the fonts as I wanted. well, the options are limited.
ReplyDeletePerhaps these two frames have to do with what is inherited between events, what do they share, instead of what is usually called "memory".
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting observation to consider. I wonder if and in what ways "what is inherited between events" might be associated to Mnemosyne and to Warburg's notions on the pathways of images.
ReplyDeleteIf images are effects of events, they carry on the "subjective forms" of the events they were effected from. Some events share subjective forms so do their effects.
ReplyDeleteWhat-who-which are the "subjective forms" in these photos? what are the events? what are the effects?
ReplyDeleteIt's for clarification of the terms and meanings by which you refer to the photos.
I am not sure I understand exactly what you point at.
thanks.
Just to share that today, 23.2, is the dater of Karl Jaspers birthday. Imagine a photo that was never taken: a six-years girl (about a meter high) meeting her great-uncle, greeting her from his almost two meters height : "Ach Rivka, das ist aber scön!" [das or dass?]
ReplyDeleteI feel the encountering in the above photo is an ongoing one. Somewhat like an open gate, an open invitation for communication -- perhaps as a tribute to Jaspers's legacy.
"Jaspers, far more than Heidegger, believed in the value of shared thinking. [...] His communicative ideal fed into a whole theory of history: he traced all civilisation to an 'Axial Period' in the fifth century BC, during which philosophy and culture exploded simultaneously in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as though a great bubble of minds had erupted from the earth's surface. 'True philosophy need communion to come into existence,' he wrote, and added, 'Uncommunicativeness in a philosopher is virtually a criterion of the untruth of his thinking.' "
Sarah Bakewell, "At the Existentialist Café; Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails", Chatto & Windus, London, Penguin Random House UK, 2016, p. 83.
It seems to me that the "open" might be what allows for communications to happen and what connects different events. It is of the order of events. Pretending it doesn't exist is ignoring possibilities for encounters.
Delete"In Philosophy (1932), the strictest of formulations of ideas was to discipline and focus the mind on the ethos of Jaspers' model of 'existential communiication' that was defined as follows: 'The first step of proper understanding beyond the firmness of conceptual identity is to comprehend what has been said in the whole of the idea; the second step in existential communication is to accept into the historical present what has been said in the idea.' Jaspers' family relations between father and son, or husband and wife, exemplified an unspoken understanding of the possibility for connections between lives that are apart, when otherwise, they could be brought together. One of the fascinations of Jaspers' definition of communication remains, however, an intimation of striving for harmony between two individuals so that the harmony achieves a timeless, eternal aspect."
ReplyDeleteSuzanne Kirkbright, Karl Jaspers; A Biography. NAVIGATIONS IN TRUTH, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 228