FORWARD

The Frame of Reference:  A Curios Bond Between Word and Image *

A “Storied” Structure:  De-constructing the Metaphor of Language

Language tree

A “WORLD” TREE

Now the whole Earth was of One language and of common words…

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BabelA LEXICAL EDIFICE – or THE GROUND-WORK OF BEING? Like a “Portrait” of Space & Time – or just a Riddle Inside of a Rhyme?   

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THE ENIGMA OF UNITY

The Whole, the Part, and the ONE;  as in the “Image” of God     220px-Monad.svg

“The world is a system of inseparable differences.”          – Alan Watts
“We are One – but we are not the same…”        – U2

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A “COMMON” SENSE:  PICTURING “THE ALL” OF LANGUAGE

From a Hermeneutic Circle to an Axis of Meaning             

OUR POSITION IN THE WORLD  is a lot like the “situation” of a whole unto its part  – which in reference to itself – requires some kind of an observer – to tell that there’s a kind  of difference.  Whereby like a part is to its whole (were it somehow broken down as in to pieces) – as a picture of our “current” situation – this “position” of ours (now ) would equally be the place  in which we find  ourselves (at present): Wherefore by the virtue of this “image” (which is the order  of its lo-gic) – being where we are – we should someway find this “picture” to be obvious.. Therefore cur-rently speaking – as a picture of the present situation – it would also be the premise from which our story (both) departs – and (so) must finally return.. Whereby ONE could also say  (according to such a fundamental end):  This is where we are – and that is why we’re here.  One might even say (according to the LANGUAGE which we have):  Such would be the “telos” at  “our moment”.

LIKE THE PARTICLE TO THE WAVE:  It is simply because both part and whole are members  of the very same unity – that in a fundamental way – they would be somehow ONE (and the same). While it is likewise for the moment (being now ) – as chance would someway have it – it appears as if it’s “WE” who bear that testimony.  And while to some that’s plain as day – if it also were the premise for our-selves  then the simple fact of its ALL would be entirely self-evident (were it not overtly obvious)… So that by working as a whole – and “being part” (i.e. how our manifested end  achieves itself, its so-called “golden mean” per se) – it would be somehow in accordance with the fundamental dictates of such a LOGIC… So that likewise – in the end – in its “characteristic” way (such that it is pictured – by “a wording” – of our language) – such a plain (but) working principal could also equally describe (to us) the picture – that’s “our world”… Which would be also just to say:  That it is someway to portray (for us) the elemental nature – of the structure of correspon-dence – which in-turn  describes our universe; and in some fundamental logic of its own  (which is its LANGUAGE) – that would be the role of “human being”.

One might even say – it’s “common” thread …

Continue on to Chapter 1: “THE SPECTACLE OF THE WORLD”

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Map_of_Jericho_in_14c_Farhi_Bible_by_Elisha_ben_Avraham_Crescas Depiction of the Wall of Jericho, Farhi Bible c. 1366

 

* Refer to the short video “The Treachery of Images” 

 

         

                   

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