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…

                                                                                                                                                 – Genesis 11:1

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BabelA LEXICAL EDIFICE – or the Ground Work of Being; Like a Picture 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

Between the Sum of its Parts; the Labyrinth of Metaphor

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 re-turn… 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 some fundamental way – they would be also  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  – if 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 also  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 its 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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