-----Mensaje original----- De: Guenter Rebing Enviado el: viernes 20 de febrero de 1998 1:29 Para: EJ List Asunto: Reading: Die Schere #1
Notes to Die Schere §1 At thebeginning,, the playful utterances of homo ludens, of man as player, are seen as akin to his religious activities. Agreed: there are overlapping areas, as in Bach's cantatas for example: an amalgam of deeply felt religion and play obeying highly complex rules. However, EJ now turns this idea around: religions are also works of art. Here another aspect of art is focused upon: art being the expression of its epoch, die Signatur der Zeit. If you regard a religion, like art, as the product of the time in which it was born it must be in the very long run (of eons?) something similarly ephemeral as fashion is from season to season and style from century to century. But this is no downgrading of art or religion. Both aim at making visible something which is sensed as being beyond time: perfection, the idea, the divine.Within time, our mode of seeing incessantly changes and develops, so the images fade and have to be replaced by fresh ones which are in their turn only for a time adequate to the new way of seeing. But since all images in art and religion are a means (and the only means) of making us aware of what might be beyond time, images are needed forever. If they are no longer supplied, man is threatened by "Verlust", a word which in this context means more than "loss"; I think EJ here hints at the catastrophe he describes elsewhere as nihilism and its consequences for the human mind. Günter Rebing Gunter, again totally agree with you. Its modern art problem, it dont express anything but confusion, nihilism and catch-to-catch thing. But there is no way, we must keep on accelerating, and that don´t permit an age, less an art that describes this no age. Perhaps the expression is just this: that there is no expression: anarchy.
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