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  • User Name: Lick
  • Member Since: Monday, September 25, 2006, 11:00 AM
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  • Profile: The Stranger, Spike, the music of John Lee Hooker, Gorillaz, Taoism, Epicurus, the Blues Brothers and American Mcgee's Alice.

    Apart from hinting towards interests of mine, the concrete representations of these words all have mastered the art of style.

    The character Amanda in the book Another Roadside attraction, which is written with exorbitant amounts of style has this to say on the subject: "Maybe I'm attracted to style because the notion of content is a very difficult notion for me to comprehend. When you substract from an object the qualities it possesses, what do you have left? After you've taken from a star its age, position, size, velocity, distance from Earth and chemical composition, are you left with a hole in the sky - or something else? This lump of dough on the table has the properties of being soft, pliable, white, moist, smooth and cool to the touch. But what is it exactly, what is this thing - the content - that possesses those qualities? It can't be defined. I'm afraid the notion of content has to be replaced by the notion of style."

    This is a way of thinking that was prevalent at the dawn of modern philosophy in Great Britain, mainly started by the principle of immanence in knowledge theory. But I won't get technical on you. What Amanda says pretty much explains it all; the essence or content of an object in reality is not important for we cannot know it, the only thing that is important is perceptions and therefor style. This idea would put all opinions in the world on the same level, it would mean that the ideas of the wise and foolish would be equally valuable, and therefor worthless. It would mean that there is no such thing as good or bad and people can do as they choose. For what would anything that professes to measure up to an absolute truth mean, if it would be inherently impossible to know it?

    Man would sooner accept a false truth than face this reality. This is something no humanbeing can accept and here is where the crux lies. It is in the nature of man to want truth, it is something he needs to survive. When faced with the reality of a world without truth humanity goes in search of it. It is this search that is the tragic beauty of human existence. Trying to find something that is impossible to find.

    However, as stated before, humanity can accept false ‘truths’. Humanity looks for absolute truth when its old truth is brought into question. But what about the truth/essence of objects? Man does not doubt individual objects, how does an object then induce this desire to know in the subject?

    It must not bring forth doubt, but intrigue. Not bring existing truths into question, but not give the whole truth in the first place and at the same time show that it is worth knowing. The way to do this is to create an air of mystery. It is a form of doubt, that is experienced positively. Similar, if not the same as the concept of amazement and astonishment. Apart from that the object is unkown and worth knowing to the subject, there must be something that doesn’t make this experience of mystery into and experience of doubt. Namely, that the subject does not feel alienated by the object he doesn’t understand. The subject must feel relatively at ease, it must think that knowing the will be a positive encounter.

    How then does the object awaken interest in the subject? What must it have to achieve mystery? This is simply a matter of turning the assumption of mystery into ownable properties. These are 1) originality, 2) confidence and 3) subtlety. The most important of these properties, as said before, is subtlety, this is the attribute that makes the difference between doubt and intrigue.

    (Work in progress)

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Akira (Movie)
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Animatrix, The
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Cowboy Bebop
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Serial Experiments Lain
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
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Memories

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