The promise of Vagueness. The Indiscernible or Aesthetic Individuality in Question Cover Image

Les promesses du flou. L’indiscernable ou l’individualité esthétique en question
The promise of Vagueness. The Indiscernible or Aesthetic Individuality in Question

Author(s): Bertrand Prévost
Subject(s): Philosophy, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Comparative Study of Literature, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Phenomenology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Vagueness; Indescernible; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; Vermeer; Tintoretto

Summary/Abstract: We are trying here to establish the symptomatic value of our interest, both aesthetic and intellec tual interest in vagueness, as a figure of indeterminacy, of potential… But it seems that vagueness in no way takes us out of a logic of the possible, which, far from thinking of potential forms, attach them even more in individual determination: vagueness would only be the possibility of the net. This is why we try to replace it with the notion of the indiscernible, as Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze have thought it, that is to say a zone of neighbourhood where at least two heterogeneous realities actually meet to form a third, wholly determined and singular, yet does not exist as an individuality: Tintoretto’s painting-dyeing, Manet’s cosmetics-skin-pastel, etc.

  • Issue Year: XXXIV/2024
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 40-53
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: French
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