Showing posts with label The Abject. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Abject. Show all posts

Explorer of the World



There is an English phrase called “Don’t bury your head in the sand” whose equivalent in Danish is: “You should not hide your head in the bush”. It means: Don’t try to avoid reality  - try instead to face life and it’s challenges up front, i.e. GET REAL!
I have never been a strong believer of Truth or REALITY anyway, so it doesn’t cause me any second thoughts to bury my head in any bush or hedge I might pass. In fact I will strongly recommend this noble activity. You never know what might happen. And there are plenty of things to discover in there in the UNREAL: 






Or why not jump all they way in and sit there quietly and enjoy the world:

The Abject (Christmas Tree)

Every year around this time I have the opportunity to study numerous variations on the topic of The Abject.
The concept of the abject is developed by the Bulgarian/French feminist and philospher Julia Kristeva whom I find fascinating but cumbersome to dance around the Christmas Tree with.
However, I think I grasped this much:
The abject is placed outside of the available categories of definition and exists as
an intermediate state
 between the concept of an object and the concept of the subject,
something alive yet not.

The object is situated outside the symbolic order from where it threatens the order and augurs the end of meaning
and at the end of (the) day(s):
death.
Face it or photograph it!

Free counters!