Supernormalising Nothing from the Hyperbolic Nihil to the Ordinary Supernothing

IF 0.3 0 PHILOSOPHY Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1515/opphil-2022-0245
John Ó Maoilearca
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Abstract This essay connects the mystical concept of “supernothing” with Bergson’s notion of the image of nothingness as a movement in the making. I do this also with respect to the film The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020) – which explicitly cites Gorgias’s four-part embargo on nothing (it exists, it cannot be known, communicated, or understood): nothingness is re-rendered as movement, in particular, the transmission and reception of images in the brain. Indeed, this is precisely Bergson’s theory of the brain too – as the receiver and transmitter of images, a communication of movements. This “nihilistic” approach to the brain (it does not store images, it has no positive content) is not a valorisation of the ego as void à la Metzinger, but the real, processual rethinking of what nothingness and nihilism might mean – with a full, moving “supernothing” at its heart. Though there is a mystical and a film-philosophical account referenced in this renewal of nothingness, it will not lead to any exotic or hyperbolic excess (the brain as supernatural agent), but rather a very “ordinary” account that we will describe in terms of “supernormalisation”: an “unlearning” or mundanising of the supernatural: an extraction of the supernatural by natural means.
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从双曲虚无到普通虚无的超常虚无
摘要本文将神秘的“超新星”概念与柏格森关于虚无的概念联系起来,认为虚无是一种正在形成的运动。我也对电影《空虚的人》(David Prior,2020)这样做——该片明确引用了高尔基亚对虚无的四部分禁运(它存在,无法被知道、交流或理解):虚无被重新渲染为运动,特别是大脑中图像的传输和接收。事实上,这也正是柏格森关于大脑的理论——大脑是图像的接收器和发射器,是动作的交流。这种对大脑的“虚无主义”方法(它不存储图像,没有积极的内容)并不是将自我视为空虚的梅辛格,而是对虚无和虚无主义可能意味着什么的真实、过程性的重新思考——它的核心是一个完整、感人的“超新星”。尽管在这种虚无的更新中引用了一种神秘的和电影哲学的描述,但它不会导致任何奇异或夸张的过度(大脑是超自然的代理人),而是一种非常“普通”的描述,我们将用“超正常化”来描述:对超自然现象的“遗忘”或世俗化:通过自然手段提取超自然现象。
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Open Philosophy Arts and Humanities-Philosophy
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