Enjoy the prose as always Caleb, but I would love another time to see these concepts which you're hinting at and swirling us around in toward the end to be developed either as basis for a narrative where the dynamic of a story realizes these themes, or as a flat-out essay with arguments that you could sink your teeth into. I know that's not your intent here, but maybe either of those could be a thing to do further down the line...?
As it is I feel the abstract concepts and the raw visceral sense of thinginess that you do so well aren't so much working with each other but almost against each other in the last part.
Appreciate the thoughtful criticism, A.P. It was fully my intention only to hint at this concept, or conceptual scheme at this point, as I'm somewhat against long form explication on this platform/on the internet. I have a much larger project I'm working on that goes into what I've pointed at here in more detail, but I wanted to demo a few ideas. That images and surfaces are less prevalent and powerful than atmospherics is a suggestion that seems counterintuitive to many of us now, but I think it's worth starting to sketch out alternative analyses to freshen up the by now old sawing about screens.
Gestalt is involved here, yes. Also relevant is Heideggerian thinking on mood, fundamental mood, or stimmung in the German, as predetermination of dasein's being in the world
Enjoy the prose as always Caleb, but I would love another time to see these concepts which you're hinting at and swirling us around in toward the end to be developed either as basis for a narrative where the dynamic of a story realizes these themes, or as a flat-out essay with arguments that you could sink your teeth into. I know that's not your intent here, but maybe either of those could be a thing to do further down the line...?
As it is I feel the abstract concepts and the raw visceral sense of thinginess that you do so well aren't so much working with each other but almost against each other in the last part.
Appreciate the thoughtful criticism, A.P. It was fully my intention only to hint at this concept, or conceptual scheme at this point, as I'm somewhat against long form explication on this platform/on the internet. I have a much larger project I'm working on that goes into what I've pointed at here in more detail, but I wanted to demo a few ideas. That images and surfaces are less prevalent and powerful than atmospherics is a suggestion that seems counterintuitive to many of us now, but I think it's worth starting to sketch out alternative analyses to freshen up the by now old sawing about screens.
The “atmospherics” you talk about can be likened to the concept of Gestalt. Right?
Of which I'm yet to explore deeply. I don't know if you know about it. If not it will be helpful to learn about.
Gestalt is involved here, yes. Also relevant is Heideggerian thinking on mood, fundamental mood, or stimmung in the German, as predetermination of dasein's being in the world
Of course I thought you didn't intend to get into these ideas here in detail and I'm pleased you plan to develop all this in a longer form elsewhere.
Thanks for the reply, and please if you'd like to, call me Murph. Everyone I don't owe money to calls me Murph. I don't owe you any money, do I?
Okay, Murph. You certainly don't owe me any money
Caleb Caudell can write, which sadly means I can’t give up on literature.