Darkness in a Blink of an Eye

Action and the Onto-Poetics of a Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID3775018
AuthorsSuvi Alt (0000-0001-9862-3182, University of Lapland)
Year2016
Volume21
Issue2
Pages17-31
Publication date2016-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2016.1182721
OpenAlexW2500079590
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

Eschatologies often associate this world with darkness and the beyond with light, seeking a move from the former to the latter. This article rethinks the importance of darkness through a reading of Heidegger’s concept of Augenblick, a blink of an eye, which exhibits a moment and site of a “beyond” coming to presence. Thus, the article contributes to approaches that seek to explore the ontological and poetic dimensions of politics. An onto-poetics of darkness draws attention to the presence of the concealed in each moment of actualization and it highlights the way in which the beyond created in the Augenblick involves relation both to other beings and to Being itself. The conceptual problematic of a “beyond” is further explicated through an engagement with Marina Abramović’s performance “The Artist Is Present.” Instead of a move from darkness to light, such eschatology implies inhabiting the darkness of the blink of an eye

Aesthetics · Art · Darkness · Linguistics · Literature · Optics · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Law · Philosophy

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