Curvature
of space
The medieval perspective was
off-center. The modern one got centered. Every thing is set `in
perspective' starting from man, center, point of view, critical look,
embracing look. So man is curving a horizon. Chances are that this
can also be an illusion.
Following the example of his Judeo-Christian Father, human subjectivity is getting creative of itself as of every thing. Seen from the center the horizon seems to open infinitely. Seen from the 'outside' it encloses a limited field. Thus starts an enormous misunderstanding of our modernity. Isn't such an enclosure of our space also likely to be our prison? It depends from where you are situated. Inside or outside?
The
curvature of our modern space is obviously 'positive'. The parallels
always meet. Of a point taken out of the immanence no prospect is
possible which does not converge finally towards the immanence. A
world sums up in closed immanence. And this total sum is increasingly
larger than... The 'positive' curvature of space traps
to some extent all its contents. In such a space infinity gets
buckled in finiteness and transcendence in immanence.
In the space of modern anthropocentric curvature every thing tends to be positively curved and closes on itself. A same gravitational space with a lot of centers of gravity each of them pretending to be the sole one. The 'absolute' horizon of modernity circumscribes 'relative' ones which tend to be absolute! A multitude of entities, more or less 'abstractions', as for example: class, State, property, money, power, economics, and so on.
In the space of each singular domain reigns optimism. Their plurality, however, induces confrontations. Civil wars. National wars. Wars of religion. Unless like Montaigne we foresee their essential relativity and continue to live, stoically, with skepticism and relativism. A kind of 'Docta ignorantia' so different however from that of Nicolas Cusanus two centuries before.
In the two different spaces 'convergence' and 'divergence' induce the two essential categories that are the 'same' and the 'other'.
It
is known that the 'copernician revolution' reverses the antique image
of the world. Our earth is not any more the center of the celestial
sphere. From now on it revolves, simple planet among other planets,
around a new center. An identical 'revolution' takes place in the
ratio between being and knowing. What was center is put into orbit.
What was satellite is put at the center. Hitherto the being was
central. The being, i.e. the thing to be known, the objective real
thing preexisting its seizure by man. From now on it is the knowing which
is made center, i.e. the knowing ego. Previously the thinkable and
the possible of man was defined by the being. From now on it is the
being which is defined by the thinkable and the possible of man.
The consequence of this 'revolution' is infinitely heavy. It attributes to the thinkable and to the possible of man a new space of gravitation and a new center of gravity. From here up you will get gradually a multitude of inversions. From transcendence to immanence. From infinity to finiteness. From the absolute to the relative. From being to phenomenon. From logos to chatter. From value to affect. From objectivity to subjectivity. From sense to structure. From the truth to the simple non-contradiction. From Light to enlightening…
From now on the human space revolves around the SAME of itself.
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