Been having a little root around the work of Rick Boothby and Das Ding. Another research rabbit hole courtesy of Jonathan K.
I need to get my head around this but I have the sneaky suspicion that there are some juicy connections to be found amongst, Das Ding (The Unkowable) and Differance. The Abyss, the void, the sacred and anxiety.
Sometimes I land upon certain words or the relationship between words - ‘points of intersection’. I guess that’s why I also write poetry within my work. And ‘anxiety’ has caught my attention. Boothby touches upon this and the Abyssal, the unknown
“What is unknown in the fellow human being”.
“At bottom anxiety is not without an object. It is directly related to the most profound object - das ding. The object that has no exactly known content. The Abyssal object. The primordial stimulant of anxiety.” Boothby reporting Lacan.
“The object potentially being the unrecognisable facet of another human or human object”
Subtracted space.
Uncertainty, Incompleteness. - What we cannot know. Das Ding. Unknowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmBOWQOrH7g
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Inadvertently I also found a lecture by Stuart Hall on race as a floating signifier. which I need to explore. The notion of a sliding signifier feels like it has a relation to Differance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PodKki9g2Pw