Cinemaesthetic Arrest

something happened
1967-1969

zerissenheit
in my life
and the German*

might do best
announcing that cineamesthetic
arrest

strange arcs

2001:a space odyssey
to Cry Baby Cry

the midnight shoreline

of Lake Michigan
arcing

southeastward

in the discrete packets
of Chicago

bioluminescence

holding my
Appalachian spine

in deep reverie

Wilhelm Wurzer

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09055/951148-122.stm

discernment, beurteilung—exceeds representational operations in judging the beautiful and the sublime

bring to light, Eräugnis—bring to one’s eyes; seeing the essence of technology

spirit, Geist—site of thinking where judgment withdraws from the dialectic principle of imitation and identity

letting go/composure, gelassenheit—letting go, reaching beyond representational thinking; freeing of thinking; radical opening; composure, putting together, constellating what is severed or fractured in the realm of judgment

enframing, ge-stell—essence or ‘skeleton’ of technology as mode of revealing

sliding, glissement—sliding into post-aesthetic filming

turning, kehre—turning from imagination’s free-play to the open terrain of the sublime gap in judging (Ur-teil)

clearing, lichtung—primordial shining of being; ontological opening; filming’s post-metaphysical beginning

primal severing, Ur-teil—severing of imagination from the power of rationality

rupture, zerissenheit—breaking the alliance of being and ground, time (Zeit) and spirit (Geist)