Immediate givenness
Describing and theorizing
Broadly encompassing
Used and discarded fishing line, rope, and other accouterments fill a large barrow.
“The perception is an act that is a single particular in an enveloping total consciousness, and no total consciousness consists exclusively of a perceptual act and nothing else.”” – Edmund Husserl
Given context
Past perceptions
Memory vagueness
A bin full of plastic potted flowering cacti for sale questions the utility of decorative plants as objects of acquisition.
“I realize that science and philosophy make claims about the world, but that the starting point and the basis for all this is experience.” – Edmund Husserl
Apodictic evidence
Absolutely exclude
Eventual doubt
Small leaves accumulate in a wavy line along the shore.
“The fluidification of the Euclidean spatial matrix has resulted in the implementation of topological models of spatiality, the temporal continuity between shapes and places.” – Luciana Parisi
Mental solvent
Spotting agent
Behind plastic
Familiar activities offered as services are subject to changing economies.
“As soon as the seeing begins, a play of changes in content and of acts of noticing that survey them severally also begins.” – Edmund Husserl
Noumenal power
Objective agency
Absolute force
In close proximity, organic and inorganic elements integrate matter and energy.
“There are numerous cases in which nature seems to hesitate between the two forms, and to ask herself if she shall make a society or an individual.” – Henri Bergson
Organizational values
Guiding principles
Purpose direction
Backstage surface tonalities line-up in coherent patterns.
“Appearance without reality would be impossible, for what then could appear? And reality without appearance would be nothing, for there is nothing outside appearances.” – Francis Herbert Bradley
Well-stacked
Congregated
Lumped together
Many elements contribute to a rhythmic aesthetic experience.
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.” – Baruch de Spinoza
Uncomfortable
Multiple level
Utility
It is unlikely that folding chairs self organize.
“Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Condition in life
Overall circumstances
Everything that happens
Chance is the providence of aesthetic adventurers.
“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.” – John Muir
Small pond
Horizontal shadows
Abstractulation
Walking around the Whalehead Club is always an activity pregnant with aesthetic appeal.
“Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it.” – Talismanist Giebra