T-t-t-tssssh, T-t-t-tssssh.
Cymbal
The words on this screen are as much matter as you are. You are motioning matter into enminded meaning through the electricity that runs wild in your muscles. The sign is an extension of your motion, language a doing. Language means because doing means, mattering matter.
Every doing is an echo, repetition and transformation. The doing follows others and is patterned in doing so, becoming part of a history. But, the doing also does again in a new way, it transforms the pattern and creates a signature. Every doing has a history and a signature. Meaning is a relation between the signature and its history, both its similarity and its difference, which allow for interpretation. Language ain’t special in this regard. All doing means and all meaning does.
To intend is not yet to mean, it is to orient yourself to a meaning. All actions are tripartite: (1) one intends, (2) one attends, and (3) one means. One intends to attend and this attending means. We orient ourselves to action, to a future, we focus on a part of the world in the present, and we repeat and transform the past in our meaning. Speech acts are just acts; there is no difference. Conversational implicature, too, is built from how our attending and its meaning reflects our intentions, how the future shows up to the present through the past.
Matter is aesthetic. We en-form matter through our doing, making it matter. Being is meaning. We are doings that do and meanings that mean, aggregates of enminded matter collaborating in action. Agency is an artistic act; to act is to paint with motion as brush and substance as paint. We are the universe creating itself through its own imagination, the world disclosing itself-to-itself through the infinite articulation of the Unique. We are the Unique in the Unique which makes the Unique Unique. We Unique the world in doing.
Matter matters and the Unique uniques.
Pt-t-pah, t-pt-t-pah.
Drums
Image: Movement in Space by Constantin Blendea (2006)
Fish In the Afternoon 