Victor Hugo, in the book The Man Who Laughs, describes a strange episode of sea storm in which the ocean is assaulted by sudden outbursts of phenomenological creativity. Victor Hugo calls this occurrence Magnetic Effluvium. It is a meteorological phenomenon that, as a possibility, manifests itself as a multiplicity irremediably inscribed beyond human knowledge: the very title of the storm chapter, The Laws That Are Outside of Man, poses this epistemological problem. We must also consider that this fiction proposes a limit, a categorical interdiction when the same phenomenon coincides with the suppression of the characters who are helplessly watching the storm. Here there remains an unequivocal and fundamental relationship between multiplicity, say, totally heterogeneous (where human understanding can only conceive of the inconceivable) and the thought of Being as Being, ontology.
First of all, we must have a clear perception that the occurrence of an unexplained phenomenon like the Effluent, requires hypothetical thinking. In a fiction of this kind, we verify the following: it is not the questions of scientific approval raised that need an answer, but above all, the important thing is to give an answer (make the subject available) to the question of the essence of the problematic and to pass the question: how can the Effluent exist? For: what are the implications of the existence of a phenomenon inappropriate to knowledge when this interdiction is the essence of the enigma?
Thus, it is expected to find the way in which a fictitious scientific proposition will constitute a genuine movement towards the foundation of a certain scientificity.
Visual Arts
Exhibitions
Lua Cão by Alexandre Estrela, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
— Walk & Talk Açores
15.07 — 31.07.16
Galeria W&T - Largo de São João, Ponta Delgada, Açores
