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The thing that’s missing isn’t an ingredient, or a magic word, or the last piece of a puzzle. It’s not something you can just add and be done with.
What’s missing has to do with the thing that misses it—with the structure of lack itself. Because if that one missing thing were to appear, the thing that was missing it would cease to exist. It would become something else entirely.
Its whole shape, its identity even, depends on the absence. The lack isn’t a hole to be filled, rather, it’s what holds the thing together.
This means: The missing thing cannot be fulfilled without destroying the thing that was missing it. Because as long as the lacking thing still exists, whatever it’s missing can’t.
Perhaps it’s not that there’s something not there, but that we keep arranging things in such a way that something must always be missing. Maybe we need the absence to keep feeling like something’s at stake. A kind of structural superstition.
The problem with most debates around art is how little…
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The thing that’s missing isn’t an ingredient, or a magic word, or the last piece of a puzzle. It’s not something you can just add and be done with.
What’s missing has to do with the thing that misses it—with the structure of lack itself. Because if that one missing thing were to appear, the thing that was missing it would cease to exist. It would become something else entirely.
Its whole shape, its identity even, depends on the absence. The lack isn’t a hole to be filled, rather, it’s what holds the thing together.
This means: The missing thing cannot be fulfilled without destroying the thing that was missing it. Because as long as the lacking thing still exists, whatever it’s missing can’t.
Perhaps it’s not that there’s something not there, but that we keep arranging things in such a way that something must always be missing. Maybe we need the absence to keep feeling like something’s at stake. A kind of structural superstition.
The problem with most debates around art is how little…
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