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Jul. 24th, 2010 02:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionInterview with star-snob:
A. If someone designs an object in such a way that it looks undesigned, and so well that I will never be able to definitely tell if its is not in fact a true (copied or achieved) undesignedness, then the first thing I'll do is look, not for a design in it, but for what design there would be in it if there were one - glad to never find signs of actual design, but gladder still to be able to trace the absent ghost of one exactly where it would be if it existed. Because the better you undesign, the better any design I can daydream into it will be. And the closer to your daydreams too. And the closer to what the object would daydream, could objects ever daydream.
Restated: The opinion you would have of the world if that were the world as you saw it should be present in any representation you make of that world, but not ever as opinion. Strangely, you can swathe, etch, and saturate opinions all over your representation. But they can't be the representation itself, the felt weight of your thing made to be found like an unmade thing (except, perhaps, of the part of the world that's opinion).
Q. Show but don't tell?
A. No, no. But do show yourself telling, Mr. Object, Mme. World.
A. If someone designs an object in such a way that it looks undesigned, and so well that I will never be able to definitely tell if its is not in fact a true (copied or achieved) undesignedness, then the first thing I'll do is look, not for a design in it, but for what design there would be in it if there were one - glad to never find signs of actual design, but gladder still to be able to trace the absent ghost of one exactly where it would be if it existed. Because the better you undesign, the better any design I can daydream into it will be. And the closer to your daydreams too. And the closer to what the object would daydream, could objects ever daydream.
Restated: The opinion you would have of the world if that were the world as you saw it should be present in any representation you make of that world, but not ever as opinion. Strangely, you can swathe, etch, and saturate opinions all over your representation. But they can't be the representation itself, the felt weight of your thing made to be found like an unmade thing (except, perhaps, of the part of the world that's opinion).
Q. Show but don't tell?
A. No, no. But do show yourself telling, Mr. Object, Mme. World.
