Indetermination

Summary

Dominique Pagani understands indetermination on the basis of the word itself: what is indeterminate is what is not terminated, what has no clear outline. He sees it as what characterizes the uncertainty of the modern subject1. He also associates it with night, which leads back to the indeterminate and the infinite, as opposed to the determinate world and the sharp angles of Apollo2. In Goethe's Mignon, he notes a margin of indetermination: she can be assigned neither a sex, nor an age, nor a place3. On music, he qualifies Hegel's criticism, which finds it indeterminate for lack of univocal words, and argues that what one feels in music is not indeterminate at all4. Finally, he links indetermination to the object of desire in modernity, whose form, according to Hegel, is money5. In Baudelaire, every destination is still too determinate, and the object of desire lies "anywhere out of the world"6.

1. 1#5 Harnessed to confinitude18 Apr 2020 · 17:16
2. 2#5 Harnessed to confinitude18 Apr 2020 · 53:21
3. 3#1 Mignon, or the song of silence7 Apr 2021 · 46:55
4. 4#1 Mignon, or the song of silence7 Apr 2021 · 47:42
5. 5Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?3 Sept 2023 · 21:21
6. 6Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?3 Sept 2023 · 55:57

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