Glossary of terms that you may come across on Not So Solid Earth.
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Abstract Will – Referring to the intelligence or the personality that is given discursive unity; unified as a simulacrum willing itself while disinvesting corporeality, as a sphere of ‘inner consciousness’ over and against the encounter with the morality of the human condition
Albedo –
Alchemy –
Animism – the belief that everything in the world is connected through spiritual essence, as an animating energy
Art – a configuration of becoming, grasped in terms of the artist, and the basic occurrence of beings
Arte Povera –
Aesthetics – concerned with the appreciation of beauty, judgements or sentiments of the artistic sensorium
Becoming – the state of change or turbulence of materiality
Being – embodied and existing sentience
Catastrophe – the sudden rupture of existing conditions
Corporeality – embodied body having tangible material form or substance
Cultus Arboreum –
Ecstatic Naturalism –
Death –
Deposition – referring to geological processes where matter is added to an existing mass, as depositing or building up layers of sediment
Decalcomania – surrealist technique of pressing paint between sheets of paper and transferring the impressions
Ecology – the spectrum of environmental, urban and agricultural systems
Eschatology – an end to ordinary reality, a crisis of reality that poses a new way of living, being and thinking
Exterminism – extermination of embodiment, removing beings and objects from existence
Fieldwork – dual definition as work exploring the natural environment and as a temporary fortification
Flesh – commonly defined as the soft muscle or fat found in humans and animals, but poetically construed as the dynamic and fluid physics of embodiment
Found Objects –
Geology – earth’s physical substance and structure, its processes and history
Immanent Christ –
Mystery –
OOO – Object Oriented Ontology,
Pagan – reverence for nature and nature-based spirituality, as a shared understanding of sacred nature (see animism)
Painting – process of applying paint or other mediums or materials to a solid surface that is also a mode of creative expression
Panpsychism –
Natural History – referring to Ernst as the unconscious guide of naturalistic automatism in painting
Nigreddo –
Nihilism – maintaining that nothing in the world has real existence
Ritual Magic –
Soil –
Significance – quality of being important, worthy or having meaning in words, object or events
Sensation – the way that beings are bound to the world, rooted in reality
Sensorium – the sensory faculties considered as a whole
Simulacrum – an image or re-presentation of some thing
Withdrawal – in OOO “withdrawal” refers the elusive distinction of the object that can neither be reduced downward to its constitutive parts of material or updward to its discursive representations
