Concrete Universal (trash and art)


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Jun 29 2023 16 mins   3

🗑️ Garbage represents the concrete universal of waste.

🎨 Picasso's art exemplifies the concrete universal through different periods and works.

🌌 Failures and contradictions can lead to transcendence.

🎭 Art expresses both expression and concealment simultaneously.

🔀 Concrete universalism combines the concrete and the abstract into one concept.

💡 The concept of concrete universalism challenges fixed definitions and highlights the dynamic nature of objects, people, and ideas.

🔄 The concrete universal constantly expands, while the defining object fails to fully capture its totality.

---- TIMING/CHAPTERS----

0:00 Welcome back to the show.

  • Fiction is bleeding into reality and confusing.

1:34 Relating to god through the son.

  • How god was impossible to relate to.
  • Concrete universalism and the food processor.

2:53 How can something be concrete but applicable to everything?

  • Concrete universalism vs abstract universalism.
  • Kantian antinomies or even Hegelian antagonisms.

5:04 The apex of the movement is the definition.

  • Overcoming the other side, overcoming their limits.
  • The movement has an extreme peak, which defines it.

7:20 A new more robust form of universalism.

  • New universalism founded on a very real thing, trash.
  • Example of concrete universalism, garbage.

9:02 Definition of the concrete universal.

  • The concrete universal and the black sack of trash.
  • How to use the concrete universal.

10:53 The central problem of art.

  • The central problem of art, referencing Picasso.
  • How art expresses the inability to clearly express.

12:33 The antagonisms in Guernica.

  • Back to the concrete universal in the case of Pablo Picasso.
  • The antagonisms in Guernica.

14:18 The problem with the object definition of the universal.

  • Deification of objects, people and ideas.
  • The parallax gap.