Nature is spectacular

Halcyon Daze

A text does not necessarily exclude nature; it only excludes it when it is read as if its literal sense mirrors nature. A spectacular text answers to natural spectacles.

A spectacle is a subject that resembles the network of spectacles from which it emerges. Spectacles resemble their tradition.

Heraclitus wrote that: Nature loves to hide: the event that discovers a resemblance subsequently becomes a resemblance that is discovered.

Literal speech objectifies nature as sense and does not effect a turn in the perception of resemblances. The subject that knows literal sense is immutable and is considered to transcend what it knows. The sublation of events by subjects who make literal sense out of nature excludes them from participation in natural resemblances.

Plato described the mimesis that gives rise to the circulation of resemblances; however he understood both as the resemblance of things to a disembodied and generic form that transcends circulation, and as the resemblance of particular things. This led him to believe in an ideal original of which actual things are poor copies.
Plato’s belief that the real transcends circulation and is immutable is an example of the way in which subjects are unaware of some of the things they take for granted and are unable to put them into question. Plato lived at a time when it was assumed that to be unaware is to have forgotten. We live in a time when to be unaware is to have failed to realise what is going on. Now the assumption that truth is timeless is not taken for granted.
Plato’s perspective is an example of the way in which what are always perishable resemblances become bounded subjects who are unable to incorporate some spectacles. The bounded subject needs shelter and separates itself from some parts of the circulation of nature. Human beings become somewhat immutable subjects by objectifying natural spectacles. The literal sense of words allows human beings to become different from nature. Circulation is a drama that arises from a combination of resemblance and difference.