The phenomenic

 The Phenomenic

©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan

     It is not sufficient for us to say that a form have a sense, a center of evidence, or to assume that the essence of a form is given to us as it, we truly can’t disassociate the concept of form from the concepts of sense and appearing because only a form can have an essence and only a form presents itself as it is, eidos and morphe, something that brings us to presence as a general theme, to what let us to be seen and think. Thought and phenomenology is always a thought of being as form, in a form a thought can think on itself as form and as formality of form and a final last sign of what Hurssel determined and defined a alive present (El Presente Vivo), --lebendige Gegenwart. 

    Alive present is the ultimate, universal and absolute form of the transcendental experience in general

Jacques Derrida, Form and Wishes to Say, Notes on the Phenomenology of Language

   Written in English and translated to English 

by Abdel Hernandez San Juan

   I am still fascinated with proximity, impressive and sensorial proximity and probably for long time. While I am writing the current book, creating, composing it, I have at the same time in front of me a monitor in proximity, the one of my laptop and I can feel it as a quotidian phenomenic spectacle so enigmatique to my philosophical curiosity.  When I touch digitally the letters I can see simultaneously, from the tactile and connective to the visual, the apparition on the tactile screen of that dactylo graphemic suscitation word by word. A very simple phenomena in proximity. I am Feeling now through the materiality of the monitor glass and I can see how the digital coupunture brings to presence all that. My curiosity goes through, on the one hand, the volatilization of everything, ontos, matter, sensoriality, feeling, connection which seems to be vehicled by the delicatessen of that ultrasensual tactile screened, glassesned/unglassed environment, by the sense of that impressive word on the virtualized idea of the Microsoft word page. 

   On the other hand I ask if such materiality has some spesures and how is it?, cumulated, pregnated, stratified, just digital?, tactile?, copunturated?, or even less, liquidized?, and to what principles of matter ontology should that sensoriality of untangibilized tangible coupure be remitted, to what other phenomenology?. My finger is here touching a permanent point, a digital technologically miniaturazed/virtualized concept of a mouse, a dot, through which, translating a variety of intentional hypothetical, imaginative and simulated impressive sensations over it, the tactility of the finger impressive, I can obtain visually, at the monitor cursor, the anticipated field of movement meeting at the glass screen virtualized page the grapheme of what I was a few second a go feeling as a field in my finger skin. 

   Everything should be feel by figuring it out as a field hypothetical stimulus. Nothing is happening between my finger and that plastic point. I am just moving my finger over the same surface all the time, something apparently monotonal, but it is at the same time anticipating a whole field of visual suscitation through the glass. Even, moving out of just the screen, which fascinated me still again a lot, (the tactility of that screen), but as a 24 hours connected cibernaut who is travelling through the laptop-making clicks on a variety of Microsoft windows programs services, to everything in comfort, typography, images, a whole trip through the internet within a incommensurable variety of webs, sites, spaces, windows, texts, images at incredible velocities of ephiciency and within an experience that evolves a simultaneous alive process in which the digital impressive sensations of being writing and touching the plastic, simultaneously seems to appear through another surface, and materiality, glassened, while at the same time I am listening the sound of emails entrances, entering, to the inbox.         

  I am then clicking already, I close fast the window page, instead of letting it open, at the down margins of the screen, which can be easily reactivated, to open other ones, my monitor become defined by virtual leafs, everything is leafted here, reading emails, sending somes, and I am now back to the document, revising a paragraph, lining it with colour easy and fast for revision, then inserting something and back again, a few minutes, following a sound of advertising, now at the internet, letting myself go through navigation, immersed at the cyberspace, a chat at mid day and then back to writing. Abdel Hernandez San Juan

   Far to an idea of phenomena seen as just the appearance or the outside of a given essence and far to the idea of phenomena understood as a superficial form or an external surface relative to a certain essence, another ductile, plastic, dynamic and mobile phenomena and phenomenic has proliferated and is extended on the sensorial and perceptive horizont of our technology modernity. 

   Certainly it is difficult to our common sense to assume or accept the idea of a phenomena without a surface, we commonly supposes to any phenomena a corresponding surface, but with modern technologies as the internet and computer environments, we are not today experiencing  phenomena’s according to our old parameters about relationships between appearances and essences as we use to suppose to any or each sense of appearance a corresponding phenomena as the superficial manifestation of essences, phenomena seen as an apariential form of something we should look for behind as the one truly essence,  a deepest one, non explicit at a visible surface but related as by necessity, readable by clues as something expressing a coincidence between superficial forms and depth substrates’, appearances and essences, forms and contents.   

  Very far from those our old ideologies of such a relation, we are experiencing today a new phenomenic, one without substratum, without something behind or depth, a completely superficial one, an ultravolatile one, something having only laterals contiguities and contiguity laterality relate to space and the relation between space and space. This new phenomena is asking a new philosophy, waiting for it. Let then recapitulate a letlee more in remembering how was our old ideology on such a matter. Some decades ago we explained phenomena as the aparience of something in several forms, one was through causation, asserting that phenomena should be always something generated by a cause and we looked causes as essences, another one was related to a necessity, phenomena should be always the superficial form of a necessity and we looked necessities under phenomena train to get in necessity the justification of an essence, phenomena seen as a simple appearance or a form of an essence, to each phenomena we supposed an essence and we understand aparience as an external form.

   There was also a relationship between aparience as concept and a relation between absent and nothiness, we explained absent as the opposite of presence, something is absent because it is not presence, it was absent as the image of a non presence or of the absent of presence, we adjudicated aparience to such the presence of presence, it is appearance because it have a presence of presence, appearance was to us the external form of something, the presence of presence, and nothingness something similar to absence, if it is absent is nothing or if it is nothing then is absent, meaning to the absent of presence, so in a way our old relating of nothingness to being, nothingness seen as the opposite of being in existential terms, supposed a relation between being and presence, if nothingness is absent and absent nothing, then a being is only in presence and only a presence is being. 

   This recapitulation about our old ideologies will be important to understand how our current new phenomenic ciberenvironments, the internet and our media ultramodern connected technology reality of everyday life evolves our being and spiritual world, and how in developing the new philosophy of such a rich phenomena and ourselves in it evolves a whole understanding on how are we becoming and on how to think today about all our main concepts, sensoriality, being, memory, culture, an alive field to rethink almost everything. Of course, we did it in the past about ourselves and our societies with each new technology already, we did it with light, with phone, with vehicles, with television, etc, but no one of our old technologies evolved a transformation to ourselves as significant as the one we are living today as cibernauts in our ultraconected accelerated world on being online 24 hours a day at home, several years after our new 21 century. 

   We have in front our screen perceiving the amazing appear of words behind the monitor glass, a simple digital hand writing as phenomena is coming into view, becoming visible, something  is being materializing behind the monitor glass and becoming graphemes on the virtual pages, being seen under a tactile screen through leafed relations of simultaneity. We are opening and closing virtual pages, cleaking and processing dynamic software’s, opening and closing windows while writings texts and listening sounds and we ask on the material ontology of all that, (on conseity), what kind of sensoriality of matter is it about?, can we say it have a grain comparing with the rest of our sensorial memory on matters?, why such an ingravid sensation of a crystalline volatile?, a liquid ingravid under glasses?. We are of course simultaneously online connected, receiving emails in our inbox while processing multimedia environments and writing, leistering the sound of messages entrances, going to sites and webs by cleaking, getting a distributed universe of indexes lists of a variety of heterogeneous stuffs from a search line and back to our doc writing.

   A first easy image to this phenomenic can be the notion of intrasensorial translations, tactile into the visual or as if through it, visuals into tactile or as if through it, to this point regarding multimediality, all the senses together, a kind of visible ephimerality. But this phenomenic goes so far away much more than simple intrasensorial translations. 

   We should be clear about that the time of this phenomenic is an inner time and the matter is a fractal matter, by the way, it is a kind of orbital or suspended time through which images seems to be provided by an eter, such a peculiar or unique form of images as presence. I am meaning here etter as the immobile aparience of an orbital presence, as a permanence, as another type of mobility, something like the harmony relation between planets in a constellation, earth in regard to constellations planets, earth in respect to the sun, an orbital time in which matters being in movement seems to be immobile as presence, by the way, the internet phenomenic is harmony and peace, a time of presence and a memory of matter, something remnant, something good. 

  Fractal matter, in fact, evolves a devolution of matter to its relation with inner time, something beyond fragments, fractalized fragmetariety, it is about matter back to aleatorial principles, visually, physically, temporally and logically and such a remanence of matter is a time of simultaneity. 

  It is all about tangible and intangible, material and immaterial in a same presence, in a same ontology. And we ask, how can something be in a same ontology tangible and untangible at the same time, material and immaterial?. I am pointing out here a pivotal philosophical question, it is at the same time physical and spiritual. All we are is in front of a mathematic of matter as computational technology, formal logic, cybernetics. 

  This are the new volatiles technologies, technologies of the new velocities of apparition, technologies of the new apparitions of presences, virtually presents and unpresents. An overabundance of sensation and perception. A new tecnosenso moving from computers to our bodies. The new velocities of fashion. A phenomena beyond hypertext. Oscillations, orbitation. Simultaneity of presence. Redundancy of presence. Ephimerality is a pivotal notion to understand both sensoriality and impression in regard to matter and the visual about this phenomena, something looks to ephimeralize in the same constancy of matter and visuality, plasticity, ductile, laxity, another corporeal, another intensity of matter. 

  Is it an orbitant?. It is an abstraction of form, without doubt, an abstraction that supposes an abstraction of relations or relations which evolves and supposes ludricity as relationality, affect, affection, affective relations.   

    Electronics stuffs.  A phenomena retaining something about electrode yet?, beyond diesel?, something as a virtual water?, something about an old impressive memory of celluloid in how presence appear and aparience?, why this ingravid appearance of presence of an image at the internet not appearancing essence?, is it presence?, is it present?, and how is it?, a resemble?, something apparently?,   

    It is a miniaturized event. 

    Something without substance or with less substance, technology vegetarian copulations. 

    It is a mutant without doubt and is alive

    Something muting

    Should we develop a linguistic of the mutants?

    An this remarks looks regarding substance a transubstantiation, to evoque a Kristeva recurrent notion in her book The Sensible Time.

   Our visual impression on a matter ontology ephimeralize while it is going through as if inside a whole sensorial spectacle to our eyes in just processing programs, openings, closings, recordings, transporting, linking, clicking. Regarded here is our memory on how something arrives to presence, on how something come into sight, come out, grow, begin, turn up, develop, become visible, materialize, look as if, surface, occur or happen This in regard to our sensorial and visual memory and impression about what a presence is.

    Sensorial suscitations

    Formal Logic, Cybernetics, again and again…

    Oh, miniaturized event!

    of matter and soul, matter and inmaterial, tangible and intantible, relationality and spirituality. 

  It is not about absent in regard to presence, not about the invisible but instead about the overabundance of visibility, as much presence to all our senses at the same time that it goes beyond hipereality

      Kristeva uses the metaphor of Ojarazcas

      Ojarazca mean a layer of a confiture, a dolce, but it evoques also the vegetarian consistence of a paper page and a leaf

      A technology vegetarian phenomena?

      Are we leafed and papered in the virtual?

  How about the relation between moving and complexioning, going and being back, sending and bringing, oscillation and playing, continuity and simultaneity, how about our means on texts, on perceptions, on developing and retaking, between what we are doing and what is happening?,  how about writing on this electronically visual surface connected on?, how about writing on such a surface?. how about a doc as such on this pages?. Something here is being foulding and unfolding, it seems like disolvences in video and film, when something as a sound or an image seems to be dissolved from a plane to another, from a form to another at incredible velocities and accelerations.

   Dissolvences evoques it, but it goes beyond dissolvences 

   Something lacking impression of aparience of presence of essence?, not exactly, it is much abundance of presence, of appearance of presence not in the sense of an apparent presence, but in the sense of appearance as the presence of presence here abundantly overcoming our sensorial impressions of presences of presence

   We usually recognize in our body the sensorial memory of a given matter and we know which sensorial memory correspond to a given matter, but we ask about this phenomenic why it seems to be under a sensorial impression which is characteristic of a given matter that sensorially we consider in experience as corresponding to another matter we visually recognize?. Should we assume, according to our sensorial memory of pre-given matters the idea of several impressions of various matters ontology going through just one matter, the one which is visually tangible as unicity in Benjamin terms?, layers?.  

     It is extremely real even ultrareal and absolute in presence and seems to be a sobreimpresion of presence, both, in the sense of impressions of the senses and in the sense of impressions as the repetition of printings as repetitions of presences

    Vestiges of virtual memories

    It is something beyond superposition, juxtaposition and montage. 

    Beyond holographic impressions of presences

    A whole memory on arrivals to presence

    My Microsoft Word page is appearing now as a memory of a paper page

    The idea of the hipereal was related with overimpregned saturations and this phenomenic is certainly the opposite of saturations, it is not about a surface of saturated grains.

     In Spanish leaf and paper sounds phonetically equal, hoja

     What it means to us to be leafed?

     Should we ask on ourselves evolving everything according to a leafleting of pages, windows, clicking, opening, closing, bringing to margins, making appear something

     It is the opposite of a phantom appearing inexistent

Conceived, Composed, written and created by Abdel Hernandez San Juan In English and Spanish, (translated from Spanish to English by Abdel Hernandez San Juan English)

©Abdel Hernandez San Juan, All natural rights reserved by Abdel Hernandez San Juan, The Author

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Derrida Jacques, Form and the Wishes to Say, Notes on the Phenomenology of Language. Margins of Philosophy, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, EUA

Kristeva Julia, El Tiempo Sensible, Editorial Eudeba, 2005

de Certaud Michael, The Practice of Every Day Life, The University of California Press, 1999