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CONTINGENCY & LOVE

by Marcus Steinweg

Like any acceleration, the head over heels dynamics of love hold the risk of missing and drifting. Love is experience and experiment. It is a test of reality. In this way it suspends the established values and brings forth new categories. Contingency delimits the space of determined events by inscribing it with an inconsistency which has belonged to it long ago already. Giorgio Agamben calls it “being in potency” (or simply “potency”) as a name for that which remains detracted from the law of contradiction, which can similarily be and not be, be possible and impossible: The incommensurable of the spectrum of commensurability which we call reality.

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