De dónde vienen el arte y la existencia
We would like to believe that when things finally come to harmonize, that is happiness...
But it is precisely when things agree completely and coincide that this adaptation, when stabilized, becomes sterilized.
Coincidence is death. It is through the mis-coincidence that the impulse comes.
God himself disagrees with himself by dying on the Cross to promote living life. In the mismatch failure, it is again possible for an initiative to unfold freely.
Now then, given that the classical age turned adequacy into the very definition of truth, or coincidence with Nature into the great precept of art as well as morality, it fell to modernity to break with that comfort of thought.
François Jullien makes the concept of “dis-coincidence” work here in the Bible, painting, literature, philosophy, to show how it is at the origin of art and existence.
