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2 BENOÎT MAIRE maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

3 THE LONG GODBEYE maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

4 BENOÎT MAIRE THE LONG GODBEYE onestar press 49, rue Albert Paris France PARIS, 2014 maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

5 In memoriam Jacques Maire maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

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30 Thanks for those letters, maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

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58 Catherine Malabou The dialectical simplification The dialectical simplification Subjekt, Subjekt-Objekt- Dialektik, Symbol, Syllogismus Der Grundriß: the outline or abridgement. For Hegel, this would be the ideal and paradoxical form for a philosophy book. In German THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART IS THE EDGE GIV- EN TO AN ENDLESS WORD, SHE, OU BIEN, OU BIEN AB- AB- AB- AB- THE MEAS- URE THE MEASURE THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS- URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

59 OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN Grundriß can OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF also mean a THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF layout or ground AN OBJECT, THE MEAS- plan. It is URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN remarkable that ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE this section MEASURE OF THE OBJECT should appear IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, as the final form THE MEASURE OF THE of philosophical OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN exposition, one OBJECT, THE OBJECT IS that must abide IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, HE by an intended SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE conciseness. SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE Philosophy SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE simplifies and SAYS I LOVE BEING, BEING reduces itself BEING BEING - this is indeed a BEING BEING BEING BEING law of thought. BEING BEING BEING BEING The mind s BEING BEING BEING BEING rhythm and BEING BEING BEING BEING movement is one BEING BEING BEING BEING of acceleration, BEING BEING BEING BEING effort reduction BEING BEING BEING BEING and contraction BEING BEING BEING BEING of the time BEING BEING BEING BEING necessary for grasping an object: An encyclopedia is by nature an abridgement. 1 The principle of simplification and acceleration manifests this fundamental law: knowledge tends to compress itself originally and take conceptual short-cuts. Breaking off, dividing up, severing, reducing, shortening. A selfabridgement, overlapping BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE SHE SAID SUDDENLY MORE THAN EITHER EITHER WHILE I HAVE NO GOAL I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

60 TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF ILLNESS I BUILT UP YEARS YEARS YEARS circles opening onto one another, showing what follows by thrusting it onto what comes before. Subject-Symbol- Syllogism. Hegel argues that Thought is, after all, the most trenchant epitomist (der mächtigste Epitomator). 2 Events that have unfolded over long periods of time end foreshorten[ing their] pictures by abstractions, that is, by pure signs. This principle is part of the labour of the concept insofar as it operates an immense abridgement of the singular detail of things. 3 Understanding abstracts its universal meaning from the richness of the sensible. This abstraction does not have, as one might think, the univocal meaning of a killing, but also appears as an YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS TEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PUR- SUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

61 YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE animation. IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT As Hegel puts it UP YEARS AGO, I PUR- in the Science SUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH of Logic: the I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, understanding I PURSUE THE IDEA OF does indeed give TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS [the categories AGO, THE OTHER SAYS A of thought], [in CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I the form of DON T HAVE THE TRUTH abstract BUT I DO HAVE THE universality], WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS so to speak, a A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I rigidity of DON T HAVE THE TRUTH being...; but BUT I DO HAVE THE [through this WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE simplification] at the same time it spiritually impregnates them and OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTU-so sharpens AL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE them. 4 The THE TRUTH BUT I DO determinations HAVE THE WEAPON THE of thought now OTHER SAYS A CONCEP- take the shape TUAL PHRASE: I DON T of a point. 5 The formalising reduction of the speculative content, its logical writing, paradoxically confer to the being stripped of its singularity a kind of style that becomes its characteristic (Eigenthümlichkeit). 6 The principle of simplification lies in a reduction of the physiognomical constellation of a being, a thing, or a moment of thought to its distinctive feature. In other words, HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER SAYS A CON- CEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE PENCIL A SAND BEACH LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR THE SUN LIGHT WAS EITHER OR SOME SAND CRUSH CRUSH maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

62 CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH A PLATE the labour through which meaning is sharpened (MY EYES) HIDDEN NUDE HIDDEN THE THE THIS THOSE THOSE THOSE results in the THOSE THOSE THOSE reduction of the THOSE those those those whole spiritual those those those the path to a mere the the the the print whose GOD IS THE... OF THE ABSOLUTE ABSENCE NO- SEX MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF asperities it erases. In a Spirit that is more advanced than another, the lower concrete existence has DREAM, & &. & & 1 been reduced to an MY DREAM IS TOO inconspicuous HALVED, & &. & & moment; what used to be the MY DREAM IS ONLY important thing A HALF DREAM, & &. is now but a & & trace; its MY DREAM pattern is shrouded to become a mere shadowy outline... The single individual must also pass through the formative stages of universal Spirit so far as their content is concerned, but as shapes which Spirit has already left behind, as stages on a way that has been made level with toil. Thus, as far as factual information is concerned, we find that what in former ages IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, BRO & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM MY FRIEND, BRO, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALF, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

63 HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FOR- GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn t forget it ), those (AN IM- AGE) THERE SHOULD BE engaged the attention of men of mature mind, has been reduced to the level of facts, exercises, and even games for children. 7 The accumulationreduction of the spiritual content to its point results in a shortening of the trajectory necessary for grasping it. Thus the individual only needs to make a lesser effort. The point erodes the furrow it ploughs as it ploughs it. Indeed, the individual must experience the pain and patience of the path and cannot (...) comprehend his substance more easily ; however, he does have less trouble, since all this has already been accomplished in itself. 8 The short-cut, which is merely a short-cut as regards the effort that is made - is precisely not a way of cheating AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FOR- GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn t forget it), those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FOR- GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn t forget it), those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FOR- GET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn t forget it), those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FORGET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn t forget), maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

64 those (THERE SHOULD AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FORGET IT), (there should be an image here if the other doesn t forget it), those (THERE SHOULD BE AN IMAGE HERE IF THE OTHER DOESN T FORGET IT), an image, those 5 6 those BRO, SONNY BOY, MATE, BRO, SONNY BOY : : : : : THE ACTUAL THE AC- TUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL : :!!!! ( )( )( )( )( )( ) HE SHE! THE OTHER I ME ME ME THE OLD GIRL! THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED with the length of the path. Thus reduced to its characteristic trait, the thing is enabled to access ideality. Simplification is an eidetic: it brings to light, through its abridging function, the style of singularity. By simplifying itself, rubbing against itself through self-reflection, by polishing itself as it were, every determination illuminates itself. This illumination results from the tarnishing of the original glow and replaces it. The simplifying operation thus sets the conditions of visibility of presence. Simplification is form playing on itself. An art. Art itself. Translated from the French by Anna Preger. 1 Bernard Bourgeois, Présentation, Science de la OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART THE NEED OF ART IS THE EDGE GIV- EN TO AN ENDLESS WORD, SHE, OU BIEN, OU BIEN AB- AB- AB- AB- THE MEAS- URE THE MEASURE THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS- URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEAS- URE OF THE OBJECT IS IN maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

65 ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE MEASURE OF THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, THE OBJECT IS IN ITSELF AN OBJECT, HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS HE SAYS I LOVE BEING, BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING logique (Enyclopédie), Paris: Vrin, 1969, p. 11, The Philosophy of History, trans; J. Sibree, New York: Dover Publications, 2004, p. 5, Introduction. 3 Ibid. 4 The Science of Logic, (The Doctrine of the Notion), trans. A. V. Miller, London: Allen and Unwin, 1969, p. 611 (modified). 5 Ibid. 6 The Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977, 28 (modified). 7 Ibid, p. 16 (modified). 8 Ibid, p. 17 (modified). BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING BEING MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE SHE SAID SUDDENLY MORE THAN EITHER EITHER WHILE I HAVE NO GOAL I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

66 I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF ILLNESS I BUILT UP YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS TEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF T RU T H I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PUR- SUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, I PURSUE THE maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

67 IDEA OF TRUTH I BUILT UP YEARS AGO, THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTU- AL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEPTU- AL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CONCEP- TUAL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER SAYS A CON- CEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER THE OTHER SAYS A CON- CEPTUAL PHRASE: I DON T HAVE THE TRUTH BUT I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WEAPON I DO HAVE THE WE? LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR LAST YEAR THE SUNLIGHT WAS EITHER OR SOME SAND CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH A PLATE (MY EYES) HIDDEN NUDE HIDDEN THE THE THIS THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE THOSE those those those those those those the the the the the GOD IS THE... OF THE maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

68 ABSOLUTE ABSENCE NO- SEX MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS ONLY A HALF DREAM, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM, BRO & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO MUCH A HALF DREAM MY FRIEND, BRO, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALF, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & MY DREAM IS TOO HALVED, & &. & & maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

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74 DEAR DADDY, BUY GOD EYE, THE FALL, AND GOOD BEYE, Thank you very much, MY NAME. maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

75 TABLE BUY GOD EYE...10 STICKERS...62 HOLES IN PHILOSOPHY THE DIALECTICAL SIMPLIFICATION, BY CATHERINE MALABOU LETRASET WORDS BUY GOD EYE maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

76 BENOÎT MAIRE, THE LONG GODBEYE Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. In addition to this book a limited edition multiple by the artist is available from onestar press. Printed and bound in France 2014 Benoît Maire & onestar press onestar press 49, rue Albert Paris France info@onestarpress.com / 250 maire_int_final.indd /04/14 14:42

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