Concrete Universal (trash and art) - a podcast by Ryder Richards

🗑️ Garbage represents the concrete universal of waste.

🎨 Picasso's art exemplifies the concrete universal through different periods and works.

🌌 Failures and contradictions can lead to transcendence.

🎭 Art expresses both expression and concealment simultaneously.

🔀 Concrete universalism combines the concrete and the abstract into one concept.

💡 The concept of concrete universalism challenges fixed definitions and highlights the dynamic nature of objects, people, and ideas.

🔄 The concrete universal constantly expands, while the defining object fails to fully capture its totality.

 

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0:00 Welcome back to the show.

• Fiction is bleeding into reality and confusing.

1:34 Relating to god through the son.

• How god was impossible to relate to.
• Concrete universalism and the food processor.

2:53 How can something be concrete but applicable to everything?

• Concrete universalism vs abstract universalism.
• Kantian antinomies or even Hegelian antagonisms.

5:04 The apex of the movement is the definition.

• Overcoming the other side, overcoming their limits.
• The movement has an extreme peak, which defines it.

7:20 A new more robust form of universalism.

• New universalism founded on a very real thing, trash.
• Example of concrete universalism, garbage.

9:02 Definition of the concrete universal.

• The concrete universal and the black sack of trash.
• How to use the concrete universal.

10:53 The central problem of art.

• The central problem of art, referencing Picasso.
• How art expresses the inability to clearly express.

12:33 The antagonisms in Guernica.

• Back to the concrete universal in the case of Pablo Picasso.
• The antagonisms in Guernica.

14:18 The problem with the object definition of the universal.

• Deification of objects, people and ideas.
• The parallax gap.

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