Lost--zero--nothingness Metal Print

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This piece originally was a response to Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's discussion of Heidegger's "da" ("there") and Hegel's "diese" ("this") in relation to negativity in his book Language and Death. I was working with an idea of nothingness and zero that wouldn't imply negativity (Agamben sees "Nichtigkeit" ("Nothingness") as having negativity--in my theological and philosophical background it is "nothingness" that provides the fragility to human life, but fragility quickly spills over into a type of negativity or even a type of "fall." But it's not. It's what gives possibility of all types, both positive and negative.

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