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Production and Consumption of Nothing
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Production and Consumption of Nothing
In this essay, how the term nothing is constructed, circulated and consumed both as a word and a product will be discussed by briefly mentioning some myths, books, philosophical paradoxes, poetry, literature, maybe lyrics, and even some technological products which are used in daily life.
As a hypothetical idea, it will be proposed that at periods of change, destruction and subversion, the construction and circulation of nothing is accelerated and at such periods it is transferred to the next generation by the preceding one through experiences and most frequently works of art.
Nothing is something that fills a huge gap. It is written in a void like a letter followed by a word that becomes bigger and bigger in our mouths. Once being said, the gap or nothing points out the existence or a movement towards existence. Nothing is a space of freedom; all the products and works of art emerge out of nothingness. Although it has been attributed different meanings to nothingness in the Western world as well as in the East- it is possible to rely on such an abstract division- it is an expansion in time and a state of continuity, therefore it does not kill. Philosophy of death extracted from nothingness is a reproduction of the consumers of these texts, not the production of the writers of them.
Then what shall we do if someone mentions his or her own life as nothing? Do we live/experience a huge nothing from birth to death? Or, as it is elsewhere referred, is life‘a sparkle between two gaps’? Creations or productions of people resemble their own lives or vice versa... Under the title of ‘nothing as a label and a cliché’, we explain the life of a poet, a vagabond at an age of transition or if we try to translate it into English literally, we may call him as well as a bohemian or a punk.
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