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Top2. What Is The Work Of Art As Thing, Virtual Interface And Zero Ui
It also emphasizes that the concept of aesthetics goes beyond all this, and the concepts of form and content “in which everything fits and something”, making the rational as logical and the irrational as allegorical nowadays incorrectly as virtual or even imaginary. The Heidegger points out and must be taken into account, together with Hinton's discourse on Tesseractus, is that “form-matter and the subject-object relationship, then representation has a conceptual mechanics which nothing can resist.” (Heidegger, 2017: 18).
The fundamental question of the distinction between matter and form, when we are treating as mere things, is primarily due to the “dilation and the emptying” of these concepts, that is, the “remission to a vast use”, trying to make them “natural determinations” to work of art.
In order not to miss out on the essential questions, he will say by way of example: “The granite block, which rests on itself, is something material in a well-defined, though coarse form. This form here means the distribution and ordering of the parts of matter in the places of space, which has as consequence a certain outline, namely that of a block “(Heidegger, 2017, p. 19), and he will say at the end of the reasoning the properties and possibilities of granite, that “the being that is submitted is always the product (Erzeugnis) of a fabrication (Anfertigung)” (Heidegger, 2017, p. 29), the product being manufactured as “an accessory for something”.
It which is compatible with Flusser's manufacturing idea (2017), and which translates into an essential concept of artifact (Marcos, Mucheroni, 2018), although there may be subtle distinctions between the three: Heidegger, Flusser and our concept of the artifact.