The reading of PPM10 offers further exploration of what Heidegger calls "heeding the claim arising out of the thoughtful word." Any 'word' that is evocative, or offered through a provocative question is 'thoughtful,' but the example I continue to work with is the word 'Nothing,' which is heard in the question, How is it with the Nothing? PPM10 discloses that the heeding of 'Nothing,' in silencing our juridical voice (cf PPM9) empties us. I write, "Evocative speech is a calling (vocare) which enjoins us emptiness, the condition of learning where were are addressed in our steadfast openness. In heeding the saying of 'Nothing' we are made vacant (vacare). It claims us in our relationship with the 'Nothing'."
February 13, 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the original experiment that produced 363 phenomenological mediations, published as 'Being and Learning' (Brill: 2012). Each day between Feb 2014-15, I returned to the original meditations, and my commentary is documented here. And then, again, on February 15, 2024, on the 20th anniversary of the first days of the original experiment, I revisit and comment on a daily basis, once again.
20/10 year later I reiterate what I wrote yesterday: what is more compelling today is the implication of "heeding the claim arising out of the thoughtful word," i.e., the vacare (vacancy) happening with the hearing of the word "Nothing." And on this day, in the wake of the current moment of the poetic praxis project, aka "listening to music listening to itself" or "to be all ears" (the paper on J-L Nancy that is forthcoming, but also the paper on Du Bois delivered a year ago as the University wide lecture), the evocative speech that vacates "the subject" is the 'singing' of the song, the aesthetic experience happening in the encounter with music.
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