A transformative aesthetic Event requires uncanny familiarity, not just novelty

Evidence

Let’s call it an Event, and at the same time note that all Events have a dimension of the uncanny. If something is too alien, it will fail to register; if it is too easily recognised, too easily cognizable, it will never be more than a reiteration of the already known. When the Fall pummelled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar — and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock — had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1099

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘Event’ concept through its relation to the uncanny register.
• XREF: connects to: Genuine artistic negation requires being saturated with tradition first — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 165; Knowing the common enables the distinctive departures that read as original — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 258

Broader Connections

• Genuine artistic negation requires being saturated with tradition first #corroborates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 165