Appropriative action yearns to leave behind no trace of itself

Evidence

THE SAME ACTION WILL NEVER HAPPEN TWICE. THE ACTIONS WILL MEAN NOTHING CLEARLY FORMULABLE SO FAR AS THE ARTIST IS CONCERNED. IT IS INTENDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE WHOLE WORK IS TO BE INTIMATE, AUSTERE, AND OF SOMEWHAT BRIEF DURATION. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 64 (#expands, via linked claim)

Let us imagine that moved by jealousy, curiosity, or vice I have just glued my ear to the door and looked through a keyhole. I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness. This means first of all that there is no self to inhabit my consciousness, nothing therefore to which I can refer my acts in order to qualify them. They are in no way known; I am my acts and hence they carry in themselves their whole justification. I am a pure consciousness of things, and things, caught up in the circuit of my selfness, offer to me their potentialities as the proof of my non-thetic consciousness (of) my own possibilities. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 724 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early happenings deliberately rejected repeatable meaningful action — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 64; In absorbed action there is no self inhabiting consciousness to qualify the acts — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 724; Systemic complexity disperses responsibility so no individual is originator of an action

Broader Connections

• Early happenings deliberately rejected repeatable meaningful action #expands (0.80) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 64
• In absorbed action there is no self inhabiting consciousness to qualify the acts #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 724
• Systemic complexity disperses responsibility so no individual is originator of an action #expands (0.70)