Rituals and ceremonies are narrative forms that resist temporal acceleration

Evidence

For Hegel, the syllogism is not a category of formal logic. A syllogism follows when the beginning and end of a process form a meaningful set of relations – a unity that makes sense. Unlike mere addition, then, narration is a syllogism. Knowledge – the state of knowing – is a syllogism. Rituals and ceremonies are syllogistic forms too. They represent a narrative process. As such, they have their own temporality, their own rhythm and pace. As narratives, they defy acceleration. But when all syllogistic forms fall apart, everything dissolves; nothing has a stay. In a world where everything has become additive, where all narrative tension – any vertical tautness – has gone missing, total acceleration sets in. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 164

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to my sacrifice article: Han’s claim that rituals/sacrifice are syllogistic narrative forms with their own temporality gives theoretical backing to why ritual sacrifice resisted meaning that pure empiricism dissolves.
• XREF: Echoes my A Midwife’s Tale and archive reading about ceremony/ritual as ordering narrative. — connects to: Ritual and narrative forms defy acceleration because they are syllogistic — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 164; Narrative cultures need no memory because recitation itself is contemporaneous — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 204

Related

• Ritual and narrative forms defy acceleration because they are syllogistic (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• Ritual and narrative forms defy acceleration because they are syllogistic #expands (0.85) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 164
• Narrative cultures need no memory because recitation itself is contemporaneous #corroborates (0.78) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 204