Supernormalising Nothing from the Hyperbolic Nihil to the Ordinary Supernothing
Open Philosophy 2023 John Ó Maoilearca
Abstract This essay connects the mystical concept of “supernothing” with Bergson’s notion of the image of nothingness as a movement in the making. I do this also with respect to the film The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020) – which explicitly cites Gorgias’s four-part embargo on nothing (it exists, it cannot be known, communicated, or understood): nothingness is re-rendered as movement, in...