Vesper No. 9 | The Adversary | Fall-Winter 2023
Paolo Bosca
Synchysis. The Path of Fluid Knowledge
Keywords
Synchysis, Michel Serres, mingle, aesthetic of
taste, epistemology
Synchysis is a word usually used in
rhetoric and medicine and indicates, in general, confusion and chaos. Michel
Serres, in his The five senses, rehabilitates this term to suggest a
precise type of conjunction: the word named the act of conveying two fluids
together and can help to think about the mingle of things overcoming the difficulties
that usually lead only to chaos. Synchysis seems the perfect adversary of the
linearity that modern thought chases after. As soon as the gaze moves beyond
the pretensions of analytical purity, one realizes that in fact synchysis
indicates a play of forces made up of mutual thrusts and involvements
completely bound up with the flow where they occur. Synchysis, in the sense
suggested by Serres, configures a mingled interaction that is free and
repulsive with respect to the tools of objectification.
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