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: The act of watching—whether it is stars in a night sky or a video on a screen—integrates the observer into the skin. The "surreal" feeling of being "in the moment" is the feeling of the skin’s intensity before it shifts again. III. Aesthetic and Ethical Implications

: On this skin, a profound philosophical text carries no more inherent "weight" than a flicker of light in a film; both are simply intensities of energy. The Great Ephemeral Skin.mp4

The Great Ephemeral Skin: Lyotard’s Libidinal Surface and the Aesthetics of the Moment : The act of watching—whether it is stars

Lyotard describes the Great Ephemeral Skin as a "Moebius strip" that has been flattened out. It is a single-sided surface that includes: Aesthetic and Ethical Implications : On this skin,

: The process of living is a sequence of injuries and regenerations. Art functions as a way to "re-arrange" these scars into new "juxtapositions".