The nothing

Ladies and Gents, this week’s tweet is THE tweet.

It’s the ulti­ma­te tweet.

It con­ta­ins basics any twit­ter user uses. And it’s more. It’s art.
What kind of art it is, is what we need to find out.

So here’s what the tweet of the week is all about. Doomsham­mer says? Wri­tes? Shows? This:

This is more than just a tweet. This is more than just play­ing a tiny tech­ni­cal game. This is a theo­re­ti­cal and prac­ti­cal expres­si­on of the not­hing:

On the one hand you don’t find a sin­gle viewa­ble sign to iden­ti­fy.
On the other hand and as a result of the for­mer you don’t find any abs­tract infor­ma­ti­on within this tweet apart from the author’s name, the soft­ware he uses, the star and the time the tweet was made. If you want to talk about this tweet you are urged to refer to not­hing­ness.

It was Mar­tin Heid­eg­ger clai­ming the not­hing not­hs (“Das Nichts nicht­et.”). You can object against Heid­eg­ger that his hard­ly under­stan­da­ble usa­ge of tur­ning nouns into verbs is not a pos­si­ble way to iden­ti­fy truth. But this objec­tion could fail due to just reve­al­ing yours­elf as being pig­hea­ded. The mista­ke of defi­ning how to iden­ti­fy truth could lie in your own assump­ti­ons. But wit­hout try­ing to glo­ri­fy Heid­eg­ger we have to sta­te that Doomsham­mer shows there’s still some­thing after the not­hing has left.

Lea­ve is defi­ned by Heid­eg­ger with the fol­lo­wing:

This is in eng­lish: “Lea­ve is the absen­ted arri­val of the hiding of kee­ping the pro­gress in the begin­ning.” So Doomsham­mers’ expres­si­on is both the absence of any tweet con­tent and the begin­ning of any tweet.

So do not let Doomsham­mer fool you by lin­king to his own tweet as a tweet of emp­tin­ess:

You might still want to say, we’­re miss­ing the point. We’­re over-inter­pre­ting the who­le tweet. We don’t have any inte­res­t­ing TMIs left and are urged to lift this up to one. Doomshammer’s just a nerd having fun with his iPho­ne.

So if that would be right our text would be TMI. If not we would have pro­ven the incre­di­ble kind of art of this tweet.

We actual­ly think we can pro­ve our the­sis.

We can’t do this theo­re­ti­cal­ly but within prac­ti­se, within one of the artist’s tweet. Take a look at what Doomsham­mer threw like an unsa­tis­fy­ing pain­ting into the trash bin just a second befo­re reve­al­ing his mas­ter­pie­ce: