Accidents, Not Essences (Aesthetics)

We are using haiku logic with graphics as well as with text. The categories or classifications of electracy work with the "accidental" properties of things -- the signifiers of the qualities that produce aesthetic effects, but that may not concern the Being or essence of the thing. For example whether some metal is rusty or not is an accident of circumstances that does not affect the metal as such (it remains metal either way). Mood, on the other hand, depends upon just such "superficial" properties. A rusty nail is wabi-sabi, but a brand new nail is not.


The documents collected in each discourse of the mystory should include those accidental properties that contribute to the feeling of the scene or situation (the aesthetic or sensory features).

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