Vorhanden

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August 2025

Adorno said that “objects do not fall into their conceptual buckets without leaving some remainder behind”. Things normally only available as superficially, in their conceptual wrapper (in "zuhanden" mode, using Heidegger's terminology), take on a more real existence at crisis points. Any breaks from our routine time and space can bring about these ruptures in our understanding, allowing us to enter the "vorhanden" mode of interating with our surroundings.

After objects reach their end-of-life in the industrial cycle, the soil takes hold of them again and they evolve free of their conceptual jail, back in their own time-flow. When these objects re-surface from their landfill metamorphic-womb, they have a chance to become something new, to become part of new myths.