Eumolpus

This scene from Fellini’s Satyricon shows the demise of classical art, the poets’ social function being displaced, and the decline of the liberal arts that were once the kernel of classical Roman society. 

The setting is also important: an exhibit. How better to see what has been lost than to have Eumolpus take you on a guided tour.  He, Eumolpus, is also a poet that asks the important question from an offstage position:

Where is philosophy that once held the way for us?

A tour, of sorts, is offered here. It is as if we are trying to recoup what initiates Eumolpus’ melancholy.  In this way, Eumolpus becomes a figure akin to Martin Heidegger’s poets in his Introduction to Metaphysics. 

Heidegger offers a Frostian road not taken; a road that leads in another direction besides the one currently traversed by Western science and philosophy. 

So here we go back to the initial fork to see what we have lost.  But this is only a first movement.  Secondly, we see where we can go, where the “originary” fork could take us in the present.

While this is surely an exhibit, its paths and aimsSimultaneity and a Situationist dérive will prove fruitful are updated for our current situatedness in the world.

Essentially, the aim is to develop a path to imaging metaphysics.