The Aphoristic Tradition in the Digital Age.
By Timothy Provenzano.

1. Aphorism.

• Fragmentary writings
• Stand-alone texts
• "Aphoristic Consciousness" - Morson

2. Opposition.

• Certainty vs. the Aphorism.
• Fall of one type of certainty.

3. The Digital Age.

• Devaluation of text.
• Dominance of non-human language.
• Lassitude and reemergence of certainty.

4. The Image.

• Dominant communication unit of the era.
• Heir to previous forms of certainty.
• Totality. Absolute Clarity.

5. The Cult of Self.

• The image flatters the self.
• Flattering of self is our dominant ideology.
• Irrational, commanding the tools of reason.

6. Aphorism and the Self.

• Self undergirds all emanations of certainty.
• Practitioners of the aphorism on the Self.
• Bringing forth the ideology of the Self.

7.The Movement of Society.

• Zapffe and the four ways.
• Collapse of anchoring belief.
• Rise of the distraction existence.

8. The Aphorism as Refusal.

• Fantasy of universal, experiential access.
• Fantasy of intelligibility.
• Fantasy of importance. 
• Fantasy of narcissism. 

9. The Future.

• Bounded format.
• A text for those who seek it.
• Fugitive life.

Questions