Meaning of eventness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful.

uncountable

Examples

“When the present⟳ simply actualizes what had to happen⟳, events lack eventness.”

“Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, foregrounding themes, materials, and actions derived from any place⟳ or period save⟳ that of established art world, […]”

“But to extricate a thought, utterance, or deed from the contingency and particularity of its occurrence is precisely to transcribe away its eventness, that is to say⟳, its living, unpredetermined quality, its concrete situatedness in time and place⟳, and the particularized meaning attendant on this unsystematizable, uncodifiable specificity.”

“The experience⟳ of “eventness” has to do with the element of suspense.”

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