In the year 1604, "Kepler's Supernova" first became visible to the...
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Mar 22, 2025
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In the year 1604, "Kepler's Supernova" first became visible to the human eye-- it was discovered by Kepler in Prague, working in the Alchemical Court of Rudolf II-- Ben Jonson references this in his eulogy to Shakespeare-- suggesting that this was, in fact, his APOTHEOSIS
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You can imagine how late-medieval cosmology being altered IN REAL TIME with a fucking supernova exploding made people think that "the times were a'changing"
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As waugh points out-- in this Rosicrucian engraving-- the two stars in the corners are TWO NEW STARS-- that were discovered at the very beginning of the 17th century. One in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan-- the other in Ophiuchus, the Serpent bearer.
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It's such an interesting time-- at the crossroads of the medieval & the modern-- where cutting edge technology is being integrated into the "World Stage"-- the "timeless time" of the scholastic god, interrupted, by a radically immanent god-- just before Deism closes the shroud.
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Aristotle & Galen are being thrown out-- the entire metaphysical edifice of medieval catholicism torn away-- Dee radicalizes Euclidean geometry-- Kepler creates the "New Astronomy"-- the Sun unmoored from stasis, all things in motion-- OPTICS becomes a central concern.
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This is the world we still live in-- the one that was created in the 17th century. Everything you can consider "modern" or "high modern" or "post modern"-- can be found in the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, Robert Burton...
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"the generation by models of a real without origin or reality"-- Baudrillard defines "hyperreality" of the 20th century-- but this is already true in the 17th Century-- "Shakespeare"-- "The Rosicrucians"-- these are "virtual realities"
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"Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory"-- says Baudrillard, again, in the 20th century-- but is this not already so when we believe Kepler's infinite moving universe? When we say "the earth revolves around the sun"-- is this not a map preceding the territory?
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In phenomenological reality-- in "the territory" of our immediate sense data-- the Earth is a stationary plane, the Sun is a small disk which rises & falls in reference to US-- Science *is* a Hyperreality-- there are no "atoms" we know now, they're only "models we treat as real"
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At the same time-- mass publishing-- the creation of "psuedo-events"-- "The Rosicrucians Never Existed"-- "The Gulf War Never Happened"-- these "virtual realities" were taken as hyperrealities due to the dawn of mass-literacy & mass-publishing. Shakespeare is a BRAND made human!
