Christian Caliandro's 'Fase Tre' Column Explores Otherness and Indistinction

In the latest installment of his 'Fase Tre' column on Artribune, Christian Caliandro delves into the poetics of waste and the concept of indistinction between self and other. He argues that focusing on discarded, hidden, or overlooked elements inverts meaning, turning the marginal into the central focus of inquiry. Caliandro references an anecdote about Miles Davis during a 1963 concert, where Davis did not perceive a young pianist's notes as wrong but simply as an event to interact with. This leads to a discussion of pure relation as indistinction, echoing Donna Haraway's notion of 'thinking-with' and 'thinking-as-the-other.' The text also cites Philip K. Dick's 'The Zap Gun' and Samuel Beckett's 'Gnome' and 'The Unnamable,' as well as Virginia Woolf's 'Three Guineas.' Caliandro emphasizes that intelligence lies in sharing thoughts from outside oneself, and that prediction requires deep analysis of available data. The column includes an image of Alessandro Scarabello's 2020 painting 'Perseus' and promotes Artribune's newsletters and WhatsApp channel.