New as Aversion

1. New is a proclamation of something striking from similar things that came before it. “Here’s something new on this.” This refers to things that came before. Something is related to this with the notion of new that denotes what comes after. This statement can be located in time without the notion of new while retaining this relationship between what came before and what comes after: “Here’s something on this.” New must refer to something else.

2. Something is related to another thing with this. Something is related to this and this is related to something with the notion of new. The statement assumes familiarity with what it points at with this to say it has something on it. Relating this thing to that thing creates something new according to the aforementioned statement.

3. Relating a familiar thing with an unfamiliar thing is only possible when one is also familiar with relating one thing to another. Something new emerges from relating familiar with unfamiliar and unfamiliar with familiar. This means that new cannot emerge from relating familiar with familiar because the result of that is something familiar. Attempting to relate the unfamiliar with unfamiliar remains an attempt while unfamiliarity with relating one thing to another cannot even conceive an attempt.

4. A thing becomes familiar once it has been related to other things. But neither things, neither relations can be exhausted as there are too many of them to become familiar with. Things and relations remain unfamiliar for new ones to be formed. In this sense, every thing and relation remains unfamiliar for emergence of new. But if every thing is new then nothing is.

5. New is what strikes us when the unfamiliar becomes less unfamiliar. “This is new.” This points at a striking thing to express exclamation taking place within without disclosing this withinness: “This thing strikes me (as new.)” It’s an utterance of this emotional moment of discovery. It transpires within coming forth as exteriority without being exterior.

6. This sense of discovery overwhelms and confuses so it comes forth as tautology or as exclamation. In the former, the utterance describes the similar as new, while in the latter, the new as similar. It is to cover up the similar, the resemblance and the same with the notion of new without being reminded that it points towards what is imminent in the future. With this dual motion, the new appears in relation to a selective past but confused, and to an ideal future that overwhelms.

7. To elude this striking sensation that arises from this interpretation of time, new switches mode to assertions. To utter “this thing is new” is to mean that “this thing has the property of new.” Following this logic, to say something about the notion of new is to make an assertion about what properties it has: “this new is thing; this new has the property of thing.” Alternatively: “new is something; something is new.” Assertion covers up by omission that makes a statement about new and about what it’s related to.

8. To relate is to deal with familiar and unfamiliar things on appearance. Uttering new is a reaction to this appearance with a notion that’s familiar to make the unfamiliar less unfamiliar.

9. New expresses a relationship in time under the notion of universality even to things that aren’t universal which is why it takes up different modalities. It switches between these modalities and anticipates them with switching modes to cover up switching and modalities.

10. New is a reference to the imminence of future and an obfuscation of this imminence. It is an aversion of what it entails.