Incident
From Plastic Tub
Incident pop. 1. Something contingent on or related to something else. 2. An occurrence or event that interrupts normal procedure or precipitates a crisis. 3. Falling upon or striking a surface.
Extrapolation
The incident differs from material phenomena only by it's involvement with perception; an incident, then, is defined by it's relation to a viewer, who acts both as intrepreter and associational instigator. As the folk way suggests, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to witness it, did it fall? The question here is not of objective reality, it is rather a teleological question -- in short, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody sees it, does it matter? The theorists of the Incident suggest not; natural activity occuring outside perception is of little, if any, concern.
Desiderata
- Meat sometimes appears on the horizon -- a hundred years apart!
