Robert Fludd’s black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, from his Utriusque Cosmi (1617).

Featured on PDR in the essay Black on Black

Should we consider black a colour, the absence of colour, or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Beginning with Robert Fludd's attempt to picture nothingness, Eugene Thacker reflects* on some of the ways in which blackness has been used and thought about through the history of art and philosophical thought.

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The Nothingness That Was Prior to the Universe

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Date

1617

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Utriusque cosmi


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Public Domain Worldwide

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