ABSTRACT
The ethical encounter with art come from silences and the tenebrous illumination that discloses the planes which art unfurls to deliver us from our humanness toward pursuits of altered perception. This chapter discusses the ways in which the art-perceiver encounter may be rethought. Encounters with art necessitate becoming ahuman insofar as art is defined as that which affects along trajectories deliberately organized to alter perception. This is so even when the art may seem to seek to reflect a reality in a more precise or reduced way. Even though non-living, the art has life' through its expressivity unique with each affective infinitesimal moment of relation. Perhaps inevitably in a posthuman context art will develop a term to refer to its own life' very differently. Revolution comes from the ethics of perceiving ourselves as already in artistic language an ethics of desire. Ecstasy has no describable quality just as we cannot describe the finite content of art.
