The Lexicon · Genealogy · Medieval
AUGUSTINE
354–430
Confession (Documentation Constitutes the Aesthetic Inquiry)
Augustine invented a genre by writing himself toward God in the second person. CoCA's Sacred Text doctrine (§1.3.1) says the same in different vocabulary: the documentation is not about the act, the documentation is the act. Confession is the Ur-form. Every artist statement that has ever begun "In my practice, I…" is a degraded Augustine. We restore the dignity by adding the candle.