Void

...
kata demi kata
yang kuucapkan, lindap.
aku tahu aku hidup
diantara parentesis ganda.

(kepastian-octavio paz)

Ruang kosong itu ada, hanya karena keberadaan ruang kosonglah sesuatu menjadi berjarak, dalam bilangan angka ruang kosong memisahkan angka-angka sehingga menjadi terpisah. Dan setiap sesuatu seperti angka.

Pythagoras

Phytagoras barangkali benar. Jika saja tidak ada jarak maka tidak ada pembeda, kesahihan, klaim, validasi selanjutnya deklarasi tentang sebuah kebenaran. Galileo terbunuh karena ini: sebuah deklarasi.

Sehingga ruang kosong terkait pada otoritas. Pascal lewat hukum Pascal harus berseteru dengan gereja-juga sebelumnya, Aristoteles yang menolak konsep ruang kosong yang disebut Plato sebagai chora untuk mendeklarasikan bahwa ada ruang kosong, yang secara teologis sukar diterima, jika ada ruang kosong siapa penghuninya, bukankah Tuhan menghuni semua ruang?

Dalam seni arsitektur void adalah gradasi antar ruang, atau sama sekali sebuah ruang yang kosong, diperuntukkan untuk tidak dihuni, didiami oleh manusia. Arsitektur modern dipandang terlalu banyak mengedepankan aspek ruang kosong sehingga menjadi tidak efisien, mubazir. Arsitektur modern dipengaruhi filosofi seni avant garde yang menihilkan nilai budaya tinggi atau tata nilai lama. Sehingga kekosongan menjadi sahih, orisinil,  tanpa makna (meaningless) merupakan pemaknaan baru. Dalam seni avant garde tercipta doktrin seni lahir untuk seni. Sehingga sebuah karya bisa jadi tanpa fungsi, asosial, aneh, tanpa harus berguna atau menjadi bagian dari dari masyarakat.

Void juga berarti sunya. Dalam tradisi sufi dan kependetaan Hindu sunya atau sunyata berarti kebenaran. Dalam tradisi sufi menghilangkan diri (ego), adalah jalan untuk menuju kebenaran. Ketidakhadiran diri adalah upaya menghadirkan Tuhan sepenuhnya. Menghilangkan diri dalam tradisi sufi adalah mengosongkan pikiran dari validitas rasio dan berpikir logis, Tuhan berada diantaranya-yang mistis dan logis. Dan karenanya tak berbatas, infinit. Pada tingkat ini ruang kosong tidak pernah dibiarkan untuk kosong, namun untuk diisi. Secara teologis cuma yang tak terbatas, yang bukan sementara yang dapat menggantikan kekosongan.

Dalam kosmologi modern Einstein menyatakan ada kemungkinan Semesta berisikan sebentuk energi vakum. Sementara Queen bicara Nothing Really Matter, Metallica bicara Nothing Else Matter.

Apa yang harus dihindari (avoid), ditangkis, dielakkan?
Seperti ujaran Octavio Paz, aku tahu aku hidup.


widhy | sinau
 


void |void|
adjective
1 not valid or legally binding : the contract was void.
• (of speech or action) ineffectual; useless : all the stratagems you've worked out are rendered void.
2 completely empty : void spaces surround the tanks.
• [ predic. ] ( void of) free from; lacking : what were once the masterpieces of literature are now void of meaning.
• formal (of an office or position) vacant.
3 [ predic. ] (in bridge and whist) having been dealt no cards in a particular suit.
noun
1 a completely empty space : the black void of space.
• an emptiness caused by the loss of something : the void left by the collapse of communism.
• an unfilled space in a wall, building, or structure.
2 (in bridge and whist) a suit in which a player is dealt no cards.
verb [ trans. ]
1 declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding : the Supreme Court voided the statute.
2 discharge or drain away (water, gases, etc.).
• chiefly Medicine excrete (waste matter).
• [usu. as adj. ] ( voided) empty or evacuate (a container or space).
DERIVATIVES
voidable adjective
voidness noun
ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [unoccupied] ): from a dialect variant of Old French vuide; related to Latin vacare ‘vacate’ ; the verb partly a shortening of avoid , reinforced by Old French voider.
THE RIGHT WORD
To void a check, to invalidate a claim, to abrogate a law, and to annul a marriage all refer to the same basic activity, which is putting an end to something or depriving it of validity, force, or authority. But these verbs are not always interchangeable.
Annul is the most general term, meaning to end something that exists or to declare that it never really existed (: the charter was annulled before it could be challenged).
Abrogate implies the exercise of legal authority (: Congress abrogated the treaty between the two warring factions), while nullify means to deprive something of its value or effectiveness ( | nullify the enemy's attempt to establish communications).
Void and invalidate are often used interchangeably as they both mean to make null or worthless (: void a legal document by tearing it up; invalidate a check by putting the wrong date on it).
Negate means to prove an assertion false (: her version of the story negated everything her brother had said) or to nullify or make something ineffective ( | the study's findings were negated by its author's arrest for fraud).

Thesaurus   
void
noun
the void of space vacuum, emptiness, nothingness, nullity, blankness, vacuity; empty space, blank space, space, gap, cavity, chasm, abyss, gulf, pit, black hole.
verb
the contract was voided invalidate, annul, nullify; negate, quash, cancel, countermand, repeal, revoke, rescind, retract, withdraw, reverse, undo, abolish; Law vacate; formal abrogate. antonym validate.
adjective
1 vast void spaces empty, vacant, blank, bare, clear, free, unfilled, unoccupied, uninhabited. antonym full.
2 a country void of man or beast devoid of, empty of, vacant of, bereft of, free from; lacking, wanting, without, with nary a. antonym occupied.
3 the election was void invalid, null, ineffective, nonviable, useless, worthless, nugatory. antonym valid.
THE RIGHT WORD
To void a check, to invalidate a claim, to abrogate a law, and to annul a marriage all refer to the same basic activity, which is putting an end to something or depriving it of validity, force, or authority. But these verbs are not always interchangeable. Annul is the most general term, meaning to end something that exists or to declare that it never really existed (: the charter was annulled before it could be challenged). Abrogate implies the exercise of legal authority ( | Congress abrogated the treaty between the two warring factions), while nullify means to deprive something of its value or effectiveness ( | nullify the enemy's attempt to establish communications). Void and invalidate are often used interchangeably as they both mean to make null or worthless ( | void a legal document by tearing it up; invalidate a check by putting the wrong date on it). Negate means to prove an assertion false ( | her version of the story negated everything her brother had said) or to nullify or make something ineffective ( | the study's findings were negated by its author's arrest for fraud).

parenthesis |pəˈrenθəsis|
noun ( pl. -ses |-ˌsēz|)
a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas.
• (usu. parentheses) one or both of a pair of marks ( ) used to include such a word, clause, or sentence.
• an interlude or interval : the three months of coalition government were a lamentable political parenthesis.
PHRASES
in parenthesis as a digression or afterthought.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek, from parentithenai ‘put in beside.’