Ved ANDERS FOGH JENSEN

The Sea Decides

When the artist group A Kassen poured liquid bronze into the harbour at Køge on Saturday 28 January 2017, allowing bronze figures to be formed by chance, the philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen gave a speech at KØS, pondering the question of what chance is. For example, he spoke on the differences between the arbitrary, contingency and necessity. And about how one may understand Nietzsche’s dictum that ‘the iron hands of necessity shake the dice-box of chance’. When the artist group A Kassen poured liquid bronze into the harbour at Køge on Saturday 28 January 2017, allowing bronze figures to be formed by chance, the philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen gave a speech at KØS, pondering the question of what chance is. For example, he spoke on the differences between the arbitrary, contingency and necessity. And about how one may understand Nietzsche’s dictum that ‘the iron hands of necessity shake the dice-box of chance’.