Having never heard the term before, I decided to look up what “sublation” means, and was promptly ambushed by Hegelian philosophy. Curse you, intellectual death metal band Sublation from Philadelphia! I was not ready for this! Turns out that “sublation” means Aufhebung in German, and Hegel was endlessly tickled by the fact that the verb aufheben can have no less than three meanings: to cancel or abolish something, to store or preserve something, and to pick something up (literally elevating it). He held that all three meanings can apply more or less simultaneously and that this, in a nutshell, is … Continue reading Sublation – The Path to Bedlam