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The present paper discusses the phenomenon of disappearance drawing a parallelism with the suspension of judgment (epoché) as a Skeptical tool. Specifically, the paper addresses disappearance as a performative art (tekné) which establishes striking similarities with ataraxia’s undecidability. The paper takes as a starting point the investigation undertaken by Giorgio Agamben concerning the disappearance of the quantum physicist Ettore Majorana, and explores the consequences by means of picnolepsia, as conceived by Paul Virilio, and catatonia. The paper analyzes a selected variety of aesthetic examples that excavate skeptical strategies within disappearance, this understood as a poietic form of philosophical research, and is situated in the cross-disciplinary field of comparative aesthetics and visual studies.

Este artículo trata el fenómeno de la desaparición como trasunto de la suspensión del juicio (epoché) en tanto que metodología escéptica. En concreto, aborda la desaparición como arte (tekné) performativo, el cual permite entablar similitudes con el estado de indecibilidad propio de la ataraxia. El trabajo toma como punto de partida la indagación de Giorgio Agamben acerca de la desaparición del físico cuántico Ettore Majorana, y explora sus consecuencias por medio de la picnolepsia, teorizada por Paul Virilio, y la catatonia. El artículo analiza ejemplos seleccionados de variado enfoque estético para examinar las sinergias escépticas de la desaparición como forma de investigación filosófica, situando-se en el terreno transversal de la estética comparada y los estudios visuales.

The present paper discusses the phenomenon of disappearance drawing a parallelism with the suspension of judgment (epoché) as a Skeptical tool. Specifically, the paper addresses disappearance as a performative art (tekné) which establishes striking similarities with ataraxia’s undecidability. The paper takes as a starting point the investigation undertaken by Giorgio Agamben concerning the disappearance of the quantum physicist Ettore Majorana, and explores the consequences by means of picnolepsia, as conceived by Paul Virilio, and catatonia. The paper analyzes a selected variety of aesthetic examples that excavate Skeptical strategies within disappearance, this understood as a poietic form of philosophical research.