Where is the ‘abyss’?

‘Abyss’ is a catch-all or watch-word for an unaddressed description topology and topography. Does that rift have categories or attributes? Is it a commonplace name for what we can’t possibly, by definition, see to its bottom? Is that concept a metaphor of an abyss itself, that fissure for which there is not a conceptual ground?

An abyss is the inverse of a ridgeline but where there is no corollary of the summit. Unlike the Continental Divide any abyss has not a pinnacle as a mirror. The abyss isn’t dialectical even in the obscurity of ‘negative dialectics.’ Adorno, it seems, wants to avoid the abyss in favor of a choro or a chorograph. Like Kant, he wants to try to throw a bridge across the divide whether it is invisible or not.

The timeless or permanent rumbling of the unstable geology marks the abyss. Either side of its composition and loose structure will not collapse because its collapse, subremption, or ‘aufhebung’ would make a bridge.