Custer Part One: Introduction In the Introduction to The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault sets out to unsettle the familiar assumptions that have long governed the study of disciplines such as psychopathology, law, history, or economics. Traditionally, scholars have approached these fields as if they were bound together by a deep and underlying continuity, a coherent rationality, a … Read more
My inability to write brought me here; not the God of my parents, no, no, what condemned me is the seer saying “life flourishes through work.” This is a summer of reckoning. I was sitting on the window of our neighbor, in a cat form, what can we say about this creature but the very … Read more
The Grounding1 of Traditional Western Metaphysics: De-constructing2 Our Understanding of being3: Ever since philosophy took its first steps, the question of being, though misguidingly framed as “why is there something rather than nothing”, is undoubtedly the most prominent of its preoccupations. It is the issue that stood out above all others to meddle with the … Read more
Falcon, the singular hair of mustache, developed into the hard clay of the china plate. You break the ceiling glass to see a picture of a sky with its phallic excellence. From the ground up, I drew my swords and cut through the wounds of these walls; it had a name for me; it called … Read more
O, my close friend, death. Forest, an open grass field, a still river that speaks of nothing but peace, was a place I found this self of mine. Naked, sleeping on the soft ground, from afar I could see a boat floating, empty. The sun burned as if the place were a desert: I stood … Read more
Allowing one’s to be obliterated by the sheer power of contingency, which I call knowledge derived from practical garbage; if you recall, the reason for behaving in a vulgar manner assumes certain innocence which is pure in an a priori sense. In the dark, you can see yourself through the mirror when the smoke arises … Read more
There was never a state in our lived-experience of familiarity where that which-is has not been given to us. The givenness of that which-is maintains itself because of the position it occupies in assigning itself to the extended chain of discursive world as the always-already and the not-yet. That is, whether in the business of analysis or that of everyday casual going about, … Read more
I forgot how sweet the malady was; it has dissipated in the morning sun, in everyday human relations, can’t you hear its droplets? A distinctive site.Come hug me, wake me up to the time were the mountain was in my living room, give me back the ages were I saw a thriving ecology, in between … Read more
No, no, I haven’t been damned by the rainbow, but saved by it; melancholic morbidity systematizes sunshine, butterflies, and rainbows. One reads the book to move to the uncharted territory of the prose of the impossible, the word of God shall illuminate the weakness of the impossible in its inability to foster a description of … Read more
How can a chair be Cher? She won’t allow it. She has the agency over and above everything; she won’t accept being ruled by an office set up to compute. The glamour’s corridors wouldn’t amount to her shoe, what it supports doesn’t surmount to what the shoe represents; it’s nonetheless a copy that degenerates to … Read more
…it is necessary to reserve the use of the word expenditure for the designation of… unproductive forms… …humanity recognizes the right to acquire, to conserve, and to consume rationally, but it excludes in principle nonproductive expenditure. …it appears that sacred things are constituted by an operation of loss. George Bataille’s 1933 essay The … Read more
In order to liquidate this theater, i.e., dismantle it, get rid of it, sell it off at a loss, we must call on science, just as we have called on science to liquidate a whole lot of other superstitions. … Read more