spikenard

What do you write to the darK/ I’m not sure what kind of inscription makes sense to the future. The net is mostly made up of holes through which big blocks of text fall out of history. This has been personally apparent in that the server this blog is on has been down for a few days. Perhaps carefully stored lead engravings or two million mouldering paper backs is a better long term strategy.

Philosophy is not to insist on itself but to renegotiate – freedom, economics, history, democracy, justice, anarchy, right and wrong. There is nothing essential about them. They are negotiated, imagined, operative. If we try to avoid doing so then these terms philosophise us.

I am going grey as I study philosophy – philosophy makes your hair grey. I find myself being transformed into the image of the old white male patriarch. It may not be possible to recognise the weapons without practicing them well.

My imagination and flair fade with each negotiation of the canon. Ultima ratio regum launches a pathetic clown a few feet through the air into a net carefully placed to catch them. Privilege is not falling on your face – money is a way of outsourcing bad karma. The academy is a commuter service for intellectuals that trains people into and out of philosophy at the same time. In spite of my best intentions they succeeded in half teaching me the discipline of philosophy.

The questioning is undermined by the image of that to be questioned. The image may slowly become the thing, the order of the simulacrum encroaching to full effect.

Perhaps I can write under yet another pseudonym but

the only hope is to be shot while trying to escape my cellf.

Finalised by bullet dressed in a hasty drag

Bio-graphers will be shot, robbed, and captioned:

lost life drawing words of a literary figure