“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Being or becoming animal; having-been, to-be, growling out feral subjectivity. I am an organism, walking-grasping, shaking boots into lizard echoes of desert ferocity. Awoo! Howl down the hallows, human glares menacing from the lightpost… Continue reading

“…we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason… a Living Creature, one and visible, containing within itself all the living creatures which are by nature akin to itself.” Plato, Timaeus, 30b-d What is form? Is the form that which forms or that which is formed? … Continue reading

“There is no small pleasure in sweet water.” Ovid, Letters from the Black Sea I went to the ocean recently. Ocean currents are an emergent phenomenon. From the interaction of wind, heat, salt, and a complex system of internal flows and breaks, the whole of the sea moves and rocks – back-and-forth, back-and-forth. This movement… Continue reading

“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort… Continue reading

“History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” James Joyce, Ulysses We are trapped in a time machine and it is speeding out of control. Clocks replace life with measure. Wading through the ever-present, we unfold between before and after, encountering time as the dance of quality, presence and absence oscillating through… Continue reading