Friday 17 December 2021

Together in the absolute

picture by Elea Grammatico

 

There is this absolute responsibility

we must tolerate,

the world that we must accept

and adapt to as it changes,

as we change it.


But to be responsible you must be free.


And these are words that try to set you free.


Now is the world we make.


The dream we all dream

to overcome how alone we are.


We head each our own way

to bathe in the light, experience the darkness.


It is a hard way

to the core

where you exist

next to nothing

intimately


a long way to find out

you where there to begin with


but the fact is you left that place

in the center without reference,

at the beginning.


Now it is more like an underlying memory

than anything in this present place and time.


You can’t go back

but a part of you is always

already there


and eternally returning


we try to reach it

through abstraction and reduction,

the moment

when you were singular and thus alone


but this is also where I came to love you,

the moment we were born into freedom

and canceled singularity by being there,


we emerged coiled together,

separate but the same.


By now there are worlds between us

and I miss you through the distance


enough to want us to merge

even if that means losing myself


but we have each other

only when there is a difference between us,

and as long as there is that difference

we have a self to speak of.


Please speak up,

speak out loud the words that whisper together

there in the background of your mind.


These are of the same words,

they depict you flowing free

to find that way through everything


and back to here and now

where we make it happen


in mutiny – this is our love!


Here,

on this page I had been

and we now have together.


This place

that these symbols on a page embrace

and open for you


Tough intimate, it is no intrusion

for you too where always already there in me


the other inside,

and I was never singular to begin with,

for that which was born alone

was absolute


and we are but fragments

of that underlying sameness.


Together we have our world,

alone there is but the vast nothing.


Thus it is a misunderstanding

that alone we could be free.


We are free together.


Saturday 4 December 2021

Revealations of Nihilistic instinct

 


 

In the language you just put yourself on a pedestal with so many words.


Onany is alone on a bedrock of fuck.


Every sign is propaganda.


The knower bearer of the plague of knowing knows, but knowing is a method, a lineage and a tradition that you join not knowing and become a sign signaling the way to the plague you have revealed.

The knowledge was there before you but you collaborate and share the responsibility. Still, you are free, for you have become free to know, and it was by accident you met half way to happen.

Now it is every moment.





This is, as is, is what

nonsensical responses

to a series of conducted

irritations


Attempted communication; the skin portal left bruised

and possibly contaminated by dangerous bacteria

carried by the subject


romantic possibilities of life,

longevity,

flat, face down to black earth


Nonsensical irritations acquit reason you have here.

Intricate machine-rationality built on whimsical assumptions,

stratified abstract ideas, ersatz nonsense


or always serve a need, like that of control, the power to determine

meaning and sense, then flood all channels with different aspects of everything

all the way to postmodern disinformation of total ambivalence and very

general relativity according to the various victorious historians.


Si, si, Chant the Cannon of Composed reality.


The static quo of unspecific purposes nor deliberate use.


Practically plain rip-off in praxis. And some romantic ideas that remain

on the abstract metaphysical level or in other words, just that, ideas


like solipsism – now can solipsism be used to any purpose?

Is it just the self endlessly reflected back dead in translation?


That which closes as it opens, of course inexorably encrypted.


Heartless gibber that the subject acts out by de facto masturbating physically.

This leaves abrasions on the said penis.


Ens Inquantum Ens


With unspecific necessity I have been states of personal primacy in physical body.

And the mantras of corporeal being might be said to be enactments of ideas,

yet the relation between ideas and the world of phenomena seems to be evasive

to statistical description and quantitative meaning.


There are random factors at play in how the body interprets the abstract idea

and translates it to action.

It is a kind of ritual: masturbating an abstract non-corporeal sign

with physical enactment.


But this is the Mind/Body axiom

All is equally real.


Yet being has order that prevails despite ideas.


The Idea


may or may not have produced an ideal image

to which being is second to and pales in comparison


fuck it


the idea at best is a simulation, a map

metaphysical context for

and cartographic reproduction of

being


as according to experience

and sensory feedback


you fucking know when you fuck for real


and you can only fuck with the really real

the rest is onany


existential isolation and sexual frustration



These are dire times of pressing immediacy

and profound severity


so much so that in every conflict of interests

you must ask yourself are you the one

poking holes in the shared lifeboat


or the one standing there with an oar in your hand

thinking whether you should keep the once reckless corpse for food

or cast it over board.


Yes, this is the limit of our humanity, boys and girls,

the point after which we can no longer live reckless and free,

the line between animal determination and human folly,


and an exposition of the disease infecting both the animal and the human

and corrupting function, will and execution.


Order is continually compromised

but neither is chaos ever total.


It is just that our systemic default settings

exhaust the condition that enabled being

in the form we have experience of.


Within these physical limits we have toiled, they are our limits,

not the rituals that keep us here, the misunderstanding at the arbitrary sign –

What is this worship of image at the expense of the corporeal but alienation from physicality?


We reinvent and reinterpret our system every passing moment, remember the constant change that is time. And why there is an imminent need, as compelling as physical need, for a paradigm shift. As bio-bodies should challenge our systemic paradigm instead of challenging our habitats ability to sustain us.


What is it that keeps us in place?


The comfort zone is no longer safe.


We are on a stretch, as always,

reaching to the unknown, barely touching ground


floating among the wreckage:

fragments of theory and belief,

remnants of determination


on polluted oceans, dead seas,

beneath us de-oxygenated abysmal plains,

the wounds devoid of life, gaps in the living body.


This is the rock bottom, the rift between awareness and being

where matter loses meaning


but the supposedly sentient beings are absent minded

and remain enthralled by imaginary narrations 

that entertain and flatter the ego


leaving the body adrift mindless, heartless and senseless

like a machine programmed with mechanic hunger,

devouring further the hole in the world.


A theory is nothing but an explanatory narrative. A simulation in the mind’s eye, but this eye should not be confused with the I, that is the self. Knowledge has nothing to do with the self, it is not I that can know and somehow own these ideas anyone could come up with. The mind’s eye is a place, a point in time and a space like the sun, but also unlimited like the cosmos. There sensory data meats imagination. And imagination, the core of the mind, like an immaterial mass that reflects on images as they emerge from nothingness – yes, the void is lavish – and takes new shape with every thought, unless imagination is somehow connected to instinct that is somehow attempting to draw parallels between things.

Or then it is as if from unbeing pouring into this burning point where sensory data melts together with infinite possibility as it fuses with the imaginary constant that thus animates the body and the world with abstract immaterial freedom of boundless nothingness.


Nihilistic instinct at play.


Yes, a theory is abstract like pure spirit and can only come to being through the body, in communion and correspondence without which it would float away into abstract immateriality like signs without language.

Nothingness is distance, from our perspective, it is not an absolute boundary, but the empty space between things. Not a thing, but still, the vacuum, like the holy spirit for William Blake, forms a trinity with the self and the other all woven into one like metaphysics was not separate from physics. That which can’t be by definition is present as an abstract sign needed to chart that which is total and absolute, like being in general but nothing specifically.

A theory needs an active subject just as it needs a corpus. And a subject needs a context. What to explain and why. What is the utility of being able to predict something? – We can make machines; automatons that execute on signal. This applies also to the human subject: the more we can predict its behavior, the more programmable it is, the more it is like a machine responding to predicted events.


But the active subject has to commit to the theory, or should we say ideology, or system – systemic ideology – and commitment is active. The subject must concentrate the focus to commit to the program, hold the mental image, so to speak. But there is no state of constant knowing just as there is no absolute truths as sure as knowing is limited by subjectivity to begin with. Imagine an eternal knower corrupted by dementia desperately trying to remember who it was that knew something and at which time. What is it like when there’s no context or reference beyond yourself?


Or did you commit to an eternal self? Do you worship the image of the ideal self, that eternal and static perfect version of you that is not as far removed from god as you are in your earthly form? Is there anything that static? Isn’t your god too drowning in the flow of seething visions? Haunted by otherness and the unknown as the world changes and all meanings change with it. What function could prevail the constant turbulence of being? What other than nothing?


You by yourself might think that what you are will always mean the same, but as meaning is contextual and the context changes, like an abstract sign you would lose reference. As an object the corporeal world is constant in that it exists despite what we think of it, it changes according its shifting dynamics despite our ideas. I can imagine it static and empty, not there, but only as long as I can hold the thought. Consciousness animates the subject, but consciousness of what, it should be asked, and be reminded again, that the answer is everything, but to our limited degree.


Attempted contamination,

the message was aired in conditions of great turbulence that reduced it to noise.

Maybe it was thus sanctified by the randomness that is beyond us,

and we are islands of order organized to our ability to make sense


beyond us like the Deus Ex Machina


that corrupts the totality we try to transmit.


Little did I know, these heart wrenching gyrations – repetition – are, in fact, re-reinforcements against entropy. We repeat patterns so as to appear from the background noise. Distinct like light in darkness, what coherency we have.


Now let us gather at the monumental signs that refer to our role as the species re-shaping nature. Advance and come forth, accept the responsibility that comes with the freedom, the acknowledgment of optional consequences – you are in the continual, yet chaotic, clockwork, and this is reality.

There is the contextual framework that, for one, has this dimension of physical being that we share, which, in fact, is the only denominating factor we share that could ever draw together these subjective strangers, you and me.

The self and the other have a world in between, but also between them they share it in common, and even if our language was also a world on its own – as on its own language would mean nothing like a flower in a contextual vacuum. The terrain is prior to the sign that got its meaning in reference.

Yes, the in-curled dimensions of language have further furthered being, yet the life of a referential sign is consequential. The meaning of white would have to change to that which is black for black to, de facto, become white. Therein the language every sequence is possible and both polar opposites hold true, but the ink remains on the paper, mektoub, we have a map.


And we know the monuments,

our hearts can feel them,

our blood has been shed to them,

with a different interpretation every time.





Friday 5 November 2021

The Fever of the poet


 

The fever of the poet can be too much to bear

that every word could be so full of meaning

that every sensation could ache so much

to become a poem

 

and that the path can be so easily lost

and you can find yourself suddenly

with only a memory

of that grand feeling

as if it was all a dream


and then with nothing to guide you

you must find that heavy heart again

if you want to truly live


but know at least this

that you can't be a creator every moment

for that is too much

and how the ground is lost.


Saturday 30 October 2021

Letting go with some fondness


 


 

 

 

There’s no escape

letting go with some fondness

when the living dream reaches a limit

 

You can squat the ruins

of a past world for a while

but to built a new

would take a living culture.

 

And when what you have is

remnants and afterglow

of something that is dying

 

The only way for a dream to live

is on the road,

because a dream needs a future.

 

Living like it was the last day

everyday is but a prolonged wake,

and those who have died

need to be let go

 

Just as you need to leave the ruins

if you want to live,

find a place

 

where life still has a throbbing heart.

 

The other option: bury yours in the ruins.