When I was very young, I often fantasized that there was a world where the only way to communicate was through music. During my high school years, I had a friend who had a theory that musicians were really just singing messages back and forth to each other. And all through my life, just in …
Functional Reality
“Man is not free to choose whether to be or not to be .…” That’s probably a good thing under the circumstances. Instead, he generates “an unlimited series of other binary distinctions which , while never resolving the primary contradiction [his existence], echo and perpetuate it on an ever smaller scale.… [T] he reality of …
Consensus
Imagining offers freedom from the magic of certitude, by recognizing that beliefs begin in images and are always images too, images that have lost their wings and fallen into truths. The angelic aspect of human being is the unbounded imagination. When consensus within a culture is driven by a desire for certitude, the safety and comfort …
Untamed Speech
...always a rage against the blind harmony of an anaesthetized life. Instead, a life amid the salient, the awkward, the pathologized; buffeted and discontent, at peace only in a rough sea.* Is it possible that the very flight away from our experience of pathology misses the beauty of its necessity, removing us from artful expression of …
Animalizing
During moments before thought translates into language, I recognize perhaps a truer, more immediate sense of my animal nature. In my relationships to other animals, I find these nonverbal states not only more readily happen, but are necessary for any exchange to take place. We may talk to animals, but in silent presence, where a …
Theoria 