“Actually existing, structured things live in and through that which escapes them. Their autonomy is the autonomy of affect.”
--Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

Beginning when I was young, and persisting through adulthood, there’s been the nagging sense that I belong nowhere, to nothing. There’s always been a marked schism between my inner and outer selves. It has to be said though that I’ve been told, on more than one occasion, that I do a poor job veiling my emotions, that I wear them on my face.

Alienation is not a popular term these days, but it is descriptive of much of my felt experience.

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“…’reality,’ in Luhmann’s words, ‘is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.’”
--Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism?

Reality exceeds one’s ability to perceive it. Art’s job is to render the unseen. I mean the word “render” to be understood in all of its senses.

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“The reality of the actor is its way of perturbing, transforming and jostling other things.”

--Graham Harman, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE


When don’t worlds collide?

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“The stranger is infinity.”
--Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought


One is wanting.


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