Saturday, 9 February 2019



Presencing resolves in situations, but to be in a situation is to have assumed it. You don't find yourself there, you have already lost yourself in it, as if the presencing is a wave function that collapses into a cascade of situations and can only have done so by way of an initial act. But can it act upon itself? What is that primary assumption that brings about the pointed spaces experienced as the nested and overlapping situations that resolve as experience? It is as if you are always wanting to say that the embodied reality made you do it, that there was no choice, that the choice was always already made before you came on the scene, but this is only true for a space that is already resolved, even to an infinitesimal degree. The background feeling, the ineluctable modality of it is the uneasy recognition that it was freely chosen. Being resolved is to know, to enjoy the many forms of heteronomy as they flow over you, wave after wave as you click into position. But initially there is no position, no time and no space. The trace of this initial assumption is in the absence of any point of view, or in the weird ambiguity of the points of view you take on as the situations unfold, the very slipperiness of consciousness.

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