Identity as distinction, as 'there is an x such that for all y ... ', a representational pattern itself represented and enacting the global dominance of representation so that it characterises what it is to be any and all speakable matter. This has become the world we inhabit, habitation only another form of the same, by an increasingly urgent logic, by the recognition of nothing but such logics of the speakable or thinkable. All of this accelerating until the dawning awareness of it as a kind of super-contingency, the contingency of contingency, and it begins to become possible to question of the underlying necessity. A question that that resists all formulation if it is to remain true to itself. The system devours itself, the systematic devouring the systematic, and cracking open. The possibility of not of knowing this or of passing through the cracks, but of surrendering all such ambitions so that the time- and spaceless silence can be heard, for the first time, perhaps.