13-11-2017

Atopias - Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism

Like life, love, and the universe: Barely contained chaos, indistinct among the quarks, the universe is a system that is far from an equilibrium; it thwarts attempts by contemporary physics to explain not only its origin but also its persistence.

Our world tends to produce

flux at a constant speed, like a treadmill, where one advances without taking a step. The treadmill versus the top. Becoming without ever undergoing the test of loss, loving without venturing outside oneself

The owl of Minerva symbolizes in vain

while owls in flesh and blood are dying.

Are we not living the end of identity?

—an object, or the “ancestral” (Meillassoux)—exterior to the human brain and the relations it makes with the world

What does it mean to live as out-siders caught in the time and the history of an existential plane?

For thought does not define the outside, but prolongs it, draws it out. Thought experiences the outside around which it is formed; this formation is nothing more than the simple fact of existence.