The erotic qua ontic

Styles of leadership - a visual essay

The other other

Trinity

Discourse

Lacanian smile

Being coordinated

4 modes of becoming

4 modes of Being

Visual equations

What...?

The shadow of what isn't

Actions - consequences

All actions have consequences – these consequences take the form of actions. Practical knowledge/ expertise, is predicting/knowing consequences of actions. Impractical knowledge is 'knowing' the actions themselves: this is problematic, as to know and to act are incommensurable – i.e. there is a formal gap between them – they are not the same thing (even though 'knowing' [as symbolising] is an act and acting [being] is knowing, as in experiencing the contingency of reality – i.e. the risk, the unknowability, the incalculability of consequence {to 'be with' a sequence: to accompany life's progression, regression, twists, turns – but what accompanies? : the What is twofold: the symbolic non-self 'Self' and the Real, unconscious, subject-void. The two are mutually constitutive: the impersonal thought-world gives the personal, unconscious human animal the sense of being 'personal', embedded in the Real as 'reality' – Geist/Langue is the ephemeral field that ontologises contingent particularity into universal Being.}

Back to the beginning: if all actions have consequences and consequences are actions, shall we say actions are symbolic moments within an endless stream of action – that to name an action is to belie the endless, Heraclitean finitude by the fundamental symbolic obstruction: naming? To name would be to lie if there was another name 'divinely' inscribed in the chaos of contingent reality. The Real thing is not worthy of the name and the name is not the Real thing but, without the name, the Real thing is lacking precisely this dimension of the Real itself: not only its lack, but the perception of the lack, achieved through the failure of the name.

This suggests that freedom (knowing-action/ not-acting) is possible because the symbolosphere is Real precisely as far as it fails, and, in failing, gives the Real its voice. This voice is the silence of not-knowing: an undeath beyond finitude but bearing its stamp. This undeath is living: living the examined life.

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