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Because our knowledge is
ignorance, or because it is
neither knowledge of
anything there nor the
understanding of any truth,
or because even if there is
some entrance to that truth,
the door may not come
open except by means of
ignorance — which is
simultaneously path,
gatekeeper, and gate.
 Giordano Bruno, from
Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo
(The Cabala of Pegasus), 1584
…to steep oneself again in
this slow and massive world,
where all things move with
the ponderous sullenness of
oxen, patiently through the
immemorial ways, and of
course where no
investigation would be
possible.  classic or universal meaning. It is the
 Samuel Beckett, from Molly,
1955
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                    󹁦ere are as many ways to begin a
story as there are starting points on a
sphere. And of course every other aspect of
narrative relation is born from the same
innumerable axes.1 󹁦is is not said as an
endorsement of a spiritless relativism but as
a wary and preemptive quali󹀼er to an
exploratory project of which meaninglessness
might be taken as the point out of hand. 󹁦is
is not the case, though relativity is present.
󹁦e pieces under the title (anti-apex) are
earnest a󹁭empts to paraphrase something
like the transcendental speci󹀼city of
quotidian experience. It is felt that such an
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exercise could, not without employing a
certain joyful weirdness, help to clear up a
common ever increasing misconception:
that life is meaningless without steady,
contention here that life is not meaningless
without standards of meaning, meaning is
just not consistent; it is circumstantial and
contingent — though, and perhaps this is
unfortunate, a viewpoint like this might
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Everyone is the other and no
one is himself.
 Martin Heidegger, Being
and Time, 1927
...the central signified, the
original or transcendental
signified, is never absolutely
present outside a system of
differences. The absence of
the transcendental signified
extends the domain and the
interplay of signification ad
infinitum.
 Jacques Derrida, Structure,
Sign, and Play in the Discourse
of the Human Sciences, 1966
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
 William Carlos Williams,
The Red Wheelbarrow, 1923
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require a fair amount of strength to 
maintain.2
                       󹁦is transcendental speci󹀼city is
not a new zone for investigation; the feeling
that an overarching idiosyncrasy pervades
a󹁃 human endeavors and conceptions
(persona󹁃y and as a race) has been primary
fodder for much of the last century’s
thought (Derrida’s transcendental signi󹀼er,
Heidegger’s dasein, Wi󹁃iams’s red
wheelbarrow and Becke󹁭’s self-referential
mumblers easily surface as examples). And
obviously scienti󹀼c developments of the
la󹁭er modern period have, by introducing
theories of relativity and uncertainty,
displaced human ascendancy in the classic
hierarchical order. But again the subject
ca󹁃s out afresh and intact in the age of the
internet.
                        󹁦e algorithm of the standard
web search, particularly Google Image
searches, produces results almost Fluxus-like
in its unharmonious counterpoint — a press
image of some catastrophe, next to a banal
product shot, fo󹁃owed by a standard
holiday photo, and so on. 󹁦e unimaginably
nimble computations have pu󹁃ed the
polysemic underpinnings of general
humanness into near existential focus.
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Disparity (or at least arch slipperiness) is
shown in dominant aspect — and this is due
mainly to speed. As said artists and theorists
have been detailing general disparity for a
long time but never has it been presented so
involuntarily and natura󹁃y (as in outside the
context of philosophy or art) and with so
much velocity.3 Life more than ever seems to
be suspended in a matrix of the un-
taxonomic, the random, the tenuous and the
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taxonomic, the random, the tenuous and the
fabricated. 
                       Whether who󹁃y conscious or not,
it is in this light, that the fo󹁃owing pieces
were wri󹁭en. 󹁦e main in󹀹uence being an
impulse to reduce narrative intentionality;
not nonsensical just no arc, disconnected.
󹁦e effect is that the plots feel something
like gathered piles of kindling that are never
used for an actual 󹀼re.4  As we󹁃 there is a
wi󹁃ful resistance to assured understanding,
keeping in mind the sentiment of Bruno’s
line above: the door may not come open except
by means of ignorance.
                       As for the odd use of the pronoun
“Us” employed for a󹁃 protagonists, the “Us”
is us — you, me, them, moi, ich. 󹁦is is a
device to intimate that you could be otherwise
— like looking into a mirror and seeing
someone else staring back.
                       It is one thing to write about an
abstract notion, and quite another to write
an abstraction. It has been the a󹁭empt with
this project to perform the la󹁭er. So please
note, that it is not so much the opposite of
an “apex” that is the ground explored here,
for the opposite of an apex, like a furrow or
cavern is an apex as we󹁃, but an a󹁭empt to
see, and ultimately feel comfortable, outside
this sort of binary — perhaps a quantum
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󹀼ction? In any case, a󹀿er this exercise it is

clear that humans think polemica󹁃y and act
randomly or be󹁭er they act in a way that
confounds the logic thought to be so
common and straightforward.

AQQ—’18

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1It seems necessary to mention that informing these infinitely

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unique starting points is a preference of such a personal
complexity and saturation that it could never be parsed. But is
worthy of an entire study.

2I have been to the desert; I know what goes on. The views
detailed here are not an endorsement; humans are no less
members of the animal kingdom than jack-rabbits — by extension
humans don’t necessarily thrive by analysis.

3 Not to mention that the wholesale adoption of social media has

made the construction of thin as paper personal narratives (masks)
all pervasive.

4 It is a contention here that life is made up almost entirely of such

unused kindling. Thoughts, actions, etc. plan to get consumed in
the fire of arrival, but 99% of the time are just some sort of filler,
and that is their true purpose — their mask is otherwise.

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