Condition of knowledge and Historicisation
(Excerpt from essay “To reflect by measure”. All copyrights reserved).
When did then the acquired knowledge become the truth?
Here you take memory for instance. Some of the events in it will be loud enough to form a mass and make themselves available to future when they will be received as only retrievable history. Will it not then be unfair to single out academia for being merely an extension of the state? What would state be if not appointed to matters assigned to it? What in ‘ways of recording history’ would also record the silence of the unsung, as if it were some unknowable dark matter? History measure peaks. This Lacanian secret is no hidden to average Joe, as the pinnacle of a structure is dream of every brick laid down in the foundation. To be the last and the highest brick with a single ambition of a brick of highest stakes. To weigh upon everything underneath in anticipation of an inclusion in the last row. A reverse kind of gravity.
Such is the scum of institutionalized learning. Tasteless chronological recording and reading to a classroom comprising of tens of Joes and Janes. Textbooks, news, state sponsored cultural cardboard boxes and schools. Writing was never this defeated even in such skewed ways of recording history where there’s no present, no life lived but a lewd ticket to a number. A simulation.
The trick of our time has been to superimpose curated historical text onto a human experience and his aspiration. No skull is too off in shape and size. History is registered as who, when and what, then contextualized with superimposition of skulls, mine included. If no prize, play again. To nurture a blur and offer a transparency to write on.
On a personal note, a life lived is one’s history. The social can take care of itself. Here’s an anecdote. I was happy and I ate two Thai chilly for lunch. Then I watched a movie. It was a difficult watch in a good way but at one point my muscles warped and I noticed that I just shat in my pants. Lmao.
— (some other day then.)
