asemic net

Beyond its aspect of insult as trash talk, which seems, in part, to promulgate the values of one community over the values of another, garbage speech is the excess of the communal. It is performance.

What is the meaning of such performance? Its meaning is in the emphasis of power so embodied. After all, the power to escape interpretation is the power to escape community.

But the power to escape community is also the power to escape an immediate need to be understood as anything other than power(ful) itself.

Not that there is not an excess of non-sense in such performance, but the outcome of acommunal speech is not so much non-sense as much as it is the excess of speech itself. This aspect of excess is waste. This excess is the very act of refuse.

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Monday, March 24, 2025

blise / EZE, 2025

blister / EZE, 2025

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Skepticism as Asemics / EZE, 2025

Skepticism acknowledges the incomplete and the disconnected, but skepticism does not necessarily offer another path, i.e., another means, i.e., another solution, to the path it has thrown into question. Indeed, at one extreme, skepticism might just force us to let go of an issue entirely, and at the another extreme, skepticism might (at least, seemingly) throw the entire world into question. Yet when it draws our attention to the tenuousness of our connections, skepticism may help us acknowledge the cul de sac. But by calling a matter into question, skepticism forces us to suspend belief and in so doing, also give us a means to investigate the matter at hand. Such is asemics.

Political Skepticism

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