I am compelled to refuse this whirling inexhaustible nothingness. To make use of what this is I make use of what it is not. It is the chimera of presuppositionless inquiry.
Your refusal is precisely the kind of active engagement that Liminal Abstraction aims to provoke—meaning emerges not through presuppositionless inquiry, but through confronting and embracing the inevitable tension between what ‘is’ and what ‘is not.’ My methodology doesn’t seek emptiness or nihilistic nothingness; rather, it invites a generative instability, a purposeful tension that actively resists settling into fixed definitions. By identifying it as a ‘chimera,’ you’ve accurately captured its essence—elusive and continually shifting, yet profoundly useful precisely because it challenges the certainty of assumptions.
It seems to me after reading your words that your project is, vaguely, a combination of anti-Oedipus/Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy, Althusser’s Theory of Capitalist Recuperation, Process Ontology (Nietzche/Bergson/Whitehead/etc.), and Derrida, with Ccru aesthetic appreciation!
“If it can be easily explained, it has already failed.”
…except aggressively elitist? Well, that took an interesting turn.
Thanks, but I’m good. I’ll stick to my spontaneously deterritorializing folk art: Punk (before recuperation), Hip-Hop (before recuperation), Street Art (before Banksy/recuperation), and whatever comes next. “…And in the meantime, I’ll create my own.”
I appreciate this comment more than I can express—it’s rare to be read with such nuance and challenge at once.
You’re not wrong to trace the influence of Anti-Oedipus, Libidinal Economy, Althusser, Derrida, and Process Ontology. They’ve all shaped how I think—but Liminal Abstraction isn’t a collage of citations. It’s an attempt to live with the contradictions those thinkers revealed, without resolving them into fixed theory.
The charge of elitism is fair. Language always risks building walls, even when it’s meant to rupture them. My task is to stay recursive about that risk—not to water down complexity, but to remain accountable to presence over prescription.
Your point about punk, hip-hop, and street art before recuperation—that’s exactly the tension I’m trying to hold. I’m not trying to build a system. I’m trying to trace the outline of one that collapses just before it can be named.
Thank you for creating your own. That’s the most Liminal thing anyone could do.
I am compelled to refuse this whirling inexhaustible nothingness. To make use of what this is I make use of what it is not. It is the chimera of presuppositionless inquiry.
Your refusal is precisely the kind of active engagement that Liminal Abstraction aims to provoke—meaning emerges not through presuppositionless inquiry, but through confronting and embracing the inevitable tension between what ‘is’ and what ‘is not.’ My methodology doesn’t seek emptiness or nihilistic nothingness; rather, it invites a generative instability, a purposeful tension that actively resists settling into fixed definitions. By identifying it as a ‘chimera,’ you’ve accurately captured its essence—elusive and continually shifting, yet profoundly useful precisely because it challenges the certainty of assumptions.
It seems to me after reading your words that your project is, vaguely, a combination of anti-Oedipus/Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy, Althusser’s Theory of Capitalist Recuperation, Process Ontology (Nietzche/Bergson/Whitehead/etc.), and Derrida, with Ccru aesthetic appreciation!
“If it can be easily explained, it has already failed.”
…except aggressively elitist? Well, that took an interesting turn.
Thanks, but I’m good. I’ll stick to my spontaneously deterritorializing folk art: Punk (before recuperation), Hip-Hop (before recuperation), Street Art (before Banksy/recuperation), and whatever comes next. “…And in the meantime, I’ll create my own.”
I appreciate this comment more than I can express—it’s rare to be read with such nuance and challenge at once.
You’re not wrong to trace the influence of Anti-Oedipus, Libidinal Economy, Althusser, Derrida, and Process Ontology. They’ve all shaped how I think—but Liminal Abstraction isn’t a collage of citations. It’s an attempt to live with the contradictions those thinkers revealed, without resolving them into fixed theory.
The charge of elitism is fair. Language always risks building walls, even when it’s meant to rupture them. My task is to stay recursive about that risk—not to water down complexity, but to remain accountable to presence over prescription.
Your point about punk, hip-hop, and street art before recuperation—that’s exactly the tension I’m trying to hold. I’m not trying to build a system. I’m trying to trace the outline of one that collapses just before it can be named.
Thank you for creating your own. That’s the most Liminal thing anyone could do.