Monday, December 27, 2021

​Jim Leftwich, EITHER BOTH, OR AND

​Jim Leftwich
EITHER BOTH, OR AND


Asemic writing does not participate in the language game of giving information.

If asemic, then pansemic.

Pansemic is the dirt. Asemic is a beautiful, imaginary tree. Pansemic is the air. As above, so below. As inside, so beside.

Asemic is the alchemical elixir. A phase transition. Always somewhere between water and ice, between steam and water. Analogous to itself, as the I is the only anagram of the I. The sign, like asemic writing, always fully present in its nonexistence, marks the passage from signifier to signified, exactly as a phase transition. Reading is a kind of collaborative writing. Where there is no writing, reading writes itself.

The only important thing about asemic writing is its failure to exist. Therein lies its power. The pansemic phlogiston passes through the numino liber null of asemic writing and is transformed into the pansemic phlogiston. It is the mysterium coniunctionis at the center of Our Magickal Absurdity.

He who Knows the magickal absurdity Knows the language game of the emptier signified. She who Knows the magickal absurdity Knows the language game of the emptier signified.

Asemic writing makes us stronger. It does not kill us, but it does banish us forever from the popularity contest, the power lunch, and the party of special things to do. Asemic writing makes us stranger.

The nonexistence of asemic writing is dependent upon the omnipresence of Our Pansemic Phlogiston. Our Pansemic Phlogiston, which is everywhere all the time, emits an emptiness at its center -- the center which, as always, is everywhere -- into which emptiness it then invents itself, as failure and in absence. The magickal absurdity of asemic transformation can be known, but it cannot be believed.


12.27.2021
Roanoke VA USA