Tuesday, 17 November 2009

On the presence of absence

"I didn't really like authority." Judith Butler
At her fourteen years old, Butler asked her teacher about Spinoza, and existentialism. Now, ten years elder, I am, a twenty four-year-old man, indeed doing man-becoming women, asking myself whether it is possible to lose a identity, while embracing multiple schizophrenic self? Yes, at the limit of self(ves), at the moment of transgression. Definitely not the moment now am I finding/losing my way to the absence. Absence never traps my self which is the way to presence--the presence of my self whom never speaks, whom is never knowable through my self--my presence of self. On the way to absence, I am losing something for I have never owned but seem attributed, let them go. Without attribution, it is better living, and if those things you like, please take them, worth less a cent, millions are anywhere and are you, are they and am I. Um, I shall be that, not whom I haven't seen in those eyes. And without me, please find the self, with the question "where are you", then I am here, for I am absent there I am doing.

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