"Foams offer a theory of the present age from the perspective that 'life' unfolds multifocally, multiperspectivally and heterarchically."
Foam is actually existing deception—the non-entity as an entity nonetheless, or a feigner of being, a symbol of the First False, an emblem for the undermining of the solid by the untenable—a ghost light, a superfluity, a mood, a swamp gas, inhabited by a dubious subjectivity.
Foam begets nothing, it has no consequences. With no life expectancy or next generation, all it knows is running ahead into its own bursting.
Hegel’s new logic, a positivization of the negative came into view, and with it a possible rehabilitation of foam: “Out of the ferment of finitude, before its transformation into foam, spirit rises up fragrantly.
Does spirit itself, the medium in which substance develops into the subject, even now owe something to foam? Does this bastard that could not be trusted transpire as the long-sought middle element in which the spiritual and the material join to form that concreteness which we call existence?
Is it the third factor through which binary idiocy could be overcome? Did Aristotle foresee such amalgams when, in Problemata physica, he classed the illness of brilliant men—melancholy—among the “air-filled ailments,” whose features include an affinity for foamable substances: black gall, which the doctors of antiquity believed to appear as an aerated mixture?
December 26th, 2024, Lodz
"It does not pass on outpourings of immediate truth; if Einstein lived next door, I would not know any more about the universe as a result. If the son of God and I had lived on the same floor for years, I would only learn afterwards—if at all—who my neighbor was.
Every point in the foam offers glimpses of the bordering ones, but comprehensive views are not available—in the most advanced case, exaggerations are formulated inside one bubble and can be used in many neighboring ones. Messages are selectively transferable, and there are no exits into the whole. For theory that accepts being-in-foam as the primary definition of our situation, final super-visions of the One World are not only unattainable, but impossible—and, correctly understood, also undesirable.
Whoever speaks of foams in this tone has abandoned the central symbol of classical metaphysics, of the all-gathering monosphere, namely the orb-shaped One and its projection into panoptic central constructions."
January 1st, 2025, Dębina
"What a "revolution" means can best be explained with reference to the breakthroughs of sixteenth-century anatomists, who had resolved to open the human inner body with cuts and publish it using descriptively adequate depictions. It may be true that the Vesalian "revolution" was of far greater consequence for the self-relationships of Western people than the long over-cited and misunderstood Copernican one.
(...)
In its cognitive habitus, cutting open the human body from all sides and graphically representing it from every perspective is the same as circumnavigating and mapping the earth. Both operations were part of the great rotation that altered the angle (klima) of knowledge about things and circumstances."
January 4th , 2025, Dębina
"Phenomenology is the narrative theory of the explication of what can at first only be implicitly present.
Being implicit here means: presupposed in a non-unfolded state, left in cognitive retirement, freed from the pressure of comprehensive mention and development and given in the mode of dark proximity - not already on the tip of one's tongue, not already available the next moment, not mobilized by the discursive regime and not incorporated into procedures. Becoming explicit, on the other hand, means: being swept along by the current flowing from the background to the foreground, from Lethe into the clearing, from enfolding into unfolding."
January 5th , 2025, Dębina
"...proliferated, new positions sprouted up and the number of career chances was multiplied a thousandfold. There is a hint of all that in Paul Valéry’s malicious claim that the French, and eo ipso the moderns, had turned the 'revolution' into a 'routine.'
The true and real basic concept of modernity is not revolution but explication. Explication is the true name of becoming."
"The twentieth century dawned in spectacularly revealing fashion on April 22, 1915, with the first large-scale use of chlorine gas as a warfare agent by a specially established 'gas regiment' in the western German armies against French and Canadian infantry positions in the northern Ypres Salient.
In the preceding weeks, German soldiers on that part of the front had, unnoticed by the enemy, assembled thousands of hidden gas bottles into batteries of a previously unknown kind along the edges of their trenches. At exactly 6 pm, pioneers of the new regiment under the command of Colonel Max Peterson opened 1,600 large (90 lb) and 4,130 smaller (45 lb) bottles of chlorine while a north-northeasterly wind was blowing, causing the 'blowing off' of the liquefied gas..."
January 11th, 2025, Lodz
"Thus terrorism applies to the "primal scene" on the Ypres front in 1915—not only because it immediately led to the usual sequence of counter-strikes and counter-counterstrikes, but also because the German side could truthfully claim the prior deployment of gas ammunition by the French and British.
Terror does not begin with the execution of an individual attack by one side, but rather with the will and readiness of conflict partners to operate on an expanded battlefield. By expanding the combat zone, the principle of explication makes itself noticeable in warfare: the enemy is explicated."
"As an object in the environment whose removal amounts to a survival condition for the system, terrorism is an explication of the other in terms of their exterminability. If war has always meant one's behavior towards the enemy, it is only with terrorism that its true "nature" is revealed. As soon as hostility is no longer tamed by international law, the technological relationship with the enemy takes command. By advancing the explicitness of procedures, technology militarily encapsulates the nature of enmity: it is nothing other than the will to annihilate one's opponent. Enmity made technologically explicit is exterminism. This explains why the mature style of warfare in the twentieth century was annihilation-oriented."
January 18th, 2025, Lodz
"... Goebbels communicated with himself like an agitator before a crowd.
Like stupidity, evil is autohypnotic."
January 19th, 2025, Lodz
Reporting as we know it must already have seemed like temptation to blasphemy; for it stirs humans unmistakably to the impertinence of having an opinion on a matter which, in keeping with metaphysical orthodoxy, one should merely accept in mute submission.
For the ancients it was clear that like birth and death, the weather comes from God alone. In tradition, abandonment to God and abandonment to the weather are analogous indications of the willing subject’s effort to minimize its hubristic difference from fate.
If humans are, to quote Herder once again, pupils of the air, the clouds were their tutors.
What transpires as particularly dangerous are the climate poisons emanating from the affected themselves as long as they stand, hopelessly aroused, under closed communication domes in the pathogenic air conditioners of standardized and aroused public spheres, the inhabitants keep inhaling their own exhalations.
Here, what is in the air is put into it through totalitarian circular communication: it is filled with the injured masses' dreams of victory and their intoxicated, far from empirical self- elevations, which are followed, as if by a shadow, by the longing to humiliate their opponents. Life in the media state is a sojourn in a gas palace animated by experiential poisons.
February 22nd, 2025, Lodz
"Under the totalitarian dome of signs, people inhale the lies of their own that have become public opinion, moving about voluntarily yet unfreely in an opportunistic hypnosis."
"Measured against the task of such an ethics of the atmospheric, it was not only the democracies of 1939 that lived in “yesterday’s world”; even today, they are entirely blind to their acute tendency to develop closed atmospheres and aggrandize systems of victorious delusion—as if the political-psychological and moral lessons of the twentieth century had only been taught in empty classrooms."
February 23nd, 2025, Lodz
"Where self-evident truths became scarce, options had to take over their role. This initiated the age of elective world pictures and elective self-images. The long market cycle of so-called 'identities' now began. Identity is a self-evidence hypothesis on uncertain terrain and is crafted according to individualistic and collectivistic patterns. The concept of building mental prostheses expresses both the realization and the fact that the production of vital assumptions—life-guiding 'hypotheses'—in William James sense — no longer derives primarily from cultural heritage, but increasingly becaomes a matter of reinvention and ongoing reformatting"
March 1st , 2025, Dębina
Effects of ignorance. This was already recognized by classical authors such as Cicero, who declares: “Undoubtedly ignorance of future ills is a more useful thing than knowledge.”
It may be that the discovery of these connections was directly linked to the invention of the religions of salvation. Indeed, perhaps what Christian tradition called faith was initially no more than a programmatic progressive-regressive change of stance from a weakening knowledge to a strengthening ignorance, combined with a beneficent illusion. The vera religio became successful against the background of the classical enlightenment because it could be recommended as a therapeutic course given by priests to combat the sickness of imperial realism."
"(..) seem to be what one could call semantic antibodies or idea suppressors, designed to remove incompatible notions from the space of consciousness.
Where there was love of wisdom, there will be insight into the repulsive and non-integrable properties of numerous true ideas.
Epistemology will become a cognitive-scientific subsidiary of allergology.¹⁰⁸ At the time, this constituted the most extensive anticipation of the forms of rationality found in cybernetics, which asks after the internal and external operating conditions of consciousnesses.
In the light of artificial intelligence, it becomes clearer what natural intelligence does. We only prostheticize what we have understood sufficiently explicitly, and we reassess what cannot be prostheticized."
March 2nd , 2025, Dębina
Such false reports of so-called revolutions, for their part, are capable and in need of explication: in their amateur phase they are utopías, and once professionalized they are termed advertising or public relations.(From this perspective, the Soviet Union was above all an advertising agency chat spread the news of the revolution it pretended to be)
March 14th, New York City
At any rate, this much is certain: in a reality that is reworked by the practice of enlightenment, artificial light covers up the self-luminous. What is presented in modern fashion as "obvious" or capable of forming the surface is never the self-fulfilling nature that shows what it shows , and conceals what it conceals. (...)
Knowledge produced through research and intervention is neon-light knowledge. The self-clearing of being is replaced by the forcible clearing of the "given ," and organic perception ís replaced by organized observation. Under such premises, it is unimaginable that humans could ever again integrate themselves into a "truth event" derived from the old nature, with its "fulfillment," its "birthing" and its concealment and retreat imo inconspicuousness - an event in which the thíngs show of their own accord, without being forced, what and how much of themselves they will reveal, preserving the dark remainder as their secret. (...)
Research as a systematic removal of the unrevealed must, according to Heidegger, lead to an ever deeper misunderstanding of concealment.
From this perspective, the disaster of latency is the secret main event of the twentieth century. Its most lurid results are instrumentalized nuclear power, uncovered immune systems, the decoded genome and the unveiled brain. In the face of these factors, those going along with a technologically unconcealing civilization are confronted with the monstrous that after the rupture of latency, places itself in the middle of the reality network.
March 15th, New York City
"That is why truth, as understood by the philosophers, the first immunologists of being, has such outstanding value in the history of metaphysics: because the deep structure of alethéia - undisguisedness, unconcealment - is the same as that of immunitas - unobligation, unentanglement in the shared faces and tasks (munera) of mortals - it must be considered (by its few connoisseurs) the greatest good."
"Discovering truth thus means grasping the non-everyday reason for the unassailability of life,"
March 22nd, Clearwater | Tampa
"As we know, Platonic immunity is restricted to the "spirit realm," whereas the frail sensate bodies only remain in shape temporarily, as long as the soul remains in them. Platonic philosophy accordingly recommends itself as a school of separation in which the distinction of the sustainable from the ephemeral is practiced in advance.
This enabled Socrates to teach without irony that the philosopher's aim is to have died as much as possible in his lifetime.
Dying is an analysis-dissolution of the body-dependent union of sameness and otherness with the aim of returning the sameness part to the immortal reservoir of pure forms."
"For centuries, the metaphysically coded concept of the soul was the most suggestive proposition articulating interest in anticorruption programs for that which was frail and alive. It was the first comprehensive antibiotic and analgesic, Its strength lay in the ability to allow the most popular and most subtle interpretations; its comprehension extended from non-rational notions of arousal and power to the intelligence level of mathematical angels."
"However far removed the metaphysically interpreted soul may be from the modern notion of an antibody patrol specializing in defense against microbes and that of an endocrinological shield, it combined the sensitive-mobile level of empirical vitality with the defense and maintenance provided by a meta-vital formal level. If there was ever consolation in philosophy, it was that which came from the immune effects of such form-related observations."March 23rd, Clearwater | Tampa
"One cannot gain an accurate impression of the recent European history of ideas as long as one overlooks its hidden main motif, which is this: Plato's second chance. Renaissance thought already responded early on to the world picture-exploding effects of the new empiricism—Columbus' voyage, Magellan's crossing, the early earth globography, the mapping of the world, the dissection of bodies, early chemistry and the expansion of mechanical engineering— with a dramatic revival of Platonic natural philosophy and a resumption of classical pan-psychism and pan-organicism.
This means that the oft-cited "disenchantment of the world" through the modern sciences never took place, any more than its supposed re-enchantment through vitalist and neo-religious movements—rather, mechanistic and pan-psychist motifs in the process of Modern Age thought were polemically and coproductively intertwined from the outset, and still are to this day. "
March 29th, Clearwater | Tampa
"Only once the explication of immune structures had unfolded sufficiently, did the means to describe modern societies as multiplicities of immune-space productions become available or, to reintroduce the central metaphor of this third section in the novel of spaces: as foams. (...)
Only thus could he (Jakob von Uexküll) arrive at the aforementioned, far-reaching conclusion that the universe consisted "not of a single soap bubble that we have blown up beyond our horizon into the infinite (interjection in mid-sentence: the best characterization of metaphysical activity ever given from outside the profession!), but of countless millions of narrowly bounded soap bubbles that overlap and intersect everywhere."
March 30th, AA Flight 2775
"Speaking of foam provides a metaphor that is used as a term of explanation for multiplicities of neighboring, interlocking, piled-up improvisations of habitat immunity that have attracted the attention of theory. It serves to formulate a philosophical-anthropological interpretation of modern individualism that I am convinced cannot be adequately described using previously existing means. Foam theory is connected to the prospect of a new explanatory form for what sociological tradition calls the social bond or "social synthesis" — an explanation that goes beyond the classic answers to the Kantianizing question of how "society" is possible as a collective of shareholders."
April 5th, 2025, Pinelass Park | Clearwater
"Those who are original wear self-woven garments. This raises the question of whether stabilizations of small-scale units of the aforementioned type can be viewed as culture-compatible achievements. An even more serious problem, which is made palpable by the claims of holists, is this: how can one justify demanding that the individuated spaces in which individuals have free rein as chieftains of their own delirium (Axel C. Springer: "If there is one word I hate, it is 'reality'") be "subsumed" under the super-institution of the civilizational "whole"?"
"The bond of similarity between neighbors in the mountain of foam (described elsewhere as a milieu or subculture) arises neither through joint inspiration nor verbal exchange, but rather because of a mimetic contagion that causes a modus vivendi, a way of designing and securing the habitat, to spread through a population."
"It is necessary to counteract such helpless formalisms which, for better or worse, have gained a troubling popularity, both academically and journalistically, with an ethics of situations—or transactions, in a broad sense of the word. It would be a form of business economics for civilization hothouses; one could call it atmosphere ethics. It formulates the good as the breathable; it could also be called soap bubble ethnics. Its hallmark is that it describes the most fragile as the starting point of responsibility. "
April 6th, 2025, Pinelass Park | Clearwater
"If one had to formulate in a nutshell what is new about "politics," it would be this: it is the invention of coexistence as the synthesis of the nonrelated. It is tied to the creation of a collective commonality not restricted to the familial."
April 12th, 2025, Lodz
"So far as the forcible constructivism of Leviathan is concerned, it results—leaving aside systemic motives—primarily from Hobbes' macabre views on the original interactions between humans. In their merely natural, pre-state or insufficiently state-like coexistence, humans necessarily form peaceless multiplicities for what seem to be timelessly valid reasons: those who live at the same time are condemned to tireless competition and merciless war because each individual is forced, like a perpetuum mobile of egotism, to reach out into their world and harm rivals in the battle for scarce resources. Consequently, an interminable war over unshareable assets and positions of advantage stirred up the social field. Civil war speaks the truth about the coexistence of citizens before the contract. As a war of all against all, it is the most powerful symbiotic mechanism because it creates a kind of closeness among combatants that only becomes accessible through the heartiness of mutual hatred."
April 13th, 2025, Brighton-Hove| UK
"Plato's doctrine of the association of beings constitutes philosophical information in the precise sense, assuming one understands philosophy, in keeping with its traditional design,
as expertise on conditions of totality—perhaps, in its idealistic main tendency, as a concealed priesthood of totality devoted to a religion of consensus. But however one defines philosophy, it is first and foremost an agency for hyperbolic allegations of order about everything that is the case."
"The irresistible compulsion exerted by the Athenian's reasoning is grounded in the suggestion to interpret the situation of humans in the political world in terms of a schema, namely the organized whole and its parts—from which, once accepted, only the subordination of the individuals to the overall plan can follow (assuming one rules out an open secession to knowingly desired evil as the other of perfection). "
April 19th, 2025, Brighton-Hove| UK
"With the schema of the living whole and its parts, sublime holism provides the matrix for the advanced-civilized ontologies of service, sacrifice and cooperation without which, to this day, no Roman church and no Japanese firm can function, nor any US Marines or any of the military regimes that have shown their fierce colors on the political maps of the twentieth century."
April 20th, 2025, Brighton-Hove| UK
"What is here termed a bubble is a place of strong relationship whose hallmark is that humans in the space of closeness form a psychic relationship of reciprocal harboring; I have suggested describing this with the term "autogenous vessel". The notion of a multiplicity of psychic self-vessels leads almost automatically to the term "foam" - absorbing Tarde's topological reference to the masses of human associations and thus gaining the heterodox image of a war foam. Foams are rhizomes of interiors; their principle of adjacency lies above all in lateral annexations, flat condominiums or co-isolated associations."
April 26th, 2025, Lodz, Poland
"If space travel in ontological terms is important for a technically enlightened theory of the human condition, it is because it builds up an experimental design concerning three categories that are indispensable for the human ability to be: immanence, artificiality and upswing.
Manned space stations are anthropological demonstration fields because the being-in-the-world of astronauts is no longer possible except as being-on-the-station. The ontological nub of this condition lies in the fact that the station, far more than any terrestrial island, constitutes a world model, or more precisely an immanence machine, in which existing or being-able-to-reside-in-a-world becomes completely dependent on technological world-givers.
The suitable onboard philosophy would be Heidegger's theory of enframing, albeit in a positive form."
May 3rd, 2025, Lodz, Poland
"According to the current consensus among paleontologists, the African savannah is the terrain on which the hominization of a former tree monkey species took place (...)
In this view of things, the grass steppe appears as the sea from which the Anthroponese emerges. Hence the primary event of early history, the genesis of humans, has above all a topological secret. In the birth of humanity, the scene of the deed must explain the deed; the place of the events holds the key to what happened there."
"In the state of minimally complete development, the anthroposphere can be defined as a nine-dimensional space. It comprises the following topoi or dimensions as providers of respectively indispensable world-forming functions:1. The chirotope, which encompasses the operational realm ofhuman hands (..)2. The phonotope (or logotope), which creates the vocal domebeneath which the coexistent listen to one another (...)3. The uterotope (or hysterotope), which serves the expansion ofthe mothering zone and the political metaphorization ofpregnancy4. The thermotope, which integrates the group as an originalbeneficiary of shared hearth effects that make home sweet (...)5. The erototope, which organizes the group as a place of primaryerotic transference energies and places it under stress asa field of jealousy;6. The ergotope (or phallotope), in which a paternal or clericalpower of definition effective throughout the group creates asensus communis (...)7. The alethotope (or mnemotope), which enables a learninggroup to constitute itself as the guardian of its experientialcontinuum and keep itself in shape (...)8. The thanatotope or theotope (or perhaps iconotope), whichoffers the group's ancestors, their dead, their spirits andtheir gods a space of revelation (...)9. The nomotope, which binds the coexistent together throughshared "customs," labor division and mutual expectations, (...)"
"Homo sapiens comes from the synergy of intellect and pampering. Michel Serres summarized the anthropological consequences of this long-term evolutionary tendency in his term hominescence: hededuces the species' mode of being from its permanently adolescent, exploring and becoming constitution."
May 25th, 2025, Lodz, Poland
The chirotope
The knife experience is mirrored in the early encyclopedias. If humans have separate words for the many beings and things that exist around them, it is because they use knives in their mouths.
The right language, then, would be the one that followed the cuts placed within the existence, always severing where caesuras and differences are suggested by the things themselves. Breeds and species are so important for early thought because they create the impression of containing the objective portions of the existent; the real differences are perceived like the joints of the existent.
May 31st, 2025, Lodz, Poland
The phonotope
The group lives in a sound installation of absolute implicitness; within it, self-hearing is effective as a medium of belonging. One must not read this as an objection to the monotony of archaic groups, but rather as a reference to the fact that redundancy is the stuff that corporate identities are made of.
(...)
From this perspective, modern audio mass culture offers a near-perfect reconstruction of the primitive phonotope - with the difference that the latter constituted an evolutionary necessity for the coexistence of humans with their own kind in a gradually less secure world, something like an acoustic immune system that helped the group to remain in the continuum of self-attunement; the current auditory populism, by contrast (very much against McLuhan's pentecostal expectations), aims for a single exercise in regression, determined to glue up the ears of the collective and make its members deaf to information, different sounds and newness.
(...)
The acoustic self-tuning of the group is, in a sense, the functional inversion of the male birdsong, which serves to demarcate breeding areas and isolate the singers at the center of their acoustic zones.
(...)
Evangeliums and dysangeliums are primarily attributes of musical keys or colorations of messages. The feeling of elation expresses a primitive musical state that makes no secret of its representative purpose. One could characterize it as Nietzsche characterized the early tribal gods, namely as media of self-congratulation. In them, their believers celebrate their reasons for being on top: "People are grateful for themselves: and this is why they need a God."
(...)
The monastic silentium works with this difference in order to separate divine quietness from human loudness. In interiore homine habitat veritas: Augustine insists that after the silentium caesura, the truth will only be found where things are quiet—alongside Plato's garden, it is above all the houses of God that are suitable. The inner human does not exist until the books, the monastic cells, the deserts and the solitudes have separated it off; only when humans themselves become a cell or camera silens can the quiet voice of reason dwell within them. A reasonable ego cannot be had without acoustic isolation.
(...)
What the phenomenologists called the bracketing of the naïve attitude to life is in essence an active holiday from the prejudices and gesticulations that cause the interior to be as loud as the exterior. What is a firm conviction but a firmly trained, loud inner voice? This doxic screaming inside me is silenced by philosophical meditation.
Homo silens is the guardian of mental de-automation.
June 1st, 2025, Lodz, Poland
The Uterotope
When Hegel remarks in his lectures on anthropology that the mother is "the genius of the child," one can add from a biotopological perspective that the mother is the situation of the child—or, in Bowlby's terms, its environment of evolutionary adaptedness.
Speaking of the "mother" in the context of humans implies an analysis situs, as the use of the term obliges one to say in what position the child is in relation to her—whether still inside or already outside, or, in a certain sense (but what sense?), in both positions at once. One thus refers to the fact that following the internalization of egg deposition and fetal evolution in utero, a new type of event was produced: birth. The turn inwards resulted in a proto-drama of coming out, a primary coercion and talent to leave the womb, an early fatality in the choice of the path that leads forwards, out into the "open." As the matrix of all more radical changes of place and state, the fact of birth will have unforeseeable consequences.
June 7th, 2025, Lodz, Poland (my 66 birthday :-) )
Mammal birth can, at least, be compared to a transition from life in the water to existence on land and in the air, as if each offspring in the line of mammifers had to reenact the primordial exodus from the sea and the acquisition of mainland ways of living in its own becoming.
(...)
Heidegger hinted at this with an ontologically sobered concept of ecstasy as being-with-the-circumstances. Whoever ek-sists* is held out into something in which they initially cannot be with themselves. For humans, the ontological eccentrics, being outside precedes being housed with oneself—although the harshness of this finding is usually alleviated by the protective power of the spheric alliances.
Uterotopic synthesis means the election of humans to a joint origin from an incomparable cave (and being jointly stuck in it).
By contrast, utopian synthesis means the election of humans to take a shared path to an incomparable land of arrival. Uterotopia and utopia mirror each other like elitisms of origin and future. They represent the two source regions of the manic consciousness—and eo ipso the two deepest motives for abandoning solidarity with the fates of the rest. With this difference in mind, one can understand that contrary to what Marx and Engels thought, all history is the history of battles between chosen groups.
So it was not entirely accurate to claim that all history is the history of battles between chosen groups; it is equally the history of battles between pampering groups.
(...)
One could go so far as to say that the postmodernized spirit of nations only rests on the solidarity funds and insurance systems - especially in Central and Northern Europe, where the most comfortable thermotopic institutions of the world are located. Anyone who wanted to transfer these conditions to world society would first have to resolve the thermotopic paradox and show how one can favor all over all.
June 15th, 2025, Dębina, Poland
The erototope
As soon as the earliest and most frugal conditions no longer prevail on the anthropogenic island, its inhabitants increasingly differ in the following terms: what someone is more; what someone has more; and what someone represents more. Consequently, part of group wisdom is jealousy management, which takes a three-dimensional approach.
(...)
The first tuition in the school of desire comes in the form of prohibitions: here one learns the necessary lessons via taboo and "thou shalt not." The calmer the ownership, the easier it is to prevent wish escalation. The prohibition reveals the presence of the third party, who already stepped between Me and You before our empirical encounter: this guarantee-providing third party separates me from my naïve desire for the other's advantages at the same time as forbidding the other to exhibit his privileges.
(...)
In its concretism, which mirrors a small or medium existence as a livestock and slave owner around 1000 BC, with its typical dramas, the tenth commandment hints at the formulation of a general rule of wish abstinence that helps to lower tensions in the erototope.
June 19th, 2025, Dębina, Poland
The ergotope
If ergotropic situations are radicalized, we may find ourselves on the rowing benches of galleys, condemned to keep the pace dictated to us. We toil away in quarries, in forced mining, in the Katorga, the work camps of death. At other times we are voluntary cooperators, deployed for a shared cause through an enthusiastic consensus: cathedral-building communities, freedom fighters, crusaders or finalists.
(...)
Athletes are the first simulators of the emergency. The invention of the actor-warrior is undoubtedly one of the most valuable civilizatory achievements in European antiquity. When the modern Olympic Games were initiated in 1896, the renaissance of antiquity that had begun in the fourteenth century entered its notably delayed mass culture phase, split into the Greek and Roman paths. Nonetheless, the civilizing simulation of war in the Olympic sports venues failed to prevent real wars, either the regional or so-called "world" wars.
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