macghillie — just a void

Tute Bianche

The primordial darkness of the universe at the moment before creation, as represented in a plate in Robert Fludd’s 1617 Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica, atque Technica Historia (The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds, Namely the Greater and the Lesser). The words Et sic in infinitum (“and like this to infinity”) are written on all four sides of the square.
The black page from Robert Fludd’s Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia, published in Oppenheim 1617

In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an organism to avoid observation or detection by other organisms. A form of antipredator adaptation, methods range from camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle, transparency, or mimicry.
Wikipedia: Crypsis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypsis

Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 – 1605),  Monstrorum Historia

Egungun (Yoruba religion) represents the “collective spirit” of the ancestors.

“Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “why your cat grins like that?”

“It’s a Cheshire-Cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why. ”
J. Tenniel: Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland. 1865

Perhaps it is true … that the openness of the human world (insofar as it is also and primarily an openness to the essential conflict between disconcealment and concealment) can be achieved only by means of an operation enacted upon the not-open of the animal world. And the place of this operation – in which human openness in a world and animal openness toward its disinhibitor seem for a moment to meet – is boredom.
G. Agamben: The open: man and animal. Stanford CA 2004, p 62

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my Black Cat eludes visibility, she does not appear, beyond anybody’s grasp – the destiny of the me, the Super-Extra Man, not knowing her, anticipating her, claiming her to be resistant, to be the one, who does not surrender, who does not subject herself, who cannot be located. my Black Cat – imagination of the me, the speaker and the listener, absent explanation of the cybernetic machine, bare of any evidence, basis of pro-jection for another machine,  adressable, but fugitive. my Black Cat over- and undercoded, crossing the coordinates of the setting, ignoring the cybernetic demands, being here and not here, offering me a Super-Extra paradoxical life, displaying rules, logics and modes, only pretending to be outside, inside, but persistently separated from machine and me, the Super-Extra, ignoring the necessities of measures and mechanisms. The cybernetic machine juxtaposed to my Super-Extra freedom being my home, forming, controlling and securing me, the speaker and the listener.
Super-Extra, don`t move!

knowbotic research: my Black Cat. 2007

For this reason – to risk advancing a prophecy here – the coming politics will no longer be a struggle to conquer or to control the state on the part of either new or old social subjects, but rather a struggle between the state and the nonstate (humanity), that is, an irresolvable disjunction between whatever singularities and the state organization. …
Whatever singularities cannot form a societas within a society of the spectacle because they do not possess any identity to vindicate or any social bond whereby to seek recognition. The struggle against the state, therefore, is all the more implacable, because this is a state that nullifies all real contents but that … would also declare any being radically lacking a representable identity to be simply nonexistent. …
The threat the state is not willing to come to terms with is precisely the fact that the unrepresentable should exist and form a community without either presuppositions or conditions of belonging… The whatever singularity – this singularity that wants to take possession of belonging itself as well as of its own being-into-language, and that thus declines any identity and any condition of belonging – is the new, nonsubjective, and socially inconsistent protagonist of the coming politics. Wherever these singularities peacefully manifest their being-in-common, there will be another Tiananmen and, sooner or later, the tanks will appear again.
G. Agamben: Means without end : notes on politics. Minneapolis 2006, p 88-9