it is overneath 9 years ago
This blog started out as a multi-voice poem nine years ago one easter. Well, laying it out by hand with coloured pencil in a highlight-coding for each 'voice'. The nine year old FB post said I am a year in at this stage. Before that is was just a ‘unsplit’ univocal poem. Or notes. I have lots of notes.
The blog is a way of putting up those notes for others with an open hand. Otherwise they would just be stuck in my notebooks. I suspect the effort is part of being of a grandparent age.
Having more recently learned about social learning I’ll say this is a good thing for a social learning species. It is a type of worlding which is why we should in the first place.
It's over a year so far this performance work poem thingy and I think by doing a bit of gardening ( yes not metaphorical real broad bean and lettuce seeds) I've been able to cut two dialogues and been able to say only editing and layout required. I present 'Overneath: the ethical response to morality' [facebook]
I often joke to the annoyance of purer-spirited optimistic people "I am a failed poet", and they replied concerned about my mental health, "no one is a failure". Maybe I should add failed street poet, and then they would say 'thank god', but people rarely get that comedic reference to Rik Mayall’s persona these days. In any case it remains true, but the street is now the internet's bastard social-media phase just before it all turns into an AI slopp-i-verse.
This is an excuse to explore the gallery function. I wish I took more photos.
These papers are in a box somewhere.
From this effort I then turned the core “insight” (when reflecting on a memory) into an essay “why we should” after which this blog is also polysemously named. I entered this essay into an competition and it did not win. See failure is a good thing.
Sometimes I have to explain the joke of that title “why we should”, and that I am not a relativist, that a meta-view point regarded the relativity of points-of-view or perspectives of individuals and their sociality, is not the same as saying everything is relative. Both Mary Douglas and Pyrrho had to do the same thing BTW. Peeps just ignore what they are saying and impute their strawman in projection. I suspect fear drives them. But that is a guess, a finger pointing, not an open hand.
More recently I am saying (as a jokey displacement) that this means I am a meta-anarchist. But no one gets it, I barely even get it. But it makes me laugh.
You can read about my invention of “multi-voice” or compositional poetry here, with PDF examples. I should find a recording and put that up. Hhhmmm. It's also probably in a box somewhere.
It might be possible to buy two of them online as a "performance set", however the POD publisher I used stopped using the spiral binding some years ago.
It's only since I started writing in the blog format that I have come to terms with what I write in any format or genre, that it is a type of moral philosophy, but there is no way I am a philosopher, failed or otherwise. Even as I crit their efforts.
At base I guess everyone is a 'social theorist', which is as near to saying nothing as it is possible, while still pointing outside the self.
Away from what is at hand.
Offering the world.
Crossposted at substack.com