antagonist

A person cannot claim he is by thinking he is.  At the very least, not by reaching such a vain conclusion by doubting everything else only to realize one cannot doubt what enables one’s doubt in the first place i.e. thought. On the contrary, man is a Mängelwesen, his very being is to be deficient, lacking, [...]

An authenthic aphorism must never refer to another. It is sufficient unto itself, a world or monad. But whether one wants to or not, whether one sees it or not, aphorisms interlink here as aphorisms, and in number, numbered. Their series obeys an irreversible order. Hence, it is without being architectural. Reader, visitor, get to [...]

The banal boringness of the new anti-capitalists is disheartening. Not only are their critiques fraught with error and misconceptions, misconstruals and misgivings (mostly); they fail to do the most basic thing any serious criticaster of capital and its workings must do first and foremost: to analyze capitalism. While they spread Marxisms left and right (!) [...]

From Lumen Journal’s Preface by Edwin Mak and Matthew Flanagan: This debut collection of essays, visuals and sounds is assigned to the Forest; and is explored by our contributors, without the intention of being exhaustive, in a proximate thematical relation to cinema. The Forest has been approached as an invariant idea that continues to be [...]