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Escape while embrace Hyperobject — cybernetic contingency and breathe

12/1/2020

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Escape while embrace Hyperobject — cybernetic contingency and breathe 

The abolishment of a metalanguage in idealism indicates to a well-known Chinese Taoist saying “Once is spoken, the truth is gone”. The processing of linguistic expression is baked by thoughts, as thoughts invoke a notion of relativism from different vantage points of view. We are constantly locked in our perception and identification of objects that limit the speed of thoughts which might be the only object we human can produce that is faster than light. The recursivity continues to grow and shrink, finally turning into the end of the world. The phenomenological experience does not defend the existence of the world but explores the existence of thoughts. Does the world exist beyond the thought? Do we agree with the anthropic principle at all?

The notion of sub-quantum infinitesimals “an all-pervading, non-local and atemporal regime of determinacy where classical relativism and Quantum tenets break down” resonates with what Lorentz had noticed that electromagnetic waves shrank mysteriously as if foreshortened, as they approached light speed. As all hyperobjects are immersed in electromagnetic fields, can we escape from them by reaching the speed of light? So the potency lies in our utilisation of thought. It does establish the whole human civilisation regardless of its omen of numerous apocalypses. It does generate technology to slowly moving our steps to whatever we call idealism regardless of its initial aggressiveness to thrive. Still, here we stand, queer everything we have done, propel nothing but everything to embrace the end. The ultimate entanglement of paradoxical thoughts hit the primordial desire to eat, drink and propagate. The only condolence for myself is through the cybernetic contingency and breathe.

Cybernetic contingency retrieves its shyness by the rising prowess of luck and the spontaneity in thoughts. The canalised development of energy always seeks its pathway back to the origin, where ‘luck’ is fortuitously encountered by chance. This is not a pathway towards ultimate optimism but a tendency of recoiled pessimism. Lingering in-between leads to correlationist circle while we evoke the notion of speculative realism to position ourselves in a non-local nothingness. The situatedness of nothingness is spawned by breathing, not the physiological need for air but an intensive focus on breathing itself. The sound and the conscious intention of breath-in and out fills the Kantian gap between phenomenon and thing, hence annihilates the immanence of hyper objects namely hypocrisy, weakness and lameness. It leaves no objective materials to deflect from or reflect on, gradually hollowing out a non-existent space beyond spatial-temporality. Yet we can never escape hyperobjects unless we embrace them. There is always a choice of playfulness and surrender to contingency and spontaneity. The manifestation of truth contributes to aesthetic value. However, it can hardly reveal the truth since its total trajectories in its allocated spacetime become its truth after the end of its world. And what remains after its end might just perpetually and ephemerally hide within the breath. 

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