Writing component 2

First nothing. No. First the space. Now a point. A group of lines. A flock. Between life and non-life. Without a will. Without a goal. But with a momentum. With a force. Moving in a direction. Down. Right. Up. Down again. Towards another point. Sliding over obstacles. Piercing through. Dancing around. Or alongside. Drawn towards. Pushed away. Responding to forces. Rules. Shapes. Context that I frame around. [1]

Me. A hypersubject. A self-proclaimed almost-god-like figure. Forcing my will. Dominion. Master.

Them. Hyposubjects. So insignificant. Single points in space-time. But together a mass. A collective numb resistance. I can’t get through. A movement not fully in my control. Out of my grasp. Not just little nothings. More than the sum of its parts. An entity. An activity. A force. [2]

Me. Not the Grand Architect of the Universe. Not an all-knowing all-capable force. Me. A sculptor. A craftsman. Prometheus. Giving a shape to material. Odin. Giving the breath of life. Facing the limits of reality. Helpless. Learning. Persisting. Seeing what happens.

Them. Existing? Designed? Imagined? Programmed? Virtual? Real? Not real? Objects? Subjects? Alive? Behaving? Misbehaving? A group? A crowd? A herd? A pack? Paths? Movements? Equation? Calculation? Miscalculation? 

Give a form. Give a shape. Give an obstacle. Give a direction. Guide. Missed. Misinterpreted. No matter. Guide again. Failed. Failed better. Worse. And better again. [1]

Worked. Didn’t work. What if? But no. What if that? Yes. But not like imagined. Try anyway. That direction? No. Slightly different. But what if? No. A bit. Yes, but. No. Still no.

[1] Morton, T., Boyer, D., (2021) Hyposubjects. On becoming human, Open Humanities Press

Available at: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/

[2] Beckett, S., Worstward Ho (1983)

Available at: http://www.samuel-beckett.net/w_ho.html