atoposNew York, 2025-2026 I find myself indoors...
“but he isn’t inside it, and there is no outside”1“It is good to say it out loud: ‘Nothing happened.’ Once more: ‘Nothing happened.’Does that help at all?”2“that their life is winding down, connected to nothing at all, like a clock in an empty room”3“meaning seems to dissolve into nothing when we follow it through”4“The clock shows us the time. What time is, is not yet settled. And as regards the point of time—that doesn’t come in here.”5“this game, as any other game, had its basic rule: Nothing was to happen”6“to let myself drop somewhere outside of language, into the inert, and in a sense, quite simply, to sit down”7“no more than a dust of figures stirring according to an unpredictable order, like a fly buzzing in a room”8
1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations.
2. Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
3. Ibid.
4. Wittgenstein. op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. Baudrillard, Jean. Please Follow Me.
7. Barthes, Roland. A Lover's Discourse.
8. Ibid.