“Writing has nothing to do with signifying. It has to do with surveying, mapping, even realms that are yet to come.” —Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
To me, writing is the only effective way of thinking. Aren’t there few acts lonelier than thinking to yourself—of absorbing concepts and processing affect in your mind and body? It’s an activity that produces such amorphous fruits of thought, and unfortunately my mind is not rigorous enough to maintain the shape of thoughts for any useful period of time.
Thus: writing is my way of giving tangible shape to thoughts, a documentation of phenomena to come back to later. And like Deleuze said above, writing allows me to identify the gaps and also keep sight of the next frontiers to venture upon.
Even though the ‘death of the author’ suggests that a text is like a mined crystal—removed, like a broken extension of the original creator’s body, then left to be marked and shaped at the mercy of the world—writing as a process is deeply personal work. It requires you to mull inside and outside of yourself at the same time. Nothing exists in a vacuum, not even the most original seeds of thought. Ideas always grow forth from something else. And it is this process of writing that is more valuable to me than achieving a completed text.
So, this space will contain pieces of writing—often short, never perfect—that serve to document my life and identify new frontiers for me. I hope that you can also come across things of interest to you—be it some place or event that I visited, a person I talked to, an idea I mulled on—from which we can find common ground to connect and grow our worlds a little bit more.
Enjoy your stay; welcome to my realm.