The aim of this blog, perhaps the aim of most blogs, is to give the incoherence of my experiences and thoughts a context in which they might take on at least some semblance of coherence. Of course, the paradox [the absurdity] of the human epistemological condition [our hopeless desire to know] is that our predilection for coherence is incongruous with the overwhelming complexity, ambiguity, and contradiction inherent in the world we inhabit. The consequence of this incongruity is that at the core of understanding is incoherence. Obviously, this means that in my feeble attempt to construct some coherent understanding of the world around me, I should simultaneously hope to make both your and my world less coherent.
So that’s what this blog will be about: relinquishing our predilection for coherence. Constructing incoherence.
Re-reading the six sentences I just wrote, I’d say we’re off to a pretty good start.
In conclusion, Camus:
“Of whom and of what indeed can I say: ‘I know that!’ This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that is exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction.”
