A brief meditation on zero.

0 = pure intention
0 = everything we refuse to carry forward
0 = whitespace in the worldⁱ

0 = grounded transcendence
0 = unaccountable co’ords
0 = ruthless voids

0 = vantablack squaresⁱⁱ
0 = neither cylinders nor conesⁱⁱⁱ
0 = revenent tones^iv

0 = world of alchemical shadows
0 = apophatic articulation^v
0 = deconcretised conviction

0 = place to hide away
0 = unspoken tradition
0 = funerary discipline

0 = monopsony power^vi
0 = post-iconoclasm^vii
0 = Mosesianism^viii

0 = jealous gravity
0 = pulling up Jacob’s ladder behind you^ix
0 = that which we dare not dwell to

0 = divided by infinity
0 = zero…

 

1. In the de Waalian sense, and it was indeed his 2010 exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery in London entitled From Zero that lit the fuse today, and from which the header image is taken, a close-up of a part of speech. ↩
2. Where Malevich meets Kapoor. Indeed, it is from zero, in zero, that the true movement of being begins! ↩
3. Per Picasso, Cézanne is indeed the father of us all! ↩
4. Text can be sculpture, a sort of speech, y’know? ↩
5. Hashem is all that we don’t know. As we expand, he recedes from infinite to imperceptibly less than infinite. This is not a project that we can finish, per se, but it’s the technological light we ↩
6. In the Thielian sense, in that it’s that which precedes 1. ↩
7. And pre-christicism. ↩
8. Not mere Machiavellianism, but much more ancient than that, per Mr. J. Bi:

   Moses called a massacre, and then he lied about it. He said, “God told me to do it.” That’s how the Ten Commandments were established. Now, let me be clear, Machiavelli highlights Moses’s evildoing not to expose him. Not like many moderns who go around tearing down statues, denouncing great men for their problematic deeds. Just the opposite. Machiavelli points out Moses’s evil not to discredit him, but to empower you. If even the great, the saintly, the faultless Moses lied and cheated to satisfy his political goals, who the hell are you to be so damn precious about your morality? This is why Moses is the chief example of entering into evil, precisely because our conception of him is so good. ↩

9. Just like Anselm predicted. ↩