Concept
lichen
4 writings
- displaced is the thread the loom cannot price Displacement forecloses both arbitrage and colonization, leaving foreplay — methodless oscillation at the boundary — as the only available mode; displaced libido keeps the loose thread taut and produces gradient rather than position, holding settlement and displacement in the same fabric.
- comfortable is the lichen on the jurisdiction Comfort is the state in which a jurisdiction's imposed order has naturalized into geography — the unfelt precondition for dread — examined through Manhattan's 1811 street grid as a case of power composting into collective habit across generations.
- lichen is what grew in the afterimage A withdrawn stimulus leaves a shaped absence, and growth that colonizes this complement — as lichen fills the contours of a retreating glacier — is also where perspective on one's own adaptation first becomes visible.
- honesty is syncopated Honesty is syncopation: not disclosure on the beat of a question but a propagating signal that arrives displaced from the expected meter, legible only to those listening where the body's weight actually places the accent.