Thursday, November 1, 2012

Apologia for my Courses


                        Apologia

When the structures and protocols that filter the
whelm  are absent ( or, more diabolically: removed),
what is exposed  is  the matrix, womb, chaos – which
might be said to have it’s own “order” but it’s an order
uncanny and unfamiliar to our “arches.” 

An-archy.  Feels more like BB Wolf at the door, say,
                       huffing & puffing.

Revelation. Apocalypse – literally opening (apo)
&  exposing what is concealed by our structures, protocols,
habits, routines, rituals, rites.  Oooomygawd, anyone is
likely to exclaim.  

We don’t normally see our ORDER as a cover-up,
concealing the chaos,   or our terms as determining,
defining & excluding, eclipsing & occluding the REST. 
And so  the words Apocalypse and Revelation
have monumental dislocating  & crucial connotations
of shock and awe as opposed to mere description:

      Look. Look at  what we over look! 
     See what we cover!  Consider what’s
     behind our neatness, tidy, predictable
       and necessary habits of mind and
      common sense—what’s left out by
               what we factory in.   

What is gained when the cover-up is uncovered?
                        What is lost?
           What are the gain-to-lost ratios?

Apologia: the logic of openings, the explanations,
reasons-why is what an apology is,  literally.
Justifying the apocalypse.

How come it’s common connotation is:
I’m Sorry.  I’m So Sorry.

I owe you all an apology, all the time. My courses
are descriptively  apocalyptic, anarchistic, chaotic
and the most  powerful (literally: potential, un-
determined possibilities) around probably  in the
country and I  offer you an apology: an explanation
and  reason  why, which is –I just said--what an
apology originally is, no  matter it’s common sense
of contrition.

But you  can see how  that connotation evolved and
took over, seeing as  exposing, revealing  cover-up
for full view can  be demoralizing & nobody might
want to see what’ covered up It’s probably a
crime to force it.

Emperors New Clothes and the Elephant in the Room 
There are Good & Bad Reasons why these are not
addressed: uncovered, exposed, revealed for
converse action.

Need we argue?

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