The idea or the endeavour of finding a system of human knowledge, or, put differently and more appropriately, of contemplating human knowledge within a system, within a form of coexistence, presupposes, of course, that originally and of itself it does not exist in a system, hence that it is an asystaton — something whose elements do not coexist, but rather something that is in inner conflict. In order to recognize this asystasy, this non-existence, this disunity … in human knowledge (for this inner conflict must become apparent), the human spirit must already have searched in every possible direction.
F.W.J. Schelling, On the Nature of Philosophy as Science (1821)
Disunity predates the tenuous unity of thought…anterior, it feeds on thinking, secretes over its joints, dissolves its flesh, dismantles it into corpuscles, stems, and bubbles even as thought creates itself anew from the conflict and strife against which it has no choice but to exist.
This is the project of Asystasy: to find what rustles, burrows, chews, spits venom in the gardens of thinking, to chase what escapes through the curvatures of one life. It is a provocation and an invitation.
More to come.