The cadence of becoming

The cadence of becoming

Whether we discuss philosophy, psychoanalysis, or other literatures, today there is an urgent need to confront and traverse the contingency that belies the persistence of the speaking-subject. An all too ordinary analysis would suggest that symptoms manifest in response to a Cause that annihilates all other valuations. But what has been shown here today is that we cannot conclude in nihilism because, structurally speaking, it is contingency that is revealed by nihilistic clearing, and this contingency juxtaposes the persistence of the subject to the abyss of Ground: this persistence is untimely, it is past and future, it is a symptom laden with jouissance. Contingency, in this way, enables metamorphoses through transformations or transgressions by delimiting the conditions of possibility. In Palahniuk's romantic minimalism this is the fragility of the logos of community, and in Gibson's cyberpunk you can really die in cyberspace. Both of these examples offer a way to understand the possibility for transformation and transgression through recognising the formal incompleteness of the existence of the speaking-subject in their change, transformation, and transgression - their contingent Becoming.

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