Empire wishes the present to be in limbo between what was and what could be. If the body of
christ can be eaten as bread in the present, women are ovens and akin to objects for
extracting, to be eaten from............................
SINCE institutions have been categorizing everything as part of chapters in time is there a
space chapter?
Yes - an obsession that is old, but a result of ideas
coming out of expansion and empire. (& Abrahamic languages)
Living with my parents necessitated a third space for my life in Dallas. Somewhere I could
go outside of being at work and being at home. The only two spaces most people oscillate
in-between. The existence of the phrase “third space”, implies that there are two spaces
that I am more in contact with than the third. Going by the connotations of “third” used as
an adjective, I am going to safely assume that in the two spaces that are left, I can
separate the degrees of intimacy I have with my environments, the first being the closest.
This is an idea of spaces in relation to my perception, and would be unique to me.
Empires are whole worlds in themselves. While they spread, they explore more of their
own world. an explanation to why people would want to stick a flag into the pores of the
moon.
In the context of empires, the first and second spaces could be the first and second
worlds respectively.
Just as man is a servant of god in the first world,
Men are servants of man in the second world,
Women, servants of men in the third world.
We can try that differently like,
First spaces(/world) are literally what the eye sees, first spaces are behind the
eye, or the perception.
Second spaces(/world) are the eyes, the tools that keep sharpening themselves, the
second world is new. A space of utility. A weapon yield-er.
Third space(/world) is a (world) far away from the light. Third worlds cannot be
seen. They are fever dreams, to be projected upon. Everything that happens there is
not real. The light must be brought there for sterilizing and extracting.
Man and Woman live in the garden of eden, as does god.
Conquer Annihilate Colonize
In Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory, perception is contested between realism and idealism,
and settled on being
inseparable bond between spirit and body.
The spirit being informed of the past,
and the body the present.
the body feels senses, sees, but this is distinct from perception.
Jesus’s power comes from god, not Mary.
Jesus represents an evidence of power, as a vessel for god.
We could make the leap that:
god (whiteness) is of the first world,
men of the second world and
women of the third.
Adam (present) creates eve (futures) by declaring eve seen.
Whiteness is the history that is allowed to be remembered. Whiteness has the strongest root
network, of the spirit, of god. “whiteness is not a racial category but the evidence of
power. “ (postcolonial astrology). Third worlds have no history, they are denied their past
so they can be commodified by the future. Third worlds do not exist in the present. They are
made real (second world) at the meeting points exacted by the first world.
The present isn’t a state of being in time, but the limbo between what was and what
could be.
The present must be realized by the futures.
The present must be realized by annihilating the past, in the dark. The present
exists in the anticipation of bloodshed and abuse.
The present only exists because there are futures to be pillaged.
The present is the death card, at the dawn of a new world.
Reaction Check in :
If the nerves carrying the information from the eyes to perception were severed, is that
decolonization?
if the connection between this second world and first world were severed, is that
decolonization?
if your senses are separate from your perception, is that decolonization?
(Also posited in a different context in Matter and Memory)