Interview · Podcast
The Exploring Antinatalism Podcast #52
with Josiah S. Cooper · External podcast (not WULD-owned)
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11 · Archive
A discrete cabinet of disparate objects — clinical treatise next to baroque scream next to a noise-wall. Curated to show range, not completeness.
The answer lies in the concept of defiant archiving and metacognitive exploration. Works like Love Void Love: Writings of Things and Other Things, The Point, The Book of Nought, and The Known and the Unknown serve as meticulous records of existential crisis. The Point, specifically, is noted as having been written during a period of intense mental health struggle, encompassing severe panic attacks and non-epileptic-psychogenic-pseudo-seizures during the pandemic (circa 2021). The act of writing, therefore, becomes a crucial mechanism for metacognition—thinking about how and why we think, and observing the breakdown of the mind from a third-party perspective. It is an attempt to systematically map the boundaries of the void and document the failure of human consciousness. — Self-frame
Unlisted material and select pieces. Click a thumbnail to watch in theater mode; the secondary link opens on YouTube in a new tab.
Numbered-fragment metaphysical nihilism, written through severe panic attacks and non-epileptic-psychogenic-pseudo-seizures during the pandemic (circa 2021).
Non-existence = default because void remains void because void = void as opposed to the notion of existence or ‘things themselves’ (i.e. non illusory independences of observance). Existence remains just as undefined as non-existence, whereas non-existence = at least logically deductible through a series of questions and analysis: What is a thing fundamentally, to the very core? How? And if you cannot answer these questions without postulations of infinity somethings or ‘errors in the universe’ the answer will always = a void remains a void because void = void, logically, necessarily, absolutely, completely, totally, utterly and entirely.
With my acknowledgment of w-holes (replacement word for ‘things’) I must admit that our perceptual foundation of the world through the scientific method = undeniable in a concrete (supraliminal) sense. W-holes do not rely on my belief to = w-hole. I am however less and less certain of the due repercussions of my original positions. Have I really said anything new and original, or have I just reinvented language a little bit (flipped words upside down)? I can at least say with some certainty that I can present a very good game to play.
— The Point
In regards to the “logical narrative”, of course, I understand that this is all anfractuous aporia — blatant — and tortuous impasse of “paradox”. It is itself. It means itself. That will never be untrue, but what it means, cannot be explicated ulteriorly as a universal impossibility. This is the unannouncing non-existence of intelligence. This is the profundity of knowing absolutely nothing. This is the limitation of everything. It is not the prevention or the inception or the termination, but it isn’t what it isn’t all the more.
— The Point
Single sustained baroque scream; near-silent release.
Hatred is a tough feeling to overcome; the most resilient to change; the most inhospitable to any exemption of guilt or shame; a drought to the soul, that makes skin crawl, underneath blood boiling with veins akin to barb-wire – strangling the heart, an already asphyxiated muscle, unrelenting to the ash of history – pursuing like mad, fountains of saliva and sweat from every orifice, betrayal and self-deceit. Consciousness cannot be enough; the mind-eye of our whirling, whirring hour – scraping out of the wounds so sour – imagining a necessary escape through the portal and recess of what is. Monotony and reference to what isn’t; repetitive motion; memory, nepotism and sameness – nescience, fear, estrangement, and annihilation.
— Hatred
76-page steganographic autobiography. The noise-wall is the work.
[ The form carries the meaning, not the decoded sentence. ]
Four anchor pages trace the concealment arc: onset, page-turn break, density collapse, terminal implosion. The cut is deliberate, not partial — a steganographic work’s minimal sample is the correct sample. Page-as-image, no decoded captions; the noise is the argument.
Itself a compendium: Void Love · Mementos · Esoteric Writings · Illustrations.
The empty room
Known and the Unknown.
“What.” or more aptly put “.”, was the way I felt best described my interpretation of my own original philosophy — “Existence is impossible and will always be impossible. There is simply no-thing. Nothing. Naught at all.
“A void remains a void because it is a void.
“There was never anything, because there was no-thing to start with. (If a thing requires a thing to begin or exist, then there cannot be a first thing to start with by rule of ‘cause and effect’, else you argue the eternal (non-observable), infinite and imperceptible by logic and eye (‘proof’ by sense).
“The universal and ostensibly insoluble question ‘why does everything exist?’ cannot and will never be righteously answered, because it doesn’t exist.”
— Behold, Grey Incantation (JSC) · The Known and the Unknown
‘Real-World’-Principles of Existence [Reality]—Ontology:
1. Logic is how you describe and not the description itself.
— The Known and the Unknown · Esoteric Writings
2. The description itself is a representation of things themselves [depending, though-however, on whether these icons are not merely synthetic inventions of confusion or deliberate imagination].
3. Words are symbols [‘pointers’, so to speak, ideally] and not abstract-arbitrary creations [projections] of things themselves.
4. Autogenesis [of originality, redundancy, similarity and ‘true’ randomness] is non-guaranteed.
5. Non-guaranteed means no prior determining factors.
6. Void of reason does not equal prevention [limitation or restriction of inception—beginning of things themselves—from the void, literally], however, since logic is non-intrinsic [reference to above statement (1.)].
6-2. Disappearance [deletion] is by definition illogical (without explanation), since dissipation and transmutation (solution-dissolution) are only categorized thoroughly through things themselves.
7. A thing is what it is and no ‘other’ [other thing—aside from itself] by its own nature.
7-2. Things are what they are by their own definition.
8. Inherent qualia [things themselves], beginnings and ends only come from things themselves [and or no-thing; deductible-traceable to an ultimate, essential origin of nothingness—non-thing—void].
9. There is no ultimate, universal thing if a thing is not existent by its own nature.
Twenty-one illustrations from The Known and the Unknown, extracted from the source ODT. Click any image to open the full file.
The rawest material. One pull, no more — the form closes the loop.
It’s not your fault if you hate. It’s not your fault if you do not love. It’s not okay if we are blamed for not wanting to live. It’s okay to admit that it’s not okay. I have nowhere to go. I want to leave. I am not at home. I am not in peace. I do not love. I hate. I do not want to live. I love anyone who would help me. I would love anyone I have helped. I accept you, if you accept me. I want to believe you are more than I perceive—caring and considerate—completely non-ignorant; so stand up and kick it, please—kill me, kill me, kill me. Void love void.
— Love Void Love
Visual artifacts and self-images. Click any image to open at full resolution in a new tab.
Composite
Six-by-six photo composite. Dark, muted register; personal artifacts, rooms, self-images, abstract textures.
Composite
During the horrors of the pandemic, panic attacks, and mental health crisis — I took pictures and long walks all over the city at night and during the day — to distract myself from the psychosomatic pain.
Self-portrait · 2023
Black-and-white close portrait. High contrast, low-key lighting.
Self-portrait · 2020
Color portrait with my cat Mr Grey. Indoor daylight.
Diagram · concept
3D-rendered diagram. Figure and opaque cube; sight-lines labeled awareness, speculation and belief. Illustrates the glossary entry of the same name.