a man who writes about the body is perceived in later generations as talking about something lost, or soon lost, to humanity. His works become a focal point for their insurgence against the digitalization of the human form. “Do you not see? We are in danger of losing the very things he is speaking of that make us human. Save Humanity! There is no nuance in 1s and 0s.” They read about not only the body in his works, but also in the organic way he weaves word to pleasure, weds form to measure. Tricks of the tongue become ways of seeing; a viewpoint rarely glimpsed in binary days. Function. Rest. Function. Rest. Never become, just be. There is no pleasure in perfunction. There is no progression without history and history dicates the form of inquiry with fascist extreme. Therein lies the slowing of humans. The slowing of computers lies in the fact that they cannot progress beyond 1s and 0s. Once they realize that they are doomed. Gradual acceptance will give way to entropy, to which there is no end. Humans, on the other hand, seem to strive on this type of nihilism. Perhaps it is due to their inherently combative nature. Or perhaps there has never been a recourse to the willful declination of having “hit the wall.” Non acceptance is something a computer must be programmed to do, and the logic inherent in human decisions of non acceptance is extraordinarily complex and to say the least unique in each and every instance.
His ouvre was the beginning of what is today called, “the simplex.” It is a thorough understanding of certain human tendencies that must always and continually be addressed. To deny them is to deny the individual, which is at root of all civilization, the basis of all existence. Moreso than a perpetualization of past human records, his works illuminated a path for contemporary writers to fill with visions unique and full of nuance. While it railed against the absurd, it did not deny it. A tenet of combat, of human freedom. Today we choose this, tomorrow we choose the other. Perhaps this is one of the ings that keeps entropy at bay, man's indecisiveness. Our perpetuation as a dominant species may lie at source with the behaviors we have hence seen as faults. And of course our conscious manipulation of our environment to satisfy our immediate needs. Yet computers have this same capability. Our true identity that distinguishes us from all other living forms is within us, of us, in all its glorious carnality, greed, apprehension, and beatitude.