This treatise
articulates a philosophy of the “cut”: the irreducible fracture between life as
appearance and the living as that which perceives and resists coincidence with
itself. Time, subjectivity, and meaning arise from this tension, which cannot
be eliminated without abolishing experience. The subject is both a product of
appearance and the crack that prevents total collapse, making freedom possible.
Attempts to suture the cut—through metaphysics, politics, mysticism, or
technology—either anaesthetise the living or dissolve the world. Politics
manages this wound by imposing compulsory meanings, while technology amplifies
control at the cost of presence. Civilisation is described as a landscape of
conventions erected against the formless real. Philosophy, therefore, must not
seek foundations or silence, but teach how to inhabit the cut through
provisional, self-aware speech.
