The Aporeticus: Ways Not to Write

The Aporeticus: Ways Not to Write:

mills:

[I]t is better to admit that 'I'm paying attention to the wrong things' than to claim that 'the world has grown meaningless' or that 'my phone keeps me from noticing sunsets.' It is not my phone and it is not Facebook that kept me from the sunset yesterday. It was the everydayness of life that Walker Percy's Binx Bolling claims is what keeps us from "the search." But this search seems strange to undertake when there is nowhere undiscovered, no meaning not mediated, no knowledge not within a larger system of knowledge, no boundary past which we do not spill in great crowds, no text immune to annotation, no event which is not subsumed by its live-posted trails of reactions in the cultural agar.