Here's the blurb that I wrote before I started writing the thing. It's about ontology and affect, music and adolescence, loneliness and solitude. I'll be talking about the minor sixth interval in the music I listened to as a teenager and how we might seek the philosophy that is in tune with the way we feel.
Solitude and the Affective States of a Flat World
'If everything is one, then that one thing is alone' - Tao Lin, Twitter, 2013
'Solitude is by definition the only relation to the world' - Tristan Garcia, Form and Object, 2014
How do things exist and how do we talk about them? In this talk with images, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau will examine the affective states implied by a flattened plane of being, through the language used to describe them. Beginning with an oblique reading of Tristan Garcia's Form and Object he will examine the ambiguous affective relationship between things, the world and language.