I live in a world of alternative language and its odd to have to write one way and read in another (sometimes). For example, yesterday I read that, 'Adorno was right to point to the epistemological aporia of realist aesthetic theory...' I mean epistemological is just a short way (huh) of talking about 'a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge' and 'aporia' is just a 'logical or even radical contradiction' I guess, or guess not, 'To be, or no to be: that is the question.' being the most famous. Now I confess its odd thinking about this at this time of the morning. This blog is a ten minute window at the start of every day of my sixtieth year so why would such a thing be a preoccupation over the first cup of early grey of the day? Well, I confess I wake with a busy heid (as we Scots say - and are we in the news these days). But I have been thinking that the Yes/No debate is an epistemological aporia, both logical and radical contradictions at the edge of so many thoughts and ideas. Thus far I haven't commented because I don't have a vote and I have remained Janus-faced, weighing up the yes/no, the aye/nut/maybe, a Socialist with a big S, an internationalist with a big I and a romantic with a wee 'r' - I have felt a stranger for all of my adult life, even in Portobello which was the most exotic place in the world when I was a teenager... I made up my mind ages ago... this came from the same Springsteen gig I mentioned yesterday, I guess we are all dancing in the dark:
