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What if the universe is stitched together with absences? What if our deepest realities - personal, political, cosmic - are not shaped by grand ideas or all-encompassing 'explanations', but by the tiny, unremarked gaps between them?
In this kaleidoscopic essay, Phil Smith covers some unlikely terrain: from the quantum unevenness of the cosmos to the haunted ruins of mines and the fragile misadventures of lost mariners. He rejects the siren call of big, smooth answers and plunges into the turbulent space where anomalies, coincidences and disturbances matter.
Phil gathers stories, observations and practices from the disturbed edges of culture, ecology and everyday life - inviting us to attend to absences, to find hope in the vacuum and to experiment with living differently in the leaks and loopholes of existence.
Contents
The Gaps
What if?
If That Nothing Is, Then What Is This?
What If The Nothing Is A Something?
Where Is If?
Transactions
But Wait
In which case, if that is true, where is The If?
A Doubt Creeps In
Is Hyper-empiricism The Answer?
Dark Cities
How did I get here?
The Empty Temple
A-causation
Local Generalities
The Ghost
CMB and The Occult Origin
The One Tear That Isn't There
The Seal
Trying To Make Non-Existence Meaningful
A Body Returned
Anti-transactional
Coincidences: Connections Without Causes
Bending Time: Cause And Effect
Gap Politics
There Is Never Any Conclusion
