"BE YOURSELF. BUT DON’T OVERSTEP THE LINE"

Representationalism happens to be an inevitable byproduct of the Cartesian way of thinking that is so deeply ingrained within Western culture. A very clear division between the knower and the known; the internal and the external, the subject and the object. The knowing happens from a distance within the realms of this discourse. What we have failed to consider here is that we are inseparably interwoven with the reality that an absolute objectivity is impossible.

The construction of a sense of self and this complementary position of the other — as in being defined in terms of and in reference to the image that reifies the normative identity groups —  are derived from a logic that dictates reflexive ways of producing knowledge. Namely, representationalism.

Betwixt and between host and guest, socially unstructured… Their existence can never escape the grounds of being the complementary “other” to a group that pulls the strings.