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Absolute Outsideness

The Outside’s life-process is that of the Refrain: first chaos, then homemaking, then flight. The being-there of the Outside is second-order virtuality. Whereas the actual spills out into the virtual, the virtual spills out into its own virtual—an Outside barred from lawmaking. This Outside is purely reflexive, it gazes only at itself. It forces the subject outside of its bounds. It is cold. It offers no point of entry. Even as subject is substance, the subject forces itself out of itself. The kernel of Homelessness exists in a forever-excluded state of melancholia. It is forced to reconcile its existence with its immanent apocalyptic essence through which it appears. The Outside—chaos—manifest as that home from which we—ontic Homelessness—are excluded, because it is subject, ruptures out of itself. It puts any and all extinction events to shame. The hypocenter of the flight-Event moves out of itself at a crippling speed, reducing us to ashes on the wall.