So this is where they’re going to bury us! A philosophical crypt, in the basement. This is where they’re going to move Philosophy once we’re incorporated into Organisation Management.
And it’s so purple! Why did it have to be purple?
It’s so warm. And wet. It’s positively damp. Are we going to catch consumption?
They don’t understand that by burying us, they’ll resurrect us, too. We’re going to be reborn, don’t you see? We’ll burst out of the crypt. We’ll show what philosophy was all along. Only now, in the final hour, when philosophy’s dead and buried, will philosophy be revealed.
We’re thinkers of the basement! Of the underground! In the Newcastle mud, basically. Among the buried things.
This is where it ends! From Athens to this! The whole adventure of Western thought! The whole history! The whole tradition! This is where it’s buried!
In the basement, and full of messianic fever. With our own sky, the philosophical sky.
This is what philosophy needed: to be lost, so it can find itself again. And we’re the ones who are going to find it.
Are we?
The philosophical dungeon. The philosophical pit. Where they’ll scatter the philosophical ashes.
This is the very example of a messianic inversion. Which we’ll have to invert in turn. Because Organisation Management really is the opposite of philosophy …
The philosophical oubliette. Where they’re going to forget us! Bury us forever!
We’re the philosophical nearly dead. The philosophical undead.
There’s a spirit still hovering over the Organisational Management ashes: philosophy’s spirit, which hasn’t been lost.
Work in Progress 