Cicero's great love for Walter Benjamin. Her insistence that no one really understood Walter Benjamin, not even her! The extend of Walter Benjamin’s world rejection Of the Jewish-philosophical rejection of the natural. Of the depths of Jewish-philosophical disenchantment. The Jews were the most sober people of all – that’s what she said. And Walter Benjamin knew that better than anyone.
Cicero's suspicion of the Christian celebration of the gift – and of the world as gift. We’ve broken the covenant, she said. It’s only amorphy from now on. It’s all we deserve!
Her suspicion of all human forms of order. Of every human institution. Each institution was secretly anarchic, she maintained. Each was an attempt to conceal the void. Even as it was built on the void! Which really meant a denial of the void.
The human being is essentially a creature of the void, Cicero said. And God is the void, and nothing but the void. God is a name for primordial anarchy. Void denial and abyss denial is what essentially drives every move towards organisation / institutionalisation.
Atheism drives the institution, Cicero said. And only those who understand this – only those who keep the distance from all worldly things – can be trusted. Only those sustained by distance. For whom the darkness shines. Behind everything. Before everything. Primordially. An-anarchically. Only those who can see the crack in all things. Who witness the essential incompletion. The essential chaos.
Work in Progress 