I think they were trying for some weird kind of immortality. I think they were shooting to live forever – not die forever. Not to be lost in dying. Not to be perpetually destroyed.
There’s a way of studying that’s a way of living. And a waying of living that’s a way of studying. There’s a direction to study. A way OUT.
This is lived philosophy. Marx was wrong: the moment hasn’t passed to realise philosophy. Hadot was right: philosophy’s a way of fucking life. It’s our living. It’s the way we live. Philosophy can be realised in our hatred of the world. And in the gladness of our hatred.
Work in Progress 