Author: Lars Iyer

We need to wake up from the world. From all this. We need to open our eyes.


A rejection. A repulsion. That’s how we’ll come to ourselves. That’s how we’ll wake up. That’s why we need it – this disgust.


It has to be visceral. We must know the horror in our guts. In our stomachs. In our digestive system. In our olfactory systems.

We’re global citizens, philosopher … and Organisational Management is the new lingua franca. It’s Organisational Management hands across the world.


Organisational Management diversity award.


Local community volunteering board. You can’t object to this, surely. Organisational Management Outreach. We’re not all stuck in the ivory tower.


Indigenous Organisational Management knowledge. Repositories of Organisational Management wisdom. From outside the global North.


Third world outreach. Some of the projects we’re sponsoring.


It’s internal marketing. So we all feel good about working in Organisational Management.


Organisational Management is saving the world, in a modest way. It’s saving the world. Making it safe. Making us safe.

Don’t you ever feel reality’s breaking down? That there’s a glitch in the Matrix? We’re the fucking glitch – that’s all I know.

There are hangovers that Reveal things. That show what things are. Hangovers so deep that …

How do we become worthy of our hangovers?: that’s the question.

It’s the again again. It’s more more. Another fucking day.

Have you ever thought that God doesn’t love you, Io? That God despises you?


Great how Christianity has become countercultural.


Do you have special Christian powers? Are you able to summon meteors?

The Leviathan is surfacing. The chaos monster – the creature of the end.


The etymology of Leviathan is comes from being twisted, from the verb to twine, to join, it says here.


Leviathan’s some sea serpent demon. One of those near eastern mythology chaos monsters, destroyed by some young god. Marduk defeated Tiamat. Indra slayed Vitra.


Leviathan’s probably a metaphor for Babylon. Where the Israelites were held captive.

So Livia’s Babylon? Fuck that.


What about Hobbes – he wrote about Leviathan, right?

Leviathan’s the omnipotence of the state, for Hobbes.

Livia hated the state.

Leviathan is about holding back chaos, for Hobbes. Without it, man would be a wolf to man and all that stuff.

Livia was definitely on the side of the wolves.


Leviathan’s the sea monster and Behemoth is the land monster. The Leviathan is supposed to be female, Behemoth male. She dwells in the watery abyss and he lives in the desert east of Eden.


Leviathan’s supposed to be three hundred miles long. Eats one whale a day. Almost ate the whale that swallowed Jonah.


You get those images of Leviathan with its tail placed in its mouth, encompassing the entire world


For Gnostics, the Leviathan separates the lower world, ruled by the archons, from the realm of God.

He’s an analytic philosophy survivor. Be gentle. Poor guy. I don’t know how he came through it. Took some real reprogramming.


It’s like analytic philosophy never existed.

And what’s that sound – do you hear it? I ask. Like the buzzing of insects, but far-off. A distant rumbling. Like faraway thunder. Like some earthquake, far far away. And so deep. What makes a sound that deep?

It’s making me wanna shit, Driss says. It’s working on my bowels. I’m going to poop.

We’re down the wrong rabbit hole. But there are so many. And it’s so confusing.

I’ve largely forgotten the postgraduate life.

That’s because you’re memory-wiped when you graduate, like in Men in Black.