RAFAELABASSILI

...the central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum... There are as many ways to begin a story as there are starting points on a sphere. And of course every other aspect of narrative relation is born from the same innumerable axes. 1 This is not said as an endorsement of a spiritless relativism but as a wary and preemptive qualifier to an exploratory project of which meaninglessness might be taken as the point out of hand. This is not the case, though relativity is present. The pieces under the title (anti-apex) are earnest attempts to paraphrase something like the transcendental specificity of quotidian experience. It is felt that such an exercise could, not without employing a certain joyful weirdness, help to clear up a common ever increasing misconception: that life is meaningless without steady,..