水仙

水仙死的时候，田野里的百花充满了悲伤，乞讨河给他们几滴水，让他们为水仙哭泣。

河回答说：“假使每滴我的水都是泪水，也没有足够的泪为他哭泣。我爱了他。”

花儿们说：“怎么能不爱上他？他是那么俊美。”

河问：“ ……他俊美吗？”

花儿们问：“谁知道得比你更清楚？他每天都躺在你的岸边，你的水面映出了他的俊美。”

河潺潺地说：“我爱他，在他俯身我的时候，我看见了他的眼中我自己的美。”

— 奥斯卡·王尔德

Instantiating Theory: An Introduction

Out of all the blogs I have encountered, I have rarely come across an initial entry devoted solely to an introduction. As this is my first blog, however, I think that such an entry would be at the very least useful for those who want a means of quickly judging whether this blog will be worth following.

Wordsmith Praxeology will primarily be a theory blog, though it will incorporate commentary on current events as well as attempts at predicting the outcomes of contemporary inventions & innovations (e.g. interpreting through Hjelmslev/McLuhan the implications of a new gadget). It will incorporate material from economics (particularly the Austrian school), schizoanalysis, psychoanalysis, politics, sociology, philosophy, and linguistics, though I also hope to utilize material from the sciences & history. It is my dearest hope not to theorize from an ivory tower, nor to be autobiographical, nor to even be overbearingly intellectual (I prefer to regard intellectualism as Freud did―a defense mechanism).

I would like to make this clear: I do not care about art, nor about pop culture, nor about ‘the subject’. If you are fixated on any of these things at the exclusion of everything else, I suggest that you leave. As well, I feel I ought to note that I do not want to be a professor; rather, I intend to become a market analyst. Though this latter may seem to be a trite autobiographical detail, I divulge it in order to express my concern not to become intellectually decadent, as well as my focus on the actual & the macroscopic, presided over by a capitalist mentality.