VITA NOVA
August 1, 2026

I am in Italy. And it is very hot. I am reading. Books and articles. Everything is as it always was. Mark Fisher (The Weird and the eerie, p 44). I liked this paragraph: Confronted with Easter Island or Stonehenge, it is hard not to speculate about what the relics of our culture will look like when the semiotic systems in which they are currently embedded have fallen away. We are compelled to imagine our own world as a set of eerie traces.

The landscape of the walk Fisher took with Justin Barton in Suffolk (reminder to listen to their 2013 audio-essay On Vanishing Land) from the coastal town of Felixstowe inland to Woodbridge stands in stark contrast to the places that Onur Edur describes in "Schule des Südens". Reading about all those philosophers in Algeria et. al one day before the fast paced events in Ceuta, watching people on the sea on TikTok. 

Learning about Constant Dullaart. Liking his video essay machine a lot. The right idea for the right moment, executed in a nice manner. Rethinking flooding the zone. Can you flood a zone that is constantly flooded. You can not flood anymore. Bringing a hand full of sand to a beach, to a desert. Producing a grain with your initials on it, taking it to the dunes. 

Dolce Stil Novo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdoltʃe ˌstil ˈnɔːvo], 'sweet new style') was a literary movement in 13th and 14th century Italy.[1] Influenced by the Sicilian School and Tuscan poetry, its main theme is Divine Love.

All of a sudden, then, this self-­evident truth presents itself: on the one hand, I have no time left to try out several different lives: I have to choose my last life, my new life, Vita Nova (Dante) or Vita Nuova (Michelet). And, on the other, I have to get out of this gloomy state of mind that the wearing effects of repetitive work and mourning have disposed me to → This running aground, this slow entrenchment in the quicksand (= which isn’t quick!), this drawn-­out death of staying in the same place, this fate that makes it impossible to “enter death alive” Barthes - The preparation of the novel. 

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