Post-Symbolic Philosophy
Poiesis and Canonical Terrorism
bethany reivich
(Barfing dog: honoring the legacy of Uncle Pasha and post-Soviet html in times of smoothed oatmeal hyperoptimised sensory overstimulation)
My research and writing explore what I call the post-symbolic: not a theory, but a lived perceptual condition that arises when the symbolic order—the system of signs, norms, and representations that structures meaning in language and culture—collapses or becomes uninhabitable.
A fugal literary study of my life as a writer, wanderer, escort and hallucinatory projection screen. It moves between intimacy and analysis, playing with being human in systems that feed on visibility, desire, and silence.
My doctoral and philosophical project-- the flip side of the literary memoir—an inquiry into what happens after the collapse of the symbolic order. It proposes rhythm, relation, and field-pressure as coherence beyond narrative and representation.