Killer Bees: An Ontology in Abeyance

Abstract

Jacques Lacan’s Encore, read across French and English, disperses being in an insect-like suspension, a swarm of signifiers inflecting sexual division and mortality. Love would hide the sting of lives exiled in language, overrun the enigma of script in a swarm of incorporation. Visible language is contingency, encounter with the cells of abandoned hives, the serial surreality of the ubiquitous: the letters through which meaning comes to life. Today demographic mutations appear to rival the infinite combinations of words. Microchip humming extensions of biological man stir the breeze with unthinkable cross pollination, to end in honey or ashes. The killer bees are us.