A day spent with the lack

After a very pleasant morning at a Hegel lecture (shocking news: I'm loving Hegel... please don't disown me k-punk!) I found myself in the grip of an overwhelming lack about which all I could say to a friend was 'I want a thing... you know, a thing with some stuff on it.' Having taken up base in the Union I tried to satiate my lacking through consumption. Food was the obvious first choice but to no avail so I returned to the Union, bemoaning my lacking and feeling dissatisfied with the world. After some moments of agitation I vanished downstairs and returned with a new coat. Do I need a new coat? Probably not... but for a few moments the lack was gone and I could engage in conversation again. As the lack appeared again I went to the costcutter where I wandered the aisles, my eyes blankly staring at consumer goods, looking for that elusive something which I needed to own beyond anything else. It turned out to be a packet of wagon wheels....

My purchases have done nothing to get rid of the niggling desire for the thing with some stuff on it so I have decided to spend an evening with Levinas. Hopefully a few chapters of Totality and Infinity will destroy any pressing need to engage with capitalism. After all, what is a commodity when brought face to face with the Other? (hopefully....)

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