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Don’t blame me, it’s the Universe’s Fault

“In the opening of 2025, I wrote several texts which grew increasingly interested in Light. Across these texts, the role of Light in, for example, “the moment of recognition” (the formation and emergence of the Self), or the development of Language, became increasingly pronounced. Following the Light revealed something I hadn’t perhaps noticed before, a faultline running down the back of everything. A curious signifier of a great event, buried in time.

To begin with, within François Laruelle’s Universe Black, Philosophy is framed as operating under the authority of Light, which assigns position. All that Light can interact with is White. The Real, or the Universe, is Black, meaning Light does not and cannot interact with it: the Universe Black is without position, it is “the opacity that renders the Real invisible.” The Earth and Man, too, are Black. The difference between Black, Black and Black, can only be discerned through their relative (pre)position, Man is on Earth which is in the Universe, Black-on-Black-in-Black. As such, Light participates in producing observable differences that either may or may not have any bearing on the Real, may or may not reflect any structuration at the level of the Real.”