METAXA

2022

This is the world. An entangled mass of wires, constantly interwoven within itself. The world is a palimpsest, wherein the writings - pure recording tools - are the wires, constant in their emanation. Although the new wires, independently from their temporality, always become the dominant leading string in the flux of transformation, they never supersede the old ones. As such, the new wires interrelate with the previous connections and acquire meaning from them even if they situated themselves in an opposite spectrum of significances. Antithetical meanings do not obscure each other; instead shed light on each other, permitting an understanding, an identification. This intricate mass of wires can be called "Matassa" ("Skein") from the Latin "Metaxa", a long string ordinately winded up and tied up to be kept in place. However, the Matassa described is not a neat agglomeration - it is chaotic and, like in the vernacular interpretation, is a complexity to be unravelled, a problem to be resolved, and a misplacement to be reordered. Those who engage in disentanglement aim to find the ties that are the blockage, the antagonist. In the Matassa of the world, instead, the ties are immobile points of origin, piling up in different positions and situations - unrestrained. In this instance lies the impossibility of unravelling the world's intricate complexities and the futility of such an attempt. The world is meant to be a Matassa in its intrinsic essence and structure - originating from an initial node - created and sustained by all individuals as actors interacting with their actants in unpredictable ways. In this scenario, reorganize would be a synonym for destruction. By resetting the status quo and starting back on a blank new page, it is implied a worldwide destructive act on which the new node will be established but as a relational element developing as another copy of chaos and suffering. The already entanglement must be conserved, and the new node of change must be entrenched on it to subside the old structure without demolition - the benevolent node will be the origin of a unique Matassa morally and ethically chaotic.