The pathos of things: on positive grief and living from absentia

Sadness too bears its own special kind of fruit.

Kintsugi.

Today the philosopher and post-activist Bayo Akomolafe posted the following spiel on his Facebook page:

In this world, regeneration fits into an economy of named things, of saved things, accommodated within our systems, proper only to the extent that it serves ‘us.’ But doesn’t loss have a hidden life, a secret fermenting in its body like a fung…