A quick moment of panic when self encounters the possibility of not self.
A thought, a brief awareness of the wholeness, completeness, and immediacy of a world in which the self has already created the conditions for its own destruction. A prosthesis becomes not necessary, but naturalized. A hinge between two selves, seen from one side as a birth, and from the other side a death.
A difference is being articulated here: not a spatial/geographical/geometrical difference, but a temporal one. The negotiation between these two selves is not a fair one; one always produces an excess while the other is always purely consumptive. An intervention is called for, a biochemical transformation perhaps, and a political economy of self has been turned curiously upside down.
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