Woundwise
Dissolution, Abjective Ecology, Subversive Becoming.
Getting Started with Woundwise
If you are arriving from outside academic philosophy, Woundwise offers a set of practical lenses for moving through breakdown—personal, political, and ecological—without pretending things are fine or returning to a false normal. For related explorations, see the philosophy essays on mutual aid and post-anthropocene thought.
- Begin with the introduction and the overview of collapse as methodology.
- Skim the working glossary to anchor terms like abjection, assemblage, and refusal.
- Move next into the chapter that best matches your current situation: personal crisis, institutional collapse, or ecological grief.
- Return later for the more technical sections if you want deeper theoretical scaffolding.
Woundwise is an experiment in philosophical practice, transforming post-structural concepts into lived technologies for navigating breakdown, refusal, and the creative potential of collapse. Written by Brian L. Plescher, this book extends themes explored in his philosophy essays.
Breakdown as Methodology
Drawing from philosophy, systems theory, and the arts, the work invites practices of dissolution, improvisation, and reconfiguration in the face of breakdown. It treats concepts like abjection, assemblage, and becoming-imperceptible as technologies for transformation.
The wound is wise. The wise are wounded... Welcome to the wound that teaches what no healing could ever reveal: that you are perfect in your incompletion, whole in your fragmentation, found in your absolute lostness.
Explorations Include:
- Creative Destruction: Working consciously with forces that unmake fixed structures.
- Fundamental Refusal: Saying "no" to systemic demands to create threshold consciousness.
- Abjection & Contamination: Recognizing contamination as transformative practice.
- Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking as emerging from assemblages (human, AI, ecological) rather than individual minds.