Mind the Gaps - Phil Smith

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Résumé :
Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer and researcher. He is the author of numerous books and plays. With visual artist and poet Helen Billinghurst, he is one half of Crab & Bee, co-authoring Crab & Bee's Matter Of Britain (Peakrill Press) in 2025 and The Pattern (Triarchy Press) in 2020. With Tony Whitehead, Phil is co-author of the novel Bonelines (2020), author of the neo-gothic novellas of The Silversnake Project (2023) and of Living In The Magical Mode in 2022....

Biographie:
Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer and researcher. He is the author of numerous books and plays. With visual artist and poet Helen Billinghurst, he is one half of Crab & Bee, co-authoring Crab & Bee's Matter Of Britain (Peakrill Press) in 2025 and The Pattern (Triarchy Press) in 2020. With Tony Whitehead, Phil is co-author of the novel Bonelines (2020), author of the neo-gothic novellas of The Silversnake Project (2023) and of Living In The Magical Mode in 2022....

Sommaire:

What if the universe is stitched together with absences? What if our deepest realities - personal, political, cosmic - are not shaped by grand ideas or all-encompassing 'explanations', but by the tiny, unremarked gaps between them? In this kaleidoscopic essay, Phil Smith covers some unlikely terrain: from the quantum unevenness of the cosmos to the haunted ruins of mines and the fragile misadventures of lost mariners. He rejects the siren call of big, smooth answers and plunges into the turbulent space where anomalies, coincidences and disturbances matter. Phil gathers stories, observations and practices from the disturbed edges of culture, ecology and everyday life - inviting us to attend to absences, to find hope in the vacuum and to experiment with living differently in the leaks and loopholes of existence. Mind the Gaps is a restless, radical reflection on what holds reality together--and what doesn't. Phil Smith argues that the universe is not a smooth, unified whole but a cosmos stitched from gaps, cuts, caesuras and quantum vacuums. These absences, he suggests, are not failures or losses: they are the generative spaces where possibility emerges, where meaning escapes the trap of grand narratives, and where small rebellions against generality become possible. Part philosophy, part performance score, part survival manual for late-stage collapse, Mind the Gaps invites you to stop looking for coherence and start attending to the emptinesses that connect--and divide--everything.