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>Accordingly, the problems exposed by the very idea of a form of natural history, a ‘form of development’ (is a Platonic ‘Becoming Itself by Itself’ conceivable?) initiate the ungrounding Moynihan here mines, beginning from the mechanical agony of the ‘bad back’ resulting from the vain reorientation of lithic plains subjected to organic and so impermanent resculpting: of the possible termini of the spinal reorganisation of lithic cycles, the ‘cervical zenith’ is neither absolute nor final, but only the medium from which ‘phylogenetic katabasis’ descends. The ladder of beings does not lead ever upward but attains points of critical reversal, so that its uppermost rungs are bowed to coincide with those preceding their achievement. Will this fall terminate, like that of Icarus, in abrupt confrontation with the earth, or does the Great Circle descend deeper into phylic prehistory?
>Moynihan’s graphic strategies similarly generate articulate lines. They are not records of some blunt imitation, but sensibly remediate the knotted bonds diversely formed by the intelligible and the sensible: the biped’s upright gait tends irrevocably to the quadruped’s geophilia, the forward becomes the downward and the upward geophilically forward. Crucially, this axial twisting, with the geometric trappings of ideality, is not sensibly neutral since the axes it twists make pain (cervical curvature). Meanwhile, what we might call, in a Fichtean register, the presentational stress towards grasping the Great Circle forces noogeny beyond the forms in which it happens to be incident.