Attempting to recount a conversation which began naturally, concerning the natural, unfurled progressively in attending to the unfurling of progression itself, etc etc, oriented towards the primary orifices of orientation, conversation concerning the meta-discourse of speaking, of speaker, of being-able to speak, of the response-able-ity to speak, the possibility of speaking and being heard. Impossible to recount in its entirety, I should attempt to note some key moments...

ANIMISM / VITALISM / ORGANICISM :: communing with the rocks, communication with river, interference patterns upon the surface of nature, direct relating to the potency of the elements, a sublime definition of nature, the effable - beyond language & empirical perspectivalism (the question "why is it necessary to use reason/logic/language?")

TECHNOLOGICAL-ECOLOGICAL CRISES

NIHILISM / EXISTENTIAL DREAD / NOTHINGNESS AS NECESSITY

OTHER / OTHER-ING / OBJET PETITE A / THE BIG OTHER

BODY-EAR : PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERCEPTION THROUGH THE BODY ITSELF

THE ORIGINS OF THE VOICE : ORIENTATIONS TO ALIENATIONS

RADICAL LISTENING / RADICAL PRESENCE : GIFT GIVING AS SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION

THE PURPOSE OF DEFINING PURPOSIVENESS / THE PURPOSELESSNESS OF CONTEMPLATING PURPOSELESSNESS