Mutant - Infiltration of the Hallucinated Mountain

A mutant subsists within contemporary continental theory. It endures on ridicule, horror, skepticism, comedy, excess, and groundless specula-tion. Conspiracy and contingency are at once its detraction and tactic. This mutant tricks unconditionally as an interpreter and paradoxical maker of meaning. It is what I call here: Optimistic Absurdity.Absurdist philosophy has been haunted by its ancestral considerations as nihilist, meaningless, and devastatingly regressive. My responsibility and intention here is not to deny any of those potent conditions – it is rather to reveal how it can operate as a form of metaphysical infiltra-tion when contemplated under object orientated ontology, continental realism, post-secular occasionalism, and aesthetics. This is what Ray Brassier may define as a ‘speculative opportunity’.