an increasing number of voices write about heresiarch nogueira as identity explorer, adventurer of the abyss of modernity, even his
secular (and nonteleological) mystical attributes*
but there's been little on other core aspects: his daoism (compare for example the book of disquiet vignette 356 [zenith translation] with dao de jing 47 – but there are many such comparisons), his
patahumanism** (i avoid post- and trans- and other increasingly commonplace prefixes as they're becoming too solidified, politicized, academicized) – by this i mean his decreation of human exceptionalism (everything
talks with everything without meaning or hierarchy other than that impossible
hierarchy of the monadism of sensations, that impossible meaning of the infinite chasms among and between transactional communication and the shapes and movements of the soul) and in this sense (though he explicitly
and even seemingly implicitly is no ecologist, at least in the sense this word
is typically used) he is a cosmic contextual ecologist: a tree, a cloud, a
book, a sensation are all one and nothing and everything and something
a difference of course – and one of the reasons he eludes being called an ecologist – is his
ostensible amorality ... but this expected perception is linked in part to his neodaoism – neo- by being even more
daoistic than daoism through the way not even being spoken, named, alluded – which (also in its
expression in the dao de jing and less so but still palpably in the zhuangzi) comes
across to those steeped in the judeochristiancapitalistic tradition (increasingly the global human
world) as immoral, this immorality though rooted in an often unquestioned faith
in human supremacy and expressing itself in our now normalized and institutionalized schizoid cultures of moral bifurcation, confusion, and bankruptcy
* to compare fernando with other notable twentieth century secular mystics: s weil and e jabès for example - the former steeped in french catholic-jewish apophaticism, the latter in egyptian-french-jewish exile poetry. does saint antónio come across as the most modern, the most religiously unsteeped, having most fully abdicated even the negation of god, the emptiness of language ... partially through his relentless subversion of even subversion, his uncanny expressions of disbelief in the belief of the disbelief of belief ...
** and i use pata- with obvious references to jarry, for while pessoa lacks jarry's overt absurdity and iconoclasm (though not jarry's love of alcohol) he carries these traits well, though more subtly and calmly, ironically, throughout his works
