I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press.

I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press. Novelist Jose Ando receives the Akutagawa Prize at an award ceremony held on … More I think finding yourself (when ‘it’ is lost) may be an irrelevance because it pretends that there is an undying continuous self or identity. This is a blog triggered by Jose Ando (trans by Kalau Almony 2026), ‘Jackson Alone’, London, Footnote Press.

The constituents of ‘flow’ experience suggest that loss of self and time consciousness balances facing new challenges with willingness to learn, allowing neither to rest in stasis.

Prompt questions like this assume the virtue of loss of self, and even of coordinates of such concepts in constructs like time and space. The chief architect of the development of that virtue- into a concept he claimed his research participants themselves used called ‘FLOW’ – is Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi in bis book, pictured below: I … More The constituents of ‘flow’ experience suggest that loss of self and time consciousness balances facing new challenges with willingness to learn, allowing neither to rest in stasis.