On the Presence of Being Everywhere is a platform for Richard Mather's poetry, prose and non-fiction writing.
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Aimed at those who appreciate poetry and philosophy, my website acts as a platform for showcasing both passions, with poems, essays, and reflective pieces on language, phenomenology, religion and ontology. An ongoing focus is on how language not only 'speaks' writing into being (often beyond the writer's conscious control), but how it speaks people into being, leaving us with the unsettling feeling that language has its own agenda, an agenda that we cannot hope to understand. In a world where language is omnipresent (the 'being-everywhere' of language), the challenge is not merely to resist its control but to harness its incredible power to convey (and even reclaim) our authentic selves.
Being everywhere – nature/physis (φύσεις) (including mathematical platonism), which is infinite, eternal, without telos;
Presence of being everywhere – thought and language (“our faith in grammar” following the death of God, as Nietzsche said), which speak us into semiotic being-hood as something beyond nature. ‘Presence’ – as in “state of being face to face with a superior or great personage” and “divine, spiritual, or incorporeal being felt as present”, i.e. language.
Richard Mather is a freelance writer based in the north of England. His poetry, op-eds and news articles have been published in various media outlets and literary magazines in the UK, USA and the Middle East. He has also contributed to online commercial platforms for the sharing of academic research.
