Becoming Rat

Chess is a game with perfect information, in chess there is no illusion
Here are objects of aesthetic inquiry
The morality of Rats Gone Wild
“Adorno addresses ‘Pseudo-Individualization’ which deceives individuals into believing that they in some way have choices.” Tag yourself

Chess is a game with perfect information, meaning all players have equal access to information on the board. In chess there is no illusion; however, it is important to note that there is deception

History is a series of conventions that come to us as rules, lessons
I learn like a cocaine-addled lab-rat in my grim cage what is correct
and what’s wrong, irredeemable, ignorable, honourable, moral
All while the re-presentations of individual suffering make howl windstorm blow class solidarity out of the water
Why wouldn’t we want more when there is more to have?

Each rat comes to distinguish for himself the high from the low
With well-trained bodies responsive to reward, lack, and callousness, he dodges traps,
fettered and emboldened: a life lived in contradiction 

Chess is a deceptive game that organizes space, hierarchizes form, and divides, by colour, what may otherwise be united
The pawn, being most numerous, is the weakest piece on the board
The knight, an archetypal technology of dominion, embodied power reined in, toy-ified, leaps in regimented bouts of freedom 

We reify what we believe
Unburdened from the weight of individuality we are free to play any role
Rat populations sky-rocket with climate change

Knocking pieces down with indifferent contempt
I am become rat playing chess