ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how we can think the limits of thinking and what kinds of limitations the poetics of clarity may establish for thinking. I especially unravel the inherent positivist bias in the heart of the poetics of clarity and its potential consequences for thinking within academia today. I argue that in its selective and restrictive state, clarity becomes a productive constraint that organises knowledge production, but always on an opaque background of the expelled. The poetics of clarity in its contemporary formation is not a neutral and divine medium for thought but already formed by specific perspectives on the world. Beneath its apparent topic-neutrality, lies a selective and restrictive system of knowledge production that may rule out other topics and perspectives and undermine crucial dimensions of knowledge production. Hence, the space for the knowledge production may be too rigidly demarcated, and instead of opening the possibilities for thinking, it risks closing them down.
