ABSTRACT
In this short essay I hope to tell two stories – one persuasive and the other evocative. First, I want to help us understand that it is not just necessary but essential that we, all of us, collectively and individually, objectively and subjectively speaking, ‘lose’ the plot. Second, I would like to evoke the story of my personal, ongoing philosophical and literary conversation with Andrew Collier. I say ‘literary’ because, as I reflect on the thinkers whose work has underwritten our discussions, I realise that they perhaps belong more to the canons of literature than to those of philosophy. No matter.
