ABSTRACT
Three metaphors are used to explore the phenomenology of violence, disorientation, and disruption. There are some dangers to the choice of metaphor, as mixing them constantly runs the risk of clouding the issue at hand, but the goal is to think about how the senses of the portal, the Front, and the wound ultimately inform a phenomenology of violence. On their serendipitous occasion, the three metaphors provoke a heuristic splinter in the eye, that is, a literary prism, a Hegelian “shift in perspective,” a means to think the sensation of inexistence, worldlessness, immonde, that is, the act of sense-making during this non-time without world, namely, the state and experience of the Entropocene, the un-time without world or epoch. Overall, what is under consideration, in this chapter, is the plague or pandemic understood as a collective wound and psychic event and how the sense of the planetary commons might emerge from the imagery of the planetary no man’s land.
