On Eating

(August 2025)

the desire to eat as initiated by hunger cues isn’t neutral — it’s mediated by underlying aspects of belief
challenges this idea about the ‘rational side’ and ‘primal side’ — that instinct isn’t just a simple binary — that instinct itself has taken on narrative — as that which resists death and assumes life — a kind of tension that finds itself embedded easily in narrative forms
the way in which we understand instinct in humans
within the discourse of science as that which is true, instinct is condensed into a binary — as that which was seen in Behaviourism, Positivism

the slippery play of language from instinct as reflexive human behaviour and its logic to that of how we respond instinct as primed behaviour
its connection to human as animals and its connection — referencing self-help and contemporary literature that speaks to the primitive aspects of the mind, decentering the rationalist view of the self, where existing evolutionary histories are that which prime behaviours

the notion of instinct as that which also means what one does reflexively — how this notion gives up responsibility and informs how we divvy up our investment of responsibility/duty