Woundwise: Dissolution, Abjective Ecology, Subversive Becoming
Post-structuralist theory as lived survival technology. Created through explicit human-AI collaboration, this book offers experimental methodologies for working creatively with breakdown, shame, and dissolution—not as problems to solve, but as pathways to unprecedented forms of collective intelligence.
Available September 18Two Books, One Experimental Pedagogy
These works function as complementary technologies for the same philosophical project: making post-structuralist concepts accessible as lived practice rather than academic abstraction.
Woundwise
Direct theoretical engagement with dissolution, abjection, and creative breakdown as survival methodology
House of the Black Flame
The same concepts embodied through character, landscape, and mercury-poisoned memory
For readers seeking philosophical depth without academic gatekeeping—fiction as stealth theory, theory as practical wisdom.
Forthcoming: House of the Black Flame
1880s California. Jakob, a German immigrant dying of mercury poisoning from hydraulic mining waste, begins a final 21-day journey through the Sierra Nevada. As toxicity dissolves the boundaries of his memory, his fragmented consciousness becomes a meditation on environmental collapse, marginalized survival, and the creative potential found in letting go.
Historical fiction that embodies philosophical concepts of dissolution and becoming—for readers of Cormac McCarthy who are ready for landscape as consciousness, breakdown as transformation.
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Brian L. Plescher writes at the intersection of post-structuralist theory and lived resistance, exploring how concepts like dissolution, abjection, and creative breakdown function as survival technologies rather than academic abstractions. His work emerges from sustained engagement with AI collaboration, mutual aid networks, and communities practicing transformation through breakdown rather than despite it.
Drawing on advanced studies in philosophy and strategic leadership (MSU, Yale School of Management), his writing bridges the theory-practice divide that often limits academic philosophy's real-world impact. His projects examine how individual crisis connects to collective transformation, positioning literature as methodology for navigating systemic breakdown as creative becoming.
Essays & Embodied Theory
Explorations in abjective ecology, technological resistance, and the productive terror of boundaries collapsing. These writings demonstrate the concepts that drive both books—philosophy as experimental practice, breakdown as creative methodology.
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