Being is not full transcendence, the plenitude of the One or cosmic abundance, but rather an ellipsis, an absence, an incomprehensibly vast lack scattered with debris and detritus. Philosophy as the thinking of Being has to begin from the experience of disappointment that is at once religious (God is dead, the One is gone), epistemic (we know very little, almost nothing; all knowledge claims have to begin from the experience of limitation) and political (blood is being spilt in the streets as though it were champagne). — The New York Declaration: INS Statement on Inauthenticity Delivered by INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley at The Drawing Center, New York, 25th September 2007.