BTTTT! has always been solely interested in the phenomenological practice of carefully and attentively describing the appearances of things in their concrete, lived givenness, without drawing on metaphysical, scientific, or other explanatory preconceptions.

At the same time, we have never ascribed to a single “orthodox” phenomenological method. Indeed, we continue to embrace diverse approaches to “the things themselves,” so long as these approaches are focused on encounters with experience untainted by conceptual impositions.

In actually doing phenomenology, we maintain that the goal should always be to live behind one’s own eyes, to heed the call of things, and to attempt to give things their own voice as purely as possible, so as to reveal their sense and significance within their larger matrices of lived meaning. What we want →