© (I imagine) Warren Ellis, Steve Dillon, DC Comics and Comics Continuum
Warren Ellis has just posted links to a preview of Global Frequency #3.
Fantastic. Warren Ellis is really “on-it” with Global Frequency. It’s a great book, and along with Patrick Farley’s Spiders joins a few other pop culture artifacts than are hitting the haeccceity, nailing the thisness-of-now.
It’s a favourite OtherMatt word: Haecceity: the “thisness” of something. Both the phrases “the-thisness-of-now” and “the-nowness-of-this” have pinged around our conversations this year about fashion-trends, fiction-suits, e-prime, semiotics, noophysics, magick and mythpolitik, comicbooks and culture; and the way the web has won.
But, as per usual, this Matt has been winging it. Biting on the wordsnorkel and diving into french philosophy has never been my idea of fun. All that Dellllooooze and Guitarry stuff was not really for me, but I liked the idea.
So when I found this trying to get a friend a swift googleplanation of the word, I was knocked out:
“It is the entire assemblage in its individuated aggregate that is a haecceity; it is this assemblage that is defined by a longitude and a latitude, by speeds and affects, independently of forms and subjects, which belong to another plane. It is the wolf, itself, and the horse, and the child, that cease to be subjects to become events.
You will yield nothing to haecceities unless you realize that that is what you are, and nothing else. … You are longitude and latitude, a set of speeds and slownesses between unformed particles, a set of non-subjectified affects.”
Being “on it” is about tracking these flows, locking on this latitude of longitude of the now. Sometimes you can feel it, sometimes you are lucky enough to ride it, more often than not it rides you. Like I say, Warren Ellis is “on it”.
Good evening, you’re on the Global Frequency.
Petafloptimism 
” It is the wolf…”
..which spelled backwards is “FLOW”.
Wicked commentary on haecceity!!
You are so on it!