THE DARK HOLE #02 – Zuper Wok
What happens when the man who split mind and body meets the man who refused that split with his entire life?
In The Dark Hole #02, Meetings from Nowhere stages a radical encounter between René Descartes, founding figure of modern rationality, and Bruce Lee, philosopher of movement, breath and adaptation.
The session is hosted by FKA twigs, whose own work lives precisely in that in-between space: body as knowledge, performance as thinking.
The Dark Hole is not a studio.
It is a suspended chamber — somewhere between a club, a dream and an afterlife — where time collapses and ghosts speak freely.
Descartes enters carrying fear.
Fear of illusion. Fear of the body. Fear of nature.
In a world of massacres, he built a refuge: cogito ergo sum. If everything deceives me, at least my thinking proves I exist. The body becomes unreliable. Nature becomes something to master.
Bruce Lee arrives from scars, breath and discipline.
For him, the body is not noise — it is intelligence in action. Thought alone is not enough. When he broke his back and could no longer move, the question became visceral: If I cannot move, do I still exist?
His answer was simple and brutal: existence is lived, not proven.
As the dialogue unfolds, modernity itself starts to crack.
“I built a refuge, not a prison. But clarity became coldness.”
“The body learns. The body adapts.”
“Control is not strength. Harmony is.”
This is not a debate.
It is a shift.
Descartes begins to hear what he once silenced: that the body also thinks, that sensation is not the enemy of reason, that separating mind from flesh may have protected certainty — but at the cost of life.
Bruce Lee does not attack. He invites.
“Stand. Inhale. Drop your shoulders. Feel the ground.”
“No drama. Just practice.”
The episode ends not with a conclusion, but with a gesture: an invitation to dance.
Not to perform. Not to impress.
Just to let mind, body and breath meet again.
René Descartes meets Bruce Lee is not philosophy as abstraction.
It is philosophy as embodied practice.
An extract from ZUPER WOK, broadcast live on Cashmere Radio, this Dark Hole episode explores the end of control-based modernity and the emergence of a more fluid intelligence — one that no longer dominates the body, but learns from it.
