A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
Tag: relation
Communication is the continual reorganisation of relational possibility, while control is the selective stabilisation of that organisation across time.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
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continuum: if unity, then…
Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.
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aristotle’s egg
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
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continuity precedes truth
Disinformation is not the opposite of information, but one of the ways communication organises uncertainty into meaning. Its deeper structure belongs less to politics than to the philosophical problem of how truth, coherence, and identity emerge at all.
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what meaning does
Meaning is not stored in words, but sustained in the relations that survive their transformation.
Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.
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Divided
Technologically mediated communication intensifies what language has always done: it isolates, divides, and distances us from one another, and from ourselves, as a necessary precondition for meaningful communicative experience to arise at all. Given the nature of the world, I carry a quiet regret at not having known more people more fully, even while understanding […]
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