A holon is a singularity that is also a universe unto itself, simultaneously both part and whole, and irreducible to being counted as one. Though it cannot be counted as one, it still is.
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The Material and the Ideal are Mutually Implicated
Critical materialism seems to have an ideal: the real apprehension of existence in terms of causes and conditions, rather than in terms of concepts and ideas. But there's an extent to which some self-professed "materialists" only proceed with their investigations of reality through a kind of fetish for materialism, which makes them ignorant as to …
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Exchange at Absolute Extremes
There is the given and there is the taken. There is the giving and there is the taking.When it is not given, it is not taken. When there is no giving, there is no taking.There is a relative difference between giving it and taking it, conventionally operative through a sequential procedure, mediated or influenced by …
Form, Content, Expression
Form constitutes the shape of any given entity, along with the various elements or properties by which the shape is composed. It can be analysed in terms of part-to-whole relations, where the form can be divisible into a multitude of parts as well as being apprehended as a whole. It is what gives something its …
Of Love, For Love
My love,as sweetness I tasted you,as softness I heard you,as passion I felt you,as suchness I beheld you. Now here I ambut with-out you. where is that sweetness I tasted?where is that softness I heard?where is that passion I felt?where is that suchness I beheld? How could this be,your presence marked by absence,a contradiction in …
Without Discrimination: some reflections from meditation on the skandhas
Recently I have been studying the nature of the five skandhas or "aggregates," which is a Buddhist classification of aspects of experience broken down into five sets: form (rūpa), feeling (vedanā), perception (saṃjñā), volition (saṃskāra), and consciousness (vijñāna). Classically, the idea is that what is commonly assumed to be the enduring, substrative Self-identity must in some sense …
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Nirvāṇa/Saṃsāra; Communism/Capitalism
A general strategy that a Madhyamika (agent of the Middle Way, i.e. a meddling middler) may deploy once they identify a pair of contradictory forces at play, is neither to affirm the possibility of resolving the contradiction in those terms, nor to abandon those terms, but to see how those terms actually compliment each other. …
Beyond Ownership: notes on Commoning
True wealth is an expression of what “we do together” rather than what “I have myself.” For what “I have myself”, or what one has in possession, are inert things separated from the flow of life, susceptible to destruction by time or contingency, which is why this expression of wealth tends to be “stored” or …
Similarity, or Beyond Identity and Difference
On Identity: Generally today it is often felt that an affirmation of difference and plurality is preferable to an existence based on identity and universality, which is negatively evaluated as being characterized by excessive limitation. This is true, for definition by negation is the underlying basis of any sense of self-identity: what one is, is …
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Two Truths (This and Ours)
______________________________________________ This Truth: Not not-one. Our Truth: The ancestrality of you and I, is a revelation of the eternity that is our living together. Forever dancing as we go, there's been fall at our wake yet with opportunity for blooming... For with sacred coordination, and through divine elevation, your moving never ceases to awe. A …
HOLO-POIESIS 