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Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone

  • Reza Negarestani (author)
Chapter of: Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium(pp. 287–297)

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TitleNotes on the Figure of the Cyclone
ContributorReza Negarestani (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0017.1.18
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightNegarestani, Reza
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-22
Long abstractThe ovum of reality is the eternal or the univer-sal. The universal is that in which all partake, but it is eternally irreducible to commonalities and affordances between all particular instances, collections of multi-tudes, and local horizons of thought. It is neither bound in its local expressions, nor is it exhaustible by any collection of multitudes; it is simply free from the necessity of all its particular instances. The universal is a sign free of meaning and significance, the so-called free sign of Peirce that ramifies into its local contexts according to its global contingency, its bot-tomlessness and uninterruptable continuity with it-self. For naturphilosophie, by virtue of its intensionality and self-reflexivity, the universal is identified as the eternal. The eternal—understood semio-logically by Peirce—is a modal plenum, an abyss replete with modalities that can neither be re-duced to the totality of infinite possibilities nor de-termined in the first or the last instance by discrete actualities (marks of difference, cosmological hori-zons, local conditions of life and thought, etc.). The modal plenum is represented as the Blank Sheet of Assertion, a proto-topological blank sheet whose modes of relations to itself are unbound and on which semio-logical processes can be geometrically in-scribed. Just as on the Blank Sheet of Assertion each isolated or discrete modality is perpetually intruded upon by unbound modalities of the sheet, within the open expanse of the universal, no particular instance can stave off the eruptions of the eternal or assimilate its modalities within its temporal horizon.
Page rangepp. 287–297
Print length11 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Reza Negarestani

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