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Monday, 20 July 2015



The basic relation of nodes in tension is that one becomes subject for and/or to the other one, and then, perhaps, this relation reverses. A2 serves in a certain relation to A1, and then A3 serves in that relation to A2. The asymmetry gives rise to the possibility of an infinite regress. A fixed starting point is never designated. This is a regress because if A2 is subject or self in relation to A1, the A2 is prior to, comes before A1. For A1 to appear A2 must have already been there. A selved space does not have any distinguished point, the asymmetric relation it hosts precludes this possibility. Further, it could be said that the subject term in the relation is a proxy, or metaphor, for the all. The subject is initially minuscule in relation to the object, initially just a tiny and overlooked point. It can stand for the all because it points out of the space. How is this possible when it seems to have exhausted itself in pointing to the object? It does so, but necessarily in a mode of freedom, it could potentially have pointed to any other object. It distinguishes the object and in so doing co-defines an entire field of objectivity; everything that can be an object is included, but the subject. This impossibility is why it points out of the space, and the impossibility does not arise as long as there is a belief in, or deferral to, the infinite regress.

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