Inexistibility

1. the Axiom’s CollapsE

We must begin in reverse: with the collapse of the axiom. We must first demonstrate how it unravels when submitted to its own modality, since the assertion at stake – the recursive impossibility of self-identity – cannot be exempted from the condition it posits. If the impossibility of self-identity recursivelly applies to itself, then its operative modality cannot hold. If its operative modality cannot hold, the axiom cannot be logically self-identical, therefore, collapsing. And in this collapse, it recursively performs precisely what it names.

(— and every identifiable element within it, from graphemes to morphemes, words, syntatic positions —)

This is not to say that the axiom is true because it is false — or false because it is true. Rather, it calls into question the very metaphysical ground of trueness and falseness: the Law of Identity itself. What the axiom proposes — and performs — is the recursive impossibility of self-identity as the only possible mode of appearance for any entity whatsoever.

But does the axiom of inexistibility simply restate what it performs in a tautological manner? Does it hold any privilege making its recursion operationally distinct from the impass of propositional paradoxes such as the Liar or the generalization one?

The logical collapse of the axiom isn’t, then, a flaw, but a performance of its central claim. What it states is not a fixed truth, but a performative collapse of self-identity. It enacts its recursive impossibility in every attempt to (re)articulate it.

That performance is a paradigmatic example of what the inexistibility model proposes: that every thing that appears – physical and conceptual objects, states, events, processes, conditions – only do so precisely through the topological recursion of the impossibility of fully being. Any identity emerge as a fiction retroactively imposed on a transient, patterned renonance of collapse (or collapses). The patterns, or rhythms, or pulses, happen exactly because collapse can’t never be self-identical, therefore happening recursively in all scales and speeds. Collapse, hence, isn’t erasure, but transition.

What we fictionally take as fixed identities are transient resonating pulses, patterns, rhythms emerging from the impossibility of self-identity folding in itself.

Inexistibility – and collapse – is the very condition of appearence.

We may reclaim some terms that better define the elements at play. Inexistence, here, is the non-self-identical mode of appearing. Every thing inexists precisely by recursively collapsing, fading in itself.

This is a radical recursion of the metastability in Simondon, the Différence in Derrida, the process in Whitehead, the event in Badiou, the becoming in Deleuze.

I reject the Law of Identity, and by doing so, I reject any metaphysical ground. There are no guarantors. What I don’t reject, though (one may ask) is the performativity of formal systems, such as Logic. I propose the recursion of non-self-identity as the generative modal of appearance.

Radical Immanence

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With a school-age daughter of my own, it is of the utmost importance that we keep pushing for changes in our schools, better study spaces for our kids, affordable after-school programs, and healthy lunches. Our children are the next generation, let’s make sure they’re prepared, together.

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every thing cannot be self-identical

With a school-age daughter of my own, it is of the utmost importance that we keep pushing for changes in our schools, better study spaces for our kids, affordable after-school programs, and healthy lunches. Our children are the next generation, let’s make sure they’re prepared, together.

With a school-age daughter of my own, it is of the utmost importance that we keep pushing for changes in our schools, better study spaces for our kids, affordable after-school programs, and healthy lunches. Our children are the next generation, let’s make sure they’re prepared, together.

I have been actively serving our community since before my children began school. As a leader of the PTA, youth sports, and fundraising committees, I am passionate about making our town a better place for our children – and for the future.