On Freedom by Peter Trawny;

Author:Peter Trawny; [Trawny;, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Technology, Capital, Medium
ISBN: 9781474273053
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2017-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

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The Universal and the Universal Topology

Universality is the first extension of space-time. This extension can be comprehended mathematically. It is entirely un-eventful, absolutely empty. Universality as such is therefore the universal.

If there is a riddle to thinking, it is here. Although every universal riddle can be solved, there is an infinite chain of such riddles. Thinking can never return to the beginning, since there is always a beginning before the beginning.

The unprethinkable pre-originality of un-eventful space-time, however, belongs to the universal. This pre-originality harbours the originary word, the originary meaning that withdraws and always will withdraw from us.

We could perhaps gesture toward this originary word with the German expression, Es gibt.1 This would be somewhat misleading, however, since here there is neither a giver nor a gift. ‘Gift’ is too rich a word to designate the pure, universal extension of un-eventful space-time.

And yet: es gibt the four universals (U I – IV). The universals fill the un-eventful extension of space-time. They serve to present universality via the relation between the PT and the MTT. The universality of the universal = the universal topology, the bare Es gibt as the UT of the I-M-M.2

Technology is not something technological; capital is not something capitalistic; the medium is not something medium-like. Science is not something scientific. The human is not something human. Nature is not something natural.

The Es gibt is not something given. These negations advert to the originary sense that withdraws from us.3

U I presents itself as technology.capital.medium; U II as science; U III as the human being; U IV as nature.

Presence is not a product, nor is it something human or natural. The presence of U I – IV is the bare Es gibt of the UT.

Presence loses itself in the universals; it is dissembled by them. In the four universals there are [gibt es] either technological or natural products. Such technological and natural – indeed all universal – entities protrude beyond their own presence, so that what appears is never presence itself.

Presence can nonetheless be separated from that which presents itself. For presence itself is not something presented.

This is already indicated by the fact that, while all four universals present themselves, the presence in all of these presentations is the same. Furthermore, the difference between presence and presented can be experienced in intimacy.

Presence is liberated from the presented, which vanishes. Presence becomes pure presence.

Pure presence is that which first fills the un-eventful extension of space-time; the beginning of universal being.

The unprethinkable meaning of the originary word, the originary meaning, is – precisely because it is unprethinkable – necessarily not mathematical, but rather hyper-mathematical. Hyper-mathematics transcends space-time and pure presence. Its axioms are unknown and, as hyper-axioms, must remain so. For the originary meaning is not being, but rather hyper-being – an intensive schism in being, a pure outside (UT).

The bare Es gibt (UT) first gives pure presence (which means that the Es gibt is never pure presence, but neither is it pure absence). It gives (UT) rise to the MTT; it is identical to and different from the MTT as the topology of mathematical possibilities.

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