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“Individuation has resisted thought and description until now because we have recognized the existence of only one form of equilibrium: stable equilibrium. The idea of ‘metastable equilibrium’ had not been recognized. A being was implicitly presumed to be in a state of stable equilibrium at all times. Stable equilibrium excludes the idea of becoming because it corresponds to the lowest level of potential energy possible; it is the sort of equilibrium that is attained in a system when all the possible transformations have been achieved and no other force remains to enact any further changes. With all the potentials actualized, and the system having reached its lowest energy level, it can no longer go through any transformations. The ancients recognized only the states of instability and stability, movement and rest, but they had no clear and objective idea of metastability. In order to define metastability, it is necessary to introduce the notion of potential energy residing in a given system, the notion of order and that of an increase in entropy. In this way it is possible to define the being in its metastable state, which is very different from stable equilibrium and rest.” 

-Gilbert Simondon    

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Thank you to the Boston Compass for being awesome! (https://bostonhassle.com/2015/06/65-june-2015/)

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No, I’m not over it.

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The foreigner lives within us

“Foreigner: a choked up rage deep down in my throat, a black angel clouding transparency, opaque, unfathomable spur. The image of hatred and of the other, a foreigner is neither the romantic victim of our clannish indolence nor the intruder responsible for all the ills in the polis. Neither the apocalypse on the move nor the instant adversary to be eliminated for the sake of appeasing the group. Strangely, the foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face to our identity, the space that wrecks our abode, the time in which understanding and affinity founder. By recognizing him within ourselves, we are spared detesting him in himself. A symptom that precisely turns ‘we’ into a problem, perhaps makes it impossible, the foreigner comes in when the consciousness of my difference arises, and he disappears when we all acknowledge ourselves as foreigners, unamenable to bonds and communities.”    -Julia Kristeva 

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Who cares what I write... No one will see this... Right?