12/3/2023 0 Comments Define anima motrixWe are going to liberate the means of cosmic production so that they may at last appear an und für sich. ![]() Instead of waiting upon some great messianic disjunction to be poured out the bank of possibility, I instead propose a somewhat different radicality – the need to break with the assumed traditional abalietic (being-from-another) relationship that on dynamei has upon the actual. But there is also a radical underside at work in these traditions – and not in the manner that Deleuze, Bloch and 20 th c. Historically the potential/virtual has been treated as lacking, as less real than that which is actual, as subservient to actuality, as a bank for producing actuality and little more. As I will endeavour to show, in each case the real problem that emerges is the strange idea that on dynamei is a way of expressing different modes of existence in their own right that are radically different from our assumptions about “actual” beings. ![]() In this forth part of our series I am going to be looking at two “potential problems”, so we might say – historical outgrowths of Aristotle’s doctrine of potentiality/virtuality. In the Metaphysics Aristotle declares that Non-Being can be said in three senses: the commonly understood meaning of something being simply false and not existing at all, a “categorical” sense in which negation simply means not this but something else, and, thirdly, on dynamei (Being in potentiality/virtuality), which is real but is not actual. ![]() In the previous part of this ongoing series we looked at Aristotle’s reception of Plato’s discovery of the equivocity of Non-Being in his late dialogue The Sophist. Image: Salvador Dali, Corpus Hypercubus, 1954
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