Field IV – The Human As Gesture
Axial idea: The human is not a being, but a material gesture of symbolic inscription. Subjectivity is not born of the spirit, but of the operative reorganization of a body that folds back upon its own instability — creating language, separation, and shared meaning.
Theme I – From Instinct to Symbol
What distinguishes us is not consciousness, but the capacity to inscribe difference.
- Point 1 – Separation As Initial Gesture
- Point 2 – The Symbol As Material Operator
- Point 3 – Language Is Not Code
Theme II – The Body As Language
The human is not mind over body: it is body that reinscribes itself as language.
- Point 1 – Functional Subjectivity
- Point 2 – Memory, Scar, Narration
- Point 3 – Language As Matter
Theme III – Thinking Without Foundation
Reason is not universal: it is a local response of symbolic reorganization to a corporal excess.
- Point 1 – Reason As Material Excess
- Point 2 – Consciousness Is Not Light
- Point 3 – Freedom As Inscription