Field VII – Vulnerability and Risk
Axial Idea: The body is a condition of finitude and exposure. Vulnerability is not an ethical limit, but the very basis of all responsible symbolic inscription. Risk is the other name for organized life. To think is to be exposed.
Theme I – The Body in Ruin
Vulnerability precedes consciousness: it is the condition of the body that reinscribes itself.
- Point 1 – Fragility As Structure
- Point 2 – Pain, Break, Scar
- Point 3 – Ruin As Form
Theme II – Territory, Scarcity, Violence
The finitude of the world generates symbolic conflict. Life is not peaceful: it is a constant negotiation with scarcity.
- Point 1 – The Body Is A Territory
- Point 2 – Scarcity As Condition
- Point 3 – Violence As Gesture of Suppression
Theme III – Responsibility Without Center
Ethics is not born of empathy or norm: it is born of the symbolic recognition of the vulnerability of the other.
- Point 1 – Ethics As Reaction to Finitude
- Point 2 – The Other As Risk and Potency
- Point 3 – Without Morality, Without Redemption