Post-Symbolic Philosophy
bethany reivich
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My research and writing explore what I call the post-symbolic: NOT nonsymbolic, not pre-symbolic, not anti-symbolic, not a theory, but a lived perceptual condition that arises when the symbolic order—the system of signs, norms, and representations that structures meaning in language and culture—collapses or becomes uninhabitable. TO THE RHIZOME PEOPLE: without symbolic support, scaffolding, like family, institutions and other devices of capture to BEHOLD! THE FLOWER of NONREPRESENTATIONAL PERCEPTION! to survive, one doesnt merely toggle between nonsymbolic and symbolic, but eventually operates nonhierarchically in "both" symbolic and nonsymbolic worlds. In other words, TA DA! nondual perception. THE BOMBAST! THE goddamn NERVE TO NOT DECREATE!
that is, the perceptual condition is an ecology, what I so artfully call a "field" which is carried when it is not "provided." exile from symbolic necessarily reorganizes perception. HOW? is smth I write about
Kinetic perception happens to physicists, dancers, autistics, pilots etc.
Kinetic organization is rare bc symbolic systems usually perform the work of stabilisation, selection, and continuation, and if not, things usually dont turn out well (psychosis, etc).
in symbolic collapse, kinetic organization must become operationally sovereign if coherent action is to persist. that's basically the thesis, good luck flattening it and homogenising it into your stale frameworks or making it sound mysterious with that ontologically guarded poetic prose, higher-up VIP academics and symbolic cods!
A fugal contrapunctual literary study of my life as a writer, wanderer, escort and hallucinatory projection screen.
My doctoral and philosophical project-- the flip side of the literary memoir—an inquiry into what happens after the collapse of the symbolic order.