An Historical Trajectory:
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The visible world as sign-posts for hints, clues, insights
into the workings of an over-arching grand symbolic pattern forming
the metaphysical code of reality (Pre-Modern).
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- The bourgeois revolution being the process of the disintegration
of this symbolic order, so that things, objects, events, experiences
rather than being pieces of some universal jigsaw puzzle (our task being
to decipher our own particular destiny from the clues strewn throughout
our lifetime all around and in us), became seen in the actuality of
their immediate appearance devoid of metaphysical interpretation.
However, once that was recognized, it also became known that "immediate
appearance" is constituted, i.e. apprehended, according
to pre-existing social-cultural frames-of-reference within the historical
context of the ever wider and deeper penetration of the commodity form
(Modern/Postmodern).
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Whether or not these partial, limited, provincial frames can be broken
through, opening the potential for a this-world, global consciousness
arising from the historical essence of our species-being (as a particular
manifestation of universal, cosmic processes embedded in all reality
-- from the minutest quark to galactic structures, from individual to
collective (un)consciousness) -- without becoming codified into an abstract,
oppressive, totalizing rationality, making possible for "actuality"
to manifest "as it is"-- devoid
of metaphysical (pre)mediations is the problem we are now facing
after the disintegration of the pretenses of hegemonic classical bourgeois
ideology ("western culture") and its historic antithesis,
"scientific socialism."
-- Csaba Polony
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