Foundations of the Ontology of Emerging Complexity

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Philosophical Commitments

• 1.1 - Refusal of Metaphysical Dualism
• 1.2 - Against the Invention of Two Worlds
• 1.3 - Matter Thinks — But Not Like a Subject
• 1.4 - The Symbol Is Not Transcendent
• 1.5 - No Ground, No Soul, No Plan
• 1.6 - Matter as the Only Substrate
• 1.7 - Instability as a Condition, not a Problem

2. Method and Style

• 2.1 - Thought as Singular Response
• 2.2 - Listening as Ontological Exposure
• 2.3 - No Redemption, No Teleology

3. Core Concepts

3.1 Complexity, Relation, Excess

• 3.1.1 - The Refusal of Linear Complexity
• 3.1.2 - Relational Tension as Ontological Principle
• 3.1.3 - Stability Is Not Continuity

3.2 Emergence Without Origin

There is no beginning. Only irruption. Not succession, not consequence. Not lack, not projection. Origin has never been origin. It has always been interpretation, inscription, reconfiguration.

• 3.2.1 - The Regime of Precedence
• 3.2.2 - The Classical Substrate: Substance and Necessity
• 3.2.3 - Modernity’s Continuation: Foundation and Structure
• 3.2.4 - Critical Displacement without Abandonment
• 3.2.5 - The Irruption Without Ground
• 3.2.6 - Language and Logic as Prison of Sequence
• 3.2.7 - Affirmation: From Precedence to Insistence

3.3 Order as Local Effect

• 3.3.1 - Against Order as Principle
• 3.3.2 - The Emergence of Order as an Ephemeral Torsion of the Unstable Field
• 3.3.3 - Order as an Effect of Functional Coupling
• 3.3.4 - The Retrospective Illusion of Origin: Order as Post-Nomination

• 3.3.5 - Order as a Symbolic Gesture Without an Author
• 3.3.6 - Unthinkability of Absolute Order: The Real as a Field of Variation
• 3.3.7 - Ontological and Ethical Consequences

4. Ethical and Political Implications

• 4.1 Vulnerability Without Center
• 4.2 Ethics as Symbolic Reorganization
• 4.3 Politics Beyond the Subject

5. Critical Dialogues with Tradition

• 5.1 Displacement of Classical Ontologies
• 5.2 Limits of Modern Rationalism
• 5.3 Ambiguities of Post-Structuralism

6. Lexicon and Variations

• 6.1 – Key Terms of the OEC
• 6.2 – Ontological Variations
• 6.3 – How to Read the Lexicon

7. Bibliography and Influences

• 7.1 – Philosophical Interlocutors
• 7.2 – Conceptual Sources
• 7.3 – References
• 7.4 – Further Readings and Connections

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This book, written by David Cota, is part of the institutional foundation of the Ontology of Emerging Complexity, established in 2020. (travessia.online)

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