OEC David Cota Ontology of Emergent Complexity

General Index

Complete index of the work and the site

This page provides a complete navigational index to the Ontology of Emergent Complexity. The left-hand column follows the structure of the work itself; the right-hand column gathers the supporting and editorial pages of the site.

The work

Field-books, themes and chapters

Field-Book I - The Origin of the Universe

  1. Theme I - Before the Order: Instability and Irrepetition
    1. Chapter 1 - The Time Before Time
    2. Chapter 2 - Chaos Is Not Confusion
    3. Chapter 3 - Origin as Event
  2. Theme II - Matter in Excess: How the Real Comes to Be
    1. Chapter 4 - Matter Does Not Wait to Be Named
    2. Chapter 5 - Energy, Vibration, Collapse
    3. Chapter 6 - A Beginning Is a Fold, Not a Cut
  3. Theme III - The Emergence of Space
    1. Chapter 7 - Space as Relation
    2. Chapter 8 - The Form That Does Not Withdraw
    3. Chapter 9 - Cosmogony Without Myth

Field-Book II - Organisation of Matter

  1. Theme I - Form Does Not Preexist
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Pace, Timing, Complexity
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Space, Bond, Inscription
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book III - Emergence of Life

  1. Theme I - The Body Before Consciousness
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Complexity, Selection, Adaptation
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Death as an Ontological Operator
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book IV - Human as Gesture

  1. Theme I - From Instinct to Symbol
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - The Body as Language
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Thinking Without Foundation
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book V - Technique and Rewriting

  1. Theme I - The Tool as Memory
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Technique, Registration and Distance
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - The Machine as an External Body
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book VI - Artificial Intelligence

  1. Theme I - Thinking Without a Body
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Logic Outside the Flesh
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Technical Subjectivity and Symbolic Risk
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book VII - Vulnerability and Risk

  1. Theme I - The Body in Ruin
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Territory, Scarcity, Violence
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Responsibility Without a Centre
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book VIII - Post-Human and Mutation

  1. Theme I - Life Beyond the Biological
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - The Non-Human Gesture
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Mutation as Continuity
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book IX - Future as Invention

  1. Theme I - Time Not Given
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Gesture as Opening
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - Politics Without Redemption
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9

Field-Book X - Unfinished Crossing

  1. Theme I - No Form Survives
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
  2. Theme II - Thinking Is Doubling
    1. Chapter 4
    2. Chapter 5
    3. Chapter 6
  3. Theme III - The Real Still Can Turn
    1. Chapter 7
    2. Chapter 8
    3. Chapter 9