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Critique of Modernity
It shows that modernity was not as radical as I thought. When trying to cut with the past, it just changed the location of the "absolute" (from God to Reason or Science).
Place in Ontology
Text 17 closes the cycle of criticism of "origin". After criticizing origin as substance (Text 16), this text criticizes the origin as a cut (modernity). With this, the ground is clear to present the alternative of OCE: origin as continuous emergence.
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Specific Contribution
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Suture Concept
Introduces the idea that historical and natural change happens through "suture" (connection) and not because cut. This is crucial to understanding how Life emerges from Matter without a "miracle".
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Preparation for Field II
By eliminating the need for absolute cuts, the text prepares the reader to accept to radical continuity between the inorganic (Field I) and the organic (Field II).
This is the last text of Theme II ("Excess Matter"). The next theme will explore how this matter in excess begins to organise itself into pre-biological forms.