Theme introduction
Introduction to Theme III
Theme III asks what follows once origin is no longer conceived as substrate, author, or transcendental condition. If matter is processual and acentric, then space cannot remain an empty container, an a priori form, or a metaphysical stage on which events merely occur.
The three chapters develop this consequence rigorously. Chapter 7 reconstructs space as relation. Chapter 8 examines form as an immanent effect that does not withdraw from matter. Chapter 9 closes the movement by proposing a cosmogony without myth, in which the universe is thinkable without recourse to centre, purpose, or theological narrative.
This is the point at which Field-Book I completes its opening cosmological gesture: not by totalising the universe, but by clarifying the conditions under which its emergence can be thought materially and without transcendence.
Theme chapters