CREALECTICS

On the Concept of Creal: The Politico-Ethical Horizon of a Creative Absolute

Process philosophies tend to emphasise the value of continuous creation as the core of their discourse. For Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze, and others the real is ultimately a creative becoming. Critics have argued that there is an irreducible element of (almost religious) belief in this re-evaluation of immanent creation. While I don’t think belief is necessarily…

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  • Theory in the making

    This blog is a theoretical puzzle in the making, except that the final image is not predetermined by its author. I shall start however with a few elements and intuitions rather than nothing, as arguable hypotheses. Firstly, a new concept, which I have taken to calling crealectics. This derives from my concept of Creal and the…

  • Umwelt and language

    I would like to recommend an interesting chapter written by Morten Tønnessen, entitled Umwelt and language, in Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. He speaks of language as a perception system developed in interaction with non-human entities (for him mostly animal, but why not include plants, the wind, etc.). He cites biologist Maturana for his idea of language…

This blog experience is now complete (2017-2022). It contains a myriad of posts, most of them on the crealectic approach to life and philosophy: click on a date below to select content from a given year. You can also send an email to Dr Luis de Miranda.