Modernity confronts collectives with plural and competing worldings. Fragmentation arises when multiple symbolic architectures — cultural, technological, scientific, or ideological — intersect, collide, or diverge.
In a fragmented cosmos, coherence is provisional. Different collectives inhabit overlapping but non-identical actualisations of possibility. What is sacred to one may be profane to another; what one system deems central, another treats as marginal. Fragmentation exposes the contingency of every construal, the perspectival nature of all axes and horizons.
Meaning emerges relationally: in negotiation, interpretation, and alignment across fragments. Conflicts and collisions are not failures but indicators of the multiplicity inherent in the cosmos. Reflexivity becomes essential, allowing collectives to navigate and reweave divergent worlds without presuming a single, universal order.
To study a fragmented cosmos is to see the plurality of possible worlds, to trace the tensions between overlapping symbolic systems, and to recognise that meaning is an ongoing, collective enactment rather than a fixed inheritance.
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