Individuation: Conditions and Consequences — Series Introduction

What allows distinctions to emerge, stabilise, and generate new possibilities? Individuation: Conditions and Consequences explores this question through the lens of relational ontology. Individuation is not a fixed property or isolated event; it is a dynamic process of relational actualisation, in which potential differences are structured, stabilised, and recursively propagated.

This series examines:

• The preconditions that make individuation possible — relational complexity, constraints and freedoms, perspectival clines, scaffolding, and semiotic grounding;

• The consequences of individuation — generation of new relational potentials, reflexive identity, scaling, nesting, and the transformation of semiotic fields;

• The synthesis of these processes, showing individuation as a continuous enactment of potential across scales.

Readers are invited to trace how individuation operates across systems, from biological and cognitive domains to social and symbolic formations, revealing the logic by which possibility becomes actual, and actualisations create further possibilities.