The Becoming of Possibility — An Integrated Arc

Across decades of thought, imagination, and symbolic exploration, humanity has sought to articulate what can be known, imagined, and enacted. The Becoming of Possibility traces this quest not as a linear accumulation of facts, but as a relational, perspectival unfolding: the emergence of horizons within which potential itself becomes intelligible.

This integrated arc weaves together five complementary genealogies:

1. Western Philosophy and the Becoming of Possibility
   Here, possibility is traced through classical, medieval, and modern systems of thought—Plato’s ideal forms, Aristotle’s categories, Cartesian rationality, Kantian structures, and postmodern pluralities—revealing how construal is historically mediated, structured, and extended.

2. Genealogies of Construal: Cosmology, Symbol, and Reflexivity
   By mapping the evolution of cosmic understanding and symbolic orders, this series shows how imagination, myth, science, and technology co-construct the space of possibility, shaping both human understanding and the symbolic field itself.

3. Genealogies of Imagined Worlds
   Focusing on literature, art, and speculative thought, this series demonstrates how imaginative systems expand and channel collective and individual potential, from primordial myth through theatre, allegory, and novelistic interiority, to science fiction and digital worlds.

4. Genealogies of Relational Ontologies in Philosophy
   This series foregrounds relationality itself as an ontological principle, tracing the lineage of thinkers who conceive being and becoming in terms of interaction, interdependence, and process. Possibility emerges here as co-constitutive, perspectival, and reflexively structured.

5. The Luminous Arc: Light as Medium and Metaphor of Possibility
   Light—physical, symbolic, and technological—demonstrates the relational structuring of potential across domains. From early myth and sacred cosmology to modern optics, quantum indeterminacy, and networked symbolic worlds, light exemplifies how constraints, affordances, and mediations shape the horizon of what can be perceived and enacted.

Throughline and Synthesis

Across these genealogies, a consistent insight emerges: possibility is neither inherent nor given; it is relationally produced. Every construal—philosophical, cosmological, imaginative, or symbolic—both conditions and extends the field of potential, creating horizons that are historical, reflexive, and co-constitutive.

This integrated framework is more than historiography. It is a living ontology of possibility:

• Relational: potential arises from interaction, interdependence, and patterning, not isolation.

• Reflexive: acts of observation, narration, and conceptualisation shape what can be actualised.

• Perspectival: each construal is situated, contingent, and historically conditioned.

• Generative: understanding the structuring of possibility enables deliberate navigation, extension, and creation of new horizons.

In sum, The Becoming of Possibility presents not merely a record of what humans have thought or imagined, but a method for inhabiting and extending the fields of potential themselves. It invites the reader to see possibility as emergent, co-constituted, and ever-expanding, and to recognise the interplay of history, relationality, and symbolic action that makes any horizon of potential intelligible—and achievable.