Retrospective: Three Series, One Relational Arc

Our three series — Mythotechnics, Relational Epistemologies, and Relational Anthropology — are not separate explorations. They are sequential, mutually reinforcing stages in a single intellectual project: mapping how possibility emerges, is known, and is inhabited. Together, they form a ladder from world-making to human becoming.

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1. Mythotechnics: How Worlds Are Made (and Unmade)

Focus: Civilisation-level meaning and world-formation.

Key insight: Stories, rituals, and myths are relational cuts into potential, shaping the semiotic scaffolding that structures reality.

• Posts explore:

  • How narratives carve inhabitable universes.

  • Why some myths stabilise collectives while others collapse.

  • Ritual as iterated actualisation.

  • The possibility of crafting new world-cuts for the future.

Contribution: Entire world-systems — human, social, and conceptual — are constructed relationally, not reflected or represented. The series frames possibility itself as patterned, enacted, and maintained.

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2. Relational Epistemologies: Knowing Without Representing

Focus: Knowledge and the act of knowing.

Key insight: Knowledge is not mirror or representation; it is perspectival, relational, and generative.

• Posts explore:

  • The representational fallacy.

  • Knowing as perspectival construal.

  • Scientific method as interaction, not observation.

  • Relational knowledge across physics, biology, and society.

  • Meta-epistemology: knowledge-systems co-individuating with worlds.

Contribution: Provides a coherent, anti-representational framework for understanding how humans, societies, and systems generate knowledge. Knowing itself is revealed as an active, world-shaping process, reinforcing the ontology introduced in Mythotechnics.

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3. A Relational Anthropology: The Human Animal Reconstructed

Focus: Humans as relational, emergent nodes in multiple lattices of potential.

Key insight: Humans are vortices of potentials, acting, feeling, and co-individuating relationally across semiotic, social, biological, and ecological domains.

• Posts explore:

  • Humans as emergent, not essential.

  • Agency as leverage in relational lattices.

  • Culture as semiotic ecology.

  • Emotion as constraint negotiation.

  • The future human co-individuating with new technological and ecological potentials.

Contribution: The human is reconstructed relationally, without recourse to essence, representation, or inner mentalism. It interprets what it means to act, feel, and evolve as relational nodes, closing the loop from world-making and knowing to human becoming.

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The Full Trajectory

1. Worlds: We start by seeing how collectives carve possibility into structured, inhabitable reality.

2. Knowledge: Next, we see how knowledge itself emerges relationally, co-structuring the worlds we inhabit.

3. Humans: Finally, we see how humans are nodes within these worlds and knowledge-systems — emergent, circulating, and co-individuating with the lattices of potential that define existence.

This trajectory, taken as a whole, is a systematic exploration of existence, meaning, and agency as relational, non-representational processes. It invites readers to abandon mirrors and essences, and instead navigate the lattice of potential that is reality itself.