a most undervalued stock

April 9, 2009

Substantial forms. The idea that things have a real form quite apart from being seen or described, quite apart from being in relation to anything else. The most automatic move in contemporary avant garde thought is the reflex of assuming that form is always extrinsic, and that we have to get down into some sort of sexy, churning, formless matter to get to reality. Or, since few want to call it completely formless (since the problems with that are too obvious) we get the half-hearted solution of a “pre-individuality” that is both individual and not individual, whatever that means.

The much simpler step is simply to revive the substantial forms, without the usual baggage of substance philosophies that can be jettisoned with surprising ease.

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