From this recent Bryant blog post. Here is an excerpt of interest to this thread:
"The minimal unit of being is the fold. The minimal unit of being is not
the things, not the object, but the dyad; the dyad between thing and
field. [...] The fold is a thought of continuity. That which is folded, the thing,
is continuous with the field out of which it is folded. Where
object-oriented philosophy proclaimed an independence of all relation, a
discrete conception of being composed of units, pli-tology speaks of an
interiorization of a field in the formation of a fold that is both
continuous with the field out of which it is folded, yet distinct from
it. Folding, of course, is an activity, a verb.
"The foldings of being
should not be conceived as something that occur within being that is
then finished in accomplished– a sort of dialectic between the potential
and the actual, of dunamis and energeia –but rather as an ongoing activity
or process of folding where there are perpetual exchanges between thing
or the folded and field or that which is folded. The folded arises
from the field, creasing it in all sorts of complex ways, and rebounds
back upon the field modifying it in all sorts of ways. Here I hasten to
add that dyadism is not a dualism. There is not one thing, the object,
and another thing, the field. There is instead inseparable bond
between the two, the folding of their difference, the activity of their
differentiated, which both divides and unites. Things are, as Stacy
Alaimo argues, trans-corporeal; they are folded into one another,
sheathed in one another, in a generalized dyadism."
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