Season 3: Making All Things New

This season will be focussed on how we can reinterpret our inheritance to make it new through the practice of interpretation. Nothing that is given to us from the past can be received without interpretation. The practice of interpretation is called "Hermeneutics" after the Greek messenger god Hermes. Interpretation can close, but only retroactively since the present is always open to a reinterpretation of the past, which means to change one's relation to the past, and thus, change the relations of the past. Closing on a particular interpretation is to determine or objectify, but every determination or realization of possibility actuates more open possibility. AN Whitehead explained that each "Actual Occasion," which was something like a spatiotemporal slice or droplet of experience was comprised of at least three essential elements: one, an intention for novel experience or for novel affect, which was often embodied in the body of the creature or "Superject" that chose what to ingress into an Actual Occasion; two, the "physical pole," which was the concrescences or concrete forms, whether material or conceptual, that were ingressed from the past; and three, the "mental pole," or open virtuality of actualized possibility that was yet to be fully realized, including the "Eternal Ideas" localized in the Actual Occasion as the transcendent yet imminent "Mind of God." Interpretation is possible because of the incomplete determination of the mental pole. This incomplete determination allowed the Superject access to actual possibility through the process of conceptualization, which might be thought of as making what has already beed determined or concresced less determinate, or as intervening in the causal chain by determining some of the incompletely determined causality. Determination is a retroactive closure that is always reopened in the present by the mental pole's access to virtuality and the Superject's intention for novel affect, concepts, and experience.https://www.martinessig.com I mix the mixtapes that I post here but...,Baddass vibes mixed by James Reeves of Midnight Radio: jamesreeves.co for the intro and outro music of most episodes.