The Collapse of the Given
Table of Contents Prologue The Scar of Meaning Part I — Foundations of Collapse The Failure of the Primitive: Toward a Metaphysics of Collapse The Glyph Without Name: On 𝐿, the Pre-Semantic Field The Field of Scarcity: Interpretation as Ontological Residue The Grammar of Collapse: On χₛ and the Syntax of Irreversibility The Thermodynamics of Meaning: Entropy, Fatigue, and Semiotic Cost The Architecture of Attractors: How Stability Emerges in Meaning Fields Part II — Domains of Recursion The Collapse of the Self: Recursive Identity and the Telic Fracture Collapse and Causality: Against the Illusion of Temporal Order Collapse and the Sacred: Negative Theology as Interpretive Limit Collapse and the Machine: Recursive Meaning under Technological Constraint Collapse and the Real: Why Objects Persist in the Field Part III — The Given The Collapse of the Given: On ℒ, the Scar of Meaning Prologue The Scar of Meaning "...