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The New Clockwork:

Part I

Concerning Identity

Definitions

1. By that which is a self I mean a construct whose nature involves existence in time and space andhas deposits of awareness or contacts with such an awareness of this existence either throuh

self!reflection or sense!perception "self!reflection #y interroative speculation or intuition$ and

perception #y means of stimulated senses%.

&. 'n identity is said to #e mo#ile in that it is not static$ that it has an area of mo#ility$ is free!floatin$

and exists temporarily in its momentary contacts and coaulation.

(. By resolution I mean compactness of form$ solidified yet fluid concentration) that is$ a focus in a

field of converence. The resolution is planicentric.

*. By havin I mean the fundamental aspect of thins in existence in that it is a iven that an existent

thin has existence as its first attri#ute) that is$ an existent is having co!instantaneously with the

existence that itpossesses.

+. By ha#it I mean that which is contracted over time$ which is a fossil of past selves$ and which

circulates in iven periods) that is$ it is a node on the scale of havin$ and as sedimentary$ has

rules of structuration as well as definite or am#iuous contours.

,. By exhi#ition I mean the effect in a self of surfacin$ of the presencin of symptoms$ particles$ a

heteroeneous showin which is constant and always disparate.

-xplication

I say disparate #ecause the exhi#ition is never unilateral. Thins do not surface as sinularities #ut

rather in clusters formin constellations. uch is the nature of the concrete assem#ly that is the self) it

is Theory in the archaic sense$ as iht or cene. 'lso$ #y stimulation$ I mean arousal$ affection$ or

impression.

/. The ha#it is said to #e constitutive of the self$ the identity$ insofar as the ha#it is somethin thatI

have) that is$ insofar as I am a having being$ my ha#its are outrowths of my power of

existence$ and help constitute concrete layers of self.

0. By fluidity I mean mo#ility$ the capacity to #e moved$ which entails emotion$ #ut also means that

all elements in the unity of the self are su#ect to movement$ #e it modification$ metamorphosis$ or

falsification "illusive sem#lance$ concealment%.

-xplication


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2or the thins that make up the self are said to #e unsta#le in the sense that they have freedom of

movement$ are in constant transition. The position of any one node in the system is also relative to a

center which itself can #e dislocated.

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1. 'll existent selves are constituted #y ha#its which are prorammatic and prescriptive.&. The #ody$ thouhts$ and #ehaviours "and therefore ha#its% are one6s own insofar as they are

constitutive of the self as dynamic oranism.

(. 2rom a iven ha#it there is a power of havin as manitude and a specific locality in the

sensory!motor complex for the senses that the ha#it arouses.

*. 7a#its are or#ital$ periodic$ and therefore sementary.

+. omethin wepossessalso possesses us in the dialectic of possession$ which #reaks the #oundaries

#etween possessor and possessed$ unitin them in an oranic relationship that crosses the

threshold of enclosure.

,. 8elations are concrete insofar as one cannot exist without evident relations as differential 9ualities

which are definitive "formal!theoretic and physical%.

/. The self exists as a collection$ each part dependent on or interal to the others to form the

collection.

roposition 1

Habits are multiple.

Proof

This is evident from Def. , in which exhi#ition is always disparate) therefore$ ha#its$ #ein exhi#itions$

come in multilateral clusters.

roposition &

A persons relationship to time constitutes the primary contours of his identity.

Proof

-vident from Def. 1 and 'xiom *. Def. 1 states that the self is a construct whose nature involves

existence in time and space. 'xiom * states that ha#its are or#ital$ periodic$ and sementary.

Therefore$ the ha#it$ as prorammatic and prescriptive constitution of existent self "'xiom 1%$ has a

relation to the time and space it occupies "Def. 1%$ and relations #ein concrete$ differential and

definitive 9ualities "'xiom ,%$ means that time "and space% organizethe ha#its$ determinin their

contours and conse9uently the shape of the self as construct "Def. 1%.

roposition (

The self is changed by time.


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