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Thirdness

used in 22 texts across the archive

Thirdness is the recipient and normalization of the interplay of firstness and secondness, founding and institutionalization, but it is also the position of the witness or spectator. The ability to detach yourself sufficiently from ongoing events so as to observe them as an unfolding drama is an originary source of thinking, morality and esthetics.

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Thirdness is the recipient and normalization of the interplay of firstness and secondness, founding and institutionalization, but it is also the position of the witness or spectator.

Thirdness is intended to be such a mode of organizing and strategizing.

Thirdness is to be designed so as simulate this process of transformation so closely as to eventually become it.

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