ABSTRACT
We are not good at thinking movement. Our institutional skills favour the fixed and static, the separate and self-contained. Taxonomies, hierarchies, systems and structure represent the instinctive vocabulary of institutionalised thought in its subordinating of movement and transformation. The philosopher Whitehead (1925) called this the principle of simple location in which clear-cut, definite things occupy clear-cut, definite places in space and time. There is movement – of a kind: the simple movement of definite things from one definite place to another. But it’s a form of movement which denies the restlessness of transformation, deformation and reformation. Simple location reconstitutes a world of finished subjects and objects from the flux and flow of unfinished, heteromorphic ‘organisms’.
