ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an exploration of how the biological prefigures and makes possible the various permutations of life that constitute natural, social, cultural existence. Biological organization, whose morphological structures engender the variety of life in all its forms, instead of ensuring that life conforms to existing social categories, boundaries, and limits, instead of containing existence to what is or has been, opens up and enables cultural, political, economic, artistic variation. The elaboration of a philosophical theory of time is no easy matter. Time is perhaps the most enigmatic, the paradoxical, elusive, and “unreal” of any form of material existence. Nietzsche elaborates a small space of excess that functions outside of natural selection, where life simply fulfill itself in surviving in its given milieu successfully enough to reproduce, but where it actively seeks to transform itself, where it refuses reproduction and instead seeks transformation.
