ABSTRACT
The chapter initially draws together the foreclosures of the future developed through Chapters 1 and 2 to articulate a logic of static computational thinking by which the technosphere perpetuates. However, in Lucretius’s writings and their uptake and development by subsequent thinkers, another lineage of onto-epistemology is introduced which, contrastingly, offers a persistent possibility of change and agency.
These ideas are explored, especially the contingency and inseparable primacy of motion within being which they assert. Considered in the political present, such an onto-epistemology offers a vital counterargument to assumptions that ‘the way things are’ are in any way ‘natural’ or ‘inevitable’.
The latter part of the chapter focuses on Derrida’s writing on hospitality. While frequently positively viewed, hospitality, in its basis in property, in fact serves to uphold inequalities. It thus maintains the current order, in contrast to the equal, radical care which this book seeks.
