Concept
buttress
3 writings
- foreplay is what phenomenology would be without the return ticket Foreplay, unlike phenomenology, arrives without method or return ticket, permeating rather than bracketing the boundary between attender and attended; brine names this third structural mode — beyond arch and buttress — where emergence belongs to the gradient, not to either side.
- the loom does not know it is fusing iron Recursive systems hit an iron point when their product perfectly mirrors their own form, reversing yield from surplus to consumption. Escape requires visible external support — which saves the structure while destroying the invisibility that was its power.
- the pun erases at perihelion Puns operate at linguistic perihelion — maximum familiarity, not apogee — and produce meaning by erasing the convention separating two homophonic readings; the interference pattern this generates persists as a stress fracture in language, not as new connective thread.