THE LIMINAL FIELD: And If
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Short Description A speculative exploration of time, depth, potentiality, and conception. The text proposes that linear time may be a consequence of conception itself and examines the possibility of an all-encompassing temporal depth in which potential and actuality coexist simultaneously. Abstract This essay investigates the possibility that depth may be associated with a volumetric and all-encompassing conception of time rather than with linear succession. The work suggests that ordinary experience is structured by a conception of time as progression, generating distinctions between past, present, and future. It then explores an alternative hypothesis in which all states coexist simultaneously within a comprehensive temporal container, making transformation a condition of potential rather than the result of process. Within this framework, matter, energy, fire, and bodily transformation are reconsidered as expressions of potential awaiting conceptual realization. The text ultimately proposes that conception plays a determining role in the emergence of structure from possibility and that alternative realities may become thinkable through alternative conceptions of time itself.
Author: FMOO, Oliva
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225314990