p.7-8 I do want to claim that something very special happens
when living bodies interact with their surroundings, and that we have not (explicitly) taken this into account in
our current forms of thought or institutional practices. The resulting relations have not just a dialogically structured
character, as I once thought, but a chiasmic (or dynamically intertwined) structure.
p.9 I am following Merleau-Ponty (1968), who called the second to last chapter
of his book The Visible and Invisible – Chapter 4, “The Intertwining - The Chiasm.”
p.20 there is no shortage of familiar, everyday activities
which only take place over time, to which we can refer as paradigms for orienting ourselves to what is entailed
in identifying the nature of felt understandings, what it is to have a shaped and vectored sense of
a circumstance without in fact having a visual or pictorial image of it.
p.22 meaning begins with our spontaneous responsive reactions.
p.26-27 I cannot claim here by any means to have given a definitive
account of chiasmically organized realities. I have made a small beginning with what we might call
a prospective concept – something that must of its very nature remain eternally open
to further articulation. But what I can say for certain is that future notions of reality ought to be devoid of all
static, merely spatial forms
