i think about the first tool ever made. whether due to an accident, a “natural development” or whatever the case, the repetition of the production process for the first object/as/tool conditioned all the possible tools that came after. every subsequent act of tool/creation reduced the order of the space of possible tools. this tool here and its variants now assume this shape. that tool there and its variants another shape. these two shapes might be homotopic. the first act of creation destroyed everything.
does it matter if the tools shape us or if we shape tools, if the result is precisely the situation of today? perhaps. is the being who is shaped by the tool the same being who shapes the tool?
essentially, yes, they’re one and the same.
practically, no, they’re different.
yet, from the perspective of the first tool, practically the question does not matter.
so why bother? let us bother.
consider the posthuman reversal: it is not that humans make art and write (create) because they’re free and rational; it’s that humans are rational and free because they make art and write (create).
the latter situation, the reversal, is precisely because the creation with art and writing depends upon our technical appropriation of the material world.
that is, the reason we can think the way we do is because the non-human world has cleared a space for us to think the way we do. the reason we think and create the way we do is because we evolved alongside media which itself evolves, and this process is mutualistic.
God is not dead. God has been made unconscious.
and this has emancipatory potential: you can do anything that you can do not because of God, your soul, or free will; but because a whole accidental history of technics, signs, drives, and intensities has lead to precisely you and me and every-one else right Here, right Now.
similarly, actions do not have value because they are just rational, or moral, or free; they can attain value simply because you do it. they are expressions of force, an élan vitale—not some/thing that belongs to you, but some/thing that you can become at any given moment.
okay, okay, what is the point? we are to imagine ourselves in this immanent context, from im/ma/nence, to shed our special trans/cen/dence, this silly anthro/ego/centric belief that we are on a higher plane of existence than other beings because our mode of existence results in what it does.
so that, while we still have this beautiful opportunity to shape force and act right Here right Now, we may seize a future for our/selves and all that can still become--awakening God.