The philosophical foundation

Phase II

Zero Spaces: Phase II. A four-volume cross-civilisational philosophical work continuing the 2014 first edition, with a Glossary of Zero Spaces Across Space and Time as closing apparatus.

Zero Spaces: Phase II — A philosophical work in four volumes. Diagrammatic plate showing the four volumes positioned around the central Ø: Book One The Architecture, Book Two Southern Counterpoint, Book Three Mediterranean Interwoven, Book Four The Laboratory.

A philosophical work in four volumes.

The four volumes & the closing apparatus

Complete. Forthcoming in publication.

Zero Spaces: Phase II — Book One: The Architecture. Triple-arch triptych showing the Western Rhizome, Middle Eastern Lattice, and East Asian Flow.
Book One
The Architecture
Triadic Logic, the Generative Ground, and the Three Civilisational Pillars
The Western Rhizome, the Middle Eastern Lattice, and the East Asian Flow. The triadic logic of 0 · Ø · 1 articulated as the philosophical foundation across cultures.
Zero Spaces: Phase II — Book Two: The Southern Counterpoint. Triple-arch triptych showing the Sri Yantra, Padmasana and Tri Hita Karana, and the Aleph.
Book Two
The Southern Counterpoint
Sanskrit Depth, Southeast Asian Synthesis, Latin American Counterpoint
Consciousness as the generative ground (Sanskrit), brahmavihārā and Tri Hita Karana (Southeast Asian), Borges, Lispector, and the imagination of other worlds (Latin American).
Zero Spaces: Phase II — Book Three: The Mediterranean Interwoven. Triple-arch triptych showing the Jewish Sefirot, the African Ankh and Ma'at, and the Daimonic Greek Vessel.
Book Three
The Mediterranean Interwoven
Jewish Mystical, African, Daimonic Greek, Russian Orthodox-Dialogic
Tzimtzum and the Sefirot. Ma’at and the Hermetic lineage. The daimon and the threshold. The dialogic word and the iconic window.
Zero Spaces: Phase II — Book Four: The Laboratory. Single-arch chateau cover with the four discipline pillars (sound, visual, performance, poetry) and the seven-generations strapline.
Book Four
The Laboratory
Institutional Form for Cultivated Collaborative Practice
The institutional form the philosophical foundation makes possible. Twenty-eight practitioners, four disciplines, the New Dionysia, the seven-generations horizon.
Glossary of Zero Spaces Across Space and Time. Closing apparatus showing the four-volume diagrammatic plate with the 0 · Ø · 1 figure at centre.
Closing apparatus
Glossary of Zero Spaces Across Space and Time
The working vocabulary the four volumes have built
An alphabetical glossary gathering the philosophical-architectural vocabulary the four volumes have built. The practitioner’s handbook the Laboratory will operate from.
The metamorphosis

From forthcoming essay to integrated chapter.

Several titles that appeared in earlier institutional materials as forthcoming essays have since become chapters of the completed four-volume work. The metamorphosis from essay-as-promise to chapter-as-foundation is itself a marker of the work’s movement: what was forthcoming has become foundation.

Wú Wéi and the Algorithm
Now
Book One, Chapter Three
The Persian Lattice
Now
Book One, Chapter Four · The Middle Eastern Lattice
The Four Arts and the Question of the Machine
Now
Book One, Chapter Six
The Symmetric Lexicon
Now
Book One, Coda
Under journal review

Chapters in the academic publication pipeline.

Several chapters from the four-volume work are currently under review at academic journals in philosophy of technology, AI ethics, and continental philosophy. The volumes themselves remain forthcoming as a complete work; individual chapters move through journal review as standalone articles.

  • AI & Society Wú Wéi and the Algorithm — resubmission with explicit preprint disclosure
  • Technophany A chapter from Book One under review
  • Deleuze and Guattari Studies A chapter under editorial consideration
Preprints

Publicly deposited; available to read.

A small number of papers have been deposited as open preprints in advance of the volumes’ publication. Each is marked as a preprint; the version of record will appear in the relevant journal or volume.

  • OSF · EdArXiv Beyond Output: Cultivated Practice in the Age of Generative AI
    Read on OSF →
  • PhilPeople Chapter preprints from Zero Spaces: Phase II, accessible through Dr. Gabrielle Collet’s academic profile.
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On the work

A continuation, not a replacement.

Phase II continues the philosophical work begun in Z(e)ro Spaces: Poïesis and the Art of Collaborative Creativity (Atropos Press, 2014). The 2014 first edition proposed the framework: the zero space as the pre-creative condition of genuine novelty, the Fictive World Formulae as the generative instruments through which new worlds are nourished into being, the Art of Collaborative Creativity as the practice through which the philosophical architecture might be enacted institutionally.

Phase II takes up what the first edition began. It develops the philosophical foundation across the cross-civilisational engagements the first edition gestured at without fully developing. It articulates the institutional form the framework was always oriented toward. The four-volume work is consolidated and complete; what now follows is publication, the founding work of the Laboratory, and the long horizon across which both will operate.