TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kwinter, Sanford
PY  - 2024
UR  - https://khorein.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ch/article/view/45
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3895
AB  - While salience implies a discontinuity with a temporal or spatial surround, one that generates the qualities and meaning of the universes, cosmoses, or Umwelts that we inhabit, it nonetheless represents an artifactual reality that comprises experience, not a foundational one. To the extent that we are salient sentient beings—well-formed centers of worldly experience—we are discontinuous with the worlds we inhabit. But as material and biological entities, and especially as “minds” continuously metabolizing and integrating the moving particulars of the physical world, we are not “in” the world but actually are the world. Our sensory capacities are in no way limited to the apprehension of change that presents uniquely as distinction, but also track and participate in the unfolding of reality just as the hot air balloonist’s gondola moves with the ambient air so that no matter how turbulent the wind, no hair moves on the heads of the balloon’s passengers. To attain experiential knowledge of this external matrix requires a cultivated transformation of the internal world and the ecstatic relinquishment of the stubborn infrastructures of monadic selfhood.
PB  - Belgrade : Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
T2  - Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy
T1  - Notes on Salience: Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go?
IS  - 1
VL  - 2
SP  - 117
EP  - 134
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.11484104
ER  - 

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author = "Kwinter, Sanford",
year = "2024",
abstract = "While salience implies a discontinuity with a temporal or spatial surround, one that generates the qualities and meaning of the universes, cosmoses, or Umwelts that we inhabit, it nonetheless represents an artifactual reality that comprises experience, not a foundational one. To the extent that we are salient sentient beings—well-formed centers of worldly experience—we are discontinuous with the worlds we inhabit. But as material and biological entities, and especially as “minds” continuously metabolizing and integrating the moving particulars of the physical world, we are not “in” the world but actually are the world. Our sensory capacities are in no way limited to the apprehension of change that presents uniquely as distinction, but also track and participate in the unfolding of reality just as the hot air balloonist’s gondola moves with the ambient air so that no matter how turbulent the wind, no hair moves on the heads of the balloon’s passengers. To attain experiential knowledge of this external matrix requires a cultivated transformation of the internal world and the ecstatic relinquishment of the stubborn infrastructures of monadic selfhood.",
publisher = "Belgrade : Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory",
journal = "Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy",
title = "Notes on Salience: Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go?",
number = "1",
volume = "2",
pages = "117-134",
doi = "10.5281/zenodo.11484104"
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Kwinter, S.. (2024). Notes on Salience: Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go?. in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy
Belgrade : Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory., 2(1), 117-134.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11484104

Kwinter S. Notes on Salience: Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go?. in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy. 2024;2(1):117-134.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.11484104 .

Kwinter, Sanford, "Notes on Salience: Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go?" in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy, 2, no. 1 (2024):117-134,
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11484104 . .