Transduction: An Essay on Fire

Noetics without a Mind is primarily about relations: human, nonhuman, inhuman and more than human; organic and inorganic; relations of location; of interiority and exteriority; of proximity and distance; relations that give rise to thoughts, ideas, and minds; relations that, like vectors, crisscross the domains and plains of potential; relations that always precede individuals, identities, unities, and relata; relations of intensity; relations of magnitude; relations that define the terms and conditions for conviviality, that set the rules and the tone for toolmaking and tool use. Power relations; technological relations; environmental relations; biological relations; physical relations; psychic relations; social relations. Relations that connect, divide, cut, intersect, select, produce, create. Relations that entangle, knot, fragment, transform, transmute, subtract, multiply, add, reduce. Relations that augment, extend, exteriorise, prolong, change and transcend the conditions that gave rise to them. Relations between humans and machines, between nature and culture, between mind and body, between meaning and matter, between the raw and the cooked; relations between psychic, mental, personal inner worlds, and collective, social, exteriorised environments and worlds. Difference as relational.