Describing radical events requires abandoning interior-exterior spatial thinking

Evidence

I often ask myself if it is not precisely this which, without ever being able to accustom myself to it, happens to me in all that I recognize happening to me. When I say ‘recognize’, it is a very schematical way of speaking. I recognize rather what comes to me only if I recognize nothing of which comes to me, and I should even add, only if I do not recognize myself recognizing that which comes to me. … It can or may all too simply not come at all from an exteriority (in front of …, in back of …, from above …, or, from below …), from this in front of … more or less before us and from which we always believe events come to us, but it can or may come from within, from the within within the within which would not and never convert itself or be converted in some sort of without, some sort of outside or exteriority and in any case would render this opposition ‘within–without’, ‘inside– outside’, ‘interiority–exteriority’ radically null and void. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 123

Categorization

• XREF: The nullification of the within/without opposition calls into question the topological language both Hegelian dialectic and neuroplastic models of ‘inside the brain’ vs outside stimuli rely on. — connects to: Postmodern heterogeneity is spatial rather than temporal, filed by place not history — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 795; Conceptual art’s operation spatializes lived experience
• DEFINE: Derrida’s event can neither be spatially exterior nor an interiority that converts to exteriority — collapsing the inside-outside framework.
• STORYSTEM: A speculative fiction where characters experience events that neither come from outside nor are ‘inside’ the self — events that arrive from an absolute past irreducible to memory.

Broader Connections

• Postmodern heterogeneity is spatial rather than temporal, filed by place not history #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 795
• Conceptual art’s operation spatializes lived experience #complicates (0.72)