Reality is founded precisely by removing the remainder

Evidence

When everything is taken away, nothing is left. … The equation of everything and nothing, the subtraction of the remainder, is totally false. … It is not that there is no remainder. But this remainder never has an autonomous reality, nor its own place: it is what partition, circumscription, exclusion designate… what else? It is through the subtraction of the remainder that reality is founded and gathers strength… what else? — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 463

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that reality is constituted by the exclusion/subtraction of the remainder — so the leftover is not separate but the founding cut itself — is a dense, generative thought.
• XREF: connects to: Human reality becomes a totality only by surpassing each concrete negation; Every liberated energy inevitably produces a new remainder of its own — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 487; Reality’s coherence depends on a reserve of un-mapped imaginary territory — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 403 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The remainder annuls itself once it is everywhere #expands (0.82) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 476
• Reality’s coherence depends on a reserve of un-mapped imaginary territory #corroborates (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 403