who I am
My fascination with philosophy and religion is rooted in their power to shape lives—not just in the abstract, but in the concrete realities of human existence. I am drawn to the intersection of Continental thought and Process philosophy, specifically the move toward differentiation and harmony. My work seeks to expose the dysfunctions of current societal structures, overturning the static assumptions of the status quo to reveal the dynamic possibilities beneath.
about process imagining
As the subheading suggests, this project is an exercise in rethinking philosophy, culture, and religion. Drawing on the trajectories of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Henri Bergson, Gottfried Leibniz, and Gilles Deleuze, I posit that all of life is a process defined by radical relationality.
Consequently, every category of our existence must be called into question. The world around us—particularly the “virtual” world of economics and capitalism—is built upon a substance-based metaphysic. These established systems attempt to function as a “perfect dictionary,” claiming to contain the totality of how the world works.
The Failure of Static Systems However, the systems that “make the world turn” are rarely the ones we utilize in our concrete lives—the real lives we live in our most intimate spaces. We cannot contain all ideas applicable to experience because each new experience shatters the illusion that prior ideas were complete. The Enlightenment agenda, with its grasp for totalizing certainty, has failed.
Process thought lures us to think anew. It refuses to marginalize or alienate “other” experiences but seeks to learn from them, grow, and expand. When the categories of philosophy, religion, and economics burst at their seams, they must be rethought.
The Novelty of Ideas The core of my work is to instill a sense of novelty. This aligns with Deleuze’s What Is Philosophy? and Whitehead’s Modes of Thought. As Whitehead famously wrote:
“The use of philosophy is to maintain an active novelty of fundamental ideas illuminating the social system. It reverses the slow descent of accepted thought towards the inactive commonplace. If you like to phrase it so, philosophy is mystical. For mysticism is direct insight into depths as yet unspoken. But the purpose of philosophy is to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated.”
For both Whitehead and Deleuze, the goal of philosophy is not the rigid logic of “If/Then,” but the formation of possibilities. It utilizes logic as a lure for feeling—using mysticism and poetry to express “civilization.” It moves beyond mere fact to value.
The Path Forward I use philosophy as the center for engaging culture and religion. If our philosophical foundations undergo change, we must ask: how does religion change in light of Process and Post-structuralist thought?
ProcessImagining.com is a space for these inquiries. It is a record of how I see the world, how I have been shaped by past actual occasions, and how I prehend them to form the present and future.
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