What Lies Outside
What lies outside is the wilderness —untamed, relational, and generative. It challenges the orderly, mapped-out systems of the structured worldview, not by opposing them directly, but by revealing their incompleteness and inviting deeper forms of integration.
Unquantifiable, relational, and emergent—domains that resist categorisation, calculation, and final resolution.
What lies outside 'The House Modernity Built' and Boxhead's structured worldview could include:
1. Embodiment and Sensory Knowledge
Experiences rooted in the body, intuition, and affective states that defy purely rational analysis. Practices like somatic awareness, dance, and ritual hold truths that cannot be captured by logic alone.
2. Nonlinear Time and Cyclicality
Perspectives that reject teleological progress, emphasising cycles, rhythms, and returns rather than fixed endpoints. Indigenous cosmologies and ecological worldviews often reflect such patterns.
3. Multiplicity and Ambiguity
Realities that embrace paradox, multiplicity, and simultaneity, challenging dialectical synthesis by refusing neat resolutions. Postmodernism and certain mystical traditions dwell here.
4. Interdependence and Ecology
Systems thinking that centres relationships and flows rather than isolated entities or hierarchical structures. Ecological models highlight webs of reciprocity rather than anthropocentric dominion.
5. Silence and the Unspoken
What escapes language, residing in gestures, pauses, and what remains unsaid. These gaps resist logocentrism and point to other ways of knowing—through presence rather than explanation.
6. Non-Utility and Play
Activities pursued for their own sake rather than optimisation, productivity, or purpose—art, poetry, and improvisation evoke this space of freedom from utility-maximising logic.
7. The Sacred and the Ineffable
Encounters with mystery, awe, or transcendence that shatter the boundaries of rational comprehension. Mysticism, dreamwork, and spiritual traditions often explore this terrain.