Nothing: The Hole, the Holy, the Whole

Abstract

Although we routinely talk of distance, separation always retains an implicit sense of connection. Surrounding every thing is no-thing, a ground or horizon which is and isn’t there. This nothing is formless flesh which holds in place the things that, in turn, hold it. It is the presence of an absence, the divine or spiritual that allows things. Inspired by Durkheimian understandings of the wonderful and dreadful sacredness of sociality, this paper talks about relationality without reducing it to the fleshless interaction model. It tries to sing to joyous life the space of the constitutive ground in between.