monad

is a self-unfolding perception requiring no shared space or shared time. Through it, a world is perceived and unfolded without the assumption or presupposition of perception in general.

a self-unfolding perception requiring no shared space or shared time. . . 'a world is perceived and unfolded without the assumption or presupposition of perception in general'

is a formal perception that unfolds the world from itself.

monad, a perception that unfolds the world from itself without the requirement of a shared and anticipated space that is synthesized into the future. To say that 'monads have no windows' is to say that a world is perceived and unfolded without the assumption or presupposition of perception in general. One has not yet troubled oneself or given man the responsibility for the genesis of space from his own time... one has not yet seen each perceiver as the effect or sign of a perception in general. Perception is not the condition, genesis, or origin of the spatial and temporal world... there are spatialities and temporalities of each monad. At one end, God is the full and clear perception of all space... at the other, are the singular perceptions of infinity, each monad's perceptual grasp of the infinite that transcends it. By contrast, modern 'man' stands, not for one perceiver among others, but for a purely formal power to perceive that also bears the imperative to perceive as any subject whatever.' (colebrook 2004:34).

is a self-contained entity oblivious to everything except its own interests.

Post-humanism takes its lead from sentiments like this. Lyotard regards such 'rationality' as endemic to capitalism, which he conceives as a 'monad' meaning it is a self-contained entity oblivious to everything except its own interests. 'When the point is to extend the capacities of the monad', he claims, 'it seems reasonable to abandon, or even actively to destroy, thoseparts of the human race which appear superfluous, useless for that goal. For example, the populations of the Third World. (Sims 12)

is a sort of mental substance or soul, characterized by its perceptions (in the widest sense of 'perception').

For Leibniz, a monad is a sort of mental substance or soul, characterized by its perceptions (in the widest sense of 'perception'). Each monad has perceptions of varying degrees of clarity and distinctness. Moreover, no two monads (at least in the actual world) have the same equally clear and distinct perceptions.

is an idea that is purely mental, totally immaterial, unable to communicate or be communicated to.

The monad for Benjamin is the idea, the pure idea, or ideas that form what he calls 'constellations'. Here ideas are purely mental, purely geistlich, they are totally immaterial. They cannot be communicated to, nor can they communicate. Ideas and God for Benjamin are pure intensity. But whereas the monad is at centre stage for Leibniz, for Benjamin at centre stage is language' (Lash Intensive Culture 1).

is body without bulk, and mind without manifestation.

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See Molecule .) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentleman. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class -altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus... by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.

is crystallized thought... that is, thought stopped in a configuration pregnant with tension. It is thought as a messianic cessation of happening, or, put differently, it is thought qua revolutionary chance in the fight for an oppressed past.

Where thinking suddenly stops in a configuration pregnant with tensions, it gives that configuration a shock, by which it crystallizes into a monad. A historical materialist approaches a historical subject only where he encounters it as a monad. In this structure he recognizes the sign of a Messianic cessation of happening, or, put differently, a revolutionary chance in the fight for an oppressed past. He takes cognizance of it in order to blast a specific era out of the homogeneous course of history blasting a specific life out of the era or a specific work out of the lifework.

is nothing but a simple substance that enters into composites simple, that is, indivisible, without parts, without extension, and without shape.

According to Leibniz, a monad is nothing but a simple substance that enters into composites simple, that is, without parts (PE 213). Monads have no parts, extension or shape and they are indivisible.

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